Jamaican Style Fricassee Chicken
This dish is popular Sunday dinner dish in Jamaica. the chicken is seared to a golden brown color and then simmered in a flavorful brown sauce.
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Ingredients
4 lbs. chicken ( sectioned)
2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. black pepper
1 tbsp. garlic powder
1 tbsp. onion powder
2 tbsp. dry jerk seasoning
2 tbsp. chicken seasoning
1 tsp. smoked paprika
oil for frying
1 medium size onion
1 red and green bell pepper
2 medium sized tomato
3 cloves of garlic chopped
thyme
pimento seed
2 tsp browning
1/2 cup ketchup
Directions
- wash and drain chicken. in a bowl add powdered seasoning and thoroughly massage the seasoning into the chicken. allow the chicken to marinate for a few hours, overnight is preferred.
- in a Dutch pot, heat oil then sear each piece of chicken on both sides.
- remove seared chicken from oil and add in chopped onion, bell peppers, garlic, thyme, tomato, scotch bonnet pepper and pimento seed.
- sauté the spices for 5 minutes, then add about two cups of water. let the spices simmer for about 5 minutes.
- Add in the seared chicken and ketchup and let that simmer for 15 minutes.
- After the chicken has simmered, check to see if the gravy is at a consistency that you like. if its too tin, then you can had a little cornstarch and water mixture to thicken it up a bit or you can just let it simmer down a little more with the lid removed from the pot.
- When you have the desired consistency in the gravy then your fricassee chicken is all done. this can be serve with any sides imaginable. choose something that will soak up all this amazing gravy.