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Chicken Mauritius

Delicious chicken cooked in a rich (FAIRTRADE) Red Wine sauce, all spicy and tomatoey as well.
See Mauritius .

Ingredients

1 kg chicken pieces
2 large onions
6 cloves garlic
10 ml coriander leaves
250 ml FAIRTRADE Red Wine
250 ml medium dry sherry
30 ml chopped parsley
5 FAIRTRADE cloves
1 cm root ginger
3 medium chillies
500 ml (large can) chopped tomatoes
FAIRTRADE Sources

Method

The day before
Top, tail, peel and chop the onions.
Skin and crush the garlic.
Crush the cloves using a pestle and mortar.
Chop the chillies, remove the seeds if desired.
Cut the chicken into bite sized pieces and place in a mixing bowl. Add half of the chopped onions, half of the crushed garlic, the parsley, and medium sherry. Stir well and mix regularly and allow to marinate overnight.

Then:
Remove the chicken from the marinade reserving the juices.
Heat a little sunflower oil in a saucepan and fry the chicken in batches until golden brown. Keep the sealed chicken warm.
In the same oil, fry the remaining onions and garlic for a minute.
Add the coriander, cloves, parsley, ginger and chillies and fry for a minute.
Add the chopped tomatoes and marinade juices, and allow to simmer for 5 minutes approx.
Add the chicken and mix well, and allow to simmer until the chicken is cooked. Add the red wine and simmer for 5 minutes/
(Variation 1 goes here).
If variation 1 is chosen ensure the meal is brought back to heat and does not get too dry.

To serve

Serve on a bed of FAIRTRADE rice.

Variation

1) Add 100 gm frozen peas and 100 gm button mushrooms.