Argentine Chicken Stew (Cazuela Gaucho)
Prep Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 1 hrs 20 mins
Servings: 12
About This Recipe
“Here’s a recipe for a Jewish dish which was originally designed to be cooked over a campfire. This stew is a dish typical of the cooking of a group of Jews who left Russia in the late nineteenth century to form an agricultural community in Argentina. Some of the early pioneers became gauchos and would have cooked this stew over a camp fire in a clay pot called a cazuela, from whic”
Ingredients
2chicken, cut up
flour( for dredging)
olive oil( for sauteing)
3largecarrots, cut into chunks
8potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
1lb pumpkin or 1lbhubbard squash, peeled, seeded and cut into chunks
2largeparsnips, cut into chunks
3onions, sliced
1 -2garlic clove, minced
1teaspoonpaprika( preferably Hungarian)
1bay leaf
salt and pepper
1/2 cupwhite wine
chicken stock
1/2 cupbarley
2earscorn, sliced into 1 1/2-inch slices
1 (10ounce) packages frozen peas, thawed
1/2 lbgreen beans, cut
1egg, beaten
Directions
Heat some oil in a Dutch oven.
Dredge the chicken pieces in seasoned flour.
Saute the chicken until golden brown on all sides.
Remove chicken and set aside.
If necessary, add additional oil to the pan and saute the carrots, parsnips, potatoes and squash until golden brown.
Remove vegetables and set aside.
Saute onions until limp and translucent.
Near the end of the onions’ cooking time, add the garlic and paprika and saute 2-3 minutes.
Return chicken and sauteed vegetables to the pan.
Add bay leaf, white wine, salt and pepper and chicken stock to barely cover the stew.
Bring to a boil, cover, and reduce the heat to a simmer.
Cook for 20 minutes and add barley and corn cob slices.
Cover and continue cooking for 30 minutes.
Add green beans and thawed peas and cook for 10 additional minutes.
Beat the egg.
Add a little of the hot liquid from the pan and beat the egg vigorously.
Add the egg to the pot and stir.
Cook for an additional 5 minutes.
Taste the stew and correct the seasoning, if necessary.
Serve the stew in soup plates or deep dinner plates with a rim.
Reviews
“I am so glad I prepared this recipe! This is soul soothing, appealing aromatic, anddelightfully easy to make stew. It really is no harder them making chicken soup, and so much better! The parsnips add such a smooth taste to this stew, as well as the squash. I didn’t have access to pumpkin squash so used butternut squash instead. I also added a couple stalks of asparagus, because we had fresh. I wish I could give it more stars. The only thing I forgot was the peas, which I added after I took the picture. Oh well. Thanks, Mirj, this was great!”