Simple Stewed Chicken – Using Less Sugar

Here is a recipe for a simple stewed chicken – using less sugar.

Stewed chicken is a Trinidadian Classic. Today, we are doing it a little differently– and healthier.

My promise to myself was to start decreasing the amount of sugar I consume after turning 50(the age), so today I am attempting to reduce the amount of sugar in this recipe.

Eventually, I will test a recipe with even less or with roucou(annatto), freshly made from Trinidad.

Cook this Simple Stewed Chicken – Using Less Sugar in 5 easy steps:

1. • Cut up, clean, rinse and drain chicken
2. • Season and marinate
3. • Brown sugar
4. • Add Chicken
5. • Cook for 30 mins

Easy to Find Ingredients:

• 3 lbs chicken piece, leg or thigh, cut into small pieces
• 2 tbs green seasoning
• 1 plum tomato
• 1/2 onion, sliced
• 1 tbs minced garlic
• 1 tsp adobo
• 1 tsp all purpose seasoning
• 3 thyme sprigs
• Hot pepper, to taste
• Himalyan Salt
• Black pepper
• 4 scallions, chopped
• 2 tbs brown sugar
• 2 tbs extra virgin olive oil
• 1 large potato, optional (if you require sauce)
• 1 Carrot, optional

Serve this Healthy, Simple Stewed Chicken with:

• Dhal and Rice
• Curry Channa and Aloo and Paratha (Buss Up Shut)
• Stewed Red Beans and Rice
• Callaloo and Rice
• Stewed Lentils, Stewed Pigeon Peas, Stewed Black Eyed Peas and Rice
• Curry Aloo and Dhalpuri or Dosti Roti

Other Recipes You Will Love:

Original Stewed Chicken Recipe

Curry Stew Pork with Peas

Yellow Rice and Peas with Coconut Milk 

Trinidad Baigan and Aloo with Tomatoes

Curry Stew Turkey

Sada Eddoes

Trinidad Hops Bread

Trinidad Gulab Jamoon

Trinidad Doubles

Trinidad Sada Roti 

Trinidad Sweet Rice – Rice Pudding

Trinidad Paratha -Buss up Shot

Easy Stewed Chicken - Using Less Sugar

Stewed chicken is a Trinidadian Classic. Today, we are doing it a little differently-- and healthier.

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Course: dinner, lunch

Cuisine: Caribbean, Trinidadian

Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes

Servings: 8

Calories: 302kcal

Ingredients

• 3 lbs chicken piece leg or thigh, cut into small pieces
• 2 tbs green seasoning
• 1 plum tomato
• 1/2 onion sliced
• 1 tbs minced garlic
• 1 tsp adobo
• 1 tsp all purpose
• 3 thyme sprigs
• Hot pepper to taste
• Salt Himalyan
• Black pepper
• 4 scallions chopped
• 2 tbs brown sugar (tested with 1 tbsp successfully as well, do not skip potato if using 1 tbs sugar)
• 2 tbs extra virgin olive oil
• 1 potato peeled, cubed, optional
• 1 carrot sliced
• 2 tbsp celery leaves chopped, optional

Instructions

• Cut, clean, rinse, and drain the chicken.
• Season and marinate the chicken with green seasoning, tomato, onion, garlic, adobo, all-purpose seasoning, thyme, hot pepper, salt, and black pepper. Mix well and marinate for a minimum of thirty minutes.
• When ready to cook, heat olive oil in a heavy Dutch oven over medium heat.
• Add brown sugar and allow it to bubble, froth, expand, and darken.
• Stir in the seasoned chicken, raise the heat to high, and mix well to thoroughly coat the chicken with the browning.
• Stir occasionally for 5 minutes. Add potato, carrot and celery if sauce is required
• Cover, reduce heat to low, and cook for 30-40 minutes or until the chicken is fully cooked.
• If a sauce is desired, add water 10 minutes before the end of cooking and allow it to cook until the sauce thickens.
• Taste and adjust salt or black pepper if necessary.

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Nutrition

Calories: 302kcal | Carbohydrates: 5g | Protein: 22g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 10g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 87mg | Sodium: 191mg | Potassium: 279mg | Fiber: 0.5g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 321IU | Vitamin C: 6mg | Calcium: 27mg | Iron: 1mg