It's time for this month's Taste&Create! This month, I was paired with Becky of Baking and Cooking, A Tale of Two Loves. I went through her archives and found that her very first recipe, "Sunday Chicken Creole," is exactly the type of thing I would do if I knew anything about 1-pot cooking, which I don't. But looking over the recipe, I was pretty convinced that I'd love it: peppers, tomatoes, onions and garlic. I mean, that's how I cook. So I'm pretty sure this is at the last minute (or perhaps even late--which I feel bad about, but my classes are INSANE this semester; I think I'll be not doing Taste and Create for the next two months).
So basically, this is an extremely easy meal. And people around me are talking too much for me to type (and I'm in a huge hurry, as usual), so here's a recipe and some pictures!
RECIPE: Chicken Creole
adapted very slightly from Baking and Cooking, A Tale of Two Loves
Ingredients:
-4 large chicken breasts
-3 tbsp olive oil
-2 cups chopped red onion
-2 small green peppers, chopped
-4 sticks celery, chopped
-5 cloves garlic
-2 tbsp chili powder
-2 tbsp paprika
-1/2 tbsp smoked paprika
-2 28-oz cans whole tomatoes in puree (Cento's San Marzano tomatoes are in puree; I found that they generally didn't say what the tomatoes were in unless you looked closely at the ingredients. If you can't find them in puree, drain the liquid and use a can of tomato sauce.)
-1/2 cup white wine
Instructions:
1. Chop the peppers, onions and celery. Put them and the minced garlic in a large stockpot with the olive oil and saute for three minutes.
2. Add the paprika, smoked paprika and chili powder and cook for another three minutes.
3. Put in the wine, tomatos, black pepper and chicken. Simmer for 35 minutes until the chicken is cooked thoroughly.
4. Serve over rice.
Step 2!
Also step 2! This smelled so good. I'm just discovering a love for paprika--it's so exciting!
Step 3: It's almost done! Yay!
You can't even see the rice. I should have made more, but this was delicious! I was happy with how it came out.
I tend to chop everything up and mix it together. It worked pretty well for this. The chicken was super tender and all the flavors had fully permeated everything. It was delicious!
Hah! Simple. Dinner that takes less than an hour, and it's so easy for a weeknight when you don't have a lot of time. Which I don't. And even the blog post didn't take much time! YAY! Mike and I are off to see Cabaret now, so go check out Becky's blog--she's got some great recipes on there! (She's got bacon cupcakes in there somewhere, too!)
I hope everyone has some exciting plans for the weekend! I'll be doing statistics homework and writing papers, so I'm glad I'm at least starting it out on a good note!
