Chicken Fricassee with Meatballs

Name: Chicken Fricassee with Meatballs
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 servings chicken; 4 servings chicken fat; 4 servings garlic; 4 servings onions; 4 servings Salt; 4 servings sweet paprika; 4 servings tomato juice; 4 servings water

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Chicken Fricassee with Meatballs a try. This recipe serves 4. One serving contains 281 calories, 22g of protein, and 18g of fat. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 2 hours. A mixture of chicken, onions, garlic, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. To use up the water you could follow this main course with the Watermelon-Peach Slushies as a dessert. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, dairy free, and primal diet.

Instructions

The chicken should be cut and disjointed into 8 pieces. The breast and thighs can also be cut in half again, if you prefer small pieces. Clean and singe, if necessary. Prepare the meatballs using 1 pound of ground beef and doubling the other ingredients in the recipe.

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Ground Beef

Meatballs

Whole Chicken

In a 2-quart Dutch oven, slowly saut the chopped onion in 3 tablespoons of the fat until the onion is soft and yellow; do not let it brown.

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Onion

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Dutch Oven

Remove and reserve.

Add more fat to the pot if needed and brown the chicken pieces lightly until all sides are pale golden brown. Do this in several batches, as the chicken will not brown if crammed into the pan.

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Chicken Pieces

Whole Chicken

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Frying Pan

Pot

Remove the chicken, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and reserve.

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Salt And Pepper

Whole Chicken

Return the onions to the pot and sprinkle with paprika. Saut for a minute or two, until the paprika loses its raw smell.

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Paprika

Onion

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Pot

Add the tomato juice and 1 cup water.

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Tomato Juice

Water

Return the chicken to the pot and add the garlic cloves. The liquid should come about halfway up the chicken. Cover and simmer gently but steadily for 20 minutes. Gently and carefully add the meatballs to the pot, moving the chicken aside to make room and shaking the pot intermittently to separate the meatballs. These will be fragile while raw, but once cooked they will become firm and will not crumble or stick together.

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Whole Garlic Cloves

Meatballs

Whole Chicken

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Pot

Add more liquid to the pot if needed. Simmer, loosely covered, for another 20 to 30 minutes, or until the chicken and meatballs are done.

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Meatballs

Whole Chicken

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Pot

Remove the chicken and meatballs and skim the fat from the gravy. Return the chicken and meatballs and reheat, checking, the seasoning as you do so.

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Meatballs

Seasoning

Whole Chicken

Gravy

Serve the chicken and meatballs with rice or noodles.

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Meatballs

Whole Chicken

Pasta

Rice

If you plan to make this in advance, add a little water before reheating.

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Water

Tomato juice was sometimes eliminated and only water used. Chicken stock can be used instead of water, but the flavor is, strangely enough, more intense and interesting when water is used, with or without tomato juice.

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Chicken Stock

Tomato Juice

Water

Basically, this is a version of Hungarian chicken paprikash, but the Jewish version, because of kosher laws, eliminates sour cream. If you like, you can beat 2 tablespoons of sour cream into the gravy after the fat has been skimmed from it. Do not boil once the sour cream has been added; reheat by bringing to a slight simmer.

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Sour Cream