Chicken and Olive Braise. from Meat on the Menu

[achookwoman]

Chicken and Olive Braise   Page 123
Book....Meat on the Menu

Cooked 1/2 recipe.
Small adjustments made

replaced white wine with Balsamic vin. used 15 mls
Left cap out until all ingredients were added.

End result... flavor 5/5
                  texture...a bit over cooked,  so next time check at 12 mins.

Would certainly make again.

[trudy]

Great to know Chookie. 

Thanks

Trudy

[quirkycooking]

I made this tonight too - Did full recipe, substituted apple juice with a dash of white wine vinegar for white wine - we loved it!  Delicious!!!  Served it with roasted potatoes - yum!  Was a little bit too juicy, so mopped up the juice with bread.  Will definitely make it again.  (10 yr old said it was the best dinner he'd had in a month!) 

[judydawn]

I don't like olives (and nothing anyone can say will make me want to try them even though you have been successful in getting me to try other things I never used to like  ) so will it make much difference if I left them out, seems an awful lot of olives.  Maybe I would need to replace them with something else like celery, beans or broccoli.

[quirkycooking]

Hmmm... I think broccoli would be nice - but you'd have to just put it in towards the end, or it would turn to mush.

[achookwoman]

Mushrooms would be nice,  put them in at the end.   The olives give a salty taste ,  so a little stock flavoring might be a good substitute .  The balsamic vin.  I used,  also added a nice touch.  JD I  hope this helps.

[judydawn]

Thanks Jo & Chookie - I like the way you have started testing the book from the back page

[achookwoman]

Jd,  left handers always do this.   

[quirkycooking]

Ha ha!  I was just picking one I had the ingredients for!

[cecilia]

You have all convinced me to try this for dinner tonight.  Thanks.