Spicy Braised Chicken

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While I'm sure this tastes good, it's isn't in any way close to stewed chicken from the Caribbean. Sunny says the dish is from the West Indies, but not a single island cooks like this. This is more like a European stew, or a braise as the name was changed to (except on TV, where they still refer to it as stew chicken. The addition of rice is even more confusing, as it implies the dish is Caribbean in nature.

Raymond actually has a better explanation of how to cook stewed chicken.

And although I am a fan of Sunny, she should do some research on the dish before making an episode.

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I need some help. This dish looked so very yummy on TV so I just had to try it. We enjoy "spicy"! And was this ever spicy. I studied all the great comments posted below (THANK YOU, EVERYONE! but when I went to remove the basil and bay leaf and habanero from my dish, everything went to hell.
The chicken simply fell apart and left me no alternative but to fish out as many chicken bones as I could.
I never did find the pepper. Do you think that it just completely dissolved?
Anyway, what remained was a sort of stew of wonderful tasting stuff that I couldn'r serve as a main dish.
Loved the taste of it though and the zing from the habanero. (Unfortunately, in order to buy a habanero I had to buy a box of 10! So now I am looking around for ideas for what to do with all these peppers! LOL! How long do they keep, do you think? Should I refrigerate them?
And how about that chicken? How do you keep it from falling apart?
BTW, I loved making the gravy with the giblets. Wonderful idea!
Please post back with some help for me for next time. Thank you.

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Very Delicious!! Never thought cooking apples would taste good but it did. My boyfriend loved them! I think next time I will add 2 apples. 1 habanero was enough to give it that kick! I used 4 chicken breasts and cut them in half. It turned out sooo tender. The brown gravy was a lot, I may use half. Other than that, this dish was very very delicious!

I will definitely make this again!

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I loved this recipe and so did all of my family.. thank you sunny! i will have to say i totally disagree with raymond. you did a really good job on this one! thanks!

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I MADE IT 4 DA 1ST TIME 2NITE & IT WAS GREAT

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I cooked all of the recipes from this show for dinner. I t was sooo really tasty. The squash cools the spice of the chicken while the coconut rice and peas was a little bland but not bad (I used black-eyed peas. It tasted more caribbean or west indian than american. The only thing I was missing was coco bread. The whole chicken does cook up to be a big potful and I was cooking for two. So I took lunch to both my grown daughters which made their co-workers a little jealous. Thanks for the great recipe and great meal. I wouldn't change a thing. Raymond should publish his own recipe. Sorry he was offended.

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This recipe tasted very good. I like your recipes you make on the show.You can taste the wine & in the rice you may taste the coconut also. I'm going to make my rice thought way a lot.

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Recipe for caribbean stew

1 chicken cut up as Sunny did
Season with Shadow Benie, garlic, salt, garlic, black pepper for 30 mins
Add 2 table spoons canola oil to round bottom cast iron pot
Add 2 table spoons brown sugar to teh hot oil to caramelise until golden brown and smoke begin to come out of teh pot (med heat
Add 1/2 oinion cut up with 2 table spoons ketchup to caramelised sugar (be swift
After 30 secs to 45 secs add chicken
Cover pot and cook chicken for 10 mins, open pot and let moisture dry off
Add water for sauce (you say gravy
Taste for salt.
After 20 mins meal should be finished.

In the caribbean we do not use broth.....use seasoning to flavour food. And next time you intend to reference a meal froom another part of the world than teh US, please do some research, it is a bit insulting and make you look pretty dumb. Another thing, that peas and rice you cooked, that is something i expect from a univeristy student that cannot cook. I expected better, especially with pigeon peas.

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This was the best recipe I have made from the Food Network. The flavor was delicately sweet from the apples and slightly spicy from the habanero, Wonderful!

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The chicken was made per the recipe, but my coconut milk had gone bad on me so I substituted a capful of coconut extract and a few pinches of sugar. It wasn't bad at all, but I would reccomend the coconut milk, instead. The chicken itself was pleasant, but did not have the wow factor. I will probably make this again as it was so easy to prepare.