Jamaican Brown Stew Chicken Recipe – Easy

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When it comes to chicken dishes, brown stew chicken is one of the most popular chicken dishes in Jamaica.

Brown Stew chicken is a common and popular go to in Jamaican. It can be served for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Side dishes that pair well with Brown stew chicken includes white rice and rice and peas. Another popular side dish is boiled dumplings, yam and green banana just to name a few.

When cooking brown stew chicken the process starts of with browning the chicken after seasoning (searing the chicken on each side). Browning the chicken helps to seal in the flavours into the chicken.

Marinated with Spring onions, Scotch Bonnet pepper, garlic, pimentos, just to name a few.

In this recipe I will be guiding you step by step to make my version of Jamaican brown stew chicken.

In this recipe I will also be using green seasoning and garlic and ginger paste. This dish has many levels of flavour, and if you have never had this dish before you will fall in love with it after making it.

Jamaican Brown Stew Chicken Recipe

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 50 minutes mins

Course Breakfast, dinner, lunch

Cuisine jamaican

Servings 6

Ingredients

  

• 1 KG Chicken Leg Quarters
• 1 tbsp Pimento Berries
• 1 Medium Spring Onion
• 4 Sprigs of Thyme
• 1 Medium Onion
• 4 Cloves of Garlic
• 1 Scotch Bonnet Pepper adjust to your preference
• 2 tbsp Ginger and Garlic Paste Optional
• 2 tbsp Green Seasoning
• 1/2 Green Bell Pepper Diced
• 1/2 Red Bell Pepper Diced
• 2 tbsp All purpose seasoning
• 1 tbsp Chicken seasoning
• 1 tbsp Jerk seasoning Powder or Meat seasoning
• 1/2 tbsp Sazon
• 1 tsp Paprika
• 1 tsp Cayenne Pepper
• 1 tbsp Browning
• 1 tbsp Ketcup

Instructions

 

• Clean and cut up leg quarters, separate leg from thigh and cut each thigh and leg into half. 

  Season with onion, spring onion, 1 scotch bonnet pepper, thyme, ginger and garlic paste, green seasoning, pimento berries, garlic and all your dry seasonings listed above. 
  
• Leave to marinate for at least one hour, I prefer to leave overnight. After marinating add your browning to the chicken.  Remove onions, thyme garlic and set aside. 
  
• Heat oil in a large skillet and brown your chicken 1-2 minutes on each side. Set chicken a side.
  
• Add reserved onions, scotch bonnet pepper and diced sweet peppers to the skillet and sauté until softened, for about 3 minutes.
  
• Add chicken back to skillet along with 1/2 tbsp of all purpose seasoning, water, and ketchup.

  Bring pot to medium low heat and cover for 30 minutes. Remove the pot cover and simmer chicken for 10 more minutes, this is t reduce and thicken the gravy. 
  

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