Squirly's Chicken Maque Choux

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 (3 lb) broiler-fryer chickens
• 8 ears young tender corn
• 1 cup flour
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup onion, chopped
• 1 cup celery, chopped
• 1/2 cup red bell pepper, chopped
• 1/4 cup garlic, diced
• 1/4 cup green onion, sliced
• 2 cups canned tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons tomato sauce
• 1 cup mushroom, sliced
• 2 cups chicken stock
• salt and black pepper
• hot sauce

Recipe

• 1 cut corn from cobs and scrape out milk.
• 2 cut chicken into serving pieces.
• 3 season well with salt and pepper.
• 4 dust pieces in flour on all sides until well coated.
• 5 in a heavy bottom dutch oven, heat oil over medium high heat.
• 6 saute chicken and brown well on all sides.
• 7 when brown (it will not been totally done yet), remove from pot and keep warm.
• 8 in the same oil, add corn, onions, celery, bell pepper, garlic, green onion and tomatoes.
• 9 saute 3-5 minutes or until veggies are wilted.
• 10 add tomato sauce and mushrooms.
• 11 return chicken to pot and stir well into the vegetables.
• 12 add chicken stock, cover and reduce to simmer and cook until chicken is tender, approximately.
• 13 45 minutes.
• 14 season to taste with hot pepper sauce.