Annie’s Tropical Chicken

Name: Annie’s Tropical Chicken
Cuisine: Jamaica
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon chopped chives or spring onion tops; Salt, freshly ground pepper to taste; Chicken stock, if necessary; ½ lb. mange-tout peas; 1 tablespoon chopped chives or spring onion tops; 1 fresh hot red pepper, seeded and chopped; 3 medium tomatoes, peeled and chopped, or 1 medium tin Italian plum tomatoes, drained; 3 medium tomatoes, peeled and chopped, or 1 medium tin Italian plum tomatoes, drained; Salt, freshly ground pepper to taste; 2 cloves garlic, chopped; 1 lb. fresh pineapple, chopped or; 1 lb. unsweetened pineapple chunks tinned in own juice; 6 oz. water chestnuts, sliced; 3 tablespoons peanut oil; 3½-4 lb. chicken, cut into serving pieces; 1 onion, finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Book of Caribbean Cooking

By Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz

Published 1973

About

Ingredients

3 tablespoons peanut oil
3½-4 lb. chicken, cut into serving pieces
1

Americas
Jamaica
Main course
Gluten-free
Caribbean

Method

Heat the oil in a heavy frying pan and sauté the chicken pieces until golden on both sides. Transfer chicken to a heavy covered casserole. In the oil remaining in the frying pan sauté the onion and garlic until the onion is tender but not browned. Add to the chicken, together with the pineapple and any juice, or the tinned pineapple and juice, the water chestnuts, hot pepper, tomatoes, salt and