Pollo Guisado Stewed Chicken

Simply the best easy authentic stewed chicken recipe hope you like it

Ingredients:
Salt and lemon to clean meat if no lemon is available use vinegarr
1 chicken cut into 8 pieces
2 tablespoons tomato paste
2 tablespoons Darlene the Gourmet DIvas Sauteed Sofrito
1 tablespoon all purpose seasoning (I use adobo)
1/2 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons oil
3 capfuls vinegar
1/4 cup cooking wine
1&1/2 tablespoons green salad olives or any pitted

Cleaning the chicken:

In a bowl add chicken (removing skin is optional)
Vigorously rub with salt and use half a lemon to scrub each piece of chicken individually. This allows for a less slimy chicken it has also been said that it kills salmonella poisoning and bacteria that poultry usually has.
Rinse chicken thoroughly rubbing as you do so

Seasoning and cooking the chicken:
Heat oil on medium
To your citrusy clean chicken add sofrito, all purpose seasoning, vinegar, cooking wine and olives
Stir well to ensure chicken is evenly seasoned
Sprinkle sugar in the oil
When sugar becomes a dark brown color add chicken not olives or the remaining juices
Allow chicken to cook on one side for one minute before you turn it to coat the other side with your blackened sugar
Raise heat to medium high while cooking uncovered careful not to let chicken burn
After 5 minutes stir once more add half of the original wine vinegar seasoning to chicken
lower heat to medium and cover pot
When inside of meat is fully cooked approximately 20 -25 minutes stir chicken add tomato paste, olives and remaining wine vinegar to the chicken. If you have lots of seasoning stuck to the bowl add 1tablespoon of water stir it and add to chicken
Stir and cook covered for an additional 5-7
Serve over rice and beans and make a simple side salad
Hope you enjoy this delectable juicy chicken
By the way this chicken tastes even better the next day.......
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