Belgium Recipes

Chicken Provinciale

Ingredients
1 whole chicken cut into eight pieces
100 gm bacon
1 red capsicum cut in chunks
1 green capsicum in chunks
2 onions roughly cut
1 zucchini cut in chunks
2 garlic cloves finley chopped
200 gm mushrooms cut them in half
1 tin 500gm)tomatoes ( or you can use fresh)
1 tbsp tomato paste
15 olives, green/black
5 tbsp olive oil
few tbsp of parsley
2 chilies split ( my addition to give aindian touch)
peper and salt to taste

Method

• Add the oil in a large pan and fry both the sides of the chicken pieces, for few minutes each.
• Remove them from the pan and keep it aside.
• Now add the bacon, capsicum and onions and saute for few minutes, add the tined tomato and the paste.
• Stir and add the chicken pieces back to the pan.
• Add more water if you need.
• Add salt and peper and parsley cook for 30 minutes or till the chicken is cooked.
• Add the zucchini half the way so they don't cook too much.
• Add the mushroom 10 minutes before the cooking is done together with the olives.
• Serve hot with potato croquettes, rive, bread or even fries.