Note: not vegan or vegetarian Sauce:
approx. 2 c. tomato sauce,1 tbsp. stoneground mustard or dijon, 1/3 c. soya, 1/4 c. molasses,1/3 c. water w/dash of natural smoke flavoring, basil, chilie, curry, cumin, oregano and anise seed! yes.
skin chicken thighs, (6 or 8) and oil pan w/sesame or olive oil, roll chicken in oil in pan to coat w/oil & spices:
basil, chilie, curry, cumin, oregano, but not the anise.
Coat chicken in spice, and brown on both sides.
When nicely browned,add a little water, and pour off grease. Then, add sauce over all. Cover and simmer 1 hr, stirring occasionally, add water if cooks down too much.
Chop:2 c.or more squash, 1/c sliced carrot,1/2 onion, 1/4 c.garlic, 1/3 c. black olives, 1/3 c. fresh or dried figs, 1/2 c. red/gr/yellow peppers. Add to chicken & sauce, add water if has cooked down too much, need a nice thick sauce. Cook 20 min.& stir it up.(add currants, pineapple chunks, or prunes,&/or abit of coconut if you wish a more sweet/savory island flavor)
Before done, add a long splash of wine or rum, + about 1/3 c. water with lime juice added. I used a long splash of ruby port i happened to have saved for cooking. Let it cook in about 10 min.
My stars, when you open it up and taste it, w/tender chicken falling off bone, and the wonderfulness of the lime and anise and molasses and tomato and all the soulful spice of the Caribbean, mon, de flavor burs' in your mout' like to make you dance, guaranteed!
Now, to serve: can go w/rice, but as I just got some lovely sourdough rolls, I cut them in 3rds as they are fat, and toast them. Then, heat up olive oil (Napa Valley Naturals is great, altho w/olives from Sacramento Valley, hm...why isn't it called Sac Valley Naturals, eh?) anyway olive oil and minced garlic heat in microwave afew minutes, or on stove.
drizzle over your buns...& take a whiff o that.
Separate chicken into strips mix up w/sauce & spoon that fahntastic chicken-veg-olive-fig-stuff over your buns and enjoy! Yeah, mon.
Have as I did, w/a green salad w/ch. figs and crumbled goat cheese and sliced olives on top.
And, as I picked some blackberries this morning (figs not quite ready yet, so i bought dried ones -- i had it bad for some o'that fine figgy stuff...), i got some orange sherbet en route on bike home and shall top it w/berries for dessert.
O yea.
Bon Apetite! Tonite's Dinner-&-a-Movie DVD: Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! extended version
(Oh yea; bring it on:John Parker vs. John Big Booty! & Dr. Lizardo, my favorite John Lithgow character.)
'There are monkey boys in the facility'
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