Chicken in tomato sauce

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make chicken in tomato sauce? Prepare the necessary ingredients. You will need chicken breasts and hams. But according to this recipe, you can cook not only hams and fillets, but also other parts of the chicken, for example, shins, quarters. If necessary, defrost the meat by transferring it from the freezer to the bottom shelf of the refrigerator in advance.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the chicken parts, peel them from the films and cut off excess fat. Cut the meat into medium-sized portions.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put the chicken parts in a saucepan of a suitable size with a thick bottom and pour 300 ml of water. Put the pan on medium heat. When it boils, reduce the heat to a minimum and cook the broth for about 15 minutes, periodically removing the resulting foam.

5. Step 4:

   

   Drain the broth into a separate container (in the future it can be used to make some soup). Pour 250 ml of clean cold water into a saucepan. Take high-quality water, filtered or bottled with a neutral taste. It is better not to use tap water, as it will give the dish an unpleasant characteristic taste.

6. Step 5:

   

   Add ketchup to the pan and simmer the contents under the lid for about 20 minutes, occasionally turning the chicken over. Ketchup can be replaced with tomato sauce, which should first be diluted in a cup of boiled cool water.

7. Step 6:

   

   Peel the garlic cloves, pass them through a press and send them to a saucepan. Try it and, if necessary, add salt. If you want, add ready-made spices for the chicken. In this case, read the composition on the package. If there is already salt in the mixture, consider this when you salt the meat, otherwise you risk over-salting. Simmer the dish for another 3 minutes and remove from the heat. You can serve stewed chicken with any side dish or vegetables. Before serving, sprinkle the dish with chopped herbs.