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Dinner · 45 min · 4 bowls

Spiced chicken stew

A pile of onions, warm spice, time. Hard-cooked eggs if you have them.

The sheet · 4 bowls · 45 min

medium

Why tonight. A pile of onions, warm spice, time. Hard-cooked eggs if you have them.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • chicken
  • onion
  • paprika
  • ginger
  • butter

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: eggs, lemon.

Method

  1. An enormous amount of onion, sliced thin, cooked in a dry pan with no fat until it collapses and dries out. Thirty minutes and no shortcut.
  2. Only then the butter, ginger and spice, cooked until the whole mass darkens into a paste.
  3. Chicken in, coated, and simmered with very little liquid until it falls apart.
  4. Hard-boiled eggs scored and slipped in for the last ten minutes. It should be thick enough to eat with bread rather than a spoon.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
onion
The base under most of this library.
paprika
Color and a mild sweet pepper flavor, and it scorches into bitterness almost instantly.
ginger
Bright and hot when raw, mellow and warm when cooked.
butter
Flavor and body in the same spoonful.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

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