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The original recipe for this comforting one-pot dish from River Road Recipes called for "boiling a hen in seasoned water." We've adapted it for today's cooks.

Recipe by Southern Living March 2014

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Credit: Hector Sanchez

Recipe Summary

hands-on:
30 mins
total:
2 hrs 10 mins
Yield:
Makes 8 servings
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Ingredients

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Directions

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  • If applicable, remove giblets from chicken, and reserve for another use.

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  • Sauté Spanish onions and next 4 ingredients in hot drippings in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat 8 to 10 minutes or until tender. Stir in tomato sauce, next 5 ingredients, 1 cup water, and chicken. Bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer 1 hour or until chicken is done. Remove chicken, reserving tomato mixture in Dutch oven. Cool chicken 20 minutes.

  • Meanwhile, simmer reserved tomato mixture, stirring occasionally, 20 minutes.

  • Skin, bone, and shred chicken; stir into tomato mixture. Stir in parsley. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve over spaghetti.

Source

River Road Recipes, The Junior League of Baton Rouge, copyright 1959.

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