La’s Baked Chicken
Parrot Legs
For 1lb of chicken wings, in sections, tips discarded unless you like them
½ cup of soy (low salt stuff works fine and is still salty as hell)
½ cup dark brown sugar
1 tablespoon white or rice vinegar
Minced garlic (lots)
Minced Ginger (lots) (you can use powdered spices but fresh is better. I use both since the garlic and ginger both tend to cook away a bit)
You can make them hot if you like them. Best way I have tried so far is raw jalapeno slices in the sauce.
Oil for pan frying the wings. You could deep or air fry, I suppose. They are going to simmer for an hour and a half, so you don’t want to fry them hard. Just until barely beginning to brown.
I throw some minced garlic into the oil when frying because yes. Not much, since it burns up and towards the end of a batch.
Mix the soy and brown sugar in a pan and add the vinegar. Mix until the sugar melts. You can’t really make enough of this to cover the wings. You have to gently bring the bottom ones up and let the top ones get sauced below. By the time this is done, even on the lowest simmer for 1 ½ hours, the meat is falling off the bone. After 45 minutes it gets hard to do this, but it is like frying bacon. Patience and tender care works every time.
This means after everyone leaves you can strain the pot and get all kinds of tender tidbits.
The sauce keeps in the fridge (you might skim off any chicken fat, but I think it makes a protective coating. It makes a good dipping sauce or for drizzling on stir fry or chicken, fish or whatever.
Chicken Cacciatore
Jan Harrison
1 small fryer cut into pieces
3 table spoons of olive oil
1/2 cup of flour in a plastic bag with salt and pepper to coat chicken
2/3 cup of white or red wine
*optional 1 grated carrot
10 mild cherry peppers
2/3 clove of garlic, chopped fine
1 cup of Italian tomatoes, fresh or canned, coarsely chopped
Brown chicken in skillet, and remove excess fat.
Add wine, garlic, tomatoes and simmer, covered for 25 minutes
Add peppers and simmer for 5 minutes
Serve with garlic bread, spaghetti or noodles.