Chicken Fricassee Craze Volume 2

Two months ago, I craved Chicken Fricassee and put out a call on Facebook for recipes. I received two. 

The first one was tested then (see Chicken Fricassee Craze Volume 1). Given a rainy night tonight, it felt like a good night to try the other recipe.

The table was set up with jardin flowers and an  adventurous Sunday dinner preparation took off.

This was a much easier recipe. Basically fry the chicken for a couple of minutes, add water and whatever else you want to simmer it with and cook it on low heat for 2 - 3 hours.

I kept it simple and added some onions, a slice of lemon, rosemary and thyme (from le jardin).

Once cooked, you turn the liquid into a white sauce using milk and cook dumplings in it.

The picture in the recipe showed a rich brownish gravy with nicely popped up dumplings. Mine was very white (could it be using skinless chicken breasts?) and the dumplings were mushy (could it be making home made dumplings rather than the recipe's recommendation to use Bisquick?).

To add colour to the meal, the jardin was invaded and beautifully red fresh beets were pulled out from the ground.

Those were cleaned out, sliced and their leaves left intact to be used as well.

Now this was too much red to balance the whiteness of the Fricassee, so jardin snow peas were added to the mix.

All lightly cooked with a bit of vegetable oil, and a beautifully coloured Chicken Fricassee accompaniment completed the tasty adventurous Sunday dinner.