Louisiana Chicken Sauce Piquant

Total Time: 2 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 6 lbs chicken
• 3 cups cooking oil
• 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 3 (14 ounce) cans diced tomatoes
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 cup celery, finely chopped
• 1 cup bell pepper, finely chopped
• 3 lbs onions
• 3 tablespoons creole seasoning (tony chachere's)

Recipe

• 1 heat 3 cups of cooking oil hot enough to cook chicken.
• 2 cut chicken into 2 inch pieces, season with the creole seasoning and fry in oil until done.
• 3 remove the chicken from the oil.
• 4 in another frying pan, saute onions,celery, bell pepper and garlic until opaque looking and slightly limp.
• 5 to the vegetable mixture, add your chicken which has slightly cooled.
• 6 add tomatoes and water to the mixture, then lower the flame allowing mixture to simmer for for one hour, stirring about every 10 minutes.
• 7 serve with rice.
• 8 if you like yours to be a bit thicker, use 2 cans of diced tomatoes and 1 can (8 ounce) tomato paste and 1 cup water.