Grandma Rose’s Chicken Sauce
This is a family recipe that we all adore. My very sweet Grandma Rose showed me how to make this delicious lighter sauce with chicken. We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it here!
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 tablespoons olive oil (or enough to cover the bottom of the saucepan)
- 1/2 large onion (or 1 small onion) minced fine
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 large cloves garlic minced or crushed (Grandma only used 2 cloves, I think ;))
- 3 chicken breast halves or 4-5 chicken thighs, boneless or bone in, or 4-5 chicken legs, bone in, salted and peppered
- 1 – 28 oz can stewed plum tomatoes cut up
- 1 – 6 oz can tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon dried, crushed basil (gf brand)
- large handful fresh basil leaves, torn
- 1 1/2 cups water (or fill 2, 6 oz size can with water)
- 1 teaspoon salt more to taste
Instructions
- Heat 3 tablespoons olive olive in a 4 qt saucepan or dutch oven over medium low. Add the onion and 1/2 teaspoon salt and saute the onion until just translucent and soft. Add the minced garlic and saute for just 30 seconds on low. Remove the onion and garlic to a small bowl or small plate.
- Add a half tablespoon of olive oil and heat the pan over high heat. Add the chicken pieces and lightly salt and pepper. Saute until each piece is brown on each side.
- Add the stewed tomatoes, tomato paste, water, fresh basil , dried crushed basil, salt and the sauteed onion and garlic back in to the saucepan. Simmer over low heat covered with the lid cracked for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
- For the recipe, if using chicken with bones, after the sauce simmers for 1 1/2 hours, remove the chicken pieces to a large plate and remove the bones and cartilage from the chicken.The chicken will fall off the bones, and be super tender. Put the boned chicken pieces back into the sauce.
- Serve this over your favorite gluten free pasta. Rigatoni or mostaccioli for me. Tube pasta is great for this sauce. Pass the parmesan cheese too, for me, but Paul says it doesn’t need it. Serve this with Gluten Free Cheesy and Herb Sourdough Breadsticks or a gluten free Italian baguette.
