Chicken Provencal “Stoup”

(from teacherrap’s recipe box)

A stoup is thicker than soup and thinner than stew and best of all, a one-pot meal!

Source: Rachael Ray 30 Minute meals (from RecipeThing user gabe001)

Prep time: 8 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
Serves 4 people

Categories: Chicken, French, One Pot, Soup, Stoup

Ingredients

  • 2 medium carrots, peeled, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, chopped
  • 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 2 turns of the pan
  • 1 medium zucchini diced
  • 1 small to medium red bell pepper, seeded diced
  • 1 medium yellow skinned onion, peeled and halved
  • Salt and pepper
  • 1 tablespoon herbes de Provence, available on spice aisle or, 1 teaspoon each dried sage, rosemary and thyme
  • 1 1/2 pounds small red skinned potatoes
  • 1 cup dry white wine
  • 1 (14-ounce) can diced tomatoes or coarsely ground tomatoes
  • 1 quart plus 1 cup chicken stock, available in quart and 1 cup paper box containers on the soup aisle
  • 1 pound chicken tenders, diced
  • 1 small jar black olive tapenade, 4 ounces, found with Italian foods or on condiment aisle
  • 2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley
  • Crusty bread, to pass at table

Directions

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  2. One medium soup pot preheated over medium high heat.

  3. While soup pot heats, chop carrots into 1/4-inch dice, then add garlic, and stir to coat in extra-virgin olive oil.

  4. Chop and drop in the zucchini, pepper and onion next, 1/2 inch dice.

  5. Season all the veggies with salt and pepper and herbes de Provence.

  6. Cook the veggies together 5 minutes.

  7. While they cook, cut potatoes into thin wedges.

  8. Add wine to vegetables and reduce a minute or so.

  9. Add the tomatoes, cut potatoes and stock to the pot, cover the pot and raise heat to high.

  10. Bring the stoup to a boil, then add cut chicken and simmer 8 to10 minutes until potatoes are just tender and chicken is cooked through.

  11. Serve stoup in shallow bowls and stir in a rounded spoonful of black olive tapenade at the table.

  12. Top soup with chopped parsley and pass crusty bread at the table for dipping and mopping.

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