Cape Verdean Food , Canja De Galinha

CANJA DE GALINHA (Chicken Rice Soup)

                                           

Ingredients:

1 chicken         
  rice ( more peopleneed more rice) 
1 spoonolive oil  
2 peeled tomatoes
1 onion     
1 laurel leaf 
1 garlic         
1 sage leaf
  pimento at will              
  salt at will

Preparation:

Chop the chicken and wash it in water and salt. Then put it in a pot and let it steep a night together with salt, garlic, onion, salt, oil, laurel. Put all to brown in a pot, add enought water in order to have a jelly broth of rice. When it is boiling, add peeled tomatoes and paprica.When it is too weak, make them jelly warming it up. The sicret is the right quantity of water and the quantity of rice you use. Serve in a big cup with sage and, if you like it spicy,add more pimento.

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