Scarlett’s Chicken and Rice

5.0 (1)

Also called a “bog” successful immoderate parts of the South, this crockery spans the spread betwixt a crockery and a stew. It’s large arsenic is, but it's besides a canvas for immoderate vegetables oregon herbs you mightiness similar to add. The look comes from cook Vivian Howard's mother, Scarlett.

If you’re buying chickenhearted astatine the market store, it volition beryllium a young bird. But cook Vivian Howard says an older “stewing” chickenhearted volition marque for a tastier broth; beryllium advised that the second volition instrumentality overmuch longer to navigator and volition render overmuch much fat.

Ask for older/stewing chickens astatine a butcher store oregon an Amish market.

The crockery tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 4 days.

Ingredients

Adapted from “Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes From My Corner of the South,” by Vivian Howard (Little Brown, 2016).

Tested by Jane Black.