Chicken wings stewed with nuts and chocolate

When we visualize the different parts of the chicken, we assume certain cooking for each of them.

Grilled breasts, baked thighs and thighs, fried wings... We tend to forget about a cooking method that greatly favors chicken meat, leaving it sweet, extracting all its collagen and allowing the bones to be removed: stew.

Stewing -although it is an exercise that is not experiencing its best moment- turns a tough and dry meat into a juicy one, which melts together with its thick sauce.

What happens in a stew is the following: the liquid in which the food is submerged -in the form of water, wine or beer, vegetable or meat broths- has the ability to transmit heat very evenly, acquire flavors of food covering and creating a sauce.

In a stew there are two essential variables: temperature below 100ºC and prolonged time.

With this we get the connective tissue -collagen- to dissolve and form gelatin, in addition to the muscle fibers not losing their juices.

It is true that the meat of some chicken wings is not that tough and that with a shorter cooking time they can be very tender, but with a slow-cooked stew we will get a much more buttery texture, as well as being able to bone them.

Once the cooking is finished, the stew should be allowed to cool in its own liquid: the meat's ability to retain water increases when it cools, so during this process it will reabsorb part of the liquid it lost during cooking.

For a perfect result, the sauce must be strained and returned to the pot to reduce it and finish it with dark chocolate and nut paste.

If you don't have all that variety, don't worry or raid the nearest store: you can use 60 grams of a single nut.

Difficulty:

Minimal, just patience.

Ingredients

• 1 kg of chicken wings (blanquetas and alones)

• 1 red onion

• 50g cherry tomatoes

• 1 carrot

• 2 garlic cloves

• 2 tablespoons of concentrated tomato paste

• 20g cashew nuts

• 20g almonds

• 20g hazelnuts

• 30g dark chocolate

• 500 ml of chicken broth

• 50 ml of scented wine

• Extra virgin olive oil

• Salt

• Pepper

Instructions

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