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Dinner was super yum!

Polenta and chicken with peanut sauce:

2 or more chicken legs

1 C Corn meal

Salt 1 tsp

3 C water

Follow directions on cornmeal package- after making the “mush”, put in fridge to solidify, cut into pieces and fry lightly to crisp up.

Peanut sauce for chicken

1/2 cup peanut butter

1/4 cup tamari sauce

garlic powder to taste

1 tsp lemon juice

salt, pepper and red pepper flakes to taste

enough water to make sauce – 1 cup or so

Mix sauce ingredients in a bowl and let sit while the onions cook.

1 onion sliced – start by putting onion and a bit of oil in a pan and cooking til soft.

Place chicken fatty side down on top of onions. Braise chicken and flip over to do other side. Add sauce. Invert another heavy pan on top of first to create a “dutch oven”. Tricky part is to constantly watch – adding a bit of water at a time and scrapping the bottom of the pan so nothing burns. Keep on medium low flame.

This takes about an hour, but it is worth it! If I am in a hurry, I cut the meat off of the bone. It’ll cook faster like that.

Serve with polenta on bottom, chicken and peanut sauce on top.

My kids don’t touch the polenta, but they LOVED the chicken. So did my husband!

I made this recipe with one leg of chicken. It really only fed two of us – I really needed two legs to make it go for all of us, just didn’t have it.