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Chicken and Gravy in a Jar Recipe

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Category:
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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Ingredients
175 g onion (chopped. 1 cup / 6 oz)
125 g celery (finely chopped. 1 cup / 4 oz )
175 g potato (peeled, diced. 1 cup / 6 oz)
1 kg chicken (boneless. 2 lbs)
2 teaspoons salt (OR non-bitter, non-clouding salt sub)
2 teaspoons poultry seasoning
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
4 tablespoons white wine (dry. 50 ml / 2 oz)
chicken stock (or water, to fill jars. See recipe notes)

NOTE:
I used 1/4 tsp each of oregano, thyme, and rosemary per jar in place of the poultry seasoning.

Directions:
Directions:
Instructions
Wash, peel, chop onion. Add to large bowl.
Wash, chop celery. Add to large bowl.
Wash, peel, dice potatoes. Add to large bowl.
Cut chicken into 5 cm (2 inch) chunks. Add to large bowl.
Add all remaining ingredients except broth to bowl.
Put a kettle or pot of water on to boil for you to make your chicken broth from, if you are using bouillon cubes, powder or liquid. If you're using home-made, start heating it in microwave. Mind the surge when you remove it.
Using your clean hands or a very sturdy spoon, mix the contents of the bowl.
Jar size choices: half-litre (1 US pint) or 1 litre (US quart)
Pack the hot jars firmly (but not overly tightly) with mixture.
Leave 3 cm (1 inch) headspace.
Top up the jars with hot chicken broth.
Debubble; adjust headspace.
Wipe jar rims.
Put lids on.
Processing pressure: 10 lbs (69 kPa) weighted gauge, 11 lbs (76 kpa) dial gauge (adjust pressure for your altitude when over 300 metres / 1000 feet.)
Processing time: half- litre (1 US pint) 75 minutes; 1 litre (US quart) 90 minutes.

Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
2 qaurts
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This is almost a complete meal in a jar! Just thicken it with some flour when you heat it to make some gravy, then pour over potatoes or rice.


Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 158kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 25g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 61mg | Sodium: 836mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g


RECIPE NOTES
To be clear, you don’t heat or pre-cook the mixture before packing it in jars. This is a raw pack. Ball says, “These easy raw pack recipes are an innovative way to create delicious ready-to-eat meals for your pantry all year long. Raw ingredients and seasonings are combined, packed in the jar, and covered with hot broth; all of the cooking takes place right in the jar! Note: To ensure proper pressure and temperature is achieved for safe processing, you must process at least 2 quart or 4 pint jars in the pressure canner at one time.”
As this is a raw pack, there are two points we want to bring to your attention:
(1) Raw packs can sometimes stick to the insides of jars a bit, so wide mouth jars if you have any available can be easier to clean.
(2) As this is a raw pack, there will be shrinkage during processing. Thus they want you to pack the jar “tightly.” But that doesn’t mean squish it down, either. In fact, we’re going to suggest you consider packing it not quite so tight. Raw pack meat, and particularly poultry, really contracts when it is processed. The result is that it will shrink in the jar, leaving you with a huge amount of air space in the jar even if no venting of liquid occurs from the jar. That was our experience in round one (see photo below.) Better you should pack it, we think, not quite so tightly, and leave a bit more room in the jar from more broth, which will stay in the jar and help prevent the exposed meat darkening in the jar.
How much broth or water to fill the jars? Ball doesn’t give any amounts. It all depends on how the chicken is packed in the jars. Per loose-packed batch, you may not need more than 1 to 2 cups (250 to 500 ml / 8 to 16 oz), if that even. If you do pack it as tight as they seem to suggest, then you might get no more than a couple tablespoons of broth / water in per jar.
You can multiply the recipe as many times as you want. Just do the math first and write it down on paper, and work from that.
A food processor is ideal for the celery and onion, but do the chicken by hand, and probably the potato, too, unless you have a miraculous dicing gizmo.
Note finely chopped means finely “chopped”, not so small as to be called “minced.”
If you don’t have poultry seasoning, instead of the 2 teaspoons use: ½ teaspoon dried rosemary, ½ teaspoon dried thyme, ½ teaspoon dried marjoram, ½ teaspoon dried sage (yes, there is sage in poultry seasoning.)
Instead of dry white wine, you could use any white wine, or white vermouth, or white Dubonnet, or a rosé wine or a very pale sherry. (You probably wouldn’t want red wine, wrong colour for chicken.) Or, omit. It’s just there for flavour. Don’t use white wine vinegar — you don’t want pickled chicken for supper.
You can use any kind of boneless chicken you wish (e.g. thigh). It will affect the nutrition, raising calories and fat level, if that matters to you.
Ball says “dice the potatoes.” In cooking vocabulary, there’s actually a small, medium and large dice. Ball doesn’t say which. We opted for “large dice”, which is 2 cm x 2 cm x 2 cm (¾″ x ¾″ by ¾″).
You can reduce or omit the salt, which is just there for seasoning, and add it instead if you wish at the table.

 

 

 

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