Chicken piquant recipe

Chicken smothered in a spicy roux-based tomato sauce. Served over rice, this traditional Cajun recipe is uniquely delicious!

This recipe was adopted from a 1969 cookbook that belonged to my grandmother. I've adjusted the ingredients and amounts to reflect today's cooking habits. Hope you enjoy it!

This spicy Chicken Sauce Piquant has stewed and browned chicken pieces in a rusty red Cajun country gravy. Serve it over a bed of white rice for a true Cajun classic dish.

This is Jeremy's take on Creole-Style Chicken. The difference between the two is mostly the spices. As the title reflects, (Piquante = pleasantly biting, or a sting), this recipe is spicy in all the right ways!

This spicy Chicken Sauce Piquant has stewed and browned chicken pieces and a rusty red Cajun country gravy. Serve it over a bed of white rice for a true Cajun classic dish.

Cooking Louisiana defines Sauce Piquant as a style of cooking used for rabbit, duck, alligator, chicken and seafood. Just about anything you can dream of has been used to whip up a sauce piquant. A sauce piquant is tomato based using a combination of whole, stewed, sauce and paste, and, uses a small roux. As the name suggests the dish is a little spicy by nature but you can control this yourself. The word piquant means "pricking" in French, like a rose bush thorn. The meat is usually browned…

This homey, spicy ­Louisiana dish deserves a wider audience. If you’re not from Louisiana, you may not know chicken sauce piquant, a dish of chicken braised in a cayenne-spiked, roux-thickened tomato sauce and served over rice. We wanted a version of this homey, spicy dish that was fit to travel to homes all over the country. We turned to boneless chicken thighs for flavorful, juicy, and meltingly tender meat. Happily, we found that we could skip the laborious process of making a dark roux…

This spicy Chicken Sauce Piquant has stewed and browned chicken pieces and a rusty red Cajun country gravy. Serve it over a bed of white rice for a true Cajun classic dish.