Recipe for cooking chicken and garlic stew

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Chicken and Garlic Stew

This dish will make your home smell wonderful. For dinner you not only get tender, flavorful chicken, you also have soft, nutty garlic cloves to enjoy spread on hot French bread with the meal. Servings 2 to 4.

6 chicken thighs
3/4 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. white pepper
20 cloves garlic
3 C. water
2 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
1/2 C. chopped celery and leaves
1/2 C. chopped fresh parsley
1/8 tsp. thyme
1 C. dry white wine

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Season chicken with 1/4 tsp. salt and 1/4 tsp. pepper. Separate cloves of garlic; drop unpeeled into boiling water for 1 min. Drain and rinse under cold water, then peel.

In a shallow 2-qt. casserole, add oil, coating bottom of dish. Add garlic, celery, parsley, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. pepper, and thyme. Add wine and stir. Add chicken, skin side down, and baste. Cover tightly; bake 35 min. Turn chicken, baste, and bake 40 min. longer.