As with most of my cooking, I always eye-ball quantities, but the quantities given below should be a good enough guesstimate. A pot of stew is quite forgiving and flexible, and doesn't require precise amounts nor all of the ingredients (hence why I labelled mushrooms as 'optional'). Most of the effort is in the chopping, and then you let everything bubble happily away on the stove with the occasional stir. My family loves it, and I love how easy it is to make it!
I always find it challenging to present a photogenic shot of saucy dishes. Here's how the pot's contents looked like when I finished cooking the stew with boneless thighs and mushrooms:

Warming Chicken and Vegetable Stew
Ingredients
1kg bone-in chicken pieces or 500g boneless thighs (optionally cut into bitesize pieces)
1 medium onion (~150g), chopped
3 cloves garlic, chopped
2 celery stalks, roughly chopped
200g mushrooms, sliced (optional)
1 cup stock (water is sufficient if using bone-in chicken pieces)
1-2 teaspoons curry powder
1 large potato (~400g), cubed
1/3 of a 400g can Cream of Chicken (~150g)
Salt and pepper, to taste
Dried parsley, to taste
Method
1. Sauté the onion, garlic, celery and mushrooms in a large pot on medium heat until soft (about 5-10 minutes).
2. Add the stock and curry powder and bring to a simmer.
3. Add the potatoes (and chicken, if using bone-in pieces), and simmer on low heat for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
4. If using boneless chicken, add the pieces after the potatoes are almost cooked in step 3, and simmer until chicken is cooked (about 5 to 15 minutes depending on size of the chicken pieces)
5. Stir through the Cream of Chicken, and cook for a further few minutes.
6. Season with salt and pepper to taste, and sprinkle the parsley into the pot and stir through.
7. Serve with rice, and supplement with more vegetables (stir-fry, casserole, salad) if desired.
I'm a vege freak so I always cook extra stir-fried vegetables. Here's the chicken stew plated on some rice and with stir-fried veg in my son's plate. I just realised he's had that BABYBJÖRN plate for almost 3 years!

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