Meaning
A way of cooking chicken — 'fricassee chicken' — in which the seasoned pieces are browned and then simmered in a rich, well-seasoned brown gravy with onion, tomato, scotch bonnet, and thyme until tender. Fricassee chicken is a classic Sunday and everyday Jamaican dish, close kin to brown stew chicken, served over rice or rice and peas, the thick gravy the best part. The word comes from the French cooking term but has taken on a wholly Jamaican meaning.
Examples
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Mama cook fricassee chicken wid rice.
Mum cooked fricassee chicken with rice.
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Brown di chicken den mek it simmer inna di gravy.
Brown the chicken then let it simmer in the gravy.
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Di fricassee gravy thick an tasty.
The fricassee gravy is thick and tasty.
Origin
From French 'fricassée' (braised in gravy); Jamaican browned-and-stewed chicken. See [[brown-stew]], [[brown-down]].
How it’s used
Chicken browned and simmered in rich gravy; kin to brown stew. See [[brown-stew]], [[brown-down]].