Rustic Italian Chicken Recipes

RUSTIC ITALIAN CHICKEN

Steps:

• Spray slow cooker with cooking spray. Place chicken in slow cooker and top with remaining ingredients, except pasta and garnish.
• Cover and cook on LOW for 6 to 8 hours. Serve chicken over pasta and garnish with cheese and parsley.
• Garnish Options: Parmesan cheese and chopped fresh Italian parsley.

CHICKEN CACCIATORE

Steps:

• Sprinkle the chicken pieces with 1 teaspoon of each salt and pepper. Dredge the chicken pieces in the flour to coat lightly.
• In a large heavy saute pan, heat the oil over a medium-high flame. Add the chicken pieces to the pan and saute just until brown, about 5 minutes per side. If all the chicken does not fit in the pan, saute it in 2 batches. Transfer the chicken to a plate and set aside. Add the bell pepper, onion and garlic to the same pan and saute over medium heat until the onion is tender, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Add the wine and simmer until reduced by half, about 3 minutes. Add the tomatoes with their juice, broth, capers and oregano. Return the chicken pieces to the pan and turn them to coat in the sauce. Bring the sauce to a simmer. Continue simmering over medium-low heat until the chicken is just cooked through, about 30 minutes for the breast pieces, and 20 minutes for the thighs.
• Using tongs, transfer the chicken to a platter. If necessary, boil the sauce until it thickens slightly, about 3 minutes. Spoon off any excess fat from atop the sauce. Spoon the sauce over the chicken, then sprinkle with the basil and serve.

RUSTIC CHICKEN SCARPRIELLO

Steps:

• Cut chicekn into 16 pieces.
• Slice garlic.
• Cut bell peppers, slice thin, long ways.
• Take cut chicken pieces and flour them.
• Take a CAST IRON PAN and put EXTRA VIRGIN IN IT.
• place chicken in hot oil until golden color. Turning as needed.
• Once all chicken is a golden brown, pour out the oil from the pan.
• Add the butter, white wine, and lemon juice.
• Place pan in a 500° oven.
• As that is baking, brown garlic in a seperate pan.
• Once the garlic is browned, add slice bell peppers to the pan.
• After the peppers have been blanched, pour oil out out of that pan and add white wine to deglaze the sugar from the peppers with the garlic.
• Take out the pan from the oven, add the peppers with the garlic, and then add your salt, pepper, parsley, and put back in oven for 10 minutes.
• After ten minutes, turn the oven off, and put the broiler on HI.
• Place pan to the highest point in the oven near the broiler.
• Broil until chicken is nice and brown, and the peppers have a little caramelizatio on them, serve right away.