Basque Chicken
This recipe is courtesy of one of our Milwaukee customers.
Yield: 4-6
Preparation Instructions:
Heat oil in a large pan over medium heat. Add chicken a few pieces at a time and cook until browned on both sides, about 4-5 minutes each side. Transfer chicken to a platter as browning is completed. Add sausage to drippings in pan. Cook until browned on all sides, about 5-6 minutes. Drain off fat. Return chicken to pan and add broth, wine, bay leaf, thyme fennel, orange peel, salt, saffron and peppers (red and black). Bring to boil. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for about 30 minutes, until chicken is tender. Remove bay leaf. Remove 2 cups broth from pan and place it in a sauce pan. Bring to boil, add rice, return to boil, then lower heat, cover and simmer until rice is tender, about 15-18 minutes.
To serve, put rice on platter. Cut sausage into 1/2 inch slices and arrange sausage and chicken over the rice. Spoon Ragout around chicken mixture.
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More About This Recipe
This recipe can be made partially in advance. Prepare the chicken and measure out the cups of broth before putting the chicken and broth in the fridge. Reheat chicken in the oven and make the rice with reserved broth just before serving. This recipe is usaully prepared with Vegetable Ragout, which is usually prepared while the rice is cooking. This recipe can be made with skinless, boneless chicken breast. Just adjust the cooking time. This makes the dish easier to eat, reduces fat content a bit and may be preferred by children. However, this will sacrifice some of the chicken flavor.
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I made this last night. The only things I did differently was I added some cooked wild rice into the cooked white rice as I love the nutty flavor and added texture. I too added onions to the pepper ragout and only used red, yellow, and orange peppers (green peppers, to me, are too strong in the green pepper flavor – the other colors are milder and sweeter). I also made the ragout a day in advance as most ragout is better the next day. My family loved it! Definitely a “do again” recipe. Thanks, The Spice House! https://www.dropbox.com/s/9xwj78jy3zzru5z/2014-04-17%2019.11.43.jpg
Favorite recipe that I often make for extended family. I use equal parts of hot sausages to chicken (and I use thighs), which I brown in bacon drippings. For the ragout I saute onions in olive oil before sauteing the peppers. The first time that my sister Katie tried it without onions, she complained that her ragout lacked the sweetness of my ragout.