Poulet Basquaise Recipe - Cooking Index
A traditional French specialty from the Basque Country.
Type: Chicken, Poultry| 1 | Chicken - (3 1/2 lbs) | |
| Salt - to taste | ||
| Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste | ||
| 1/4 cup | 59ml | Olive oil - plus |
| 2 tablespoons | 30ml | Olive oil |
| 1 tablespoon | 15ml | Garlic clove - crushed, chopped fin (large) |
| 2 | Green peppers - cored, seeded, | |
| And cut into strips | ||
| 1 | Red pepper - cored, seeded, | |
| And cut into strips | ||
| 4 | Tomatoes - skinned, seeded, (large) | |
| And chopped | ||
| 1 cup | 146g / 5.1oz | Finely-diced mushrooms |
| 5 oz | 142g | Csabai sausage - cut 1/4" slices |
| 3/4 cup | 177ml | Dry white wine |
| 1 tablespoon | 15ml | Roughly-chopped parsley |
| 1 cup | 237ml | Long-grained rice - boiled |
Remove wings from chicken, cut chicken into 4 pieces, 2 legs and 2 half breasts. Dry meat thoroughly. Place 1/4 cup olive oil into a pan on the heat, add the chicken -- skin-side down and brown on both sides. Brown the sausage pieces on all sides.
In a separate pan place 2 tablespoons of olive oil -- add the garlic and then the peppers. Add 2 tomatoes and allow the vegetables to sweat together.
Add the mushrooms to the chicken and the sausage. Moisten with 1/2 cup dry white wine and then add vegetable mixture. Simmer 25 minutes.
Remove chicken pieces to a heated serving dish and keep warm. Add 2 tomatoes to the sauce. Raise the heat under the pan, bring to the boil and reduce sauce. Add the parsley and 1/4 cup white wine. Reduce for 2 minutes.
Coat chicken with half of the sauce. Place the boiled rice on a separate dish, make a well in the center and fill with the rest of the warm sauce.
This recipe yields 4 servings.
Source:
THE GALLOPING GOURMET with Graham Kerr - (Show # GA-0049) - from the - TV FOOD NETWORK
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