Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Chicken Cacciatore - BRAISING

Chicken Cacciatore, Braised Baby Artichokes, Baby Romaine & Rice

Found beautiful leg/thigh chicken at Whole Foods today. I am a dark meat kinda gal!

Brought them home - salt & peppered on both sides and brought to room temperature while "we" started homework.

Pulled out the Le Creuset put a little olive oil in the pot and let it get nice and hot. Browned the chicken pieces, remove from pan to lid (upside down). Added in sliced onion, tomato paste - cooked until the onion softened - deglazed with wine, added in San Marzano tomatoes and water. Brought to a boil, cooked and then used the hand blender (because Scott doesn't like the texture of onion), gave it a run and then put the chicken in to the BRAISING liquid, brought to a boil, turned down the heat and let it cook on low heat until Scott got home - about 90 minutes.

Braised baby artichokes, rice and salad and fork tender chicken - dinner was served!

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