Thursday, December 30, 2010

My first recipe here- Chicken Cooked in Italian Sauce

Onions, Peppers and Mushrooms used for this recipe

This is the picture of the baked chicken

Note: If you plan to make this one, plan it a day before to give it some time to marinade in Red wine.
Ingredients:
Olive Oil - 4 tbsp
Chicken - 1 kg
Button Mushrooms- 10
Yellow Capsicum - 1
Red Capsicum - 1
Zucchini - 1/2 (Optional)
Onion - 2 big onions
Tomato - 1 big
Ginger/Garlic paste - 2 tbspns
Pepper- required amount.
Red chilli flakes - as required  (Can be prepared by roasting red chillies and grinding it in mixer.You can make more and store it for later use , as the mixer will not grind small quantity)
Garam Masala - 1 tspn (this gives the Indian taste)
Red wine - 1 cup
Pasta Sauce -1 cup (You can buy this from the stores , I bought the basil, tomato, Onion combination)
Pizza seasoning - 1 or 2 table spoons (You can buy this from stores or when you buy Pizza you can store the pizza seasoning packets you get)
Salt - as required.
If you have Oven you can use it for baking the chicken which will be good, else you can slowly cook chicken in a pan.

Method:
Marinate the chicken with the following.
Wash the chicken, add ginger garlic paste, garam masala, salt, pepper, little Pizza seasoning, red wine. Mix it well, pierce the chicken with a knife so the chicken takes in all these ingredients, cover it and leave it in the fridge for minimum 2 hours or if you have enough time leave it over night.
When you are ready to make this chicken,
Cut onions into thin long slices, cut half of red and yellow peppers into thin long slices, Mushrooms into halves thin slices. And also cut the tomatoes.
Now remove the chicken from fridge and keep it aside.
Heat 1 spoon of Olive oil in a pan, and fry Onions slightly and add into the dish which is oven safe. And again add oil and fry the yellow and red peppers slightly and add it to the onions in the dish, do the same for mushrooms and tomato. And add some oil and fry the chicken slightly and add it to the fried onions and peppers. Now heat the pan, add the pasta sauce, chili flakes (the required amount to give spiciness), pepper, salt required amount (remember that you have added salt while marinating the chicken). Now when this sauce boils well add a spoon of live oil and pour this sauce over the chicken in the dish, mix everything in the dish well and place it in the oven and bake for 1 hr or until the chicken is cooked and the water is all absorbed (the onions,mushrooms,peppers when baked will give out some water, do not add more water). If you do not have an oven you can make this in a heavy bottom vessel on slow heat.
With the remaining red and yellow peppers you can cut them and use it for garnishing.
Try this and let me know your comments. I tried this out twice. As a variation to this recipe you can add fresh lemon basil leaves or fresh parsley chopped and bake it.

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