Ingredients
Serves 4-6
- One small chicken, cut up into serving pieces
- 2-3 large bell peppers, red or green, or a combination of both
- 2-3 canned tomatoes, squeezed between your fingers (or a bit of tomato purée)
- 1-2 cloves of garlic
- Salt and pepper
- White wine
- Olive oil
Directions
You cut up a small chicken into 10 pieces (see below) and brown them lightly in a braiser in olive oil. Add the bell peppers, sliced into strips along with a clove or two of lightly crushed garlic, season with salt and pepper. Allow the vegetables to insaporire for a minute or two, then add a splash of white wine and allow it to evaporate completely before adding a couple of canned tomatoes, squeezed between your fingers, or bit of tomato purée.
Lower the heat, cover and let the chicken to braise for a good 45 minutes, or until the chicken is well done and the sauce well reduced. Allow to rest for a few minutes and then serve.
Notes
Check the chicken after about 30 minutes or so. Some chickens–especially the ‘factory farm’ kind–can give off a lot of liquid. If this is the case, raise the heat a bit and cook uncovered until done. The sauce should be quite well reduced and cling to the chicken pieces–more of a ‘dressing’ than an actual sauce.
To cut a chicken into 10 pieces for this recipes, cut off each of the legs, the wings (including a bit of the breast with the wings) and then cut the breasts off the back of the chicken. (You can freeze and save the back for broth.) Then divide each leg into thigh and drumstick, cut the breasts into two down the center rib and then divide each breast into two, cutting through the bone. Leave the bone on. (If it’s a young chicken, you should be able to manage this with a sharp knife. If not, use a cleaver.) Then trim ‘tips’ off the wings and discard (or freeze with the back). You’ll wind up with 4 leg pieces, 4 breast pieces and 2 wings.
If you can find it and can afford it, buy an organic, free range chicken. They are the only ones these days that taste like anything. And they are less likely to shed a lot of liquid, not having been pumped up with water and who knows what…
Pollo coi peperoni (Chicken and Peppers)
Ingredients
- One small chicken cut up into serving pieces
- 2-3 large bell peppers red or green, or a combination of both
- 2-3 canned tomatoes squeezed between your fingers (or a bit of tomato purée)
- 1-2 cloves of garlic
- Salt and pepper
- White wine
- Olive oil
Instructions
- You cut up a small chicken into 10 pieces (see below) and brown them lightly in a braiser in olive oil. Add the bell peppers, sliced into strips along with a clove or two of lightly crushed garlic, season with salt and pepper. Allow the vegetables to insaporire for a minute or two, then add a splash of white wine and allow it to evaporate completely before adding a couple of canned tomatoes, squeezed between your fingers, or bit of tomato purée.
- Lower the heat, cover and let the chicken to braise for a good 45 minutes, or until the chicken is well done and the sauce well reduced. Allow to rest for a few minutes and then serve.
7 Comments on “Pollo coi peperoni (Chicken and Peppers)”
Hi Frank a while since you posted this recipe. I cooked it with a few additions(egg plant and some carrot, celery) and enjoyed it. What I learnt from this post was how to cut up a chicken. I have been making meals like this for nearly 60 years, chicken cacciatore from the old Time Life series of cookbooks etc. Always I cut the chicken into “serving pieces” and wondered who was going to score the relatively meatless backbone portions. Following your directions I ended up with good meaty portions and three tubs of stock in the freezer. Thank you, one lives and learns.
That’s great to hear, John! So glad I could be of help.
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Thanks, Alice, Ferragosto was great. Hope enjoy the chicken!
Hello Frank, thanks for writing “pollo coi.. peperoni”, as it should be in Rome. Too bad I do not have too much bread tonight, it will be a limited scarpetta.
Hope you had a nice Ferragosto.
Alice
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