Chicken Carciofi Recipes

CHICKEN CARCIOFI

Steps:

• Heat a large sauté pan to medium high heat. Add the olive oil. Wait 30 seconds. Lightly flour the chicken and shake off the excess. Brown each side and season with salt and pepper.
• Add the white wine. Put heat up to high. Let simmer for 2-3 minutes. Squeeze and add the lemons into the sauce. Add the capers, chicken stock, and artichoke hearts. Reduce liquid by 2/3.
• Remove the chicken breasts onto a warm serving platter. Whisk in the butter and the parsley. Taste the sauce and adjust seasoning. Remove the lemon halves and spoon sauce over the chicken breasts.

ARTICHOKE RISOTTO: RISOTTO COI CARCIOFI

Steps:

• Bring the chicken stock to a boil over high heat.
• Clean the artichokes, leaving the tender inner leaves attached to the hearts, and halved. Rub with 1/2 lemon.
• Cook artichokes until tender, about 10 minutes.
• In a saute pan over low heat, saute onions and garlic together in olive oil. Add rice and toast to harden the outer starch. Add wine and slowly add chicken stock, only adding as much as will evaporate in 1 minute, until rice is cooked and creamy.
• When the rice is cooked, remove from heat and allow it to set for a few minutes to absorb any remaining liquid. Just before serving, mix in the artichokes, cheese, chopped parsley, thyme leaves, and salt and pepper, to taste.

CHICKEN SCARPARIELLO

Steps:

• Cut chicken breasts into 1 x 3 inch strips, and dredge in flour.
• In 10 inch skillet, heat oil and butter. Add chicken. Cook, turning occasionally, until lightly browned on all sides (3 to 4 minutes). Using tongs, remove chicken from skillet. Set aside and keep warm.
• To same skillet, add shallots and garlic. Saute until softened (1 minute). Add water, wine, broth mix, and seasonings. Mix well. Cook, stirring frequently, until liquid is reduced by 1/2 (3 to 4 minutes). Return chicken to skillet, and cook until sauce is thick and chicken is heated through (2 to 3 minutes).

POLLO AL CARCIOFI (CHICKEN WITH ARTICHOKES) RECIPE

Steps:

• Trim the artichokes and cut them into halves or wedges, about 1-1/2 inches wide; soak them in acidulated water. Rinse the chicken and pat it dry. Cut it up into 10 or 12 pieces (including the backbone) and season with 1/2 teaspoon salt. Heat the olive oil in the big saucepan over medium-high heat and lay in the chicken pieces without crowding-cook them in batches if necessary. Brown the pieces for about 3 minutes, turn and cook another 3 minutes until each is nicely colored on all sides. Remove the pieces to a platter or bowl. When the chicken is all out of the pan, drop the crushed garlic into the hot fat and cook it for a minute or two, until sizzling. Lift the artichoke wedges out of the water and drop them, still damp, into the saucepan. Stir well and season them with 1/2 teaspoon salt and the peperoncino. Cook the artichokes for 4 or 5 minutes, tossing them often and deglazing the browned bits on the pan bottom. When the artichokes are dry and starting to take on color, pour in the wine and cook over high heat, stirring, until it is nearly evaporated, about 3 minutes. Pour in the tomatoes and 3 cups of water; slosh the tomato containers with some of the water to rinse them. Cover the pan and bring the liquid to a boil. Adjust the heat to maintain a steady bubbling and cook the artichokes and sauce for about 15 minutes. Return all the chicken pieces (and any accumulated juices in the platter) to the saucepan, submerging them in the sauce. Cover the pan, get the sauce perking again and cook chicken and artichokes together for about 40 minutes. The chicken should be nearly done, the artichokes tender and the sauce somewhat reduced. Set the cover ajar-or remove it altogether-and continue cooking 15 minutes or more until the sauce has thickened and coats the chicken and artichoke pieces. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Serve right away or-for the best flavor-let the chicken cool in the pot and reheat later. If the sauce has thickened, stir in a bit of water. Serve hot from the pan or from a big bowl, if you prefer. Sprinkle over the parsley just before serving.

FETTUCCINE CON CARCIOFI

Steps:

• Fill large bowl with cold water. Squeeze juice from lemon halves into water; add lemon halves. Working with 1 artichoke at a time, cut off stem from artichoke. Using small knife, peel stem, then slice into 1/4-inch-thick rounds. Drop stem slices into lemon water. Pull off leaves from artichoke and discard. Using spoon, scoop out choke. Thinly slice artichoke bottom. Drop artichoke slices into lemon water. Repeat with remaining artichokes.
• Heat oil in heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add garlic; sauté 1 minute. Drain artichoke pieces; add to skillet. Sauté until artichokes are soft and beginning to turn golden, about 20 minutes. Add wine; reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer 3 minutes. Stir in 1 1/2 tablespoons parsley; simmer 1 minute. Discard garlic. Season sauce with salt and pepper.
• Meanwhile, cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until just tender but still firm to bite, stirring occasionally. Drain pasta, reserving 1 cup pasta cooking liquid.
• Return pasta to pot; add artichoke sauce and half of cheese and toss to blend, adding some of reserved pasta cooking liquid if dry. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer to bowl. Sprinkle with remaining cheese and 1 1/2 tablespoons parsley and serve.

CHICKEN AND ARTICHOKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Sprinkle chicken with salt, pepper and paprika to taste. Melt butter or margarine in heavy skillet and brown chicken on all sides. Remove to covered 9x13 inch casserole.
• Add mushrooms to pan drippings and saute. Add flour and gradually add stock or broth and sherry. Season with rosemary; deglaze skillet.
• Arrange artichoke hearts among the chicken pieces and pour sauce over all. Cover and bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 40 minutes or until tender.

CHICKEN AND ARTICHOKES IN WINE SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt 1 tbs of the butter and 1 tbs of the olive oil in a skillet and add the artichokes. Cook until lightly browned.
• While cooking, dredge the chicken in the flour and sprinkle with salt.
• Remove the artichokes from the skillet and transfer to a plate. Set aside.
• Melt the remaining butter in the skillet along with the remaining olive oil.
• Saute the chicken pieces in this mixture until golden brown on both sides.
• Add the artichokes back to the pan, add pignoli nuts and season to taste with salt & pepper.
• Deglaze the pan with the white wine and let it bubble for a few minutes until nice and thick.
• Stir well to coat everything with the wine sauce.
• Transfer to a plate and squeeze with fresh lemon juice.
• That's it!

PASTA CARCIOFI

Steps:

• Dice chicken into 1 inch cubes put in a ziploc bag with the flour and salt and pepper and shake to coat.
• in a Large skillet brown chicken in Olive oil unitil golden. Remove and set aside.
• and alittle more oil to the pan and add garlic, tomatoes, artichokes, olives, sundried tomatoes, and gravymaster. cook for 5 minutes then add stock and wine simmer 5 minutes. Add chicken back in the pan. and the butter. simmer 10 minutes.
• boil the pasta of choice and drain. and the pasta to the sauce pan. top with grated cheese.