Chicken Genovese Recipes

CHICKEN GENOVESE

Steps:

• In saucepan over medium heat, place ½ cup olive oil.
• When hot, add mushrooms, shallots and red peppers.
• Cook for 3 to 4 minutes or until mushrooms start to soften.
• Turn to low heat.
• Crush plum tomatoes by hand and add.
• Stir thoroughly.
• Add basil, rosemary, black pepper, celery salt and sugar, and simmer for 15 minutes.
• Add Spanish olives.
• This sauce can be made ahead of time if desired.
• When ready to eat, cut chicken in thin strips, approximately l ounce.
• Lightly coat with flour and place in hot frying pan, over medium heat, containing ½ cup olive oil.
• When chicken is golden brown, turn it over.
• Add prepared sauce to chicken and add ½ cup heavy cream.
• Stir thoroughly.
• Serve Chicken Genovese over pasta or white rice.
• Top with grated cheese and fresh parsley, if desired.

GENOVESE RED SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat the EVOO in a Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the pancetta and render until it begins to crisp, then add the ham and stir a minute or 2 more. Add the veal and break it up into fine crumbles, until lightly brown. Then add the garlic, bay leaf and onions, and season with salt and pepper and a little nutmeg. Let the onions cook, partially covered, for a few minutes, then stir in the tomato paste until fragrant. Add the wine and heat. Then add the milk, reduce the heat to low and simmer gently 3 hours. Add a little stock or water whenever the sauce gets too thick, up to 2 cups over the course of the cooking time. Cool and refrigerate or freeze for make-ahead meal.
• To serve, boil the pasta in salted water to al dente; reserve 1 cup starchy cooking water just before draining. Add to the sauce, toss with the pasta and some cheese and serve in shallow bowls.

POLLO E PENNE DI GENOA (GENOVESE CHICKEN AND PENNE PASTA)

Steps:

• Cook penne rigate as package directs; drain.
• Combine flour and basil in paper or plastic bag. Add chicken; shake to coat evenly.
• In large skillet, over medium-high heat, brown chicken in oil. Remove chicken from skillet; drain.
• In same skillet add pasta sauce. Bring to a boil. Return chicken to skillet. Reduce heat.
• Cover; simmer 15 minutes or until chicken is fully cooked. Serve with hot penne.

GENOISE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 8 inch round cake pan. Line with parchment paper and grease it as well. Lightly flour pan and paper.
• Sift together the flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, and salt onto a piece of wax paper.
• Place the eggs into a mixing bowl set over a pan of hot (not boiling) water. Add the 1/2 cup sugar to the eggs and whisk until the mixture feels warm (not hot) to the touch, about body temperature. Place the bowl onto a mixer and beat on medium speed until the mixture becomes pale yellow in color and falls off the end of the whisk attachment in long ribbons. Add the vanilla. Add about 1/3 of the flour mixture to the beaten egg and fold in. Continue to add the remainder of the flour, folding it in each time.
• Place about 1 cup of the batter into the bowl containing the melted butter and combine the butter with the batter. Add this back to the main batter and fold it in. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
• Immediately bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 25 minutes or until the top is a light brown. Cool in pan on a rack about 10 minutes and then invert onto a rack. It is best to invert it again onto another rack so that it cools with the top up. Let cool completely before cutting or frosting.

LA GENOVESE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium heat. Cook beef, stirring to break up clumps, until it begins to brown. Stir in carrots, onion, salt and pepper. Continue to stir and cook until vegetables begin to soften and meat juices run clear, 5 minutes. Pour in wine and cook one minute more. Serve.