Pollo Alla Diavola Devil Style Grilled Chicken Recipes

POLLO ALLA DIAVOLA ("DEVIL-STYLE" GRILLED CHICKEN)

Steps:

• Begin by butterflying a young chicken: cut away the chicken's back bone with kitchen shears and spread the chicken flat, skin side up. Cover the chicken with a sheet of waxed paper and, with the bottom of a frying pan, give the chicken a few good whacks to flatten it even more, but without breaking it up.
• Place the chicken on a platter and season it generously on both sides with olive oil, salt and red pepper flakes. To this, I often add the juice of half a lemon. Let the chicken marinate for about an hour or so.
• Heat up your grill and grill the chicken on both sides, over a moderate flame, until nice and golden brown all over, about 15-20 minutes per side. A little charring on the edges is perfectly fine-and even desirable. I find that a grilling basket makes the job very easy and helps keep the chicken flat, but you can simply place the chicken directly on the grill if you prefer, placing a brick or other heavy weight on top to keep the chicken flat.
• Serve your pollo alla diavola right away, although it is tasty at room temperature as well.

LUPA POLLO ALLA DIAVOLA (DEVILED ROAST CHICKEN WITH VEGETABLES)

Steps:

• The"devil's oil" needs to steep overnight, and the chicken halves need to marinate at least four hours DEVIL'S OIL: Combine all ingredients in heavy small saucepan.
• Cook over medium heat until oil bubbles at edge of pan and thermometer registers 200 degrees F, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes.
• Set oil aside overnight to steep.
• Strain oil through fine sieve into small bowl, pressing on solids to extract as much oil as possible.
• Season oil to taste with salt.
• (Can be made 3 days ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Bring to room temperature before serving.) CHICKEN?
• VEGETABLES: Whisk 1 cup olive oil and 1/4 cup pepper in 15 x 10 x 2-inch glass baking dish to blend.
• Add chicken halves to pepper oil; turn to coat well and arrange in single layer.
• Tuck lemon slices between and on top of chicken halves.
• Spoon some pepper oil fro dish over chicken halves.
• Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight, turning chicken halves occasional.
• Preheat oven to 500 degrees F.
• Heat 2 heavy large (11- to 12-inch) ovenproof skillets (preferably cast iron) over medium-high heat 5 minutes.
• Add 3 tablespoons olive oil to each.
• Remove chicken halves from pepper oil and discard lemon slices; sprinkle each chicken half with coarse salt and black pepper.
• Place 2 chicken halves, skin side down, in each skillet.
• Cook until skin is deep golden brown, about 8 minutes.
• Place skillets in oven and roast until chicken is cooked through and thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 180 degrees F, about 25 minutes.
• Using tongs, turn chicken skin side up in skillets; let rest 5 minutes.
• Heat remaining 4 tablespoons olive oil in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat.
• Add onion, carrots and celery; sauté until celery begins to look translucent, about 8 minutes.
• Add chicken broth and bring to boil.
• Reduce heat to medium-low; cover saucepan and simmer until vegetables are tender, about 25 minutes.
• Mix glaze into vegetables; season with salt and pepper.
• Spoon vegetables onto platter.
• Drizzle with extra-virgin olive oil.
• Top with chicken.
• Serve chicken and vegetables, passing devil's oil separately.

RUTH REICHL'S CHICKEN DIAVOLO

Steps:

• Make the chile oil: Chop jalapeño and serrano chiles and put them in a small saucepan with 3/4 cup olive oil. Add hot paprika and grind in a fair amount of black pepper. Steep over medium heat for about 15 minutes. Let sit overnight, or all day.
• Strain chile oil into a large bowl. Slice 2 lemons and add them to the bowl. Season with salt. Coat chicken with the oil, put in a zip-top bag and let it sit in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours or up to a day.
• Heat oven to 500. Heat a cast-iron skillet until it's quite hot (about 5 minutes). Meanwhile, remove the chicken from the chile oil and pat it dry. Sprinkle it with salt and shower it with pepper; you need a lot. Slick the bottom of the pan with olive oil and put the chicken, skin-side down, in the hot skillet. Cook until the skin is crisp and golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Turn the chicken skin-side up.
• Put the skillet in the oven and roast about 20 minutes, or until a thermometer registers 170 degrees in the thickest part of the thigh. Sprinkle with juice from half a lemon, shower with more pepper and allow to rest 10 minutes before serving.

POLLO ALLA DIAVOLA

Steps:

• Add half a chilli, 1 clove of garlic, a teaspoon of herbs and a pinch of paprika ito a bowl and roughly mash together, coat the chicken in this and wrap in foil. Place this in the oven at 200degrees in a fan oven and cook for 30 minutes
• Add the oil to a saucepan and fry the onions on a high heat for around 3 minutes.
• Add the the green peppers, chillies,tomatoes, mushrooms and 1 clove garlic and adjust to a medium heat. Cook this for 4 minutes.
• Add half the tin if tomatoes and a dash of olive oil and simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Then add the extra garlic, herbs and jalepenos and give it a stir
• Use a wooden spoon to mash the larger chunks of tomatoes, both tinned and fresh. Crumble over half the stock cube and stir in the leftover tinned tomatoes and the wine. Simmer for 10 minutes.
• Add a squeeze of lemon and the tomato purée. Continue to cook until the chicken is ready. Stirring occasionally.
• After 30 minutes take the chicken out and open up the foil, return to the oven for 10 minutes turning the heat up to full. Serve with the sauce poured generously over the chicken.