Basque Style Chicken

My Favourite Chicken Recipes

I always stock a lot of tomatoes, red bell peppers and red wine. I love the colour red in food. Tomato is a great ingredient because it’s so versatile. It can be used raw in salads, or to make the various sauces, like marinara or fresh soups, but you can also drink tomato juice although I can’t remember the last time I had some. The closest I had, was this Simple Gazpacho, during summer. The other day a friend of mine made a tomato pie. She basically filled a nice crunchy pie shell with fresh tomato slices, sweet onions, and fresh herbs and topped it with a mixture of shredded cheeses. It tasted really good. I think I’m going to try it out one of these fine evenings.

Today I want to share with you the “Basque style chicken” This dish often includes tomatoes and sweet or hot red peppers and wine. I used sweet red peppers, dry white wine and smoked paprika for the recipe. It’s quite simple to make but very delightful to the palate. If you’ve never tried it, you still have an opportunity to do so! I wish you a pleasant week!

• Ingredients
• 10 chicken drumsticks (1kg chicken pieces)
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 onions, chopped
• 3 garlic cloves, crushed
• 2 cups, skinned and diced tomatoes
• 2 medium red bell peppers char grilled, skinned and julienned
• ½ teaspoon chilli (pepper) flakes
• 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 120ml (½ cup) dry white wine
• Salt and freshly ground pepper

Place pepper on baking sheet, skin side up

Grill or broil six inches from the broiler/grill, until charred black

Cover with aluminium foil until cool

Remove skin and julienne the pepper

Please always remember to assemble all ingredients before you start

Brown chicken in a pan or skillet with 1 tablespoon olive oil, remove and set aside, drain rendered fat, if any.

Heat the  remaining olive oil and sauté onions until golden brown.

Add garlic and peppers and stir 1 minute,

then tomatoes, paprika,  chilli flakes, and wine. Season with salt and pepper.

and cook uncovered for 12 minutes until wine is absorbed.

Add the chicken and cook 20-30 minutes or until fully cooked.

Serve.

The chicken tasted great