Chicken Simmered In Red Chile Sauce Food

CHICKEN SIMMERED IN RED CHILE SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350º.
• Heat olive oil in frying pan and brown chicken breasts on both sides.
• Remove from pan and place in oven proof baking dish.
• Open dried chiles, remove and discard seeds and stem.
• (Seeds are removed to prevent burning) Cut chiles into pieces.
• Melt butter in frying pan.
• Lightly sauté chiles in butter.
• Add chopped onions and garlic.
• Tear tortillas into pieces and add to pan.
• (The tortillas help to thicken sauce.) Sauté until ingredients are lightly browned.
• Add chicken stock and salt and simmer until ingredients are soft.
• Remove from heat and cool sauce to room temperature.
• Transfer cooled sauce to blender and blend until smooth.
• Pour sauce over chicken breasts.
• Bake at 350º for 20-25 minutes or until chicken is done.
• Remove from oven, top with shredded jack cheese and garnish with sprigs of cilantro.
• Bake a few additional minutes to melt cheese if necessary.

BONELESS CHICKEN BREASTS WITH RED CHILI SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Make red chili sauce:
• In a saucepan simmer chilies, onion, and garlic in water to cover 20 minutes and with a slotted spoon transfer to a blender. Add 1/2 cup cooking liquid, raisins, and salt and blend until smooth. Sauce may be made 1 week ahead and chilled, covered.
• Make chicken:
• While chilies are simmering, in a bowl stir together yogurt, garlic paste, cumin, and salt to taste. Add chicken and coat with marinade. Marinate chicken, covered and chilled, at least 15 minutes and up to 1 day.
• In a 10-inch non-stick skillet heat oil over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking. Add chicken with marinade clinging to it, skinned sides down, and sauté 1 minute on each side, or until golden-brown patches appear.
• Add chili sauce to skillet and bring to a simmer, uncovered, scraping up any brown bits. Transfer chicken mixture to a shallow baking pan just large enough to hold chicken in one layer and bake, covered, 15 minutes. Remove cover and sprinkle Münster over chicken. Remove pan from oven and let stand 1 minute to melt cheese.

CHICKEN SIMMERED IN BBQ SAUCE

Steps:

• In a large heavy bottomed saucepot over medium-high heat, combine the Basic Tomato Sauce, ketchup, mustard, Worcestershire, sugar, ale, and hot sauce and bring to a simmer. Simmer until reduced by half and thickened, about 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, season the chicken pieces with salt and black pepper. Heat a large oven proof skillet over high heat and add the vegetable oil. Sear the chicken pieces on all sides until well-browned, about 3 minutes per side.
• Add the prepared BBQ sauce making sure to cover all the chicken pieces. Add 1 cup of water if more liquid is needed to cover. Place the skillet into the oven and bake until the chicken easily falls off the bone and the sauce is slightly thickened and caramelized on top, about 25 to 30 minutes. Serve hot or serve cold as leftovers.
• In a large heavy-bottomed pot or Dutch oven, heat the olive oil over medium heat.
• Add the garlic and cook until fragrant but not browned, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the tomatoes, bring to a simmer, and cook until thickened slightly, about 15 minutes. Stir in sugar, and season with salt, to taste.
• Let extra sauce cool completely and then seal in airtight containers. Refrigerate for up 1 week and freeze for up to 1 month.

AFRICAN CHICKEN IN SPICY RED SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine cayenne pepper, black pepper, ground ginger, cinnamon, and cloves together in a bowl until berbere is evenly mixed. Measure 2 teaspoons berbere and store remaining for another use.
• Place chicken in a shallow dish. Drizzle lemon juice over chicken and season with 1/2 teaspoon salt. Cover dish with plastic wrap and marinate in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion and garlic until fragrant, about 5 minutes. Add 2 teaspoons berbere, remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt, butter, fresh ginger, nutmeg, and cardamom to onion mixture; stir to coat, about 1 minute.
• Stir chicken broth, wine, and tomato paste into onion mixture; add chicken and bring to a boil. Cover pan, reduce heat, and simmer, turning chicken occasionally, until chicken is tender and no longer pink in the center, about 50 minutes. Stir cilantro into chicken mixture and serve with lemon wedges.

RED-COOKED CHICKEN WITH SHIITAKES

Steps:

• Bring water, soy sauce, rice wine, brown sugar, ginger, garlic, tangerine peel, star anise, and 2 cups scallions to a boil in an 8-quart pot, then reduce heat and simmer 10 minutes. Add whole chicken and simmer, covered, turning once, until just cooked through, 50 to 60 minutes. Transfer chicken with a large slotted spoon to a platter and brush with sesame oil. Keep warm, covered with foil.
• Pour cooking liquid through a sieve into a large bowl, discarding solids. Skim fat from surface and reserve 1 cup cooking liquid. (Cool remainder, uncovered, then freeze.) Heat vegetable oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then stir-fry shiitakes and remaining 2 cups scallions with salt, stirring frequently, until mushrooms are tender, 3 to 5 minutes. Add reserved cooking liquid and boil until reduced by half, about 3 minutes. Cut chicken into serving pieces and serve with sauce.

CHICKEN WITH RED CHILE SAUCE AND SAUSAGE (POLLO CON SALSA ROJO Y CHORIZO)

Steps:

• Remove the stems, seeds, and membranes from the ancho chiles and guajillo chiles, then soak in hot water until softened, about 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, bring a pot of water to a boil. Remove the stems from the tomatoes, then cut a shallow X on the bottom. Drop the tomatoes into the water, and cook uncovered until the skin begins to peel off, about 30 seconds. Drain in a colander, then immediately immerse in ice water for several minutes until cold to stop the cooking process. Once the tomatoes are cold, peel the skin off. Drain chiles and transfer to a blender along with the peeled tomatoes, garlic, onion, and chicken broth. Blend until smooth.
• Heat 1/2 of the corn oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the chile mixture, then reduce heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes. Season with salt. Heat the remaining corn oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Brown the chicken legs in 2 batches and remove from the skillet.
• Stir the chorizo into the same skillet; cook and stir until the chorizo is evenly browned. Drain any excess oil and stir in 1 cup of the chile sauce. Return the chicken to the skillet, along with the remaining chile sauce. Bring to a simmer and continue cooking until chicken is tender, 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes.

SIMMERED CHINESE CHICKEN

Steps:

• Rinse the chicken and remove"the goodies" from the inside, pat dry with papertowels.
• Heat the oil in a large dutch oven or soup pan.
• Brown the chicken on all sides.
• Mix soy sauce, brown sugar, 1/2 c water, catsup, sherry, red pepper, garlic and green onion together.
• Pour mixture over chicken.
• Cover and simmer 45 minutes.
• Remove the chicken to a serving platter.
• Dissolve the 2 T of cornstarch in 1 T of water.
• Add to the sauce in the pan, over low heat, to thicken.
• Pour sauce over chicken.
• We serve this with rice and pour the sauce over the rice as well.

RED COOKED CHICKEN, EASTERN CHINESE STYLE

Steps:

• Star anise (available in Asian markets) comes in cellophane bags.
• Whole ones have a total of eight points, each with an anise seed inside.
• If you can't find a whole one, just count out eight broken pieces.
• Use a little more or less to taste but don't omit it since it's an important element in this recipe.
• The original recipe calls for Chinese rock sugar which imparts a lustrous finish to the gravy.
• Available in Asian stores.
• Remove any excess fat from the chicken.
• Heat oil and brown chicken on all sides.
• Add the anise, scallions, ginger& garlic and brown slightly.
• Combine the soy sauces, brown sugar, stock and sherry and pour into the pot with the chicken.
• Bring to a boil, then turn the heat down until the sauce is simmering slightly.
• Cook uncovered for 45- 50 minutes, turning and basting every 10 minutes.
• To serve just pull the meat off with a serving fork.
• Use the gravy on the chicken and on rice.

GUAJILLO CHILI SAUCE

Steps:

• Set a heavy ungreased skillet or griddle over medium heat, lay the unpeeled garlic on the hot surface and let it roast to a sweet mellowness, turning occasionally until soft when pressed, a few small spots will blacken, about 15 minutes. Cool, slip off skins and roughly chop.
• While the garlic is roasting break the stems off chilies, tear chilies open and remove seeds, for the mildest sauce remove all stringy light colored veins. Finish and remove garlic if you haven't done so. Toast the chilies a few at a time on your medium-hot skillet. Open them flat, lay them on the hot surface skin side up and press flat with a metal spatula (if the temperature is right you will hear a faint crackle), then flip them and do the same (If you press them just long enough they will have changed to a mottled tan underneath, a wisp of smoke is OK but any more than that then there burnt). Transfer chilies to a bowl and cover with hot water and let rehydrate for 30 minutes, pour off all water and discard.
• In a food processor or blender add chilies, garlic, oregano, pepper and cumin, add 2/3 cup of the broth and process to a smooth puree, scraping and stirring every few seconds (In a blender you may need to add a little more broth until everything is moving). With a rubber spatula, work the puree through a medium mesh strainer into a bowl, discard skins and seeds left in the strainer.
• Heat oil in a medium-sized pot (4 quart) over medium heat, when hot enough to make a drop of the puree sizzle sharply add the puree all at once. Cook stirring constantly, as the puree sears, reduces and darkens to an attractive earthy brick red paste, usually about 7 minutes, taste it: You'll know it is done when it has lost that harsh raw-chili edge.
• Stir in remaining 3 cups of broth, partially cover and simmer, stirring occasionally for about 30 minutes. If the sauce has thickened past the consistency of a light cream soup, add more broth. Taste and season with salt and sugar - Salt to brighten and focus the flavors, sugar to smooth any rough or bitter chili edges.
• Covered and refrigerated the sauce will last about a week. If you freeze it you will need to re-boil it to bring back the lovely texture.
• Other chilies you can use - An equal amount of New Mexico chillies can replace the quajillo, the sauce will not be as full flavored; a chipotle or two adds complexity.

CHICKEN SIMMERED IN BBQ SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat over to 400 degrees F.
• In a large heavy bottomed saucepot over medium-high heat, combine the Basic Tomato Sauce, ketchup, mustard, Worcestershire, sugar, ale, and hot sauce and bring to a simmer. Simmer until reduced by half and thickened, about 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, season the chicken pieces with salt and black pepper. Heat a large oven proof skillet over high heat and add the vegetable oil. Sear the chicken pieces on all sides until well-browned, about 3 minutes per side.
• Add the prepared BBQ sauce making sure to cover all the chicken pieces.
• Add 1 cup of water if more liquid is needed to cover.
• Place the skillet into the oven and bake until the chicken easily falls off the bone and the sauce is slightly thickened and caramelized on top, about 25 to 30 minutes.
• Serve hot or serve cold as leftovers.

RED CHICKEN CHILI

Steps:

• Season chicken with salt and black pepper.
• Heat vegetable oil in a heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir chicken until browned and no longer pink in the center, about 8 minutes per side. Transfer chicken to a slow cooker, draining any excess oil. Add tomatoes, chicken stock, kidney beans, onion, jalapeno pepper, and chili powder to slow cooker.
• Cook on Low for 6 to 8 hours or on High for 4 hours.