Chicken Tosca Food

CHICKEN TOSCA

Steps:

• Butterfly chicken breasts so they are thin.
• Lightly season with salt and pepper.
• Dust chicken breasts with flour.
• Combine whole eggs and romano cheese to form a batter.
• (you don't want a thick batter as it will coat and burn if too thick.) Fry chicken and mushrooms until golden brown.
• Add garlic and saute 1 minute.
• Season with additional salt and pepper to taste.
• Transfer chicken to platter.
• Add butter to the skillet.
• When melted add wine and lemon juice.
• Add cream and cook over high heat until sauce begins to thicken.
• Return chicken to skillet and heat.
• Serve immediately.
• Sprinkle additional grated romano cheese over chicken if desired.

CHICKEN TOSCA

Steps:

• Butterfly chicken breasts so they are thin.
• Lightly season with salt and pepper.
• Dust chicken breasts with flour.
• Combine whole eggs and romano cheese to form a batter.
• (you don't want a thick batter as it will coat and burn if too thick.) Fry chicken and mushrooms until golden brown.
• Add garlic and saute 1 minute.
• Season with additional salt and pepper to taste.
• Transfer chicken to platter.
• Add butter to the skillet.
• When melted add wine and lemon juice.
• Add cream and cook over high heat until sauce begins to thicken.
• Return chicken to skillet and heat.
• Serve immediately.
• Sprinkle additional grated romano cheese over chicken if desired.

CHICKEN TOSCANA

Steps:

• Earlier in day or prior to cooking chicken:.
• Combine port, and broths in saucepan and cook down over medium heat until almost half. Remove 4 ounces of mixture, let cool and add 1 T flour to these 4 ounces until thoroughly dissolved.
• Return to pan and cook over medium low until thickened.
• Just before serving on chicken, add chestnuts and heat through.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Dredge chicken cutlets in flour.
• Heat non stick fry pan (use PAM if necessary).
• Add butter and oil.
• Saute cutlets on each side over medium high heat until lightly browned (can let rest covered a few minutes as you add chestnuts to port gravy mixture).
• Pour thickened port gravy over cutlets and serve.

TUSCAN CHICKEN

Steps:

• Heat a large, deep skillet over medium high heat. Season chicken with salt and pepper. Add 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, half the chicken pieces, and a couple of crushed cloves of garlic.
• Brown chicken 2 minutes on each side and remove from pan. Add remaining oil, another single turn of the pan, remaining chicken pieces and garlic. Brown chicken 2 minutes on each side and remove. Add vinegar to the pan. Let it cook off.
• Add butter, shallots, and rosemary to the pan and cook 2 minutes, add flour and cook 1 minute more. Whisk in wine, reduce 1 minute. Whisk in broth and bring liquids up to a bubble. Return chicken to the pan and simmer over moderate heat 7 to 8 minutes to finish cooking chicken through.
• Dessert: This is a very rich meal. My suggestion for dessert is to set out a small cookie tray and offer coffee or tea.

PASTA AND CHICKEN DI TOSCANA

Steps:

• Cook pasta as directed on package, omitting salt.
• Meanwhile, heat oil in large skillet on medium heat. Add chicken; cook 2 to 3 min. on each side or until lightly browned on both sides. Remove chicken from skillet; cover to keep warm. Add mushrooms and garlic to skillet; cook 3 to 4 min. or until mushrooms are tender, stirring frequently. Stir in pasta sauce.
• Return chicken to skillet. Bring sauce just to boil; cover. Simmer on medium-low heat 6 to 8 min. or until chicken is done (165ºF).
• Drain pasta. Serve topped with chicken, pasta sauce mixture and basil.

CHICKEN SCALLOPINI

Steps:

• In a small bowl, stir together the garlic and butter until well combined. Set aside. Place a chicken breast half on a work surface with the thick side facing to the right (if you're right-handed), and place your left hand down on the chicken breast. Using a very sharp knife, carefully cut the chicken breast from the thick side to about 1/2 inch from the edge of the thin side, in a horizontal cut. Open the cut chicken breast and spread it out like an open book. Using a meat mallet, gently pound the butterflied chicken breast out until it's an even thickness.
• Place the flour into a shallow dish, and dredge each chicken breast on both sides with flour. Melt the garlic butter in a large skillet over medium heat until it stops foaming, and cook each chicken breast until golden brown on both sides, 6 to 8 minutes per side. Sprinkle each breast with salt and pepper. Remove the chicken breasts to a platter, and keep warm.
• Cook and stir the mushrooms in the same skillet as the chicken until the mushrooms have absorbed the remaining butter in the skillet and have begun to turn brown at the edges. Stir in capers, lemon juice, white wine, and chicken demi-glace, and stir to combine. Reduce to a simmer. Adjust salt and pepper again, and stir the parsley into the sauce.
• Remove the chicken breasts to plates, and serve the sauce over the chicken. Garnish each serving with a lemon slice.