Marengo Cavour Food

CHICKEN MARENGO: NAPOLEON'S FAVORITE DISH

Steps:

• Season chicken breasts with Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper.
• Heat a heavy-bottomed sauté pan over medium-high. Add olive oil and heat for another minute. Add chicken to pan and cook 2 to 3 minutes on each side until the breasts are lightly browned. Remove chicken from skillet and set aside.
• Add some butter to the pan and heat until it foams. Then add the onions and cook until translucent, about 2 minutes. Add wine and bring mixture to a boil. Return the chicken to the pan and add the tomatoes. Cover and reduce heat. Simmer 10 minutes or until chicken is tender and cooked through.
• Remove chicken and plate it. Add the chopped olives and thyme to the pan and cook for another minute, then top the chicken with the sauce and serve immediately.

CHICKEN MARENGO WITH MUSHROOMS, GARLIC, AND TOMATOES

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Put the chicken and flour in a food storage bag and shake to coat the pieces thoroughly. Set aside.
• In a large skillet or sauté pan over medium heat, sauté the onions and sliced bell pepper, if using, in 1 to 2 tablespoons of olive oil until translucent. Remove to a plate.
• Add the remaining 2 to 3 tablespoons olive oil to the pan and heat over medium heat. Add the coated chicken to the pan and sauté, turning frequently, until browned. Remove the chicken to a plate and set aside.
• Add the butter to the pan and heat over medium-low heat. Add the mushrooms and sauté until tender and lightly browned-about 3 to 4 minutes.
• Add the garlic and continue cooking for 1 minute longer.
• Pour the wine into the pan and cook until almost evaporated.
• Add the chicken stock , tomatoes, lemon juice, and tomato paste. Blend well and bring to a boil.
• Add the chicken and vegetables back to the pan along with the parsley sprigs and bay leaf. Taste and add salt and pepper, as needed.
• Reduce the heat to low. Cover the pan and simmer for about 10 minutes, or until the chicken is thoroughly cooked.
• Remove the bay leaf and parsley sprigs from the sauce.
• Spoon chicken mixture into a serving dish and garnish with fresh chopped parsley. Serve with hot cooked pasta, egg noodles, or rice.

CHICKEN MARENGO

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large flameproof casserole dish and stir-fry the mushrooms until they start to soften. Add the chicken legs and cook briefly on each side to colour them a little.
• Pour in the passata, crumble in the stock cube and stir in the olives. Season with black pepper - you shouldn't need salt. Cover and simmer for 40 mins until the chicken is tender. Sprinkle with parsley and serve with pasta and a salad, or mash and green veg, if you like.

NAPOLEON'S CHICKEN MARENGO

Steps:

• Salt and pepper chicken and pat in seasonings.
• Heat olive oil to med-high.
• Dredge chicken in flour and add to heated oil.
• Brown on both sides, about 3 minutes each side.
• Place browned chicken on papertowels
• In same skillet, saute onions 10 minutes.
• After five mins add minced garlic.
• Add tomatoes, wine, and stir until bubbly.
• Lower heat to a low simmer.
• Return chicken pieces to skillet.
• Simmer for 1 hour if using dark meat, 45 mins if using breasts.
• Check chicken at 15 min intervals. If too dry, add 1/3 C Chicken Broth (or to your liking).
• At first 15 min interval, taste sauce and S& P to your taste.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Add mushrooms and shrimp to simmering chicken at 50 mins or 35 mins, respectively, assure shrimp is simmering in sauce until just pink.
• Butter slices of bread or drizzle olive oil and toast in preheated oven (3-5 mins).
• Add one piece of chicken on top of a slice of toast, spoon sauce over chicken.
• Add 2-3 shrimp on top or around chicken.
• Sprinkle a little parsley on each serving (optional).
• Fry eggs in olive oil or bacon grease, Sunny side up (eggs optional).
• Place egg by side of chicken serving, S&P to taste.

MARENGO CAVOUR

Steps:

• Combine 6 eggs whites and 1/2 tsp cream of tartar. Beat at highest speed just until frothy.
• Continue beating and add 1 cup of sugar, 1 Tbls. every minute, sprinkling it gradually over the mixing whites.
• Add 1tsp. vanilla and beat for 2 minutes. The whites should hold very stiff, sharp unbending peaks.
• Trace two 8" circles on parchment paperand place on two baking sheets. Using pas-try bag with plain tip, spread half of meringue on each disk. On second circle pipe with decorative swirls and puffs.
• Bake in 250 F oven 1 1/2 hours (color should be pure white to pale amber). Switch meringues halfway through baking. Turn off oven, leave meringues in closed oven for 3-4 hours to continue drying, or to leave in oven overnight.
• Blend 1 teaspoons instant coffee powder, 4 Tbls.Frangelico, 2 Tbls. Kahlua and 1 teaspoons vanilla.
• Beat 2 cups whipping cream until stiff, fold in coffee mixture and 10 oz.coarsely chopped chocolate.
• Place flat meringue on plate, spreadwhipped cream just on top disk. Place decorative disk on top. Cut in wedges.

CHICKEN MARENGO

Steps:

• Sprinkle the chicken with salt and pepper to taste.
• Heat the butter and oil in a heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken pieces skin-side down. Cook until golden brown on one side, about five minutes. Turn the pieces and cook on the other side about two minutes. Pour off the fat from the skillet.
• Scatter the mushrooms over the chicken. Stir to distribute. Add the onion, garlic, bay leaf and thyme and cook about 5 minutes.
• Add the wine and scrape the bottom of the skillet with a wooden spoon to dissolve the brown particles that cling to the bottom of the pan. Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, chicken broth and parsley. Bring to the boil. Cover and cook 10 minutes. Serve with rice and a tossed green salad.

CHICKEN MARENGO

Steps:

• Wash chicken pieces and pat dry.
• Season chicken and dredge in flour, shaking off excess.
• Heat oil and butter in large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Brown chicken pieces, a few at a time, then remove to a side plate as they are browned and continue with other pieces, adding more oil and butter if necessary.
• Quickly brown mushrooms, then remove to a side plate.
• Add onions to pan and cook over medium-low heat for 5 minutes.
• Stir in broth.
• Add tomatoes, green pepper, olives, garlic and allspice; simmer for 3-4 minutes.
• Return chicken to pan; cover and simmer for 25-30 minutes, or until tender.
• Arrange chicken on platter and keep warm in oven.
• Stir lemon juice into mixture in pan, add mushrooms and bring to the boil.
• Boil until reduced by half.
• Pour over chicken and serve.