Pierre Franeys Roast Chicken Food

CHICKEN BREASTS WITH LEMON

Steps:

• Season flour with salt and pepper, and dredge the chicken all over. Remove the excess flour.
• Heat the oil in a heavy skillet large enough to hold the chicken pieces in one layer. Add chicken and cook, uncovered, over medium heat for 5 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Flip the chicken and cook for 5 minutes more, or until cooked through. Carefully remove the oil from the skillet, leaving the chicken. Discard the oil.
• Add the thyme, shallots and garlic, and cook for about a minute. Do not burn the garlic. Add the lemon rind, the lemon juice and the broth.
• Scrape the skillet to dissolve the brown particles that cling to the bottom. Add the butter, and cook for 3 minutes longer. Serve immediately.

PIERRE FRANEY'S ROAST CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
• Stuff the chicken with the bay leaf, thyme and garlic. Sprinkle inside and out with salt and pepper to taste. Truss the chicken with string.
• Place the chicken in a shallow roasting pan. Rub with the oil. Place the chicken on its side and scatter the neck, gizzard, liver and onion halves around it.
• Place the chicken in the oven and roast it 20 minutes, basting occasionally. Turn the chicken on its other side. Roast for 20 minutes, basting occasionally. Remove all the fat from the roasting pan. Place the chicken on its back. Add the butter, chicken stock and water. Roast for 20 minutes longer, basting. When cooked, the chicken should be golden brown all over and no red juice should flow when the joint between the thigh and leg is pierced with a fork. Use a fork and lift the chicken up to let the cavity juices flow into the pan. Baste the chicken with the juices.
• Untruss the chicken. Remove and discard the bay leaves, thyme and garlic. Carve the chicken into serving pieces. Place the roasting pan on top of the stove. Bring the pan gravy to the boil, stirring and scraping. Serve chicken with hot gravy.

CHICKEN BREASTS PIERRE

Steps:

• In a shallow dish or bowl, combine flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt and ground black pepper. Coat chicken breasts with flour mixture. Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat, and brown chicken on all sides. Remove from skillet, and drain on paper towels.
• In the same skillet, combine the tomatoes, water, brown sugar, vinegar and Worcestershire sauce. Season with salt, chili powder, mustard, celery seed, garlic and hot pepper sauce. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, and return chicken to skillet. Cover, and simmer for 35 to 40 minutes, or until chicken is tender, no longer pink and juices run clear.

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.

LENTILS

Steps:

• Pick over the lentils and discard any foreign particles. Rinse the lentils well. Drain.
• Put the lentils in a saucepan and add the water and salt. Bring to a boil. Stick the cloves into the onion and add to the saucepan with the bay leaf and marjoram. Cover and let simmer for 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, heat the oil in a saucepan and add the leek, chopped onions and garlic. Cook, stirring, about 5 minutes. Do not brown.
• Add the tomatoes, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer 5 minutes.
• When the lentils are tender, drain. Add them to the leek mixture and bring to a boil. Add the parsley and serve.

PORK CUTLETS PARMIGIANA

Steps:

• Pound each slice of pork on a flat surface with a meat pounder or a mallet to about 1/4-inch thick. (Properly pounded slices will look like veal scallopini.)
• Place the egg, water, cumin, rosemary and salt and pepper in a mixing bowl, and beat well. Place the bread crumbs on a flat dish.
• Dip the pork slices in the egg mixture to coat and then dip in the bread crumbs. Pat lightly with the flat side of a kitchen knife to help the crumbs to adhere.
• Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a saucepan and add the garlic and onions. Cook, stirring for one minute; do not brown. Add the tomatoes, oregano, salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
• In a large nonstick skillet over medium heat, add 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil and place as many cutlets as possible in one layer. When the slices are golden brown on one side, about 3 minutes, cook on the other side for 3 minutes. As the pieces are done, transfer them to a heated platter. Add more oil, if necessary, to the skillet, and continue cooking the rest of the slices in the same manner.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• In a baking dish large enough to hold the cutlets in one layer, spoon a little sauce over the bottom, add the cutlets, spoon more tomato sauce on top and cover each cutlet with mozzarella cheese. Add the remaining sauce. Sprinkle the Parmesan cheese over the dish and bake until piping hot and cheese is melted, about 10 minutes.