Polish Style Royal Chicken Food

ROSOL (POLISH CHICKEN SOUP)

Steps:

• Gather all your vegetables. Peel carrots, parsnip, and celery. Clean and trim your leek and wash your parsley. Heat up a skillet and add unpeeled onions in to get some burn marks.
• Place chicken pieces, beef bone, allspice, and bay leaves into a large pot.
• Add vegetables and fill the pot with water. Add vinegar and about 1-2 tablespoons of salt (you will finish seasoning once the broth is cooked)
• Set it on medium to low heat. Do not boil it! Let it simmer for two hours. A few times during the cooking, skim off anything that accumulates on the surface.
• Check for seasoning, add salt and pepper to your liking or chicken cubes, magi or Vegeta (see recipe notes).
• Boil the noodles separately, according to instructions. Once cooked, rinse with cold water to remove starch. Add noodles to a bowl.
• Remove a carrot and piece of chicken from the broth, cut it up and add it to your bowl. Ladle the broth into your bowl; first letting it pass through a meshed strainer. Add chopped parsley and serve. Enjoy!

MIKE'S POLISH SMOTHERED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Combine Italian dressing, garlic powder, oregano, and basil into a plastic bag. Add the chicken breasts and mix well. Marinate in refrigerator overnight.
• Preheat grill over medium heat.
• Make foil pouches of sliced red onion with butter and another pouch of sliced mushrooms with butter. Place onto hot grill and cook until tender. Drizzle portobello caps with olive oil and place on hot grill to soften. Remove chicken from marinade and discard marinade. Grill chicken breasts until cooked throughout, sprinkling with Cajun seasoning and garlic powder, set to side of grill to keep warm. At same time, grill 4 strips of bacon.
• Spread the cooked portobellos with a thick layer of cream cheese. Place 1 cooked chicken breast onto each, spoon on some of the sliced mushrooms, and finally some of the sliced onions. Place a strip of bacon onto that, and then cover with sliced mozzarella and shredded Monterey Jack cheese, put back on grill to melt cheese, and serve with a side of dirty rice.

CHICKEN ROYALE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°. For stuffing, combine the bread crumbs, water, 2 tablespoons butter, onion, parsley, salt, poultry seasoning and pepper. Place about 1/3 cup stuffing under the skin of each chicken breast; secure with toothpicks. In a shallow bowl, combine flour and paprika; coat chicken. Place in a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Drizzle with remaining butter., Bake, uncovered, until a thermometer reads 170°, 1 to 1-1/4 hours. Meanwhile, for sauce, heat butter in large skillet over medium heat. Add mushrooms and onion, cook and stir until tender, 2-3 minutes. Stir in the flour, salt and pepper. Whisk in cream until blended; bring to a boil. Cook and stir until thickened, 1 minute. Reduce heat; add sour cream. Stir just until heated through; do not boil. Serve with chicken.

POLISH-STYLE ROAST CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Remove giblets from chickens. Place hearts, necks, and gizzards in roasting pan. Discard livers.
• With a sharp knife, remove excess fat from chickens. Dry insides with a paper towel. With fingers, loosen skin over breast and thighs to make pockets, being careful not to tear the skin.
• In a food processor or blender, combine onion, garlic, paprika, salt, and pepper; puree until smooth.
• Spread 1/4 cup onion puree in the bottom of the roasting pan.
• Place chickens in pan, at least 1 inch apart. Rub 1 tablespoon puree in each cavity and spread remaining puree under skin.
• Tuck wing tips under back and tie legs together with kitchen twine.
• Roast chickens for 20 minutes. Drizzle with 1/4 cup chicken broth and roast for 40 minutes more, basting with pan drippings every 20 minutes.
• Tent chickens with foil and continue roasting for 30 minutes, or until meat thermometer measures 180° and the cavity juices run clear.
• Transfer chickens to a platter and cover with foil to keep warm. Pour pan juices into a bowl and chill in freezer 10 minutes to bring fat to the surface.
• Meanwhile, add remaining chicken broth and vodka to roasting pan and bring to boil over medium heat, scraping up any brown bits adhering to pan. Add any juices accumulated on the platter. Skim off fat from chilled pan juices, add to roasting pan, and return to a boil.
• Strain juices through a fine sieve into a medium saucepan. Bring to a simmer over medium heat. In a small bowl, blend water and cornstarch; whisk into simmering gravy. Cook, stirring, until slightly thickened, about 1 minute. Whisk in dill and sour cream, if using. Season with salt and pepper.
• Carve chickens, discarding skin. Serve with gravy (save some if making Polish Chicken Noodle Soup.)
• Serve with egg noodles and sauteed cabbage.

POLISH STYLE ROYAL CHICKEN

Steps:

• melt butter in a large skillet
• add chicken pieces and cook on all sides until starts to become golden color
• add onions and mushrooms and sweat until onion is tender.
• add water salt and pepper.
• cover and cook over medium heat about 35-40 minutes until chicken is done.
• blend flour paprika and sour cream.
• stir flour mix into liquid in pan bring just to a boil then simmer 3 minutes and serve.

POLISH POULTRY

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine first four ingredients. Place on the bottom of a 13x9-in. baking dish. Top with sausage and chicken. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and thyme. , Bake at 350° for 60-65 minutes or until chicken is tender and juices run clear, basting occasionally with pan juices.

CHEF JOHN'S CHICKEN PAPRIKASH

Steps:

• Season chicken generously on both sides with salt. Heat olive oil in a heavy, deep-sided pan (that comes with a lid) over high heat and brown the chicken well, skin-side down, about 5 minutes; flip and continue to sear until other side is browned, 3 to 4 minutes more. Turn off heat. Transfer the browned chicken to a plate and reserve until needed; spoon out excess chicken fat if desired.
• Add onions and a pinch of salt to the same pan and saute over medium until golden, about 5 minutes. Add garlic, tomato paste, and flour and cook, stirring, another 3 to 4 minutes to form a tomato roux. Stir in 1 teaspoon kosher salt, freshly ground black pepper, smoked paprika, and sweet paprika and cook for 1 minute. Add chicken broth and bring to a simmer over high heat.
• Reduce heat to medium-low and transfer chicken and accumulated juices back into the pan. Baste the tops with the sauce, cover the pan with the lid, and simmer, basting occasionally with the sauce, until the chicken is no longer pink in the centers and is fork-tender, 45 to 60 minutes. Remove the chicken and transfer to a plate.
• Skim some fat off the top of the sauce if desired. Whisk heavy cream and sour cream into the sauce and bring to a simmer, stirring occasionally. Transfer the chicken and any juices back into the sauce. Simmer, uncovered, basting often, until chicken is heated through and very tender, about 10 minutes. Taste and adjust seasoning if needed.

CHICKEN ROYALE

Steps:

• Pound chicken breasts to 1/4-inch thickness with flat side of meat mallet or chef's knife.
• Roll cheese in walnuts.
• Place 1 spinach leaf on each breast; top with a cheese quarter. Fold chicken around spinach and cheese to form a mound.Sprinkle salt and pepper over chicken. Place chicken in baking pan. Cover. Bake in 350 degree oven for 30 minutes or until chicken is fork-tender.
• Mix wine and dressing in small skillet. Cook over medium heat until sauce is reduced by one-half: stir in butter or margarine. Pour sauce over chicken.
• Serve with rice.
• *If raspberry vinaigrette is not available, substitute 1/4 cup bottled reduced calorie red wine vinegar and oil dressing and 1/4 cup seedless raspberry jam. Omit butter or margarine.