Portuguese Chicken And Rice Food

PORTUGUESE CHICKEN

Steps:

• Place potatoes, carrots, celery and onion in a pot. Pour in wine, add sugar, salt, and oil. Add 2 cups of chicken broth. Cover pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes.
• While vegetables cook, brown chorizo in a small nonstick skillet over medium high heat.
• If your leftover chicken was frozen, defrost in microwave. If the leftovers were refrigerated, continue with recipe method as below.
• Remove the cover from the vegetables and add chorizo to the vegetables. Stir in tomato sauce. Set cooked chicken into the pot and heat through, 5 minutes. Adjust seasoning. Ladle Portuguese Chicken into shallow bowls and garnish with parsley. Serve with crusty bread for dipping.

PORTUGUESE CHICKEN I

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken breasts, and cook until nicely browned on both sides. Pour in chicken stock and white wine, using enough chicken stock so that the chicken pieces are covered halfway to two thirds by liquid. Add whole garlic cloves. Reduce heat to medium-low, sprinkle flour over the top of the contents of the pan and cover with a lid. Simmer for 40 to 45 minutes, until chicken is cooked through.
• When chicken is cooked through, remove to a dish, and keep warm. Boil the liquid in the skillet until it is reduced to about 1 1/2 cups. Whisk cream into the reduced liquid, breaking up the garlic cloves as much as you can. Return chicken to the pan, and heat through.

HOMEMADE PORTUGUESE CHICKEN

Steps:

• Combine lemon juice, oil, garlic, paprika, oregano, 1 teaspoon salt, chili powder, red pepper flakes, bay leaf, and black pepper in a blender or food processor. Blend until very smooth.
• Score chicken legs a few times using a knife and place in a resealable bag or a bowl. Pour about 1/3 cup of sauce over chicken and toss well. Season with additional sea salt. Cover or seal and marinate chicken in a refrigerator, 8 hours to overnight. Reserve remaining sauce for basting.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Place chicken in a baking dish and cover with aluminum foil.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes. Turn chicken over and baste with extra marinade. Cover baking dish with foil once again and bake for another 20 to 25 minutes. Remove foil and bake until no longer pink in the center and juices run clear, 15 to 20 minutes more. An instant-read thermometer inserted near a bone should read 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).

PORTUGUESE CHICKEN AND RICE

Steps:

• Saute onions, garlic, salt, pepper and brown sugar in oil, till softened and beginning to brown in color. Add Chicken pieces, cook till almost done. Add broth, water, tomatoes and rice; cook till almost all liquid is absorbed. Stir in crushed red pepper and cook 2 more minutes.

PORTUGUESE CHICKEN LIVERS & RICE

Steps:

• Heat butter in a skillet and saute livers over medium heat about 3 minutes until brown, but still pink inside.
• Remove and season with salt& pepper, chop coarsely and put aside.
• Heat the oil on medium heat.
• Add onion and garlic and saute until soft.
• Add rice, saute until rice just starts to take on a clear color.
• Don't scorch the rice.
• Add broth and tomato sauce.
• Mix well and bring to a boil.
• Add all other ingredients, except livers.
• Cover& cook over med.
• heat for about 10 minutes.
• Stir lightly with a fork, reduce heat, cover and cook for about 10 minutes more until liquid is almost absorbed.
• Mix in the livers, stir,cover.
• Cover and cook until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is cooked through.
• Add more liqid if needed (a little water is okay).