Poulet Au Verjus With Tomatoes Food

POULET AU VINAIGRE (CHICKEN IN VINEGAR)

Steps:

• Pat chicken dry and season with 1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper. Place flour in a shallow bowl and toss the chicken in it to coat, shaking off excess. (Discard the remaining flour.)
• Heat butter and oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat until foamy. Add the chicken and cook, flipping once, until brown on both sides, 9 to 12 minutes total. Add garlic, shallot and the remaining pinch of salt; cook for 1 minute. Add tomato paste; cook for 1 minute. Stir in tomato, vinegar and honey, scraping up any browned bits. Stir in broth. Bring to a simmer.
• Reduce heat to low, cover and cook for 15 minutes. Uncover and cook, flipping the chicken occasionally, until the sauce is slightly thickened, 20 to 25 minutes more. Stir in parsley and tarragon.

WATERZOOI AU POULET (BELGIAN CHICKEN SOUP)

Steps:

• Place all the vegetables into a large saucepan, place the chicken on top of the vegetables then add the broth.
• Season with salt and plenty of pepper, bring to the boil then reduce the heat, partially cover and simmer for about 45 minutes.
• At the end of the cooking time, place the egg yolks in a small saucepan over a medium heat and cook, stirring with a wooden fork or spoon until lightly scrambled.
• To serve - transfer the eggs to a large soup tureen, pour the soup broth, vegetables and pieces of chicken into the eggs stirring constantly. Garnish with chopped parsley.

POULET AU VERJUS - CHICKEN WITH VERJUS

Steps:

• First, make verjus:.
• Pull the grapes away from their stems, then press them, extracting as much of the juice as possible. Filter this juice through muslin, a jelly bag, or use coffee filter paper. Bottle this and sterilize it, or freeze some in ice cube trays. Or use it up within the next few days.
• Brown the chicken cut in pieces for a good ten minutes.
• Add the chopped garlic and cook briefly.
• Pour in a large glass of verjus, and some chicken stock made with 1/2 cube 1/2 cup of hot water.
• Add the chopped parsley.
• Cook over low heat for 20 minutes, partially covered until towards the end, when you take the cover off.
• Use more verjus, if you want. It is a pleasant, fruity taste with a tart, vinegary quality.
• Serve with mashed potatoes or Sarlat Potatoes, recipe#209855, fresh green beans, or other summer fare.

POULET AU VERJUS WITH TOMATOES

Steps:

• Season chicken pieces with salt and pepper and coat with flour.
• Head the skillet on medium heat and add olive oil and butter. Brown chicken pieces in skillet for about 5-7 minutes per side.
• Remove chicken pieces to plate and pour off excess fat from skillet. Deglaze skillet with verjus.
• Add shallots, tomatoes and paste to the skillet. Return chicken pieces and simmer 5 minutes on high heat to reduce liquid by half. Add stock and return to gentle simmer another 5-8 minutes, turning chicken pieces once.
• Remove chicken pieces to low oven and reduce sauce on pan to concentrate flavors and thicken.
• Remove from heat and and add remaining 1 T butter and fresh chopped herbs. Serve sauce over warm chicken.

POULET AU CIDRE (CHICKEN IN CIDER AND CALVADOS)

Steps:

• Peel and core apples. Finely chop half of one apple and cut the rest into 12 wedges. Toss the apple in lemon juice.
• Heat half the butter in large frying pan. Add the chicken pieces, skin side down, and cook until golden. Turn chicken over and cook another 5 minutes. Remove the chicken and pour off fat.
• Heat 1 tablespoon butter in the same pan and add onion, celery and chopped apple. Fry over moderate heat for 5 minutes without browning.
• Remove from heat. Sprinkle flour into mixture and stir. Add Calvados and return to heat. Gradually stir in cider. Bring to a boil, return chicken to pan, cover and simmer gently for 15 minutes.
• Heat remaining butter in small frying pan. Add apple wedges and fry over moderate heat until browned and tender. Remove from heat and keep warm.
• Remove the chicken pieces from the pan to a platter and keep warm. Skim excess fat from cooking liquid. Add creme fraiche, bring just to a boil and simmer 4 minutes, until it thickens enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon. Season with salt and pepper. Pour sauce over chicken and serve with warm apple wedges.

VERJUS

Steps:

• Use at least 3 bunches of under ripe grapes. You could make bushel fulls, too!
• Press the juice out of the grapes, using your fingers, or by crushing the bunches with bricks, or by using a wine press.
• A wine press is a small barrell with a weighted lid on a substantial screw that winds down, down, down on the grapes. The liquid pours out of a spigot low on the barrel.
• Strain and filter the juice, discarding the skins and seeds. Strain with muslin, a jelly bag, coffee filters, anything that will work to produce a clear liquid.
• If you make a small quantity, use within 4 or 5 days. A larger quantity should be bottled and sterilized, or put in jars and sterilized.
• The formatting of this recipe required me to give a minimum 2 ingredients, so I entered bunches of grapes twice!

POULET A LA SAUCE TOMATE

Steps:

• Plunge the tomatoes in boiling water 2 to 3 minutes then place them under a cold water tap; remove skins.
• Dice the tomatoes and put aside.
• Cut the chicken into 4 quarters and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
• Brown the chicken pieces in the olive oil in a deep cast iron pot.
• Add the diced tomatoes, whole garlic cloves, vanilla pods and dry white wine.
• Simmer on a very low flame for 2 to 3 hours (the chicken should fall off the bone).
• Remove the chicken from the pot and arrange on a serving platter; cover with aluminum foil and keep warm.
• Crush the garlic cloves, discard the vanilla pods and reduce tomato sauce slightly.
• Add additional salt & freshly ground black pepper if needed.
• When your tomato sauce has reached desired consistency; cover the arranged chicken with the tomato sauce and serve immediately accomanied by potato rissoles or rice flavored with saffron.