Poulet Zaza Chicken With Champagne Sauce Recipes The New York Times Food

POULET AU VIN ROUGE (CHICKEN WITH RED WINE SAUCE)

Steps:

• Set the backbone aside for another use or discard it. Sprinkle the remaining pieces of chicken with salt and pepper. Dredge lightly in flour. Shake off excess flour.
• Heat the oil in a heavy skillet large enough to hold the chicken in one layer. Add the chicken pieces (skin side down) and the onions. Cook until nicely browned on one side, about four to five minutes. Turn the pieces and continue cooking about four minutes. Pour off the fat from the skillet. Add the wine, thyme and bay leaf. Cover closely and cook about 15 minutes.
• Uncover and transfer the chicken pieces and onions to a serving dish. Remove and discard the bay leaf. To the wine sauce in the skillet add the butter and swirl it around in the sauce. Pour the sauce over the chicken and sprinkle with chopped parsley.

CHICKEN WITH CHAMPAGNE SAUCE (POULET ZAZA)

Steps:

• Sprinkle the chicken pieces with salt and pepper. Dredge the pieces in flour and shake off excess.
• Cut each carrot into 2-inch lengths. Cut each length into 1/8 inch-thick slices. Stack the slices and cut them into1/8 inch thick slivers (julienne). There should be about one and a half cups. Set aside.
• Cut the green beans and celery into 2-inch lengths. Cut each length into julienne slivers. There should be about a cup of green beans and slightly less than a cup of celery. Set aside.
• Heat the butter and oil in a heavy skillet large enough to accommodate the chicken in one layer. When the fat is quite hot add the chicken pieces, skin side down, and cook about three minutes over moderately low heat. Turn and cook the second side about two minutes. Remove the pieces to a serving dish. Pour off all but one tablespoon of the fat. Add the shallots and cook briefly, stirring.
• Return the chicken pieces to the skillet and add the champagne. Add the chicken broth and bring to a boil. Partly cover and let simmer about 15 minutes.
• Have ready a basin of ice water to add the vegetables to when they are cooked.
• Meanwhile, bring a large quantity of water to a boil. Put the carrots in a sieve and add them in the sieve into the boiling water. Let cook about two and a half minutes. Remove them in the sieve and add them to the ice water. Drain.
• Repeat with the celery, letting it cook about one and a half minutes. Chill and drain.
• Repeat with the green beans, letting them cook about two minutes. Chill and drain.
• Remove the chicken pieces to a warm serving dish. Cover closely with foil.
• Cook the sauce down over high heat until reduced to about three-quarters of a cup. Add the cream and bring to a simmer.
• Combine the egg yolks and water in a heavy saucepan. Place the pan on a heatproof pad such as a double metal Flame Tamer and heat the yolk mixture until tripled in volume and thickened like a foamy, rich custard or sabayon. Do not overcook or the yolks will scramble. The cooking without boiling should take about 10 minutes.
• Add the vegetables to the cream sauce. Pour the sauce over the chicken and serve.

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.

POULET à LA NORMANDE

Steps:

• Pat the chicken very dry with paper towels, and season well with salt and pepper. Heat the fat in a large Dutch oven or deep skillet over medium-high until shimmering. Brown the chicken, in batches if necessary, skin side down until deep golden, 6 to 8 minutes, then flip, and sear the other side until golden, another 3 minutes.
• If flambéing: Make sure there is nothing flammable near or above your stove. Gently warm the Calvados in a saucepan over medium heat. When the chicken is well browned, protect your hand, and use a long kitchen match to light the liquor on fire, then carefully pour it into the chicken pan. The flame can shoot over 2 feet high, so be careful. Cook until the flame subsides. If not flambéing: Once the chicken is browned, turn off the heat, and add the Calvados. When the sizzling subsides, turn the heat on to medium low, bring the liquid to a simmer and cook for 4 minutes to evaporate the alcohol.
• Add the cider and onions, and bring to a boil over medium heat. Turn the heat down to a very gentle simmer. Quickly peel and core the apples, and cut them into 1 1/2-inch chunks, and place them on top of the chicken. Cover the pan, and cook, checking occasionally to ensure the liquid is maintaining a gentle simmer, not boiling, until the chicken is just cooked through, 35-40 minutes.
• Remove the chicken, onions and apples to a platter, and cover. Make a slurry with the cornstarch and 3 tablespoons of cold water. Stir this into the braising liquid, and bring to a simmer for 1 minute, until thickened. Stir in the crème fraîche, and season the sauce with salt to taste, replace the chicken, onions and apples in the sauce and serve with crusty bread and a salad.

CHICKEN WITH 40 CLOVES OF GARLIC

Steps:

• Put the oil in a shallow dish and add the chicken pieces; coat evenly with oil.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• In a heavy 6-quart casserole, combine the celery, onions, parsley and tarragon. Lay the oiled chicken pieces on top. Pour on the vermouth. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and a dash of nutmeg. Tuck the garlic cloves in and around the chicken pieces. Cover the casserole tightly with aluminum foil, then the lid. Bake 90 minutes without removing the lid.
• Serve chicken, pan juices and garlic cloves with French bread. Diners should squeeze the buds of garlic from their husks onto the bread, then spread the garlic like butter.

CHICKEN FRANCESE

Steps:

• In a wide, shallow bowl, whisk eggs, milk, salt and pepper until blended. Place the flour in a separate bowl. Line a baking sheet with paper towels.
• In a wide skillet, heat olive and vegetable oils over medium heat until shimmering.
• Working in batches to avoid crowding the pan, lightly dredge the chicken in flour and shake off any excess. Dip into egg batter, let excess batter drip back into the bowl and place in the skillet. Fry, turning once, until golden brown on both sides, about 4 minutes per side. Adjust the heat as the cutlets cook so they brown slowly and evenly, with a steady bubbling. Transfer to the paper-towel-lined pan and repeat with remaining cutlets.
• When all cutlets are browned, remove the pan from the heat and pour off the oil. Wipe out the pan with paper towels. Return the pan to low heat.
• If making the lemon slices (if not, skip to Step 6 below): Melt 3 tablespoons of the butter and then scatter the lemon slices over the bottom of the pan. Cook, stirring gently occasionally, until the lemon slices are golden and browning around the edges, about 3 minutes. Scoop out the lemon slices and set them aside.
• Add 3 tablespoons of butter, the wine and lemon juice and bring to a boil. Boil until the liquid is syrupy, 3 to 4 minutes. Pour in the stock, bring to a boil and cook until thickened into a sauce, about 5 minutes. (It will thicken more when you add the cutlets.) Taste and adjust the seasonings with lemon, salt and pepper; it should be quite lemony and not too salty.
• Reduce the heat, tuck the cutlets into the pan and simmer very gently until the sauce is velvety and the chicken pieces are heated through, about 4 minutes. Turn the cutlets over occasionally in the sauce. Place the browned lemon slices on top. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve, spooning some of the sauce over each serving.