Rachaels Chicken Food

CHICKEN ENCHILADAS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F.
• Wrap corn tortillas in foil and warm in the oven. Bring broth to a boil in a saute pan. Set chicken into broth with bay and oregano and onion. Return to a boil, cover and reduce heat to simmer. Poach chicken in broth 10 minutes. Remove chicken breasts to a bowl and shred with 2 forks. Add 1/2 cup of cooking liquid and tomato paste, spices and salt and work through the chicken using the forks.
• Combine all sauce ingredients and heat through, keeping warm until needed.
• Remove tortillas from oven and switch broiler on high.
• Pile chicken mixture into warm corn tortillas and roll. Line flameproof casserole or baking dish with enchiladas, seam side down. Pour hot tomato sauce over the chicken enchiladas and top with cheese. Place in enchiladas in hot oven 6 inches from broiler and broil 5 minutes to melt cheese and set enchiladas. Serve.

TUSCAN CHICKEN

Steps:

• Heat a large, deep skillet over medium high heat. Season chicken with salt and pepper. Add 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, half the chicken pieces, and a couple of crushed cloves of garlic.
• Brown chicken 2 minutes on each side and remove from pan. Add remaining oil, another single turn of the pan, remaining chicken pieces and garlic. Brown chicken 2 minutes on each side and remove. Add vinegar to the pan. Let it cook off.
• Add butter, shallots, and rosemary to the pan and cook 2 minutes, add flour and cook 1 minute more. Whisk in wine, reduce 1 minute. Whisk in broth and bring liquids up to a bubble. Return chicken to the pan and simmer over moderate heat 7 to 8 minutes to finish cooking chicken through.
• Dessert: This is a very rich meal. My suggestion for dessert is to set out a small cookie tray and offer coffee or tea.

CHICKEN AND PEACHES

Steps:

• Heat a medium skillet with the butter over medium heat. Add the peaches and the juice of 1/2 lemon, and cook until tender and lightly golden, 10 minutes. Turn off the heat.
• While the peaches cook, heat 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, a turn of the pan, in a large skillet over medium-high to high heat. Cut the chicken breasts in half across the center of each breast to make 4 equal portions. Add the chicken breasts and thighs to the pan and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Cook until the chicken is cooked through, about 12 minutes, then remove to a plate and cover with foil.
• Drizzle the pan with the remaining extra-virgin olive oil, half a turn of the pan. Add the chopped shallot, and the ginger, and cook for 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in the stock, the preserves, hot sauce and Worcestershire sauce and season with black pepper, to taste. Cook over medium heat for a couple of minutes to thicken. Arrange the chicken and peaches on a platter and douse with peach sauce. Portions are 1 piece of light meat and 1 thigh per person.

RACHAEL RAY LEMON CHICKEN (30 MINUTE MEALS)

Steps:

• Coat the chunked chicken lightly in flour, seasoned with a little salt.
• Heat a large skillet or a wok-shaped nonstick pan over high heat.
• Stir fry chicken until golden, 3 or 4 minutes.
• Remove chicken from the pan and return pan to heat.
• Reduce heat to medium.
• Add a splash of vinegar to the pan and let it evaporate.
• Add stock or broth to the pan and scrape up any drippings with a whisk.
• Thin curd by stirring in a little hot water.
• Add curd to broth and whisk to combine.
• Add chicken back to the pan and simmer for 1 to 2 minutes to thicken sauce and finish cooking chicken pieces through.
• Remove the pan from heat, add the scallions or chives and zest, and toss chicken pieces well to combine zest and scallions or chives evenly throughout the sauce.
• Serve with Rice.

CHICKEN ROULADEN

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place the bacon in a single layer on a slotted pan set over a baking sheet and cook three-quarters of the way through. Remove and set aside. When cool enough to handle, roughly chop the bacon.
• Sprinkle the pounded out chicken breasts on both sides with salt and pepper, and spread on one side with the mustard. Place some chopped bacon, pickles, parsley and egg on top of each breast, roll tightly, and then tie in a couple places with butcher's twine to secure.
• Place a large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat and add the olive oil. Add the rouladen to the pan and brown on all sides. Transfer the skillet to the oven and roast until the rouladen reach an internal temperature of 165 degrees F, about 20 minutes. Transfer to a plate or platter and cover loosely with foil.
• Place the skillet back on the stove over medium heat and add the butter, garlic, shallot and tomato paste; cook for a minute or two. Add the wine, stock and some more parsley and bring to a boil. Season to taste. Pour the sauce over the chicken to serve.

RACHAEL RAY'S GARLIC ROASTED CHICKEN WITH ROSEMARY AND LEMON

Steps:

• Arrange chicken in 9x13 baking dish. Add garlic, rosemary, evoo, lemon zest and grill seasoning and salt & pepper if you wish.
• Toss & coat chicken with all ingredients. Then place in oven. Roast 20 minutes.
• Add wine and lemon juice to the dish and combine with pan juices. Return to oven and turn oven off.
• Let stand 5 minutes longer and removen chicken from the oven.
• place baking dish on trivet and serve, spooning pan juices over the chicken pieces.

RACHAEL'S CHICKEN SAUSAGE, PEPPER, AND ONION PASTA FAKE-BAKE

Steps:

• Place a large pot of water on the stove to boil for pasta.
• When the water boils, salt it and cook pasta to al dente, with a bite to it.
• Prick sausages with a fork.
• Place chicken sausages in a large skillet and add 1 inch of water.
• Add 1 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil to the skillet, (1 turn of the pan).
• Bring water to a boil then reduce heat a little.
• Allow all the liquid to cook away then brown and crisp the casings, 5 to 6 minute.
• Preheat the broiler.
• While pasta and sausage cook, heat a deep skillet over med. heat with 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil (2 turns of the pan).
• Add the peppers, onions and garlic and season with salt and pepper.
• When the sausages are cooked through, slice them on an angle and add them to the peppers and onions.
• Cook together until peppers and onions are tender and sliced sausages are crisp at edges, then deglaze the pan with white wine or chicken stock.
• Stir in crushed tomatoes and bring to a bubble, reduce heat to low.
• Drain the rigatoni and return it to warm pot.
• Add ricotta cheese, salt and pepper, parsley and basil and half of the Parmigiano, a couple of handfuls, stir to combine.
• To assemble the "fake bake," place half the sausage, peppers, onions and sauce in the bottom a baking dish.
• Top with all of the pasta and then the remaining sausages and sauce.
• Cover the top of the dish with the grated Parmigiano and place under broiler 2 minute to brown cheese and set the pasta.

RACHAEL RAY'S ROASTED CHICKEN AND SAUSAGES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• In a large, shallow roasting pan, dress chicken and sausages with about 1 tablespoon of EVOO.
• Season with chopped rosemary, thyme, salt and pepper.
• Toss the potatoes, shallots and black grapes with remaining EVOO, salt and pepper and add to the roasting pan.
• Bundle the rosemary and thyme sprigs and toss them in the pan as well.
• Roast 45-50 minutes until the meat juices run clear and the chicken skin and sausage casings are crispy.
• To serve, arrange meat, sausage, potatoes, shallots and grapes on dinner plates and garnish with pan juices and balsamic drizzle.

RACHAEL RAY'S CHICKEN CUTLET PARMIGIANO

Steps:

• Heat some olive oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions, garlic, salt and pepper. Cook until onions are translucent, 2-3 minutes.
• To the skillet with the onions, add the grape tomatoes and wine. Cook, stirring occaisionally until the tomatoes start to burst and the wine has reduced by half. Set aside and keep warm.
• Cook angel hair according to package directions and drain.
• While the sauce is cooking, set up the breading stations. Place the flour in a shallow dish. Beat the eggs in a bowl with a splash of water. In a third shallow dish, combine the bread crumbs and parmesan cheese. Heat a thin layer of olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
• Coat the cutlets in the flour, egg, and breadcrumbs in that order and then cook in a single layer for 3-4 minutes on each side until done and browned. Remove cooked cutlets to a paper-towel lined plate.
• Preheat the broiler. Arrange the cutlets on a cookie sheet. Top each cutlet with a little of the warm tomato topping and a little mozzarella cheese. Place the cookie sheet uner the broiler and broil until cheese melts.
• Serve over cooked angel hair pasta.