Roasted Chicken With Blueberry Peppercorn Sauce Food

ROASTED CHICKEN WITH BLUEBERRY PEPPERCORN SAUCE

Steps:

• Cut the roasted chicken into quarters.
• In a warmed saucepan, add the sugar and stir until it melts.
• Add the wine, chicken stock, vinegar, peppercorns and blueberries.
• Increase the heat to medium high and reduce the sauce by half.
• Whisk in the butter to thicken the sauce, taking care not to let it come to the boil.
• Season with salt to taste.
• Arrange quartered chicken on serving plates and top with sauce.

BLUEBERRY BBQ CHICKEN

Steps:

• Sauce: In a food processor, add blueberries, vinegar, and sugar. Pulse to break up the berries into a chunky pulp. Place mixture into a saucepan; add bay leaf, cinnamon stick, and crushed red pepper. Bring to a simmer over medium heat and cook, covered, 10-15 minutes.
• Remove from heat; remove cinnamon stick and bay leaf. Carefully transfer the sauce to a blender. Make sure the lid is entirely sealed to prevent sauce from spattering while you blend. Blend the sauce to a smooth consistency, starting on low speed and gradually increasing to high. When sauce is smooth, strain it through a fine-mesh strainer into a bowl.
• Transfer sauce back to the saucepan. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, uncovered, and reduce by ¼, about 5 minutes. The sauce should coat the back of a spoon, and the viscosity should be more like maple syrup than honey. Pour into a container and cool to room temperature. Makes about 2 cups. (Sauce will keep for up to 6 months refrigerated in a lidded container.)
• Prep chicken: Lay spatchcocked chicken breast side up on a wire rack fitted over a rimmed baking sheet. Season liberally on both sides with salt and pepper (about 15 turns of a pepper mill per side). Let rest at room temperature while preheating the grill, 30 minutes.
• Grill chicken: Preheat a charcoal grill to medium-high heat, about 375 F. The coals should be ashed over in some places, with red embers burning within. Move the coals to one side of the grill to create areas of both direct and indirect heat. Place the chicken skin side up on the side of the grill over the coals (direct heat). Cover and cook, 15 minutes.
• Divide the Blue Q Sauce: half should be used for basting, while the other half should be reserved for the final baste and for serving. (If the cooled sauce has thickened too much, simply reheat in a saucepan over low heat, or briefly microwave to return to its original syrupy consistency before using.) Remove the lid. Use tongs to flip the chicken over, skin side down, onto the indirect heat side of the grill. Baste the underside of the bird with Blue Q Sauce, then gently re-position back over direct heat, still skin side down. Cover and cook, 5 minutes. Repeat this process-flipping, basting, and grilling for 5 minutes at a time, covered-2-3 more times, until chicken is fully cooked. (The leg, when tugged, should become loosened from the breast. Alternatively, a thermometer placed in the thickest part of the thigh, avoiding the bone, should register 165 F.) Discard remaining basting sauce.
• Remove chicken from the grill and place on a cutting board, skin side up. Use reserved Blue Q Sauce to baste one last time and let rest, 5 minutes. Cut the chicken into 6 or 8 pieces and drizzle once more with sauce. Serve warm or at room temperature with additional sauce on the side.

ROSEMARY CHICKEN WITH BLUEBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Mix together the rosemary, basil, and pepper in a small bowl. Pour the olive oil into a shallow dish.
• Pound the chicken breast to about 3/4-inch thickness. Rub each breast with adobo sauce. Sprinkle both sides of each breast with the rosemary mixture and lie them in the olive oil; allow to marinate about 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, prepare the sauce. Heat the pomegranate juice in a saucepan over medium heat. Once the juice is warm, stir in the blueberry preserves, blueberries, honey, mustard, and mustard seeds. Cook and stir until the sauce thickens, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat. Cook the chicken in the melted butter until no longer pink inside, 3 to 5 minutes per side. Serve with sauce on the side.

CHICKEN BREASTS WITH BLUEBERRY BARBECUE SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine the sugar, onion, ginger, allspice, cayenne, ketchup and blueberries in a saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, for about 11 to 12 minutes, or until the sauce has thickened and is fairly smooth.
• Meanwhile, sprinkle the salt and pepper over the chicken.
• Heat the oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium high.
• Add the chicken and cook 4 to 5 minutes on each side, or until cooked through.
• Pour the sauce into the skillet, turn the chicken over to completely coat it.
• Serve the chicken with the sauce spooned over the top.

BLUEBERRY CHICKEN

Steps:

• Stir mustard and marmalade together in a bowl.
• Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat; cook chicken until slightly browned but still pink inside, about 5 minutes per side. Spread mustard-marmalade mixture over chicken; add blueberries to the skillet. Cook, stirring often, until chicken is no longer pink in the center, about 10 more minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center of a breast should read at least 165 degrees F (74 degrees C). Transfer chicken to a serving plate.
• Pour vinegar into blueberry mixture in skillet; season with salt and pepper. Cook and stir blueberry sauce over high heat until 1/3 reduced, 5 to 10 minutes. Pour sauce over chicken to serve.