Tuscan Chicken And Sausage Food

TUSCAN CHICKEN AND SAUSAGE WITH PASTA RECIPE

Steps:

• Cook pasta per instructions on the box at the same time you begin cooking this dish.
• Dredge chicken tenders in flour seasoned with salt and pepper
• place floured tenders in a large saute pan with enough olive oil to saute them.
• Cook chicken 3-4 minutes on one side and turn them over
• Add the raw sliced sweet sausage, sliced mushrooms and roasted red peppers to the pan. Continue cooking the mixture for about 5 minutes turning the chicken after it has been browned on the other side.
• Add all but 2 ounces of the marsala wine to the hot pan. This is called deglazing and will loosen all of the delicious bits stuck to the pan allowing them to add flavor to the dish.*The alcohol will cook off in about a minute.
• Add the chicken stock, and a pinch of black pepper (season to taste).
• Reduce the heat to medium and continue to cook while sauce is reducing.
• Take the butter and coat it in flour pressing flour into the butter and add to the sauce (this is called a beurre manie) it will thicken the sauce and the butter will impart a rich flavor
• As the sauce begins to thicken lower heat to simmer, and add remaining marsala and grated cheese
• Serve over pasta, garnish with fresh chopped basil, additional grated cheese and enjoy!

TUSCAN CHICKEN AND SAUSAGE BAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400ºF.
• Sprinkle chicken with black pepper; place in 13x9-inch baking dish sprayed with cooking spray.
• Combine all remaining ingredients except cheese; spoon over and around chicken. Sprinkle with cheese.
• Bake 30 min. Reduce oven temperature to 350ºF. Bake 15 min. or until chicken is done (165ºF).

CHICKEN AND SAUSAGE WITH BOWTIES

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain.
• Wash chicken breasts and cut into large bite-size pieces. Cut sausages into large pieces. In a large, deep skillet over medium low heat, combine oil and garlic; and cook just enough to flavor the oil. Remove garlic from oil.
• Add chicken and sausage to skillet and brown both lightly until they are opaque. Add the tomatoes and the wine. Bring to a boil and let simmer for 20 minutes. Season sauce mixture with basil, rosemary and salt and pepper to taste. Add cooked, drained pasta to the skillet mixture. Toss and serve.

ONE-POT CHICKEN WITH SAUSAGE AND POTATOES

Steps:

• In a large Dutch oven or heavy pot, heat oil over medium-high. Add sausage and cook, stirring occasionally, until brown all over, about 4 minutes. With a slotted spoon, transfer sausage to a dish. Season chicken on both sides with salt and pepper and add to pan, meaty side down. Cook until golden brown on both sides, 10 minutes, flipping once. Transfer chicken to dish with sausage.
• Add onion, potatoes, and celery to pot and season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring often, until onion is soft, 3 to 5 minutes. Return sausage and chicken, meaty side up, to pot and add 1 cup water. Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer until potatoes are tender and chicken is cooked through, about 20 minutes.
• Remove lid and increase heat to high; boil until liquid is reduced to 1/2 cup, 5 minutes. Transfer chicken to a platter. Add vinegar and oregano to vegetables and sausage and stir to combine. With slotted spoon, transfer vegetables and sausage to platter with chicken and top with celery leaves. Transfer sauce to a gravy boat and serve alongside chicken.

CHICKEN, SAUSAGE AND PEPPERS

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook the sausage until golden, about 2 minutes. Season the chicken with salt and pepper, then toss with the flour in a bowl; add to the skillet and cook until browned but not cooked through, about 3 minutes.
• Add the onion, peppers, garlic, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and pepper to taste and cook 3 minutes. Add the wine, scraping up any browned bits; bring to a boil and cook until slightly reduced, about 1 minute. Add the broth and bring to a gentle simmer. Cover and cook until the sausage and chicken are cooked through, about 5 minutes.
• Transfer the chicken, sausage and vegetables to a platter with a slotted spoon. Increase the heat to high and stir the parsley and cherry peppers and their liquid into the skillet; boil until reduced by one-third, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the remaining 1 tablespoon butter. Pour the sauce over the chicken mixture.

TUSCAN BEAN, CHICKEN, AND ITALIAN SAUSAGE SOUP

Steps:

• Cook sausage in a large pot over medium-high heat until cooked through and completely browned, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain and discard grease.
• Cook and stir onion with the sausage until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add squash and garlic; cook and stir until the garlic is fragrant, about 1 minute more.
• Pour chicken broth, white beans, and diced tomatoes into the pot; stir. Add spinach, red wine, and Italian seasoning; bring the mixture to a simmer and cook until hot, about 15 minutes. Ladle soup into bowls and garnish with Pecorino-Romano cheese to serve.

ITALIAN CHICKEN SAUSAGE AND BEAN STEW

Steps:

• Heat oil in medium saucepan on medium heat. Add sausage; cook 2 min. Stir in carrots, mushrooms, onions and celery; cook 4 to 5 min. or until sausage is browned and vegetables are crisp-tender, stirring frequently.
• Add flour; cook and stir 1 min. Gradually stir in broth and milk. Add salad dressing mix and beans; mix well.
• Bring to boil; simmer on medium-low heat 20 min. or until thickened, stirring occasionally. Serve topped with bacon bits.

SLOW COOKER TUSCAN SAUSAGE AND KALE SOUP

Steps:

• If using storebought sausages, remove casings and break up meat. If making your own, mix together sausage ingredients and break up. Add to slow cooker, along with rest of ingredients except for red pepper and kale.
• Cook on high for 6 hours or low for 8 hours. When ready to serve, stir in red pepper and kale, then let sit for 3-4 minutes. Serve and enjoy!

TUSCAN CHICKEN AND SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Cut the chicken into 1½" cubes. Cut the sausage into similarly-sized pieces.
• In a skillet, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat until it shimmers. Working in batches, brown the chicken and sausage in the olive oil. Transfer to a crockpot as they are finished.
• Pour the wine into the skillet to deglaze, scraping up any browned bits on the bottom of the pan, then add to crockpot.
• Add the artichoke hearts, the onion, the peppers and the mushrooms to the crockpot. Add the herbs, and salt and pepper to taste. Add the chicken broth. Cover tightly and cook on low 8-10 hrs or high 3-4 hours.

ITALIAN SAUSAGE AND CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a nonstick skillet brown the sausage (apprx 8 minutes).
• Then remove onto a plate.
• Then put in chicken and cook for 5 minutes, turning once.
• Put on plate with sausage.
• Heat oil in the skillet and add the garlic and rosemary and saute for 1 minute.
• Then add potatoes and water and cover and cook for 15 minutes.
• Then push potatoes over to the side of skillet and add back in the chicken and sausage.
• Add in the salt, pepper, wine, vinegar, and red peppers.
• Cover and cook an additional 35 minutes, when chicken registers 170*.
• Take chicken and sausage back out onto plate, and cover.
• Cover skillet back up and cook potatoes, until they are tender (apprx 8 minutes).
• Pour over chicken.

ITALIAN OVEN CHICKEN & SAUSAGE DINNER

Steps:

• Preheat oven 350°.
• In a 9x13-inch pan, place oil.
• Add potatoes rolling in oil to coat.
• Arrange chicken and sausage, rolling chicken to coat lightly.
• Pour the combined tomatoes and seasonings over all.
• Bake at 350° uncovered for 1 hour 15 minutes.
• Note: Stacking chicken on top of potatoes is fine.

CREAMY CAJUN CHICKEN AND SAUSAGE FETTUCCINE

Steps:

• Cook sausage in 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat 4 minutes or until cooked. Remove sausage to paper-towel-lined plate.
• Season chicken, if desired, with salt and pepper. Cook chicken in same skillet, stirring occasionally, 4 minutes or until chicken is thoroughly cooked. Remove chicken from skillet and set aside.
• Stir red peppers and onion into same skillet* and cook, stirring occasionally, 4 minutes or until tender. Stir in garlic and cook, 30 seconds. Stir in broth and Hellmann's® or Best Foods® Real Mayonnaise. Bring just to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer 1 minute. Stir in fettuccine, chicken and sausage and cook, stirring occasionally, 1 minute or until heated through. Season, if desired, with salt, pepper and crushed red pepper flakes.

ITALIAN GRAVY W/ CHICKEN AND SAUSAGE

Steps:

• In a deep pot:.
• Cook sausage until no longer pink, breaking up into pieces. Remove from pan and drain on a paper towel.
• Add olive oil to pot, sautee onions, garlic, celery and carrot until tender.
• Add tomato sauce and puree, chicken stock and red wine. Add all remaining ingredients.
• Bring to boil and simmer for at least 2 hours, stirring often. *I simmer for several hours.
• Break up / shred chicken with wooden spoon as it becomes tender while simmering.
• Serve over your favorite cooked pasta and top with freshly grated Parmesan-Regiano cheese.
• Freezes well.

WEEKNIGHT CHICKEN SAUSAGE STEW

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a small skillet over medium-high heat. Add the breadcrumbs and cook 2 - 3 minutes, stirring frequently, until the crumbs are crisp and golden brown. Set aside
• Put the remaining 3 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet (12-inches) that has a lid. Place over medium heat and add the onion. Cook until the onion is softened and translucent, 3-5 minutes.
• Turn up the heat to medium-high and add the sausage. Cook the sausage until it begins to brown, stirring it around the pan so it doesn't stick.
• Stir in the garlic, rosemary, chili and salt to taste. Cook about 30 seconds, until fragrant. Add the beans, stock and marinara sauce and bring to a simmer.
• Lower the heat, cover the pan and cook 10 minutes. Uncover the pan and simmer 5 more minutes to thicken the sauce. Remove from the heat and stir in the spinach.
• Sprinkle the bread crumbs and cheese over the top and serve.

ITALIAN CHICKEN SAUSAGE AND PEPPERS

Steps:

• Arrange 2 racks in middle and upper thirds of oven and preheat to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Line two 10x15-inch baking pans with foil.
• Toss bell peppers, onion, and tomatoes together in a large bowl with 1 tablespoon oil, balsamic vinegar, Italian seasoning, 1/8 teaspoon salt, and 1/8 teaspoon black pepper. Transfer to one of the prepared pans.
• Roast in the preheated oven for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, drizzle bread slices with remaining olive oil and sprinkle with remaining salt and black pepper. Arrange on the other prepared pan.
• Remove the vegetables from the oven; push to one side of the pan. Add sausage to the exposed portion of the pan.
• Roast until vegetables are tender and sausage is heated through, 10 to 15 minutes more, adding the pan with bread in the last 5 minutes of roasting time. Sprinkle vegetables and sausage with oregano and serve with bread.

ITALIAN CHICKEN AND SAUSAGE ROLLS

Steps:

• Pound chicken flat until very thin.
• I place my chicken in a zip lock bag while pounding to keep the mallet from sticking to the chicken.
• Remove skins from sausage, unless you have bulk sausage.
• In large skillet, cook sausage until done.
• Pour off most of the fat, leaving drippings in pan.
• Spread 1/4 of the sausage on each chicken breast and place a cheese stick at one end of the flattened chicken.
• Roll up the chicken over the cheese, then fold in the sides continuing to roll the chicken breasts like an egg roll,encasing sausage and cheese.
• In a bowl, mix flour, salt and oregano.
• Dredge chicken rolls in mixture.
• In pan drippings, brown chicken on all sides over medium heat.
• You do not have to cook completely, just brown.
• Remove chicken from pan.
• Add olive oil to skillet; then saute onion, peppers, and mushrooms for 1-2 minutes.
• Add chicken rolls to skillet, then tomatoes, red pepper flakes wine, basil and pepper.
• Cover and simmer 25 to 30 minutes.

CANNELLINI BEAN AND SAUSAGE STEW

Steps:

• Place an oven rack in the center of the oven. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Spray a grill pan with vegetable oil cooking spray.
• In a Dutch oven, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the fennel, onion, 1 teaspoon of the salt and the red pepper flakes. Cook, stirring constantly, until the vegetables are soft, about 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes (plus juices), beans, kale and broth. Bring the mixture to a boil. Cover the pan with a tight fitting lid and transfer to the oven. Cook until the vegetables are tender and the kale has wilted, 25 to 30 minutes.
• While the stew is cooking, place a grill pan over medium-high heat or preheat a gas or charcoal grill. Add the sausages and grill, turning occasionally, until cooked through, about 20 minutes. Cool and cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices.
• Remove the pan from the oven and add the cooked sausage slices. Season with the remaining 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Spoon the stew into bowls and serve.

SWEET ITALIAN CHICKEN SAUSAGE PATTIES

Steps:

• Mix chicken with garlic, parsley, cheese, fennel seeds, pepper, and salt. Form 6 large, thin patties, 4 to 5 inches, or 12 small patties, 2 to 3 inches. Preheat a large, nonstick skillet and fry sausage in extra-virgin olive oil, 3 or 4 minutes on each side over medium to medium- high heat.