Boscaiola Chicken Recipes

CHICKEN BOSCAIOLA

Steps:

• Place a large pot of water on to boil to cook the fettuccine in a later step.
• In a large sauté pan over medium high heat, combine 1 tablespoon each of olive oil and 1 tablespoon of butter until melted and frothy.
• Working in two batches, add in chicken and brown on all sides, about 3-4 minutes per batch. Do not over cook. Remove chicken to a flat plate to cool and stop the cooking process.
• Place the bacon in the same pan and cook until it is crisp. Remove to paper towels and reserve.
• Drain off all bacon fat but reserve two tablespoons, half of which gets used in next step.
• Put one tablespoon of bacon fat and one tablespoon of butter in the same pan and sauté mushrooms for 2-3 minutes or until they just start to give up their liquid. Remove from pan and set aside along with all of the pan drippings.
• Add the second tablespoon of bacon fat and butter into the pan and sauté onions and garlic until the onions are translucent, about 3-4 minutes.
• Add mushrooms and their liquid back into the pan with the onions, add the sherry and cook for one minute scraping any bits from the bottom.
• Add in cream, sour cream, salt, pepper, oregano, basil, parsley and Parmesan cheese. As mixture starts to bubble, reduce heat to medium and simmer 2 more minutes. The mixture will begin to thicken. Reduce heat to low.
• Salt the boiling water and cook fettuccine according to package directions. When draining reserve one cup of pasta water.
• Add cooked chicken and bacon back to sauce, turn heat to low to medium heat and stir.
• Add cooked fettuccine and cook for 1-2 minutes to blend flavors. If the dish is too thick, add a little pasta water until desired consistency is achieved.
• Serve with fresh parsley sprinkled over individual servings.

BOSCAIOLA CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degree F. Place chicken into an 8-cup capacity ovenproof dish (single layer). Season with salt and pepper if desired.
• Heat oil in a large frying pan over medium heat until hot. Add garlic, mushrooms, bacon and onion. Cook, stirring for 4 to 5 minutes. Add soup and cream and stir well until combined. Bring to the boil and remove from heat. Stir in Lemon thyme and pour over chicken.
• Bake uncovered for 30 minutes or until cooked through. Garnish with flat leaf parsley.

PASTA ALLA BOSCAIOLA

Steps:

• Place a large pot of water on to boil for pasta.
• Place dry mushrooms in stock in a saucepan and bring to low boil to reconstitute. Reduce stock by half, then set aside.
• Heat 1 tablespoon EVOO in a large pan over medium-high heat, add pancetta, guanciale or sausage and render. When pancetta starts to brown, add the fresh mushrooms.
• Strip and finely chop rosemary. Strip and stack sage leaves and very thinly slice. Add shallots, garlic, salt, pepper and herbs to fresh mushrooms, add 1 to 2 tablespoons olive oil and stir 2 to 3 minutes. Add white wine and reduce by half. Add tomatoes and passata. Remove porcini mushrooms with slotted spoon from stock and add all but the last few tablespoons of stock (where grit may have settled) to the sauce. Reduce the heat under sauce to low simmer. Chop porcini mushrooms and add them to the sauce. Add heavy cream if using and stir.
• Add pasta and salt to boiling water and cook pasta 1 minute less than package direction. Reserve 3/4 cup pasta water and drain pasta.
• Return pasta to hot pot, add some pasta water, the cheese, a little EVOO or butter and half of the sauce and toss vigorously 1 full minute to combine. Use more of the hot reserved water as necessary to loosen sauce if it becomes too thick. Serve family style or in shallow bowls topped with remaining sauce. Garnish with parsley.

CREAMY BACON CHICKEN BOSCAIOLA

Steps:

• Dice and cook bacon, onions, red pepper and garlic paste in a shallow fry pan until soft. Remove from pan.
• Cook chicken pieces in same shallow fry pan with butter until just cooked. Cook pasta at the same time as the chicken.
• Combine cooked ingredients with cream and kecup manis. Simmer over a low heat for 10 minutes.
• Add salt, pepper and serve.

QUICK AND CREAMY BOSCAIOLA PASTA (BACON AND MUSHROOM)

Steps:

• Cook the pasta in a large saucepan of rapidly boiling salted water until 'al dente'. Drain, return to the pan, and keep warm.
• While the pasta is cooking, heat the oil in a large frying pan, add the bacon and mushroom, and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes, or until golden brown.
• Stir in a little of the cream, and scrape the wooden spoon on the bottom of the pan to dislodge any bacon that has stuck.
• Add the remaining cream, bring to the boil, and cook over high heat for 15 minutes, OR until the sauce is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.
• Stir the spring onion through the mixture.
• Pour the sauce over the pasta, and toss to combine.
• Serve sprinkled with the parsley.

TOMATO BOSCAIOLA

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook and stir bacon, onion, and garlic in hot oil until bacon and onion are thoroughly browned, 5 to 7 minutes. Reduce heat to medium-low. Stir diced tomatoes and basil through the bacon mixture; cook at a simmer for 5 to 10 minutes.
• Stir cream of mushroom soup through the tomato mixture and about 1/2 cup milk. Stirring constantly, increase heat to medium and slowly stir Parmesan cheese into the mixture. Gradually stir 1/2 cup milk into the mixture until it is creamy enough for you preference. Cook and stir until hot, about 5 minutes. Stir parsley into the mixture just before serving.