Chicken Marengo Mary Berry Recipes

CHICKEN MARENGO

Steps:

• Sprinkle the chicken with salt and pepper to taste.
• Heat the butter and oil in a heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken pieces skin-side down. Cook until golden brown on one side, about five minutes. Turn the pieces and cook on the other side about two minutes. Pour off the fat from the skillet.
• Scatter the mushrooms over the chicken. Stir to distribute. Add the onion, garlic, bay leaf and thyme and cook about 5 minutes.
• Add the wine and scrape the bottom of the skillet with a wooden spoon to dissolve the brown particles that cling to the bottom of the pan. Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, chicken broth and parsley. Bring to the boil. Cover and cook 10 minutes. Serve with rice and a tossed green salad.

CHICKEN MARENGO

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large flameproof casserole dish and stir-fry the mushrooms until they start to soften. Add the chicken legs and cook briefly on each side to colour them a little.
• Pour in the passata, crumble in the stock cube and stir in the olives. Season with black pepper - you shouldn't need salt. Cover and simmer for 40 mins until the chicken is tender. Sprinkle with parsley and serve with pasta and a salad, or mash and green veg, if you like.

4-STEP CHICKEN MARENGO

Steps:

• Season the chicken with salt and pepper, to taste, and lightly dredge in flour. In a large saute pan, heat the oil over medium-high heat and add the chicken. Brown on both sides, until nicely golden, about 3 minutes per side. Remove from the pan and set aside on a plate. In the same pan, add more oil, if needed, along with the onion, mushrooms and peppers and saute until softened and fragrant, but not limp, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Stir in the tomato paste and cook a few minutes to cook out the raw flavor. Turn up the heat, and add the wine/wine to deglaze the pan and let it reduce for 2 or 3 minutes. Add the beef broth and tomatoes. Once the mixture begins to bubble, add the browned paillards and any juices from the chicken and reduce the heat to a simmer. Cook until the chicken is warmed through, about 3 minutes. Turn the heat off and stir in the butter. Transfer to a serving platter and serve immediately.

CHICKEN MARENGO

Steps:

• Wash chicken pieces and pat dry.
• Season chicken and dredge in flour, shaking off excess.
• Heat oil and butter in large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Brown chicken pieces, a few at a time, then remove to a side plate as they are browned and continue with other pieces, adding more oil and butter if necessary.
• Quickly brown mushrooms, then remove to a side plate.
• Add onions to pan and cook over medium-low heat for 5 minutes.
• Stir in broth.
• Add tomatoes, green pepper, olives, garlic and allspice; simmer for 3-4 minutes.
• Return chicken to pan; cover and simmer for 25-30 minutes, or until tender.
• Arrange chicken on platter and keep warm in oven.
• Stir lemon juice into mixture in pan, add mushrooms and bring to the boil.
• Boil until reduced by half.
• Pour over chicken and serve.

NAPOLEON'S CHICKEN MARENGO

Steps:

• Salt and pepper chicken and pat in seasonings.
• Heat olive oil to med-high.
• Dredge chicken in flour and add to heated oil.
• Brown on both sides, about 3 minutes each side.
• Place browned chicken on papertowels
• In same skillet, saute onions 10 minutes.
• After five mins add minced garlic.
• Add tomatoes, wine, and stir until bubbly.
• Lower heat to a low simmer.
• Return chicken pieces to skillet.
• Simmer for 1 hour if using dark meat, 45 mins if using breasts.
• Check chicken at 15 min intervals. If too dry, add 1/3 C Chicken Broth (or to your liking).
• At first 15 min interval, taste sauce and S& P to your taste.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Add mushrooms and shrimp to simmering chicken at 50 mins or 35 mins, respectively, assure shrimp is simmering in sauce until just pink.
• Butter slices of bread or drizzle olive oil and toast in preheated oven (3-5 mins).
• Add one piece of chicken on top of a slice of toast, spoon sauce over chicken.
• Add 2-3 shrimp on top or around chicken.
• Sprinkle a little parsley on each serving (optional).
• Fry eggs in olive oil or bacon grease, Sunny side up (eggs optional).
• Place egg by side of chicken serving, S&P to taste.