This week's French Fridays with Dorie recipe is Chicken Basquaise. This is a Mediterranean style (rather than French) chicken dish with capsicums (peppers) - lots of them!
The resulting dish has a rather hot flavour to it, so if spicy is not your thing, don't venture here. I quite enjoyed it it, with the piperade (capsicum mix) forming a lovely sauce for the rice.
Also be warned - if you are time poor, don't attempt this, because all the chopping and cooking and simmering and browning takes some time - you need probably a good two hours to make this dish. I had to make this one night and eat it another night, as it was too late by the time it finished cooking for me to eat it that night.
Here's the chicken in the pot so you can identify that under all that stuff, there is definitely chicken there:
To see what the other FFwD members thought of this dish, visit the LYL section of the website.
Delish!
ReplyDeleteThis was an interesting one, for sure - especially with all those peppers... (I don't think I've ever used so many peppers in my life).
ReplyDeleteI like the "chicken proof" shot...
Have a good weekend!
Huh - hot? My Mr Neil didn't think it was spicy enough - indeed the peppers I used were pretty sweet. I liked this but yes, it was time consuming (though easy). I'll make it again - great for winter coming up!
ReplyDeleteI love your bit about "if you're poor.." cooking and eating are SO expensive...but you allowed me to crack up about it...love your humor, my friend!!
ReplyDeleteUna gran delicia sabrosa e irresistible me encanta ,abrazos hugs,hugs.
ReplyDeleteI love chicken that has been stewed in sauce…yours looks delicious! I wasn’t able to get this one done yet…a crazy week here, and as you said, it does look time consuming.
ReplyDeleteYour dish turned out great! I also had to make this over two nights. That was kind of a bummer.
ReplyDeleteThis is a popular dish in this household, especially with added spice from the piment d'espelette :)
ReplyDeleteI know if i made this here at home my family would love it,looks so so delicious.
ReplyDeleteBut wasn't it nice to have dinner already made! Looks delicious--I don't mind a bit of spice.
ReplyDeleteI would like to try this recipe, my husband loves spicy food so I'm sure it would be a hit, I will make it on a day when I have enough time to cook and serve it, although I'll bet it was even more flavorful the next day!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your weekend;-)
Your chicken looks so tender and falling off the bone
ReplyDeletedelicious. This was an excellent dish, perfect for a
cold winter supper. Have a great weekend.
So many peppers together! It was heaven for me! Have a great weekend
ReplyDeleteIt did take an awfully long time to get on the table. I thought it was pretty tasty, but worth two hours of cooking?
ReplyDeleteWhat a delicious and spicy dish my friend :D
ReplyDeleteCheers
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It did take a lot of time but the house smelled wonderful as it cooked. This is a keeper at my house.
ReplyDeleteSpicy is definitely my thing...hence why I'm currently drooling!
ReplyDeleteYes, definitely too long to make in one night, especially a weeknight, but delicious once done. Funny, mine wasn't spicy at all. My peppers were sweet.
ReplyDeleteI love that "chicken proof" photo...that looks so good!
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