”Basquaise” Sautéed Chicken

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Food Art & Techniques to make The Best Sautéed Chicken Step By Step.

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Pyrénées Atlantiques: Pays Basque

Capital: Bayonne

Department: Pyrénées Atlantiques, Le Pays Basque

The Bearn and the pays Basque are two Pyreanean regions that occupy a special place in French gastronomy because their cuisine is affected by the proximity of the sea and the mountains and combines the contrasting influences of France and Spain.

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Gastronomy

All the basque dishes take their flvour and colour from red or green peppers (capsicums).

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Regional Products

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Fish

Saurel marine fish, similar to mackerel (but with a blue backbone), striped sting fish, shrimps, silver anchovies, sardines, tuna, sea bream, cod, calamari, cuttlefish,langoustines, mussels

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Livestock

Chicken, pork, sheep, lamb.

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Game

Lapwing or green plover game bird, thush, wood pigeon.

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Farming 

Rice, peppers, corn, salt from Bayonne.

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Fruit 

Black Cherries.

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Cheese 

Ewe´s milk cheese, Ossau Iraty.

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Wine

Irouléguy (the only Basque Wine)

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Traditional Dishes

Piperade: mixture of tomatoes, bell peppers, egg and Bayonne ham, chicken or tuna basque-style with red and green bell peppers and tomatoes, Bayonne cured ham, fish soup as prepared in Biarritz, Ttoro: fish soup caracteristic of the Basque coast, combines all the Atlantic fish with shrim, mussels and flavoured with tomato and peppers …

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Pays Baque

”Basquaise” Sautéed Chicken

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Serves 4

Main Ingredients

1 x 1.2 kg Chicken

8 Slices of Cured Ham

Olive Oil

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Sauce

Onions and Bell Pepper Trimmings

3 garlic Cloves

1/2 tbsp Tomatoes, RoughlyChopped, peeled and Seeded

Olive Oil+ Chicken Bones

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100 ml White Wine

300 ml Veal Stock

1 Bouquet Garni

Water, Salt

Vegetable Garnish

2 Red Bell Peppers, Peeled into Julienne

2 Green Bell Peppers, Peeled

200 g Onions, Sliced

Oliver Oil

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Braised Rice

150 g Rice

100 g Onions, Sliced

Olive Oil

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Finishing

2 tbsp Parsley, Chopped

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Preparation

Chicken Breast & Leg – 20 Minutes / Oven – 200°  
Breast 62° & Leg 72°
Rice – 15 Minutes / Oven 200°

 

1. Flambe the feet of the chiken and remove the black part, cut the head and the chicken tail. Remove the chicken leg tendon, remove the feet from the chicken, cut the wings, remove the skin from the neck of the chicken, remove the V bone in the front of the chicken breast, remove the fat insaid of the skin, remove the legs and remove the breast.

2. Clean the breast from the chicken, remove all the fat from the skin and clouse the skin with toothpicks very well.

3. Remove the bone from the chicken leg, clean all the fat from the skin and cluse the skin with toothpicks very well.

4. Cut all the bones and trimmings from the chicken and reserve on the side.

5. Add the tomatoes in one pot with hot water, after boiling for 2 minutesyou remove add add in one boll with ice water and remove all the skin from the tomatoes.

6. Clean insaid of all tomatoes and separe all the seeds on the side. Cut in brunoaise all the clean tomatoes and the trimmings and seeds you need to blend and filter all the liquid, separe on the side.

7. Chopped the onions and garlic, make a buque garni (Herbs),peeled the peper to cut in julieni.

8. Add all the trimmings from the chicken and the garnish to start fraid, remove and add tomato paste, scrash and add wine, tomato blend liquid, retourne all the trimmings, add veal stock, add tomato chopped and add the buque garni.

9. Add salt and pepper on the chicken breast & leg, fraid with butter and wait get some color. Add in one pot some liquid from the sauce and add the  chicken breast & leg to go on the oven for 20 minutes

    

10. Fry all the chopped onions and wait Sue (cook), add the peper in juliene and separe on the side.

11. Remove the sauce from the fire and filter all the liquid and start reduce all the sauce liquid.

12. Finish the sauce with the cooked onions and peper and wait get some texture like a sauce.

13. Rooling in the breast same Ham and put in the over for 2 minutes.Done.

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