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Fricasseed Chicken with Rosemary and Lemon Juice

Pomodori e Vino Posted on by

My first recipe back after three weeks in France. Lucky me, I get an easy one that turned out great.
Pretty simple. Ingredients, sans black pepper, shown below – some wine, butter, vegetable oil, salt, garlic, rosemary, a lemon and a 3-4 pound chicken. I had to cut the chicken into 8 pieces. Marcella says to cook the chicken in a sauté pan large enough so that the pieces don’t touch. Well she must have a huge sauté pan. I had to use both of mine. Total cooking time is well under an hour – and most of that time the breasts are sitting off to one side.
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The final result. Great taste and the meat is falling off the bones.
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What I liked about this recipe:
Everything. And enough left-overs for a couple of lunches. I’m not used to cooking a whole chicken. This recipe makes a lot of sense and likely more economical than just buying & cooking parts.
What I didn’t like about this recipe:
Nothing. Pretty easy. The most difficult part is cutting the chicken into 8 pieces and any time I get to use a big knife is fine with me.
Would I make it again?
Yes.

Comments

Fricasseed Chicken with Rosemary and Lemon Juice — 7 Comments

  1. Yum! What a great combination that would be.. . . Another example of how a few simple ingredients can produce fabulous results!

  2. Agreed, a few ingredients and voila! Perfect. This recipe is one even I could make!! (and looks amazingly delicious in your photo). Welcome back!

  4. When I made my cacciatora last week for guests, I also made 4 thighs with this recipe in a separate pan for ME, as I’m not a big tomato fan. I loved it too!

  6. Good work, Doug, and nice photography. I do have large saute pans – 14″ – but my chickens used to be smaller, as I mentioned in an earlier post. I think 4 pounds is huge, but I see even larger ones in the market.
    Palma, not only do you avoid whole fish, but you don’t even like tomatoes. What other startling revelations are in store for us? Are you sure you are Italian?

  7. I agree, a 4 pound chicken is huge. Pretty soon, they will be the size of a small turkey, won’t they?
    I found an organic farm near me that has free range eggs They don’t feed them any chemicals, harmones, or antibiotics. They also don’t feed them genetically modified corn. I wonder if they only sell eggs, or if they sell chickens as well. hmmm

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