Chicken Scarpariello With Heat

This is really a great recipe that is very simple to make. It's packed with flavor and you can control the amount of heat that you want by altering the hot cherry peppers. We like it medium.  We also like this dish with dark meat boneless thigh meat but you surely can use boneless chicken breasts.

2 lbs of boneless skinless chicken thighs - cut in 2-3 inch pieces
Salt & Pepper
1 tsp poultry seasoning
2 Tbsp EVOO
2 chicken sausages (I used roasted garlic and gruyere cheese ones) slice up
2 red peppers cut into 1 inch pieces
Hot chopped cherry peppers in jar (1 Tbsp) add more if you like it more spicy
4 Garlic cloves sliced very thin
1/2 cup white wine
1/2 cup chicken stock
2 Tbsp parsley

Heat a deep pan with EVOO
Season chicken pieces with salt, pepper and poultry seasoning
Add to the hot pan
Don't turn chicken for a few minutes
Let it brown really well then turn over do the same
Remove the chicken once browned well on both sides
Add sausages and browned well then remove
Add your peppers and garlic sauté well
Add wine and reduce it for about 1 minute
Scrape up pan drippings
Add the chicken stock and let it boil up
Add the chicken and sausages back to pan with peppers
Sprinkle parsley on top and cook chicken completely through.

Serve over fresh spinach or even pasta!

Delicious:)

Winter Braised Lamb Shanks

1/2 cup evoo
1 medium onion chopped small
2 garlic cloves chopped
1/2 cup flour with salt and pepper added to it
4 lamb shanks
1/2 cup of red wine
1 cup of beef stock
2 TBSP tomato paste
1/2 teas sugar
2 TBSP of parsley
1 bay leaf
6 carrots cut into 1 inch lengths
6 red pototoes cut into 1 inch chunks
1) saute onions and garlic in EVOO until soft and golden in color.
2) Put into your crock pot once done
3) Shake the lamb shanks in the flour mixture
4) Saute the shanks in EVOO until brown in color transfer to the crock.
5) Clean fat out of pan
6) Add wine to pan to deglaze then pour that over the shanks in the crock
7) Add beef stock, tomato paste, sugar and parsley simmer for a few minutes then pour into the crock
8) In last hour of crocking - add your carrots and pototoes
8) Cook everything on low for about 6-7 hours in your crock.

I did serve this over noodles with a great crusty bread and a nice big salad!

What a great winter meal and really easy to prepare!

Enjoy it!