CHICKEN SCARPARIELLO
Roasted bone-in chicken simmering in a sweet vinegary sauce topped with crispy roasted potatoes. This dish will taste like you've been in the kitchen all day long but its ready in just 1 hour. Recipe can be adapted to a keto/low carb diet.
Ingredients
- 1 whole Chicken see note
- 2 links Mild Italian sausage cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 cup Broth chicken, vegetable
- ½ cup White wine dry
- ½ cup Water
- 2 tbsp Vinegar or juice from peppers
- 1 medium Shallot sliced
- 3 clove Garlic sliced
- 8 Peppadew peppers sliced in half
- 1.5 tbsp Flour omit for keto
- 1 Potato diced
- 1 tbsp Fresh oregano 1 tsp if using dry
- 1 tsp Fresh rosemary 1/2 tsp if using dry
- Salt/pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Cut chicken by separating at joints and pat dry. Season both sides with salt and pepper. Place a wire rack over a foil lined cookie sheet. Place chicken on wire rack and bake for 25 mins or until chicken gets to 130 degrees internal temperature. Remove from oven and set aside.
- Heat oven to 450 degrees.
- Cut potato into cubes place in an oven proof pan, pour 1 tbsp olive oil over them. Add salt (1tsp) and pepper and mix with hands to cover potatoes. Bake for 15 mins, turn them over and bake for another 5 mins or until they reach desired crispiness. Remove from oven, keep oven on.
- While potatoes are cooking, in a large oven-safe skillet, add 1 tbsp olive oil to pan and sear chicken pieces skin side down first. 3-4 mins per side. Remove from pan and set aside on separate plate.
- Sauté sausage in same skillet until cooked through, about 8 minutes. Remove from pan and set aside.
- Add shallots to pan and sauté for 3 minutes. Add garlic, sauté for 30 seconds then add flour (stir for 15 secs), wine, broth, water and peppadews with vinegar and herbs. Simmer until thickened. 8-10 minutes. Add salt and pepper if needed.
- Nestle chicken and sausage back into skillet and place skillet into oven, uncovered. Cook 10 minutes or until internal temperature of chicken is 170 degrees F.
- Sprinkle crispy potatoes on top of dish just before serving.
Notes
CAL 380 CARBS 11G FAT 19G PROTEIN 34G FIBER 1G SUGAR 2G
Whole cut up chicken can be purchase in some grocery stores or you can ask butcher to cut chicken for you.
This can be made using boneless chicken breast/thighs, or any type of chicken but the cooking time will change. If using boneless thighs, skip baking the chicken. Make sure all chicken is cooked 165 degrees or higher (internal temp).
FOR KETO: omit flour and use a keto thickener like xanthan gum. The amount used will be different, read package instructions. Wine can be omitted, use an extra .5 cup of broth instead. Omit potatoes. Nutritional values above not based on keto substitutions.