Marry me chicken with pancetta
SAM THE COOKING GUY · ♥ 20.3K likes · 575K views · 7 min video
Read about thighs in the BrightCulinary Book
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Ingredients
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- 1½ lb chicken thighs
- our BFF
- flour
Season each piece of chicken thigh and dredge in flour.
- pancetta
Cook the pancetta a couple of minutes until it starts to crisp, rendering its fat; remove, leaving the grease.
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Add about a tablespoon each of butter and olive oil and brown the chicken in batches, a few minutes a side until golden; remove.
- butter
- olive oil
- 1 whole small onion
Add more butter and olive oil and the sliced onion; cook three to four minutes until softened and slightly translucent.
- tomato paste
- 1 tbsp Dijon
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- ½–1 tsp red pepper flakes
Stir in the tomato paste and Dijon, then the chicken broth, heavy cream, dried thyme and red pepper flakes.
Building the cream sauce
- 3 oz sun-dried tomatoes
- sun-dried tomato oil
Add the halved sun-dried tomatoes and a little of their oil; simmer three to four minutes.
- basil
Stir in chopped basil, nestle the chicken back in, spoon sauce over and heat through a couple of minutes.
Basil and returning the chicken