French
Poulet Basquaise (Basque Chicken with Peppers and Tomato)
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Poulet Basquaise (Basque Chicken with Peppers and Tomato) is French home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Season the chicken thighs with the salt and pepper, then heat the olive oil in a wide, heavy pot and brown them skin side down over medium-high heat, about 5 minutes per side, and set aside.
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Add the onion and both bell peppers to the pot and cook over medium heat until softened, about 8 minutes, then add the garlic and cook for 1 minute more.
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Stir in the crushed tomatoes and the cayenne pepper (piment d'Espelette is the traditional Basque chili if you can find it), scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pot.
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Nestle the chicken back into the pot, cover, and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through and tender.
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Uncover and simmer for 5 minutes more to thicken the sauce slightly, then spoon the chicken and peppers over the rice to serve; the southwest's own everyday braise, not the egg-and-pepper Piperade or a Maghrebi tajine.
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Serve it with
A French dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Poulet Basquaise (Basque Chicken with Peppers and Tomato), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Poulet Basquaise (Basque Chicken with Peppers and Tomato) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 550 kcal
- Protein
- 36 g
- Carbs
- 53 g
- Fat
- 21 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 7 g
- Sodium
- 750 mg
- Saturated fat
- 4 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Poulet Basquaise (Basque Chicken with Peppers and Tomato) takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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