Spicy Italian Chicken With.......

This is a great Italian/American dish, my youngest sons favorite, He’s coming home from out west to visit in Oct. so I pulled it out.

I found a link to the recipe but I have changed it up a bit. The original really doesn’t give you enough extra sauce to toss in a bit of pasta. I also substitute the bone in breasts with bone in thighs and leave them whole. Another change I made was with the sausage, I just purchase ground Italian sausage meat instead of de-casing. I then roll that into mini meatballs and brown off. I don’t have exact measurements of the change for more liquid but It’s approximately 1/3.

The way I do this is to have a separate sauce pan going and go a bit XL with all ingredients, the extra from the original go into that sauce pan to keep the same balance. At the end step with removing the chicken and before thickening the sauce I combine both pans. I then add in pre-cooked pasta and toss to heat. I usually serve this with a caesar salad and grilled bread lightly dressed/rubbed with garlic and dusted with some very fine chopped thyme.

This dish works, the tang from the vinegar, pickled hot peppers and fresh thyme really works well together. For those that like the spice a small dish on the side of chopped pickled hot peppers is a great addition



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Thank you for this Woodsmen, and what a coincidence!

This is somewhat similar to a dish that is moderately popular in my Northern U.S. city with a large Italian-American population.

That dish is "Giambotta", and while the ingredients vary, in my neck of the woods it's usually chicken (chunks), sausage, peppers, and potatoes, often with just a bit of tomato or tomato sauce and a few olives, as well as the wine, oil, garlic, and seasoning you described.

I bought some yesterday from the Sicilian deli, and will be eating it today! :thumbs:

Have you ever considered serving it over the pasta, like cacciatore?

Here's a (poor quality) pic I found online, that's unfortunately missing the tomato/oil sauce component it seems: