Chicken With Smashed Baby Red Potatoes Pot Pie Style Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• In a medium skillet melt the butter over medium high heat, saute the potatoes, onions, leeks, carrots, and garlic until golden. Add the white wine and simmer for 1 minute. Add the chicken stock and simmer for 20 minutes until the vegetables are tender. Mix the flour and milk until smooth and add to the vegetables, and cook until thickened. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper. Season the chicken with salt and pepper. In a large skillet heat the oil over high heat and sear the chicken until golden. Cut seared chicken into 1/2 inch chunks and add it, the thyme, and parsley to the vegetables and set side.
• For the topping: Put the potatoes in a large pot and cover with water, season with salt.
• Over high heat bring to a boil and simmer until tender. Drain the potatoes and let them sit for 5 minutes to steam dry. Put the potatoes through a food mill. Warm the cream and stir into the potatoes. Mix in the butter. Season, to taste.
• To assemble the pot pies fill 6 ramekins with 1 cup of filling each and top with the mashed potatoes. Bake for 30 minutes.
• Place the chicken bones in a stock pot and cover with the cold water. Bring to a boil, skimming the fat and foam from the surface of the stock. Add the carrots, onions, celery, leek, parsley, thyme, bay leaves, black peppercorns, and garlic. Reduce the heat to medium low and simmer for 2 hours. Strain the stock into a container. Cool and refrigerate. Store in a tightly covered container for 5 days in the refrigerator or freeze for 1 month.

Steps:

• Cook potatoes in water for about 12 minutes or until tender.
• Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper to taste.
• In skillet, heat oil over medium high heat, add chicken and cook for 6 minutes.
• Turn chicken over, reduce heat, cover and cook for 8 minutes more.
• Transfer chicken to plate to keep warm.
• To same skillet, add carrots, broth, cream and dried tarragon, cover and cook over medium high heat for 5 minutes or until carrots are tender.
• Remove skillet from heat and stir in peas.
• Coarsely mash potatoes with margarine and salt and pepper to taste.
• Spoon potatoes onto serving dish, top with chicken and pour vegetable cream sauce mixture over.
• Note: If sauce is not thick enough, mix together a tablespoon or so of flour with a little water and stir into sauce before adding peas and allow to cook for a few minutes longer.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425 degrees. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper and set aside.
• Season chicken with salt and pepper. Heat oil in a 10-inch cast-iron skillet (or other heavy bottom skillet) over medium heat. Sear chicken, skin-side down, until deeply golden brown and some of the fat has begun to render out, 5 to 8 minutes. Rotate chicken and continue to cook on all sides until evenly browned and cooked through, an additional 8 to 10 minutes. Remove chicken, keeping all the drippings in the skillet, and let cool slightly on a plate.
• To the drippings, add carrots, celery, garlic, onion and thyme. Season with salt and pepper and cook, stirring occasionally until vegetables are tender and just cooked through, about 5 to 8 minutes. Add flour and stir to coat all the vegetables. Cook, stirring constantly, until the flour has started to turn a light golden brown with no white, floury bits left, about 3 minutes.
• Slowly add the chicken broth or stock ½ cup at a time, using a wooden spoon to blend and scrape up any browned bits on the bottom of the skillet. Once all the broth or stock is added, bring to a simmer and remove from heat.
• Remove the bones and skin from the chicken and shred the meat and skin (discard any skin that is too thick or rubbery) into bite-size pieces or, alternatively, cut it with a knife and fork into bite-size pieces. (If you discover at this stage any pieces of chicken that are not completely cooked through, don't worry; they will finish cooking in the oven.) Add the peas, parsley and chicken and season once more with salt and pepper.
• Carefully unfold the puff pastry and working quickly, place it on top of the skillet (do not worry about it being a perfect circle), letting some of the dough hang off the sides (this will keep it from shrinking too much).
• Whisk the egg with 1 teaspoon of water and brush onto the top of the puff pastry. Cut three 2½-inch slits, about 1-inch apart and place the skillet on top of the sheet pan to catch any drips in the oven.
• Bake until puff pastry is golden brown on top and filling is starting to bubble up, 20 to 25 minutes. Reduce temperature to 375 degrees and continue to cook until puff pastry is baked through all the way and filling has thickened considerably, another 15 to 20 minutes.
• Remove from heat and let cool slightly before eating.

Steps:

• Combine the chicken and brine in a large container and refrigerate for 8 hours. Remove the chicken, reserving the brine, then pound out or use a meat tenderizer. Return the chicken to the brine and refrigerate for another 8 hours.
• Heat the frying oil in a deep fryer to 350 degrees F.
• Remove the chicken from the brine and combine with the buttermilk and Buffalo Sauce in a large bowl until evenly coated.
• In three different bowls, place the all-purpose flour, eggs and buttermilk whisked together and the Chicken Flour. Take 2 of the chicken breasts from the marinade and dredge in the all-purpose flour until completely coated. Transfer to the egg mixture and coat until you don't see any flour. Transfer to the chicken flour and dredge. Repeat with the remaining pieces of chicken.
• Press down on each Baked Potato until the skin breaks and it is about 1 1/2 inches high.
• Fry 2 pieces of chicken at a time in the oil until the chicken is cooked, about 7 minutes, adding a baked potato to each batch around the halfway point. Repeat with the remaining chicken breasts and potatoes.
• To serve, place a fried smashed potato in the center of a large bowl, top with some Green Beans, add 2 fried chicken breasts on top at a 90-degree angle. Pour some Caramelized Onion Cream Sauce on top. Top with shaved green onions (if using).
• Combine the water, brown sugar, salt, key lime juice, orange juice, sea salt, ginger, thyme, rosemary and 1/2 cup salt in a large pot. Stir until the sugar and salts completely dissolve, then bring to a low boil and boil gently for 5 minutes. Add the ice and stir. about 16 cups
• Combine the hot wing sauce, hotter wing sauce, chili powder, coriander, cumin, cayenne, turmeric and blazing hot wing sauce in a medium pot. Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring slowly until the mixture reduces and thickens just a bit, stirring frequently, about 15 minutes. Turn off the heat, add the butter and orange juice concentrate and stir until combined.
• Stir together the flour, paprika, salt, pepper, chili powder, coriander, cumin, basil, dry ground mustard, sage, thyme, ginger, marjoram, oregano and 1/3 cup iodized salt in a large bowl until thoroughly combined. This will keep, tightly covered, for 2 weeks.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Coat the potatoes with salad oil and top with a dash each of salt and pepper. Bake until tender, about 1 hour 20 minutes. Cool, then refrigerate overnight.
• Blanch the green beans in 1/2 gallon water combined with 1 tablespoon kosher salt until they become bright in color. Cool in an ice bath, then drain and set aside.
• Heat the clarified butter and salad oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the shallots, then the garlic and sweat until the shallots start to become translucent. Add the green beans, seasoned sea salt and some white pepper and toss to coat. Continue turning for about a minute or so until the pan becomes hot again. Do not let the shallots and garlic brown.
• Deglaze with the wine and let simmer for no more than 30 seconds. Add the Basil Butter and turn off the heat. Turn and stir the beans until the butter is melted and emulsified with the wine. Set aside until ready to plate.
• Sweat the garlic and shallots in the olive and salad oil in a small skillet until translucent. Transer to the bowl of a mixer and add the butter, pesto, basil leaves and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Mix until fully incorporated. Transfer the butter to a large piece of plastic wrap and roll into a tube shape. Wrap in parchment paper and continue to compress the tube. Refrigerate overnight. This is a great compound butter for many uses and will hold in the refrigerator for a few weeks if sealed properly.
• Sauté the onions in a medium pot with clarified butter and salad oil until caramelized. Add some sugar if the onions are overly wet and do not caramelize to the appropriate color. Add the garlic and stir for another 2 minutes. Deglaze the pot with white wine and add 1 or 2 pinches of salt and a pinch of pepper. Add the heavy cream and simmer, stirring occasionally, until reduced by about 10 percent, about 45 minutes. Remove from the heat, add the butter and emulsify completely with an immersion blender until the sauce is as smooth as gravy.