Grilled Red Chicken + Cheesy Risotto

Posted January 14th, 2009 in Food 2 Comments »

Look!  My garden is booming…

I’m so in love with these color 🙂  Blight, fresh-looking sumer veggies.

I just had to create some dish using them.  Tomato…. Italian??  I love spicy food and add chili to any dishes (even pasta, stir-fried rice, cupcakes…) so I decided to make spicy Italian chicken dish 🙂

Here is the recipe…  If you don’t like chili, just don’t add it.  This dish will still taste delicious 🙂

<Italian Chicken> for two

  • chicken pieces with bone
  • 1/2 onion
  • 1 garlic
  • 12 black olives
  • 4 tomatoes (I used about 12 mini tomatoes)
  • 1 tbs white wine
  • 1 chili (optional)
  • olive oil, herbs, salt & pepper
  1. Cut chicken at the joint.  Rub salt on the chicken and grill.  Set aside.
  2. Chop onion and chili.  Crush garlic.  Skin tomatoes and chop up.  (if you are using mini tomatoes, just chop them up with skin)
  3. In a sauce pan, saute garlic in olive oil until colored.  Add onion, olives and chili.  Saute till onion become transparent.
  4. Add chicken and white wine.  Once the alcohol is evaporated add 2 cups of water, tomatoes and your favorite herb.  Turn the heat to low and simmer till most of the liquid is gone.  Season.
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I made cheese risotto to accompany the chicken 🙂
<Cheese Risotto>
  • 1 cup Risotto rice
  • 1/8 onion
  • 1 garlic
  • 1 tbs white wine
  • 3 cups~ chicken stock
  • 2 tbs Parmesan cheese
  • margarin, salt, pepper
  1. Chop up onion and garlic.  Heat a pan and drop 1 tablespoon of margarin.  Saute onion and garlic.
  2. Add white wine and boil the alcohol away.  Add rice, stir, and pour 1/2 cup of chicken stock.  Once the liquid is gone add some more.  Continue this until the rice is cooked.
  3. Remove from the heat.  Add Parmesan and stir through.  Season.
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2 Comments on “Grilled Red Chicken + Cheesy Risotto”

  1. 1 Yutsuki said at 4:09 pm on January 15th, 2009:

    Oh my gosh…
    you even till the soil and get so fresh nice veggies by yourself!! Nice hobby. I really respect you!
    It is the best thing that we know everything about food we eat.
    difficult though, the attempt to notice and know where the food comes from is becoming the focus on Japanese society besides the world now.

    Anyway, growing crops so well means you must be a nice chef too^^
    I wanna eat your omelet rice…looks so juicy!!

  2. 2 umepontarou said at 11:27 am on January 16th, 2009:

    Yutsuki
    Thank you 🙂 Yes, we all should concern what we eat.

    Thanks to this sun, I’m saving the cost for food too 🙂 That’s another thing I like about summer here.

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