Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken giouvetsi. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chicken Giouvetsi is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chicken Giouvetsi is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
The chicken giouvetsi was pretty easy to make and the hardest part was quartering the whole chicken though you could easily just use chicken legs and or breasts to save some time. In this chicken giouvetsi recipe we will not be using the traditional oven baked method, rather we are cooking this dish in a pan - its so much faster this way and there is little compromise to its flavors. Giouvetsi or Youvetsi (pronounced [ʝuˈvetsi]; from Turkish güveç) is a baked Greek dish made with chicken, lamb or beef and pasta, either kritharaki (orzo) or hilopites (small square noodles), and tomato sauce (usually spiced with allspice and sometimes cinnamon, cloves or bay leaves).
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chicken giouvetsi using 16 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Giouvetsi:
- Prepare chicken (one whole or breast filets cut in pieces and thighs)
- Get 500 grams orzo pasta (greek)
- Take 1 red onion chopped
- Make ready 200 grams tomatoes canned chopped
- Prepare 200 grams tomato sauce passata fresh or
- Make ready 1 chicken stock cube
- Get 1 cinnamon stick
- Take salt (I use sea , fleur de sel)
- Prepare pepper freshly ground
- Prepare 1 pinch sugar
- Make ready oregano (for the chicken)
- Take 4 tablespoons olive oil
- Take red wine
- Take water as needed
- Get pecorino romano cheese for the serving
- Take parsley fresh for the serving
Giouvetsi is a one pot Greek dish where. In the same pan, turn the heat down. Giouvetsi is one of Greece's most traditional and loved dishes that is enjoyed by all the family. It's an oven-baked meal, featuring kritharaki (orzo) and meat (veal, beef, chicken or lamb can be used).
Instructions to make Chicken Giouvetsi:
- Tip: Before putting the chicken in the oven to cook together with the tomato sauce and the pasta, I have it sautéed in the pan together with a chopped red onion and burn it off with red wine.
- Put the sauteed chicken and the pasta together with the rest of the ingredients to cook slowly at 160 degrees C for 45 minutes. Add water if needed.
- Take out of the oven, leave to cool down for 5 minutes, grate some pecorino cheese and add fresh chopped parsley and serve!
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