Pollo Alla Diavola Con Olive Recipes

Steps:

• Place red-pepper flakes in a spice grinder; pulse until ground. Season chicken with salt and pepper; sprinkle ground red-pepper flakes on flesh side of chicken only. Tear marjoram sprigs and 4 thyme sprigs; sprinkle evenly over both sides of chicken. Place in a large baking dish, cover, and refrigerate overnight.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Heat a large cast-iron skillet over high heat; add olive oil. Remove marjoram and thyme from chicken. When olive oil is hot, add chicken, skin-side down. Place an aluminum foil-wrapped brick on top of chicken and transfer to oven. Cook until juices from chicken run clear, 8 to 10 minutes; turn and cook for 30 seconds more.
• Transfer chicken to a large plate and set aside. Drain fat from skillet and return to medium-high heat. Add tomato paste and cook, stirring, scraping up any browned bits in pan, about 1 minute. Remove 1/2 cup of pickling liquid from peppers and add to skillet, along with chicken stock, 6 pickled peppers, and remaining 2 sprigs thyme. Let cook until sauce is reduced by half, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Transfer sauce to a large serving platter; top with chicken; serve.

Steps:

• Position rack in upper third of oven; heat to 425°F Lightly grease 1 large roasting pan or 2 baking dishes with oil. Open chickens and put them, skin-side up, into pan.
• In a small bowl, mix together mustard, black pepper, marjoram or oregano or sage, rosemary and red pepper flakes. Spread mustard mixture over chickens, distributing mixture evenly; season with salt. Drizzle each chicken with 1 teaspoon oil.
• Bake chickens for 20 minutes. Sprinkle olives over chicken, add wine to pan and continue baking until skin is golden and chicken is cooked through, about 30 to 35 minutes more.
• Transfer pan to a wire rack, tent with tin foil and let chickens rest for 5 minutes, spooning juices over the top. Serve with juices.

Steps:

• Position rack in upper third of oven; heat to 425. Lightly grease 1 large roasting pan or 2 baking dishes with oil. Put chickens, skin side up into pan. In a small bowl, stir together mustard, black pepper, marjoram, rosemary and red pepper flakes. Spread mustard mixture over chickens, distributing mixture evenly; season with salt. Drizzle each chicken with 1 teaspoon oil. Bake chickens for 20 minutes. Sprinkle olives over chickens, add wine to pan and continue baking until skin is golden and chicken is cooked through, 30-35 minutes more. Transfer pan to wire rack and let chickens rest for 5 minutes, spooning juices over the top. Serve with juices.

Steps:

• The"devil's oil" needs to steep overnight, and the chicken halves need to marinate at least four hours DEVIL'S OIL: Combine all ingredients in heavy small saucepan.
• Cook over medium heat until oil bubbles at edge of pan and thermometer registers 200 degrees F, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes.
• Set oil aside overnight to steep.
• Strain oil through fine sieve into small bowl, pressing on solids to extract as much oil as possible.
• Season oil to taste with salt.
• (Can be made 3 days ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Bring to room temperature before serving.) CHICKEN?
• VEGETABLES: Whisk 1 cup olive oil and 1/4 cup pepper in 15 x 10 x 2-inch glass baking dish to blend.
• Add chicken halves to pepper oil; turn to coat well and arrange in single layer.
• Tuck lemon slices between and on top of chicken halves.
• Spoon some pepper oil fro dish over chicken halves.
• Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight, turning chicken halves occasional.
• Preheat oven to 500 degrees F.
• Heat 2 heavy large (11- to 12-inch) ovenproof skillets (preferably cast iron) over medium-high heat 5 minutes.
• Add 3 tablespoons olive oil to each.
• Remove chicken halves from pepper oil and discard lemon slices; sprinkle each chicken half with coarse salt and black pepper.
• Place 2 chicken halves, skin side down, in each skillet.
• Cook until skin is deep golden brown, about 8 minutes.
• Place skillets in oven and roast until chicken is cooked through and thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 180 degrees F, about 25 minutes.
• Using tongs, turn chicken skin side up in skillets; let rest 5 minutes.
• Heat remaining 4 tablespoons olive oil in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat.
• Add onion, carrots and celery; sauté until celery begins to look translucent, about 8 minutes.
• Add chicken broth and bring to boil.
• Reduce heat to medium-low; cover saucepan and simmer until vegetables are tender, about 25 minutes.
• Mix glaze into vegetables; season with salt and pepper.
• Spoon vegetables onto platter.
• Drizzle with extra-virgin olive oil.
• Top with chicken.
• Serve chicken and vegetables, passing devil's oil separately.

Steps:

• Add half a chilli, 1 clove of garlic, a teaspoon of herbs and a pinch of paprika ito a bowl and roughly mash together, coat the chicken in this and wrap in foil. Place this in the oven at 200degrees in a fan oven and cook for 30 minutes
• Add the oil to a saucepan and fry the onions on a high heat for around 3 minutes.
• Add the the green peppers, chillies,tomatoes, mushrooms and 1 clove garlic and adjust to a medium heat. Cook this for 4 minutes.
• Add half the tin if tomatoes and a dash of olive oil and simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Then add the extra garlic, herbs and jalepenos and give it a stir
• Use a wooden spoon to mash the larger chunks of tomatoes, both tinned and fresh. Crumble over half the stock cube and stir in the leftover tinned tomatoes and the wine. Simmer for 10 minutes.
• Add a squeeze of lemon and the tomato purée. Continue to cook until the chicken is ready. Stirring occasionally.
• After 30 minutes take the chicken out and open up the foil, return to the oven for 10 minutes turning the heat up to full. Serve with the sauce poured generously over the chicken.