italian boy

italian boy

Monday, August 11, 2008

spicy breaded chicken with yellow rice, fried lemmon, and cubanelle peppers.

a fast delicious dinner that you can have on the table in 30 minutes, 45 max. my mom and dad would make similarfirst thingi put on a pot of water for my yellow rice. i added some olive oil, saffron, parsley, pepper, garlic and salt. once it comes to boil i added the prewashed white rice, shut off the heat and let it sit. at the same time i pulled out two thinly filleted chicken breasts, put them beteween two sheet of wax paper and pounded them a bit with a wine bottle (the wide round shape of a wine bottle id great for pounding meat). Then i coated the chicken breasts with flour, then dipped them in eggs beated with hot pepper flakes, and then dipped them in bread crumbs. in a shallow pan i coated the bottom with oil (you can use butter as well) and cooked the chicken breasts just a few minutes on each side till golden brown. after they were done. i added a bit more oil, dropped in slice of a floured lemon into the pan and a few cubanelle peppers with the seeds removed. on medium to low heat, covered, i cooked the lemon till it started to brown and the peppers stil they started to slightly char. thats it. this is a great medium spicy dish with, fragrant rice and sweet and hot peppers as a side. the fried lemon is also edible and goes great to clean your palate at the end.

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Hi there, my name is Giacomo and I enjoy things delicious. Long story short, my parents moved from Italy to NJ where I grew up (and loved it) but found myself in Washington, DC fourteen years ago and haven’t yet found an excuse to leave. Food has always been a huge part of my day and life… from happy times, sad times, holidays, drunken escapades and all the rest in between, I’ve usually spent a good portion of that time putting something in my mouth. I guess I started this blog a little while ago to keep track of what I was cooking and places I’d eat-- simply because my friends were always asking “how do you make this” or “where do you get that” but surprisingly over time I guess real people started reading too. SO, take a look around and let me know what you think. You’ll see that the backbone of lots of my food is Italian but I manage to cover most bases. Thanks for stopping by. BUON APPETITO!

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