Tuscan Lemon Chicken With Warm Bean Salad
"This is my adaptation of an old recipe from Bon Appetit. Because the chicken has to marinate, and because I think it's best with dried rather than canned beans, it requires advance planning. But it's really quite simple and very good. It can be made with other chicken parts, but I like it best with chicken breasts. Note: Preparation time does not include soaking and cooking time for dried beans, but does include three hours for marinating chicken."
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- Ready In:
- 4hrs 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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4-6
ingredients
- 4 whole chicken breasts, skin-on,bone-in,split
- 9 cloves garlic (or more)
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons coarse salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon fresh ground pepper (or more)
- 1⁄3 cup fresh lemon juice
- 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
- 2 1⁄2 tablespoons finely grated lemons, rind of
- 1⁄2 teaspoon sugar
- 3 lb dried cannellini beans or (15 ounce) cans cannellini beans
directions
- If using dry beans, rinse beans and place in bowl.
- Cover with three inches of water; leave to soak overnight or at least eight hours.
- Drain beans.
- Place in large saucepan, coverered with three inches of water.
- Do NOT salt.
- Allow to simmer one to two hours till soft (older beans take longer).
- Drain.
- If using canned beans, empty beans into colander and rinse well with warm water.
- Place chicken in baking dish large enough to accomodate all the pieces.
- A 12" x 9" pan should be adequate.
- Roughly chop five (or more if you love it) cloves of garlic.
- Sprinkle chopped garlic with coarse salt.
- Mash garlic and salt into a paste.
- Rub paste onto chicken pieces; sprinkle with ground pepper.
- Whisk together the lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of oil, 2 tablespoons of rosemary, the grated rind and the sugar.
- Pour mixture over chicken, cover chicken and chill up to three hours.
- If you like, you can turn it in the marinade once or twice--not a critical step.
- Preheat oven to 350°F Place drained cannellini in a large skillet.
- Add the remaining garlic, chopped fine, the remaining rosemary and olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Uncover chicken and bake 35-40 minutes, basting occasionally.
- Remove from oven.
- Preheat broiler.
- Broil chicken till golden brown--3-5 minutes.
- When the chicken is almost done, gently warm the beans till heated through.
- Ladle beans onto serving platter.
- Top with chicken and juices from pan.
- Note: If you would like more sauce (and your baking dish is safe for the stovetop--if not, scrape any fond into a saute pan), place baking dish over medium high heat, add a splash of white wine and or chicken stock, deglaze and reduce.
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Reviews
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This dish is so lovely and DELICIOUS! We too, used canned beans and marinated the chicken for about 2.5 hours. I loved the BIG garlic flavor, we pasted up 5 cloves to coat the chicken. There was plenty of juice/sauce at the end, so we did not reduce the sauce- we just spooned it over the chicken and beans. We served with recipe #232055 and a lovely light caprese salad. DIVINE!!!! Thank you, Chef Kate for an awesome recipe that will become a new staple in our home. YUMMMM! -
We enjoyed this dish very much. I used bone-in breasts and substituted the canned beans instead of dry. Simple ingredients, very tasty and really easy to make. -
A great chicken and bean recipe! I used canned cannellini beans and marinated the chicken in the refrigertor for the 3 hours. Easy to follow directions and an amazing tasting combination of flavors! -
WOW!!! This was Great!! Cant wait to make it again. -
I think the deglazed sauce was my favorite part of this wonderful dish! I used dried beans as suggested except had to sub Northern Beans, but the dried beans really tasted better! The seasonings on this chicken were awesome - I went full garlic flavor here!! I liked how simple this dish was to make and its complex flavors with so few ingredients.... nice! thanks Kate!
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Chef Kate
Annapolis, 60
<p>I have always loved to cook. When I was little, I cooked with my Grandmother who had endless patience and extraordinary skill as a baker. And I cooked with my Mother, who had a set repertoire, but taught me many basics. Then I spent a summer with a French cousin who opened up a whole new world of cooking. And I grew up in New York City, which meant that I was surrounded by all varieties of wonderful food, from great bagels and white fish to all the wonders of Chinatown and Little Italy, from German to Spanish to Mexican to Puerto Rican to Cuban, not to mention Cuban-Chinese. And my parents loved good food, so I grew up eating things like roasted peppers, anchovies, cheeses, charcuterie, as well as burgers and the like. In my own cooking I try to use organics as much as possible; I never use canned soup or cake mix and, other than a cheese steak if I'm in Philly or pizza by the slice in New York, I don't eat fast food. So, while I think I eat and cook just about everything, I do have friends who think I'm picky--just because the only thing I've ever had from McDonald's is a diet Coke (and maybe a frie or two). I have collected literally hundreds of recipes, clipped from the Times or magazines, copied down from friends, cajoled out of restaurant chefs. Little by little, I am pulling out the ones I've made and loved and posting them here. Maybe someday, every drawer in my apartment won't crammed with recipes. (Of course, I'll always have those shelves crammed with cookbooks.) I'm still amazed and delighted by the friendliness and the incredible knowledge of the people here. 'Zaar has been a wonderful discovery for me.</p>
