Pollo Alla Toscana

Name: Pollo Alla Toscana
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 225 g (8 oz) canned tomatoes, sieved; about 50 ml (1¾ fl oz), olive oil; salt and pepper; 1 tablespoon plain flour; about 300 ml (10 fl oz), warm chicken stock; 1.5 kg (3 lb) chicken, preferably maize fed, jointed into 8 pieces; 1 glass, about 150 ml (5 fl oz), dry white wine; 30 g (1 oz) dried porcini; 85 g (3 oz) unsalted butter

Tuscan-Style Country Chicken

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from an Italian Farmhouse

By Valentina Harris

Published 1995

About

A deliciously simple and very typically Tuscan chicken casserole. Serve with mashed potatoes and a green vegetable and more white wine.

Ingredients

30 g (1 oz) dried porcini
about 300 ml (

Europe
Italy
Dinner
Main course
Mediterranean

Method

Wash and pick over the mushrooms carefully. Cover with half the stock and leave to soak for about 15 minutes.

Heat one-third of the butter with the oil in a flameproof casserole. Add the chicken pieces and brown them all over. Add the wine and season with salt and pepper. Cook for 5 minutes to evaporate the alcohol, then add the tomatoes. Stir in the rest of the stock and the mushrooms.