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Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Grills & Smokers => Pellet Grills and Smokers => Topic started by: hikerman on October 08, 2016, 09:04:30 PM

Title: Smoked Chicken Cacciatore ala Daniel Boone
Post by: hikerman on October 08, 2016, 09:04:30 PM

Today's low was 43, high was 65 and sunny. Fall is truly here which would explain my food urges of late. They are all in the so-called comfort food category and chicken cacciatore is one of my favorites.  This was done a bit different to catch a few extra flavor profiles. I needed to use up a bunch of grape tomatoes and a few compari tomatoes,  so I oven roasted them and a can of diced w/jalapeno with a bit of evoo, balsamic vinegar,  S&P, and Way Out West seasoning. That was the first flavor bump.
  Another flavor boost came from the whole chicken, cut-up, seasoned with S&P, and WOW, and put on the pellet grill @200F with a tube of Milt's Cabernet pellets smoldering away.
   Back in the house for the sauce. Ingredients include, evoo, white wine, onion, garlic, baby bellas, the roasted tomatoes and their saved juices, a bit of paste, S&P, more WOW, bay leaf, and from the deck 2 spears of rosemary.
   Once the sauce was made, it went into a lasagna-sized aluminum pan, the smoked chicken went on top, and lastly the rosemary spears. The grill got upped to 350F for roughly 40 minutes.
The chicken and sauce was served atop a bed of egg noodles with fresh Italian bread buttered ala Smokin Don-style, and several glasses of pinot noir.
As Grandma Kate and my buddy Big Dawg say....mangia mangia! ;)
Oh yeah. Definitely a keeper! 8)

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Title: Smoked Chicken Cacciatore ala Daniel Boone
Post by: Pappymn on October 08, 2016, 09:14:20 PM

Yes sir. That is a plate of flavor

Title: Re: Smoked Chicken Cacciatore ala Daniel Boone
Post by: LostArrow on October 08, 2016, 09:38:50 PM

One of my favorite meals.
Love it with dark meat & bones.
Too many restaurants cook with boneless chicken breasts

Title: Re: Smoked Chicken Cacciatore ala Daniel Boone
Post by: hikerman on October 08, 2016, 09:43:59 PM

Quote from: LostArrow on October 08, 2016, 09:38:50 PM

One of my favorite meals.
Love it with dark meat & bones.
Too many restaurants cook with boneless chicken breasts

I agree LA! Rubber comes to mind. ;)

Title: Re: Smoked Chicken Cacciatore ala Daniel Boone
Post by: Smokin Don on October 08, 2016, 10:05:56 PM

A great cook Gene!!! Don

Title: Re: Smoked Chicken Cacciatore ala Daniel Boone
Post by: sparky on October 09, 2016, 12:05:40 AM

Serve me up plz.

Title: Re: Smoked Chicken Cacciatore ala Daniel Boone
Post by: Tailgating is my game on October 09, 2016, 11:35:46 AM

Wow gene That looks amazing I also see you passed Don's school of buttering bread ;) ;)

Title: Re: Smoked Chicken Cacciatore ala Daniel Boone
Post by: tomcrete1 on October 09, 2016, 03:37:41 PM

It does looks great! I agree on the real chicken breast getting harder and harder to find

Title: Re: Smoked Chicken Cacciatore ala Daniel Boone
Post by: smokeasaurus on October 09, 2016, 10:54:19 PM

That is an excellent looking meal and a great cook to show the versatility of a pellet grill.