Sunday, September 27, 2009

Chicken Scampi Risotto

Sorry, I have been celebrating my Birthday and I have been doing some crazy shopping with the gift cards I have received.(Believe it or not, I hate to clothes shop. I love to shop for food. LOL) How fun!! I bought a new massive wok and a smoker box, which I am using right now. We put a 10 lb pork shoulder on the grill with the smoker box at 6 am. I will let you know tomorrow how it turns out!


Anyway, this dish turned out fantastic. I was going to make Chicken Scampi pasta, until there was no pasta in the cupboard and two bags of risotto. I made this instead and it turned out even better then any pasta dish. My husband said he would prefer this dish.





Chicken Scampi Risotto


6 Chicken Breast, (Pounded until thin)
1 cp. flour
salt and pepper
2 TB Olive oil
2 TB butter

Add the salt and pepper to the flour and dredge the chicken into the flour. If you need to add more flour for the chicken go ahead.
Add the butter and oil to a hot pan. Put the chicken in the pan and brown both sides. Remove and put on a plate.

6 TBS butter
1/2 cp. chopped red onion
1 red bell pepper, julienned
1 green pepper, julienned
4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1/2 cp. white wine
1/2 cp. chicken broth

Melt the butter over medium in a pan. Add the onions and peppers and cook until soft. Add the garlic. Do not let it brown. Saute. Add the wine and let it reduce by half and add the chicken broth. Add the chicken to the pan. Let simmer.




The Risotto


2 cps. Risotto rice
1/2 cp. white wine
6 cps hot chicken broth
4 TB butter
2 TB olive oil
3/4 cp. parm cheese

1. Add 2 TB butter and olive oil to a pan. Add the rice and saute. 2 min. Add the wine until dissolved. Add a ladle of chicken broth at a time. Each time that it is absorbed add another ladle until finished. Taste it. When ready add the parm and 2 TB butter. It should take about 21 minutes.



ENJOY!!!!!

19 comments:

  1. Great food and nice purchases too! I prefer risotto over pasta too.

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  2. Hi Miranda! :)

    I've never tried this combination before, it does look yummy, might give it a try one day..

    ..BTW, Happy Birthday,wish you more happy years to come! :)

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  3. Risotto is one thing I haven't made yet and I do like to eat the stuff, too. I must fix that. NIcely done with the chicken scampi.

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  4. This looks really delicious! I have yet to make risotto but I really want to try!

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  5. Happy Birthday! It sounds as though you had fun using your gift cards. Risotto is such a great cool weather dish. I love making pan-fried risotto cakes the next day with the leftovers.

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  6. I hope you had a fabulous birthday!!!! I prefer food shopping to clothes shopping, too. Smoker..awesome! This sounds like a super-tasty dinner.

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  7. That dish looks great but honestly...how can you HATE to shop for clothes!? I love any kind of shopping and yes, like you, enjoy food shopping. But I hate putting it all away :(

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  8. I too find that loving to shop for/eat food kind of ends up translating to hating to shop for clothes. ("I don't remember how my stomach started looking like *that!* Oh, do you have another slice of that?" But this recipe anyway looks great! Now where's that pumpkin chiffon recipe?!

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  9. I am soooo with you. I hate hate hate to clothes shop! I would much rather spend the day in Williams Sonoma!
    I love chicken and lemon anything

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  10. What a tasty dinner - it looks great.

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  11. This looks great! I love risotto and that chicken would go with it nicely. Yum :)

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  12. This would make a lovely dinner at my table tonight. Looks great.

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  13. looks like the perfect fall meal!!

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  14. I can definitely see where the risotto would go very well with a traditional scampi dish!

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  15. Looks and sounds wonderful!

    Happy Birthday! I don't remember reading about it before now but then again everything about this past month has been a blur! :)
    ~ingrid

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  16. Chicken scampi sounds delicious over risotto!

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  17. Happy belated birthday daaaaaaahling *kisses*

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  18. This looks great but I can't wait to hear how the smoking process went!!!

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