Food for summer redux

Pollo fra diavolo

It begins here with a butterflied chicken rubbed with salt, mixed herbs and then hot paprika, all massaged in with your hands. This bird is then roasted at a high temperature-- about 425° F (215° C) for 30-40 minutes until an instant thermometer inserted into the thigh joint reads near 180° F.
You can serve the legs and thighs hot or cool the whole chicken. Save the breasts with any juices there are in a tightly closed foil package in the fridge.

And here it becomes a salad. The ingredients here are per person:

one of the chicken breasts
salad leaves, washed and dried and torn into pieces
a handful of pitted cherries (or kiwi pieces or strawberries or whatever fresh fruit sounds appealing to you)
a small spring onion cut into small pieces (you can use a scallion if you don't find spring onions)
the juice of half a lemon
salt
olive oil to four times the amount of lemon juice
about 1 teaspoon of honey
freshly ground black pepper

Take the chicken breast out of the fridge and carefully remove the bones and cartilege, then thinly slice it including the spicy skin.

In a very big bowl, juice the lemon and add about 1/4 teaspoon salt and a pinch of powdered chili pepper. With a fork, whip in the olive oil, then add the honey, bit by bit until it tastes just sweet enough to you and has a warmth from the chili.
Add the green, the fruit and the onion and toss thoroughly so that all is coated. Taste again. I added a sprinkling of chili, because I felt that to be hot and sweet it needed it. I also wanted just a bit more salt.

Pile the salad onto a plate and arrange the chicken slices, then drizzle the bit of dressing that is in the bottom of the bowl over the chicken slices. Grind black pepper over it all and eat it up!

I had a couple of slices of good German brown bread with mine. Life was very tasty.

In italiano:

Inizia con il pollo. Spargete del sale, profumi misti e paprika forte sul pollo intero, massagiando bene con le mani. Infornatelo a 215° C per 30-40 minuti, fino a è proprio cotto. Guardate che non è troppo cotto. Si può mangiare subito le coscie calde.

E poi mettete i petti con la pelle nel frigo, ben chiusi in un pacchetto di aluminio.
Per fare l'insalata, togliete i petti dal frigo e disossarli con cura, ma lasciate la pelle piquante. Tagliateli a fette sottili.

Gli ingredienti per l'inslata sono alla persona:

un petto di pollo
foglie d'insalata ben pulite e asciugate, a pezzetti
delle ciliege snocciolate (o kiwi, or fragole o qualsiasi frutta volete)
una cipolla di primavera tagliata a pezzi
il succo di mezzo limone
sale circa 1/4 cucchiaino
un bel pizzico di peperoncino in polvere
olio d'oliva in quantità 4 volte la misura del succo
circa 1 cucchiaino di miele
pepe nero

In una ciottola grandissima, mettete il succo di limone con il sale e peperoncino in polvere. Con una forchetta, aggiungete l'olio, man mano, mescolando in continuo. Aggiungete il miele qb per fare una salsa agrodolce e un po' piccante.

Aggiungete l'insalata, le ciliege o l'altra frutta e la cipolla e fa saltare bene bene. Assagiatela e aggiungete più sale e peperoncino al gusto. Volevo io un po' più sale e peperoncino. L'insalata deve essere agrodolce e un po' piquante.

Togliete l'insalata a un piatto, mettete le fette di pollo in un bel disegno, e mettete la salsa che rimane nella ciottola sopra le fette di pollo. Spolverarla con pepe nero. Pronta!

Come July first, you can read lots of salad recipes on La Mia Cucina.

Comments (7)

LisaJune 27th, 2007 at 11:19

Judith, that salad looks SO GOOD! I love chicken salads – be it the grilled or roasted on greens or the creamy kind that\’s killer on a fresh croissant. I will definitely try this, and I am thanking you in advance from my husband – he\’s begged me for a good spicy chicken salad, now I can give him one!

Love the addition of cherries – I think I like that idea better than my normal grape addition!

Thank you SO MUCH for your submission =)

xoxo

sognatriceJune 27th, 2007 at 13:41

This looks *so* good. My OH doesn\’t get the fruit and meat together thing, so I\’ll have to work on him. So the plan is: I\’ll make this \

sognatriceJune 27th, 2007 at 13:42

Hey, that’s only half my comment! Is there a word limit or what?

adminJune 27th, 2007 at 14:05

No, but it’s been shaky around here and I can’t find Rich!

Anyway, eat the salad quick before the cherries disappear.

BarbaraJune 27th, 2007 at 14:23

Wow! this sounds yummy! Now to the intersting part….WHERE did you find Brwon German bread????

adminJune 27th, 2007 at 20:54

A German friend came to visit and brought it. Hahaha.

MBJune 28th, 2007 at 14:36

Looks delicious! I’ll have to try it since I’ve been doing lots of salads now that the weather is hot. I think I’ll try making it with grapes though.

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