One-pot Italian chicken peppers recipe

Easy one-pot Italian chicken, super yummy and with a sensational juicy sauce. Get ready to dip a slice of toasted bread or maybe a loaf of bread into it. To pick that gorgeous juicy soft peppers sauce that melts once are into your mouth. Seriously, this Italian chicken with peppers and onions is the recipe that can’t be miss.

This is a very simple dish, but yet super succulent. It is perfect to eat during those final Summer days, perhaps in the garden surrounded by family or friends. It tastes even more delicious the next day. Try it with a vegetarian bruschetta for a starter, to recreate an Italian atmosphere! Additionally, why not end your dinner with an indulgent chocolate crostata.

Back in Italy, this dish is originally prepared in Rome during the feast of the assumption that falls on the 15th of August. It is called “Pollo Alla Romana” which means Roman chicken. As a tradition for this feast is a rite to celebrate it on the beach eating this Roman chicken and staying on the beach until very late. Spending the night watching the fireworks, doing the midnight swim, or seeking the shooting stars. I am already dreaming it!

How to prepare this lush Roman chicken?

As for most of the Italian recipes, the ingredients are few and to achieve a better taste is important to choose the best products you can find. Let’s look at which ingredients we need to recreate this recipe.

• Chicken– use chicken thighs and chicken leg with skin on it and bones.
• Peppers*- the secret to achieving that sweet flavour is to use not only the red peppers but even the yellow and green ones.
• Tomatoes– choose cherry tomatoes tin and some fresh cherry tomato vine.
• Onion– for me brown onion.
• Oil– use extra-virgin olive oil. It is not just excellent for your health but is the prime ingredient of Italian cuisine.
• Wine– choose dry white wine. My choice would be Verdicchio Dei Castelli di Jesi. It has herbal, citrus and crispt tones that match perfectly with the tomatoes and the peppers.
• Herbs- use fresh herbs, as they have more flavour comparing to the dried ones. I have used Basil here, however, you can use fresh marjoram and thyme.

*Tip: Use a mix of different varieties as Romano peppers and Bell ones.

Step by step introductions

This one-pot Italian chicken is prepared using the same frying pan for all the steps. No need to wash the pan in between the uses. In this case, it will help to maintain the flavour. I have to say this is one of my favourite recipes that I cook every year during Summer. All the family, children included love this dish, so you need to try it! Is super easy to make and to help you out I have dived the work into few easy steps.

Sauté the peppers

Step one: cut the onion into small cubes and cut the peppers, previously wash, into slices 0,05 mm thick. Pour the extra virgin olive oil and add the onion to a medium frying pan. Saute’ on medium heat until the onion is starting to get blond.

Step two: add the peppers, salt and ground black pepper to the frying pan on medium heat and cook for 20 minutes. Stir occasionally, the peppers will be ready when they are starting to get soft.

Step three: remove the peppers and set them aside on a plate.

Seal the chicken

Step one: add the extra virgin olive oil and the chicken with skin touching the pan in the same frying pan. Seal the chicken for 5 minutes on every side, it needs to get brown. Add salt and ground black pepper to it.

Assembeling

Step one: once the chicken is sealed, add the peppers back and let me cook for 5 minutes on medium heat.

Step two: pour the wine into the pan and let evaporate the alcohol.

Step three: add the cherry tomatoes vine, previously washed and cut it in half. Let them cook for 10 minutes, they are ready when are starting to get soft.

Step four: pour the tomatoes cherry sauce and basil leaf into the frying pan. Let cook for feather 30 minutes on medium heat till the tomatoes sauce is beginning to tighten up and you see a nice juicy sauce. Stir occasionally.

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