Chicken Marengo
Ingredients:
3 1/2 lbs chicken parts of your choosing
1/2-3/4 cups all purpose flour
salt pepper and dried tarragon to taste
vegetable oil for frying
2 Tbsp butter
1-2 cups dry white wine (pinot grigio, sauvignon blanc, etc,)
1 Can whole tomatoes
8 ounces button mushrooms
minced garlic to taste
for garnish (optional):
fried egg
shrimp
parsley
Chicken Fricassee - quick French Chicken Stew
Chicken Fricassée is a traditional French chicken stew made with browned chicken pieces braised in a creamy white mushroom sauce. A rustic family style meal that's easy enough for midweek, it's almost like the white sauce version of Coq au Vin - except it's so much faster to make!
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Original chicken Marengo from 19th century Italy
The story goes that, on the 14th of June, 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte, after having won the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy against Austria, felt hungry. The supply hustle had been separated from the troops, and so Napoleon’s cook Dunant sent out soldiers to the nearby village to see what they could find. They returned with a chicken, some tomatoes, a few eggs and two crayfish (or, in another version, mushrooms): together with the Napoleon’s personal wine reserve and some old bread the cook could fry up, these are the ingredients for Dunant's chicken Marengo, since then a popular dish in France and Northern Italy. So far the legend. Only, that it is not true.
Tomatoes do not appear in Northen Italian or French recipes before the 1840ies, so it is quite unlikely that Dunant would have found that ingredient in a village a good forty years earlier. Chicken Marengo as we know it today was presumably created much later, most likely in Paris, and, from the beginning, with many different variations.
I am sticking to Pellegrino Artusi's recipe for Chicken Marengo from his cookbook “La scienza in cucina e l’arte di mangiar bene“ (The Science of Cooking and the Art of Eating Well) published in 1891. It lacks tomatoes, crayfish and eggs!
“Take a young chicken, remove the neck and legs, and cut into large pieces at the joints. Sauté in 30 grams of butter and one tablespoon of olive oil, seasoning with salt, pepper, and a dash of nutmeg. When the pieces have browned on both sides, skim the fat and add a level tablespoon of flour and a deciliter of wine. Add broth and cover, cooking over low heat until done. Before removing from the fire, garnish with a pinch of chopped parsley; arrange on a serving dish and squeeze half a lemon over it. The result is an appetizing dish.“
You need: chicken pieces, butter, olive oil, salt, pepper, nutmeg, flour, white wine, chicken broth, parsley, lemon
Stay tuned - there are more historical recipes to come on this culinary archaeology channel. You can find more recipes in my cookbooks GARUM: Recipes from the Past“, From Eden to Jerusalem: Recipes from the Time of the Bible“, or VEGETUS: Vegetarian Recipes from the Past“.
Chicken Marengo: recipe for Napoleon (created on the battlefield)
The Chicken Marengo is recipe that was created for Napoleon on the battlefield after the victory of the battle of marengo on the 14th of june 1800. Get the recipe:
In this French cooking video tutorial I am recreating the chicken marengo recipe the way it was made by napoleon's cook ( Dunand) on the battlefield just when the battle was over. just using the basic ingredients and one cast iron skillet and one black steel pan.
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Chicken Marengo: POV Italian Cooking Episode 45
In this episode we make our own twist on recipe that, according to legend, was invented by Napoleon's chef after his narrow victory at Marengo in 1800. Our twist is that we make Chicken Marengo as a wrap.
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Chicken Marengo Recipe
My family put together a goodie basket of food! It turns out they got me everything I need to make one of my favorite recipes - chicken Marengo. In this video, we'll go step by step through this recipe so you can see how easy, tasty, and nutritious chicken Marengo is. Enoy :)
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