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Chicken Scarpariello

You need to make this italian dish, chicken scarpariello - perfect weeknight cozy dinner

Chicken Scarpariello

Ingredients

  • 6 bone-in, skin on chicken thighs and/or drumsticks
  • 2 raw links pork sausage (1 sweet and 1 hot), sliced in 1 1/2 inch pieces
  • Mini yukon gold potatoes
  • All purpose flour, for dusting
  • 6 cloves of garlic, smashed and cut into 4’s lengthwise
  • 1/2 an onion, sliced
  • 1/2 a red pepper, sliced
  • Around 4-5 cherry peppers or Peppadew pickled peppers (more if you like it spicy), sliced
  • 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1/2 cup white wine
  • 2 cups of low-sodium chicken stock
  • 2 tbsp red wine vinegar or pickled pepper juice
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • 2 rosemary springs and/or dried oregano
  • Salt & pepper
  • Parsley

Preparation

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 400 degrees with a sheet pan inside (let heat for about 5-10 minutes), meanwhile half potatoes and place cut side down on warmed sheet pan with 2 tbsp of olive oil, some of the rosemary or oregano, and season with salt and pepper - let bake for 20 minutes or so until crispy ont he bottom

  2. 2

    Now prep your chicken - season with salt and pepper and dust in flour then cut all the veggies

  3. 3

    In a large pan on medium-high heat add some of the olive oil and sear off the sausage until browned, remove from pan

  4. 4

    If the pan needs more oil, add more and sear chicken on both sides until browned, remove from pan

  5. 5

    Add the rest of your olive oil and slowly cook off veggies starting with onions, peppers, pickled peppers, and add garlic once these have softened slightly

  6. 6

    Now add white wine and cook off for 3 minutes, add chicken broth, lemon juice, red wine vinegar or pickled pepper juice, rosemary springs, and dried oregano

  7. 7

    Add chicken and sausage back in and cover to simmer for about 20 minutes

  8. 8

    Finish the sauce with butter, more salt and pepper if needed, add crispy potatoes in, and top with parsley!