Peasant food aka Pollo e Patate
It was definitely too hot to be cooking this but I was craving it.
The chicken is really just an essential ingredient needed to flavor the potatoes. The potatoes are the star of the dish.
I have been hoarding some Parmesan Reggiano for about 13 years and decided today was time to use some of it.
Cost per person: $1.86
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Recipe?
I don't really have a recipe for this because it's from childhood but Pasta Grammar has one close to it. We add a drained can of peas at the last 10 ten minutes.
We have another version where cooked spaghetti is added to turn this into a triple threat of carbs for bottomless teenage stomachs.
As soon as I get my cholesterol in check I'm going to make this dish, it's currently too high to indulge in such fatty deliciousness.
I could try to make this with boneless skinless Chicken breast but we all know it's the roasting in the Chicken fat that makes it so wonderful.
You could go with a good quality olive oil and skip the chicken.
Believe me I do that all the time, but I miss those thighs.
4 months to go to check my numbers, I've already improved my blood pressure enough to no longer need medication so my diet and exercise is working, I just have to moderate this type of delicious food once I get things in healthy levels.
The Mediterranean diet is amazing, I love it, but I do miss these types of dishes.
A king who traveled incognito in medieval times was once captured, discovered because he casually ordered a roasted chicken at an inn
Peasants owning a chicken was not uncommon, steady supply of eggs. But chicken meat after it dies is too valuable not to sell to some local lord.
Anyway just a cool story about how Chicken isn’t peasant food. Dish looks tasty though.
Chickens were rather uncommon until fairly recently. That's why Hoover's "a chicken in every pot" campaign slogan was so notable.
But if you had chickens you had roosters and you ate them. They may have be uncommon in the city but the country folk always had a few roos each year they needed to remove from the population so they could ensure good genetics, save food for the layer hens and stop the roos from harming the hens.
I have had to get rid of a fair number of roos myself. Gyoza is my favorite way to do that.
NGL, might be peasant food, but it looks delish.
It's an umami bomb. I always make way too much so I can have more later.
I scrolled past and then realised it said 'peasant' not 'pleasant' and now you have my full attention. I love cheap, simple, healthy, but unexpectedly delicious meals.
We all need more of those.
what present?
A chicken? imported potatoes straight from the colonies? I'm assuming there's spices.
he's eating like the richest king in medieval Europe and calls it "peasant"
Late 19th century peasants. Gotta do something with those extra roos.
Let me guess- you’re not European.
Source: you don’t seem to know much about Europe
let me guess, you're not European.
Source: you don't seem to know much about medieval Europe
peasant usually refers to medieval.
It's actually peasant parmesan