{"id":2406,"date":"2025-12-20T03:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2025-12-20T03:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:28:19","slug":"sicilian-tomato-chicken-farfale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/sicilian-tomato-chicken-farfale\/","title":{"rendered":"Sicilian Tomato Chicken Farfale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Credit to Andrew Rea at Babish for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TggSdedcLJo\">original recipe<\/a>. I changed a few things to suit my region and preferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Makes 6 servings<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ingredients<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>3 chicken breasts<br>3tbsp butter<br>1-3 tbsp AP flour<br>3tbsp refined olive oil<br>6 servings farfale pasta<br>6 cloves garlic<br>1 shallot<br>1\/4 cup tomato paste<br>1 tsp oyster sauce<br>5 red serrano chilis<br>5 sun-dried tomatoes + 1tbsp oil<br>1 1\/2 tsp oregano<br>1 1\/2c chicken stock<br>1c heavy cream<br>2oz parmesan regiano<br>t.t. kosher salt<br>t.t. ground black pepper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Garnish<\/strong><br>t.t. parmesan regiano<br>t.t. fresh basil leaves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Procedure<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prep<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Butterfly chicken breasts and dry brine with salt and pepper for 1 hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Small dice shallot and mince red serranos. Cut the garlic into thin planks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cook<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boil farfale in salted water until al-dente. Save 1\/4c pasta water for later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melt butter and coat chicken evenly. Sprinkle a light dusting of flour over top each side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saute chicken in cast iron with olive oil over medium high heat until golden-brown and 165F internally. Set aside chicken and pan with the fond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a separate saucepan, cook shallots and garlic briefly (do not burn or give any color).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add tomato paste, oregano, chilis, oyster sauce, and sundried tomatoes; mix and combine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deglaze both pans with chicken stock, and pour all into the saucepan. Mix and reduce by half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add heavy cream, pasta water as needed, and 2oz parmesan-regiano; mix until thick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plate chicken and pasta, spoon over some sauce, and garnish with more parmesan regiano and basil leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buon appetito<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/farfale-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/farfale-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/farfale-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/farfale-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/farfale-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/farfale-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit to Andrew Rea at Babish for the original recipe. I changed a few things to suit my region and preferences. Makes 6 servings Ingredients 3 chicken breasts3tbsp butter1-3 tbsp AP flour3tbsp refined olive oil6 servings farfale pasta6 cloves garlic1 shallot1\/4 cup tomato paste1 tsp oyster sauce5 red serrano chilis5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10,18,11],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-italian","tag-chicken","tag-pasta","tag-savory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}