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POULET BASQUAISE

Cookbook Challenge No. 12: Spice

I have a new addition to my family.

A new cookbook to be precise.

It's French, and I love it!

Flicking lovingly through my brand new baby I found my dish for this fortnight's theme -

 

Poulet Basquaise

Cookbook:  Trish's French Kitchen  Author:  Trish Deseine

 

 

This dish is thought to have evolved from a dish shepherds carried across the Basque hills in clay pots and became the traditional Sunday lunch.

The most important ingredient being the piment d'Espelette, a distinctive smoky, spicy chilli that will have you hooked. If you can't get this, give smoked paprika a try.

 

Such a beautiful, rich, smokey and spicy aroma filled my kitchen when I cooked this.

And the taste was just as good.

I actually thought the capsicum and olives were the hero's of this dish, rather than the chicken (which literally fell of the bone), and I found myself wanting more of the sauce, especially with a chunk of crusty bread dipped into it.

Oh yeah!



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