Recipes for Chicken - Gallina Ubriaca

Gallina Ubriaca, otherwise known in English as drunken hen, is one of my all time best Italian recipes for chicken or hen.



Gallina Ubriaca is perhaps the most famous chicken recipe from the Veneto region of Italy, the region where you will find Venice Italy. It is the region my family is from and the region our site is about.

Ingredients:

1 chicken in pieces. (the recipe actually calls for a hen but I often use chicken)

200 g. Mushrooms

½ l. Red wine

2 Onions

2 small glasses of grappa.

100 g. bacon.

50 gr of flour

2 teaspoons of olive oil

1 garlic clove

a little parsley.

a stick of rosemary.

100 gr butter

salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

• Lightly flour the chicken pieces.

• Melt the butter in a frying pan and add the olive oil. Brown the chicken and add the grappa.

• Add the salt, pepper, rosemary and wine. Cover and cook on low heat for a half hour turning the chicken occasionally.

• In a separate pan cook the bacon and cut up onions in a little butter, add the mushrooms, parsley, salt and pepper and cook on a low heat for fifteen minutes mixing often.

• Add the bacon mix to the chicken, mix and continue to cook on a low heat for fifteen minutes – keep covered.

Serve with polenta – view our polenta recipe here .

Hope you enjoy the recipe

Maria



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