How to Sear Chicken for Cacciatore Recipe

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I am going to show you how to make Chicken Ala Cacciatore or hunter's style chicken. we see that our oil has a nice shimmer to it now and it also has a little smoke coming off so what that means is that I need to get something in there to cool it off real fast, so let's go with our, let's go with the breast first, skin side down, just like that. And yes, this is going to pop so you want to be careful, you want to stand clear and there's a thigh, a thigh, okay, it's okay if your chicken touches, it won't ruin it, I'm going to do this in a, I'm going to do this in two ways, I'm going to do my legs and thighs, or my thighs and my breasts first. Then I'm going to do the legs and the wings second, because I don't want to overcrowd it because if you overcrowd it, it takes a whole lot longer for it to cook. So what we are going to do here, is we are going to let this go for about, probably for about four minutes, five minutes, to get a little brown on it, I'm going to put a lid on it, just so it doesn't splatter everywhere and also it's going to help kind of really kind of steam and cook the chicken so, and also just to keep the oil from splattering all over the place on me, so let's come back in about three or four minutes and see how we are looking. All right, so it has been two minutes, this is going to be really, really obnoxious, yeah so we'll see it's a nice brown and that is what we are looking for right there is that brown color, so I'm just going to put them back over here on my chicken plate I have and like I said even though there is raw chicken on this plate, don't worry about contamination because the chicken is going to be cooking some more, besides what is it cooked right now so it's already, you would contaminate somebody right now as it is. This piece is being difficult. All right so now, we are going to throw in the wings and the two legs that we've got, making sure that we don't splatter ourselves, I turned my heat down a little bit there when I, when I went to pull this chicken out just because I didn't want it to splatter all over the place even though it still did, it didn't splatter nearly as much. So let's wipe our countertop down, let's set our timer here for three minutes, that should be about right and I guess I've going to be back in three minutes and we'll pull out this chicken."