What is Basque Chicken?

Series Summary

Chicken to the left. Chicken to the right. Chicken all day long. Chicken into the night. Yes indeed chicken is ever present around the clock where ever you may go. Looking up at you from frozen dinner packages, down on you from billboards and back at you from huge produce trucks packed with a hundred of their best friends. The real question in this omni-chicken world is how to distinguish your culinary encounter with this clucking cuisine, how to make your chicken dinner better than the rest. For the solution, we turn to Chef Sven Robinson.

In this free video series, our expert chef will teach you how to make Basque chicken. This slightly spicy Spanish recipe is sure to tease your taste buds with flavors from the Basque region of Spain. Learn how to chop all the vegetables, make the stock and cook the chicken. Get tips on seasoning your Basque chicken and learn how to serve this delicious dish with roasted vegetables. If you are looking for something a little more exotic for dinner, let our expert show you everything you need to know to make Spanish Basque chicken.

Video Transcript

"Today we're going to be making a chicken dish. We're going to be making Basque Chicken. Basque is a northern area of Spain. We're going to be taking a chicken breast, and sauteing that, and we're going to be adding some Chorizo, which is a somewhat mild sausage, and we're going to be adding some Spanish olives; some green olives. We're going to slice those up. We're also going to be adding some sun-dried tomatoes, and a nectarine orange. We are also going to be doing balsamic lemon roasted vegetables. We're going to be taking a sweet potato, with some Brussells sprouts, a butternut squash, red pepper, and some rosemary; along with some beets, tomato paste, and garlic. We're going to boil some first, then put them on a sheet, and roast them all up together. We'll also be juicing a lemon, and mixing that with some garlic and balsamic vinegar, and pouring that over our veggies at the end."