To Italian Americans, \u201cgravy\u201d means tomato sauce cooked all day with various types of meats. Flavors mingle, meat falls apart, herbs kick in, and you\u2019ve got a world-class Sunday pasta dinner. Chicken with Red Gravy riffs off that beloved tomato-wine sauce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But with chicken thighs rather than red meat, it cooks faster, tastes lighter, and soaks beautifully into quick-cooking couscous or polenta. So you can treat your family or guests to the joys of red gravy whenever the mood hits you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But is it Italian or French?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n When I gave this recipe to my sister-in-law Chris, she exclaimed, \u201cIt\u2019s \u2018Meal A\u2019!\u201d I had forgotten that her go-to favorite for decades, Chicken Proven\u00e7al from Tidewater on the Half Shell, <\/em>drenches chicken in that very same red gravy. Even though it has a few more ingredients, her recipe tastes like a twin. And yet its name is so French, it even has a cedilla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, is this dish Italian or French? Let\u2019s just settle on Mediterranean\u2014too good to confine to any country\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n\n\n Adapted from <\/em>The Boston Globe, which probably adapted from Marcella Hazan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n To Italian Americans, \u201cgravy\u201d means tomato sauce cooked all day with various types of meats. Flavors mingle, meat falls apart, herbs kick in, and you\u2019ve got a world-class Sunday pasta dinner. Chicken with Red Gravy riffs off that beloved tomato-wine sauce. But with chicken thighs rather than red meat, it cooks faster, tastes lighter, and soaks beautifully into quick-cooking couscous or polenta. So you can treat your family or guests to the joys of red gravy whenever the mood hits you. But is it Italian or French? When I gave this recipe to my sister-in-law Chris, she exclaimed, \u201cIt\u2019s \u2018Meal A\u2019!\u201d I had forgotten that her go-to favorite for decades, Chicken Proven\u00e7al from Tidewater on the Half Shell, drenches chicken in that very same red gravy. Even though it has a few more ingredients, her recipe tastes like a twin. And yet its name is so French, it even has a cedilla. So, is this dish Italian or French? Let\u2019s just settle on Mediterranean\u2014too good to confine to any country\u2019s borders. Chicken with Red Gravy Adapted from The Boston Globe, which probably adapted from Marcella Hazan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,332],"tags":[1037],"class_list":["post-8930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicken","category-italian","tag-italian-chicken-with-wine-and-tomatoes"],"yoast_head":"\nChicken with Red Gravy<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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