Chicken with rice

CHICKEN WITH RICE

Ingredients

1 chicken 1.5-2 kg

30g. flour

1 tablespoon paprika

A little black pepper

1 tbsp coriander grains

1 sprig fresh rosemary or 1 tablespoon rosemary leaves

80 g. olive oil

Pilaf

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 cup rice for pilaf
4.5 cups chicken broth(1300 g. approximately)
1 piece of lemon peel
Salt to taste
the juice of one medium lemon.

Cooking the chicken

Remove the skin from chicken and wash it very well.

Put the whole chicken in a pot and cover it with water.

Place the pot over high heat.

Shorty before the water boils foam forms on its surface.

Gather the foam with a soup ladle and discard it

Once the water starts boiling, lower the heat to medium.

Boil the chicken for an hour.

Nail a fork into the meat to see if it is soft.

When the meat of the chicken is done, it unstuck from the bones.

If it does not, boil it more.

Take the chicken from the pot and put in a pan.

Put very little salt over the boiled chicken and leave it to cool.

Strain the broth of chicken and leave it aside to use it later.

Keep two cups broth for the risotto.

Chicken with sauce

Cut the cooked chicken into medium size portions.

Put a deep sauce pan over low heat and pour in the oil.

Add the paprika into the pan and stir.

Add the flour and stir again..  

Cook the flour, stirring constantly.

When the flour is cooked its color becomes light brown.

Pour the chicken broth into the flour little by little.

 Stir until the sauce thickens.

Try the sauce and if necessary correct the taste.

Put the pieces of chicken in the saucepan and cook 10 more minutes.

Stir from time to time.

The color of the chicken changes from the paprika to a light pink.

Pilaf

Rinse your rice and strain it.

Place a deep saucepan over low heat.

Pour into the pan 2 TBs olive oil.

Put the rice into the pan and stir constantly until sauté.

Pour the chicken broth into the rice and stir.

Add the lemon peel, the lemon juice and the salt.

Let the rice to boil until soft.

Serving

Take a shallow dish and put pilaf in its center.

Spread rice evenly over the dish and form a circle.

Put four or five chicken portion in the center of the circle.

Put sauce over the chicken and make any shape you like.