Hunter's-Style Rice

Ingredients

• chicken
• fatback (lardone)
• garlic
• parsley
• piece butter
• salt
• pepper
• rice
• parmesan
• tomato sauce or paste

Instructions

1. Cut a chicken into pieces, discarding head and feet.
2. Make a soffritto of fatback, garlic and parsley; when it colours, add the chicken.
3. Add a piece of butter, season with salt and pepper, and brown the chicken.
4. Tip the chicken into a pot of boiling water, throw in the rice, and cook.
5. Before removing from the heat, flavour with a good handful of parmesan. Keep the rice from being overcooked or too soupy.