Chicken in Tuna Sauce

Origin: Florence, Italy

Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Boil the drawn chicken half an hour, then skin and bone it, cut into pieces, and dress with salt, pepper and 2 tbsp oil; let sit several hours.
  2. Clean anchovies; chop parsley fine, then pound with tuna, capers and anchovies to a fine paste.
  3. Thin the sauce with 4 tbsp oil and 1/2 tbsp vinegar.
  4. Coat the chicken with the sauce and garnish with hard-boiled egg wedges.
  5. Serves six; scrape the mortar clean with a slice of raw potato.

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