Ingredients

  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 10 whole cloves garlic, with skins
  • 3 tablespoons clarified butter
  • 1 4-pound chicken cut into serving pieces
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 13 cup white wine vinegar
  • 23 cup dry white wine
  • 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary, minced well
  • 5 canned Italian tomatoes, chopped
  • 3 tablespoons sweet butter

Method

  • Boil the whole garlic cloves for 5 minutes.
  • Remove them, drain well, and set aside.
  • Pour clarified butter into a large skillet over medium-high heat, and add the whole garlic cloves.
  • Sprinkle the chicken pieces generously with salt and pepper.
  • Add the chicken to the skillet, and brown pieces on both sides (about 5 minutes).
  • Sprinkle minced garlic over the browned chicken, and deglaze the skillet with the vinegar.
  • Add white wine, rosemary and tomatoes.
  • Bring liquid to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, cover and cook for 15 minutes, turning chicken pieces once.
  • Remove chicken pieces and whole garlic cloves from the skillet.
  • Strain the pan juices into a degreaser, and pour off fat.
  • Pour juices into a blender, along with the tomato-herb mixture left in the skillet.
  • Squeeze the soft pulp out of the garlic cloves, and drop it into the blender.
  • Puree several seconds at slow speed.
  • Then puree at high speed, stopping every few seconds to drop in a tablespoon of butter.
  • When all the butter is incorporated, taste for seasoning.
  • Serve over chicken immediately.