Italian, popular chili recipes
Pollo In Umido (Italian chicken stew)
Cooking 35 minutes, serve 6
Ingredients
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2 kg chicken, cut into pieces
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4 tbsp olive oil
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2 big onions, sliced
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1 green pepper, seeded and diced
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1 tin tomatoes
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3 big potatoes, diced
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10 green olives
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some chopped parsley
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salt, pepper to taste
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4 tbsp plain flour
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150 g green peas
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20 mushrooms, sliced

Method
- Season chicken with salt and pepper and dredge
with plain flour.
- Fry chicken on medium heat till golden.
- Add onions, tomatoes, pepper, potatoes and
olives, fry for 10 minutes.
- Stir in sugar, parsley, marjoram and water to
just cover the chicken pieces.
- Cover and simmer till tender.
- Add peas and mushrooms, seasonings. Simmer for
extra 10 minutes. Serve hot.
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A plate of peppers; with
crispy deep fried pepper, and seared pepper in olive oil.
Both serve as popular
appetizers
in Southern Italy of Senise.
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Omelet with green peas
Cooking 25 minutes, serve 4
Ingredients
- 1/2 big onion, diced
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 small zucchini, diced
- 1 small green pepper, diced
- 1/2 cup cooked green peas
- 1 tomato, peeled and sliced
- 1/2 tsp oregano
- 2 tbsp plain flour
- 120 ml milk
- 4 eggs

Method
- Fry onion in hot live oil till soft. Add zucchini and green pepper and
continue frying 5 minutes.
- Add peas, tomato, oregano, salt and pepper, fry for another 5 minutes.
- Lightly beat flour and milk till smooth. Beat in eggs, salt and pepper.
- Grease and heat pan. Pour 2 tbsp egg mixture into pan and cook over low
heat till round base is firm.
- Add1 tbsp vegetable mixture onto the omelet and pour another tbsp egg
mixture over it.
- Turn over carefully, cook till firm.
- Dish out, garnish and serve hot.
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Pork Chops Masaccio
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Ingredients
- 5 medium pork loin chops
- seasoning
- 2 tbsp cooking coil
- 2 tbsp butter
- 3 cups rice, washed and drain dry
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 medium capsicum, diced
- 1 lemon, sliced
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 1 beef stock cube
Method
- Season pork chops with salt and
pepper.
- Heat oil and butter in a pan
and brown chops on both side. Dish out and keep aside.
- Add rice to remaining oil in pan and
fry for 5 min.
- Dish out and and transfer into a
large, well-greased casserole.
- Add onion, capsicum and 1 slice of
lemon to oil remaining in pan and fry till onions are fragrant.
- Blend stock cube with 500 ml water and pour
into pan. Simmer for 3 minutes.
- Pour mixture over rice. Lay pork
chops over and sprinkle with chili powder.
- Cover casserole and bake at 160C for
1 hour
- Service rice hot on a serving plate.
Try an Oriental or
Chinese dish, easy and delicious
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