Cookbook:Chicken Riggies

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Chicken Riggies (recipe by P.A. Johnson) This is a Utica, NY classic. It is well known throughout the greater Mohawk Valley and once a year there is a festival in honor of this dish called Riggiefest, held to benefit the YWCA of the Mohawk Valley. Here is a recipe based from a Mohawk Valley native: http://miocibo.com/2008/12/21/chicken-riggies/. Based on eating the dish hundreds of times at Joey's, listed in Wikipedia as the birthplace!!!!

Ingredients

• 1 stick margarine (not butter), melted
• 1 onion, minced
• 2-5 cloves garlic, minced
• 20 oz. jar of sweet peppers (slice and removed seeds)
• 3 sliced hot cherry peppers (jarred ones with oil)

  Note: it is important to use jarred peppers--the flavor of fresh peppers completely changes the recipe.

• 1 cup Parmesan cheese
• 2 lb boneless chicken breast, cubed
• 1 can chicken broth
• 1 15 oz can tomato sauce
• ½ pint cream
• 1 small can sliced black olives
• 1 to 1½ lb rigatoni pasta

Procedure

1. Sauté onion, peppers, and garlic in the margarine slowly over low/medium heat until the onions are clear.
2. Add the Parmesan, chicken breast, chicken stock, tomato sauce, cream, and olives. Simmer for about an hour. Serve over 1—1½ pounds of cooked rigatoni pasta