Chicken Hearts with Red Wine Mole Sauce and Basmati Rice

For four people

Preparation & Cooking time: 30 minutes

Rice

Ingredients:

1 ½ cup of Basmati brown rice (organic)

1 soupspoon unsalted butter

1 garlic clove, finely chopped

1 demi tasse spoon finely chopped ginger

1 cup water

1 ¼ cup vegetable broth, with sodium (Organic)

Direction:

Mix all the above in a bowl. Pour everything into a rice cooker, start cooking. When the rice is cooked, loosen the rice with a wooden spoon. Keep warm in the rice cooker.

Chicken Hearts

Ingredients:

1 lb fresh chicken hearts

1 soupspoon all-purpose floor

2 Tablespoons unsalted butter

1 teaspoon Virgin Olive oil

1 garlic clove, very finely chopped

1 red onion, finely duxelles

1 small carrot, cut into thin duxelles
10 normal size button white mushrooms, cut into thin duxelles

1 teaspoon quality red vinegar

½ cup of red wine (Pinot Noir style)

½ cup of chicken stock

Parsley, roughly choped

1 soupspoon of dark bitter chocolate powder

Direction:

Rinse the hearts well under cold water, then dry them with paper towels. On a plate, mix them well with the flour so that they are well covered before placing them in a fine wick strainer to remove as much excess flour as possible. Pour them into a large sauté pan over medium heat, where you will have previously melted the butter and olive oil. Sauté the stirred hearts well so that they are golden brown on all sides, set aside on a plate. In your hot pan add the garlic, onion and carrot duxelles, mix well and sauté until all are well caramelized, deglaze with the red wine and reduce the liquid by half. Add the vinegar, mushroom duxelles, chicken stock, and again the chicken hearts with their juices (which they will have produced while resting on the plate), mix and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes. Add the chocolate and mix well with a wooden spoon until the hearts are glazed.

Setting:

In a deep-dish plate, place the rice and make a nest in the middle, add a serving spoon of hearts and sprinkle with the parsley.

Wines to Pair:

• Osmote Wine , "This is Red" PetNat 2023, Finger Lakes, NY (Lambrusco Style)
• JB Neufeld, Grenache Noire 2022, Ciel du Cheval Vineyard, Yakima Valley, WA
• Bruma Ocho, "El Bastardo" 2022, Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico
• Brown Estate, Zinfandel 2023, Napa Valley, CA