Neighborhood Eats: 'Bella Fig' chicken

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Friday, September 28, 2018
Neighborhood Eats: 'Bella Fig' chicken
Lauren Glassberg reports on Bella Fig in Hawthorne, New Jersey.

HAWTHORNE, New Jersey (WABC) -- Franco Pasulo says for 10 years he kept walking into restaurants where they gave him the key. The time had come for him to have the keys to his own place.



Pasulo opened Bella Fig in Hawthorne, New Jersey in April of 2016 and he is already getting ready to expand his space. He grew up in Hackensack, and decided he didn't want to do a traditional red-sauce Italian restaurant.



Bella Fig has lots of unique dishes. The Chicken Bella Fig is made with fig butter. There is farfalle lobster carbonara and osso bucco rice balls.



Diners say it feels like home, but with much better cooking.



Chicken Bella Fig



Ingredients:



2 chicken breasts


1 cup fingerling potatoes (par boiled)


cup red pepper chopped


cup Vidalia onions chopped


cup bacon chopped


1oz Frangelico


1oz white wine


cup chicken stock


1 Tsp flour


2 TBS butter


Olive oil



2 TBS fig butter* (recipe below)


Salt pepper


1 Thyme sprig



Directions:


Heat olive oil in large saute pan over medium high heat


Salt and pepper each chicken breast and add to pan


Cook chicken 2 minutes and then add bacon


Cook another 2 minutes and add potatoes, onions


Cook 2 minutes and turn chicken, and mix items around in pan


Add white wine and Frangelico (watch for a possible flame)


Add in stock, butter and flour-which will thicken the sauce


Cook down for 5-6 minutes



When plating place the fig butter and a sprig of thyme on top



Serve!



Fig Butter



Ingredients:


8oz butter


2 oz chopped dried fig


2 tsp sugar


2 splash vanilla extract



Directions:


Let butter soften to room temperature in a mixing bowl


Add all ingredients


Mix together


Place on cellophane roll into a log


Keep refrigerated until ready to use



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