Best Craig Claibornes Chicken Spaghetti Recipes

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CHICKEN SPAGHETTI CASSEROLE RECIPE



Chicken Spaghetti Casserole Recipe image

This Chicken Spaghetti Casserole can transport you back to days when mama was cooking in the kitchen.

Provided by Southern Living Editors

Categories     Casserole

Time 2h35m

Yield Serves 8

Number Of Ingredients 16

1 (4-lb.) whole chicken
4 tablespoons kosher salt
1 bay leaf
8 ounces uncooked spaghetti
3 tablespoons butter
1 large yellow onion, chopped
½ medium-size green pepper, coarsely chopped
2 celery ribs, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 (10 ¾-oz.) can cream of mushroom soup
1 (28-oz.) can diced tomatoes, drained and chopped
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
4 drops of hot sauce
⅛ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Vegetable cooking spray
1 cup (4 oz.) shredded medium Cheddar cheese

Steps:

  • Place first 3 ingredients and water to cover in a large Dutch oven. Bring to a boil over high heat. Cover and reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer 1 hour or until tender. Remove chicken, reserving broth in Dutch oven. Cool chicken completely (about 20 minutes). Discard bay leaf. Skin and bone chicken, and cut meat into pieces.
  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Remove and reserve ¼ cup chicken broth. Bring remaining broth in Dutch oven to a boil over high heat. Break spaghetti into thirds, and cook in broth 12 to 15 minutes or until tender; drain well, discarding broth. Return spaghetti to Dutch oven.
  • Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and next 3 ingredients, and sauté 5 minutes or until tender; add to spaghetti. Stir together soup and ¼ cup reserved broth; stir into spaghetti mixture. Stir in chicken, tomatoes, and next 3 ingredients. Add salt to taste. Spoon mixture into a lightly greased (with cooking spray) 13- x 9-inch baking dish. Top with cheese.
  • Bake at 350°F for 15 to 20 minutes or until cheese melts.

CRAIG CLAIBORNE'S SMOTHERED CHICKEN



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Craig Claiborne was a child of Mississippi who started as food editor of The Times in 1957 and did as much as anyone to help bring home cooking into the spotlight. The dish "belongs in the 'comfort' category," he wrote in 1983, "a food that gives solace to the spirit when you dine on it." You could give your smothered chicken some European flair with mushrooms and small onions in the gravy, as Claiborne did in his experiments with Pierre Franey, then his kitchen co-pilot. Or you could send yourself south to the Creole tastes of the Delta, with a blend of tomatoes, chopped celery, onion and green peppers added to the sauce. But sometimes the easiest way is the best. Try it.

Provided by Sam Sifton

Categories     dinner, easy, weekday, times classics, main course

Time 1h20m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 6

1 chicken, about 3 1/2 pounds, spatchcocked (split down the backbone, breast left intact and unsplit)
Kosher salt, to taste
Freshly ground pepper, to taste
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups chicken broth, ideally homemade

Steps:

  • Craig Claiborne believed a cast-iron skillet to be essential for the authentic preparation of this dish. Sprinkle the chicken on both sides with salt and pepper. Select a skillet large enough to hold the chicken comfortably when it is opened up, as for broiling. Fold wings under to secure them.
  • Melt the butter in the pan and add the chicken, skin side down. Cover chicken with a plate that will fit comfortably inside the skillet. Place a heavy can, stone or brick on top of the plate to weigh it down. Cook over low heat, checking the chicken skin, until it is nicely browned, about 25 minutes.
  • Remove weight and plate. Turn chicken so skin side is up. Replace plate and weight and continue cooking for about 15 minutes more.
  • Remove chicken and pour off fat from the skillet, leaving about 2 tablespoons in the pan. Add the flour to the fat, stirring with a wire whisk over medium heat. Gradually add the chicken broth and, when thickened, return chicken to the skillet, skin side up. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cover with the plate and weight and continue cooking over low heat about 20 to 30 minutes longer or until the meat is exceptionally tender. Spoon the sauce over it.
  • Cut chicken into serving pieces, and serve with the sauce and fluffy rice on the side.

Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 682, UnsaturatedFat 28 grams, Carbohydrate 7 grams, Fat 48 grams, Fiber 0 grams, Protein 53 grams, SaturatedFat 16 grams, Sodium 1161 milligrams, Sugar 1 gram, TransFat 0 grams

DAD'S WORLD FAMOUS SPAGHETTI



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Pasta with White Clam Sauce (pg. 343 in The Original New York Times Cookbook by Craig Claiborne) This recipe was the favorite of my wife's father. When people asked about it, he always told them that it was "Dad's World Famous Spaghetti", and in our family, the name stuck.

Provided by TinChef

Categories     European

Time 30m

Yield 4 Cups

Number Of Ingredients 8

1/4 cup butter
1 large garlic clove (finely chopped)
2 tablespoons flour
2 cups clam juice (fresh or canned)
1 1/2 teaspoons dried thyme leaves
1/4 cup parsley, minced
2 cups clams, minced (fresh or canned)
salt & freshly ground black pepper (to taste)

Steps:

  • In a saucepan, heat the butter, add the garlic, and cook for one minute over moderate heat.
  • With a wire whisk, stir in the flour.
  • While stirring, add the clam juice.
  • Add the parsley, salt, pepper, and thyme.
  • Simmer gently for ten minutes.
  • Add the minced clams and heat through.
  • Serve over linguine or spaghetti.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 274.5, Fat 12.9, SaturatedFat 7.5, Cholesterol 64.5, Sodium 1223.1, Carbohydrate 20.9, Fiber 0.8, Sugar 4.1, Protein 18.1

MY MOTHER'S CHICKEN SPAGHETTI



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In 1975, Craig Claiborne, then editor of The Times' food department, shared his favorite childhood dish with readers. "A few weeks ago we were interviewed on the McCanns' At Home Program on station WOR, and when the subject veered around to childhood foods, we described in some detail the dish that had given us most pleasure in early youth and adolescence and still gives us comfort as we approach senility. It was a family creation known as chicken spaghetti. It consisted of spaghetti or spaghettini and sometimes vermicelli baked in a casserole, layered with a tomato and cream sauce, a meat sauce, boneless chicken and two kinds of grated cheese. It was almost always served when large numbers were invited for special occasions. Subsequent to the program we received numerous requests for the recipe and discovered with some astonishment that we had somehow never had occasion to use it in a story."

Provided by Craig Claiborne

Categories     pastas, poultry, main course

Time 3h

Yield 10 to 12 servings

Number Of Ingredients 21

1 three‐and‐one‐half pound chicken with giblets
Chicken broth to cover
Salt to taste
3 cups canned tomatoes, preferably Italian peeled tomatoes
7 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/8 teaspoon grated nutmeg
Freshly ground pepper to taste
1/2 pound fresh mushrooms
2 cups finely chopped onions
1 1/2 cups finely chopped celery
1 1/2 cups chopped green pepper
1 tablespoon or more finely minced garlic
1/4 pound ground beef
1/4 pound ground pork
1 bay leaf
1/2 teaspoon hot red pepper flakes, optional
1 pound spaghetti or spaghettini
1/2 pound Cheddar cheese, grated
2 to 2 1/2 cups grated Parmesan cheese

Steps:

  • Place the chicken with neck, gizzard, heart and liver in a kettle and add chicken broth to cover and salt to taste. Bring to the boil and simmer until the chicken is tender without being dry, 35 to 45 minutes. Let cool.
  • Remove the chicken and take the meat from the bones. Shred the meat, cover and set aside. Return the skin and bones to the kettle and cook the stock down 30 minutes or longer. There should be four to six cups of broth. Strain and reserve the broth. Discard the skin and bones.
  • Meanwhile, put the tomatoes in a saucepan and cook down to half the original volume, stirring. There should be one and one‐half cups.
  • Melt three tablespoons of butter in a saucepan and add the flour, stirring to blend with a wire whisk. When blended and smooth, add one cup of the reserved hot broth and the cream, stirring rapidly with the whisk. When thickened and smooth, add the nutmeg, salt and pepper to taste. Continue cooking, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes. Set aside.
  • If the mushrooms are very small or button mushrooms, leave them whole. Otherwise, cut them in half or quarter them. Heat one tablespoon of butter in a small skillet and add the mushrooms. Cook, shaking the skillet occasionally and stirring the mushrooms until they are golden brown. Set aside.
  • Heat three tablespoons of butter in a deep skillet and add the onion. Cook, stirring, until wilted. Add the celery and green pepper and cook, stirring, about five minutes. Do not overcook. The vegetables should remain crisp‐tender.
  • Add the garlic, beef and pork and cook, stirring and chopping down with the edge of a large metal spoon to break up the meat. Cook just until the meat loses its red color. Add the bay leaf and red pepper flakes. Add the tomatoes and the white sauce made with the chicken broth. Add the mushrooms.
  • Cook the spaghetti or spaghettini in boiling salted water until it is just tender. Do not overcook. Remember that it will cook again when blended with the chicken and meat sauce. Drain the spaghetti and run under cold running water.
  • Spoon enough of the meat sauce over the bottom of a five‐ or six‐quart casserole to cover it lightly. Add about one‐third of the spaghetti. Add about one‐third of the shredded chicken, a layer of meat sauce, a layer of grated Cheddar cheese and another layer of spaghetti. Continue making layers, ending with a layer of spaghetti topped with a thin layer of meat sauce and grated Cheddar cheese.
  • Pour in up to two cups of the reserved chicken broth or enough to almost but not quite cover the top layer of spaghetti. Cover and let the spaghetti stand for four hours or longer. If the liquid is absorbed as the dish stands, add a little more chicken broth. Remember that when this dish is baked and served, the sauce will be just a bit soupy rather than thick and clinging.
  • When ready to bake, heat the oven to 350 degrees. (One of the stipulations in the original recipe for this dish is that the spaghetti including all the ingredients be combined at least four hours before baking, but it's not necessary.)
  • Place the spaghetti casserole on top of the stove and bring it just to the boil. Cover and place it in the oven. Bake 15 minutes and uncover. Bake 15 minutes longer or until the casserole is hot and bubbling throughout and starting to brown on top. Serve immediately with grated Parmesan cheese on the side.

Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 668, UnsaturatedFat 17 grams, Carbohydrate 40 grams, Fat 39 grams, Fiber 3 grams, Protein 38 grams, SaturatedFat 19 grams, Sodium 863 milligrams, Sugar 6 grams, TransFat 1 gram

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