Or, more appropriately, how should I beg my mom to cook this chicken?
I have boneless chicken breast and some “Dave’s Total Insanity Gourmet Hot Sauce,” which is “Insane Heat With Genuine Flavor” that smells pretty damned good. Mouth watering good.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to tell me the best way to mate the two, in under two hours.
–Tim
Put some salt and pepper on the chicken breasts. put a tablespoon each of buter and olive oil in a skillet. Saute the chicken over medium-high heat until browned, and cooked through.
Put it on a plate and serve with the bottle of hot sauce alongside. Season to taste.
I don’t think you’d actually want to cook the chicken WITH the sauce…it’s a condiment.
And the purpose of the exercise is to sample the sauce, so you don’t want to do anything too exotic with the chicken.
That sauce is not a condiment. Its pure evil. I can handle some heat, and that’s some heat. Its pretty damned hot, but its fun to use. I would recommend tasting it first. Get a chip or a piece of bread or something and just dab it in.
[funny, true story]
A friend of mine had bought a bottle of Dave’s. He enjoys cooking, and he thought the intense heat of Dave’s was something he could use on occassion. Whilst home one Christmas break, he was talking about it with his sister and the high school boy who had been hitting on her that month. Wanting to impress, he said he’d like to sample it.
Scott comes out with the sauce and a tortilla chip. He puts a little dab of sauce on it. Wanting to be macho, the boy said he could take more, and proceeded to put about a dime sized dollop on the chip. He eats it, starts turning red, develops some beads of sweat on his forehead and then:
Runs outside, sticks his face in the snow, puts his hands on the sides of his head, and exclaims, “MY EARS! MY EARS!!!”.
[/funny, true story]
It does have a lot of flavor, though.
Manifold Chicken: Lightly drizzle the chicken with the hot sauce and then wrap the chicken in some foil. Place the foil on your cars exhaust manifold, drive for two hours and then enjoy your meal.
Yes, Total Insanity Sauce is not a condiment. My roomate was making a pot of red beans and rice and decided to put some Insanity Sauce in. He asked how much and I told him just a drop or two. Anyway, later we were eating it and it was way too hot to eat comfortably. I asked him how much he put in and he said, “Just a drop, the size of a dime.”
“The size of a dime! What are you, insane? I said just a drop!” Yup, they should really sell those things with droppers on them, but they don’t. Consequently, you have to handle those things like radioactive waste.
I would recommend you not serve the chicken with the sauce as a condiment. I would also recommend that you not drizzle the chicken with it. Anything more than a drop or two for the entire dish and you will not be tasting anything. I once slathered a piece of meatloaf with the stuff and let me just say you can simulate the experience by taking a bare wire and sticking it in your mouth.
I cooked boneless chicken breasts yesterday. I had a box of dirty rice mix, so I boiled that up for about five minutes to start the rice cooking. While that was boiling I added Insanity Sauce, some Garlic Powder, some Ancho pepper, and a lot of black pepper. I then added a can of canned chicken soup to the mix. After mixing that all, I put it in a deep pan. I added the chicken breasts to this pan. I covered the whole thing with foil with a slit for venting, and put it in the oven at 350 for 45 minutes. I ended up with four cooked chicken breasts and a rice soup mixture to pour on top. It was fairly good, but it seemed to be missing something.
Moral of the Story: I bought a bottle of the Insanity Sauce over a year ago. I put it in almost everything, and the bottle is only half gone. Be frugal, as a little goes a long way.
Crap. I’m out of olive oil, so I have to use spray canola oil (UGH!!), and I thought we only had margarine, but I found some real butter in the freezer.
I’m thawing the chicken right now. I’m going to sautee it with the butter, some garlic, pepper, and salt, and about 4 drops of Insanity sauce, cooking 2 large breasts.
I tried the sauce. Good flavor, lots of capsaicin. It seems like there is 2 layers of flavor. The sauce flavor, then the capsaicin flavor. Not a peppery flavor like more Mexican sauces. It’s not too bad. I ate about a drop, it’s kinda hot, but definately not insufferably so.
–Tim
Man that was fuckin’ good.
Thanks for the suggestion, Ike, it was great. I had to modify, because I was out of olive oil, but it was damn good anyway.
I used spray canola oil and butter. I salted and peppered the chicken, with some garlic and lemon.
I put four drops of Insanity sauce on each side of each breast, one drop at a time, throughout cooking.
It came out rather tasty, with a nice spicy nip, but nothing too sharp.
I like this sauce.
–Tim