Gino D’Acampo serves up spicy potato salad with chicken, smoked pancetta and balsamic vinegar on This Morning.
The spicy potato salad is known as patate piccanti in Italian and is made with:
2 large potatoes, Salt, 2 tablespoons olive oil, 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed, 2 red chilli peppers, deseeded and finely chopped, 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil and 3 tablespoons chopped flat leaves parsley.
To prepare the salad, Place the potatoes, unpeeled, in a medium size saucepan and cover with water and 1 teaspoon of salt.
Bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 40 minutes or until the potatoes are cooked. When cooked remove from the heat and slice into 1 cm discs. Place in a bowl while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
Heat the olive oil in a small saucepan and add the garlic and chilli. Fry for 3 minutes or until the garlic starts to colour. Take off the heat then pour in the extra virgin olive oil. Pour over the potatoes and season with salt.
Add in the parsley and gently mix all together then transfer onto a large serving dish and serve hot or at room temperature.
The ingredients for the chicken smoked pancetta and balsamic vinegar dish are:
1 large chicken, cut into 8 pieces, 5 tablespoons olive oil, 10 slices smoked pancetta, roughly chopped, 6 garlic cloves, unpeeled and lightly crushed, 3 sprigs of thyme, 160ml white wine, 160ml chicken stock, made with stock cubes, 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar and Salt and black pepper to taste.