I love chicken. Fried, steamed, roasted,
barbecued – as long as it’s chicken, I’ll eat it. Not all chicken dishes are
created alike, though. As much as I love any possible way one can cook chicken,
there are some that are just at the top of my favorites list. One of my all time
favorite chicken dishes has to be Bigoli’s Italian Chicken. I love it so much
that whenever I’m in Trinoma, I literally always eat at Bigoli just
because of their chicken.
Aside from the obvious fact that it’s just
so darn delicious, one of the reasons why I love it is because I can’t quite
put a finger on how it’s cooked. I’m not even sure of what ingredients are used
(and I’m someone who can easily dissect a dish’s anatomy and flavors). It will
always be a mystery to me how they manage to keep the chicken meat so juicy and
tender, but the sauce-drenched skin so crispy. Yes, the skin is sauce-drenched
but it’s crispy. The textures are just so perfectly
balanced. The meat on its own is flavorful and well-seasoned, but then you have
this sauce (I think it’s tomato based) that’s tangy, salty, and a bit spicy
all at the same time. That description doesn’t even give the sauce justice but
I just don’t know how to describe it. It’s just so damn good!
You have the option of having your chicken
with Italian Rice or pasta (red, white or pesto). If you know me, you know pesto
has to be my favorite kind of pasta sauce. Bigoli’s pesto is just as good as
their chicken that I always have my chicken with their pesto. The pasta is al dente, and it's not too oily. And as if that’s not
good enough, aside from their generous serving, all their pasta dishes come
with unlimited bread sticks which should come as no surprise, are actually also
delicious. I assure you, there’s a reason why this has become one of my
all time favorite dishes.
