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Wrights Chicken Farm Chicken Recipe: A Crowd-Pleasing Dish with Minimal Effort



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Wrights Chicken Farm Chicken Recipe



OR, you can forget that tip and try to move a baker-sheet containing a whole chicken & 1/2 a gallon of liquid across the room to the oven and accidentally dump gross, raw, chicken-flavored water all over your kitchen floor. Ugh.


No, it's just another Saturday night at Wright's Farm Restaurant, the largest restaurant in the smallest state, and the reputed king of northern Rhode Island's signature meal, the "family-style chicken dinner."


At least a dozen restaurants in Greater Woonsocket serve this staple, at incredibly low prices. With few, and slight, variations, it consists of baked chicken, pasta with red sauce, French fries, rolls, and salad, with unlimited refills on everything.


Wright's Farm was not the first to offer family-style chicken dinners (that distinction goes to the Bocce Club), but it is certainly the biggest purveyor and the restaurant that has hewed mostly closely to the tradition of all chicken, all the time, while others have expanded their menus to match any full-service eatery.


The secret to moist, falling-off-the-bone chicken, all the restaurateurs said, is slow cooking. Frank Galleshaw, Wright's Farm's owner, said each 2 1/2- to 3-pound chicken takes up to three hours to cook. The chickens are baked whole, then cut up to serve.


If you're into statistics, Wright's Farm has them. The restaurant can seat 1,400 people. It serves some 12,000 chicken dinners ($10.25) weekly over four days, tearing through 14,000 pounds of Perdue chicken and 11,000 pounds of potatoes, said Galleshaw, whose family has run the restaurant since 1972. Reluctantly, Wright's offers one other entree -- steak (minus the all-you-can-eat option) -- but Galleshaw said those orders account for less than 1 percent of the total business.


We thought the chicken at Wright's was the best of those we tasted, and we loved the fresh rolls. But the atmosphere was definitely institutional. Dining rooms were incredibly noisy, and rolling busing crews clearing tables added to the din.


Rachel and David Narodowy have owned the restaurant for 30 years, and most of their seven children work there. One makes the light, unglazed cinnamon rolls for which the Village Haven is famous. Though the restaurant offers a full menu, about 80 percent of customers order chicken family style, Rachel Narodowy said.


The Bocce Club in Woonsocket is where it all began. The story goes that sometime in the 1920s the Pavonis first served family-style chicken dinners to friends after playing bocce at their home at 226 St. Louis Ave. A stepdaughter, Mary Tavernier, later opened a small dining room called the Bocce Club in the cellar of the family home. The Taverniers ran the ever-expanding restaurant until eight years ago, when Jose L. Gaspar bought it.


Gaspar said he still uses the Taverniers' original rotisserie ovens and family recipes for salad dressing and tomato sauce. The restaurant sells up to 1,000 chicken dinners a week, depending in large part on how many functions are going on. Its menu features Italian and Portuguese specialties, but most customers still choose family-style chicken ($7.95). This version substitutes antipasto for the green salad (or you can choose soup) and adds roasted potatoes to the pasta and fries for a carb-loading trifecta.


In the 1940s, a Woonsocket policeman opened a bar and small restaurant next to his home on Havelock Street, about a half-mile from the Bocce Club. When one of the regulars shared his recipe for baked chicken, the Embassy Restaurant was born. Room by room, the building was enlarged over the years, so that today it looks a bit like the house that Jack built.


About half the customers order family-style chicken ($8.99) from the large menu, said Douglas Harvey, who has owned the restaurant for 16 years. We especially liked the meat sauce on imported penne, which Harvey said is still made according to the original owner's recipe.


A few years back when I was pregnant with my daughter, I had food cravings like most pregnant woman do. One of my cravings was for Willow Tree chicken salad. Almost every day for lunch, I went to a little sandwich shop about a block away from my office, and I would get the exact same thing to eat: a Willow Tree chicken salad sandwich (and this sandwich shop specifically stated it was Willow Tree for good reason!) on sourdough bread, milk, and a piece of fruit.


Willow Tree Farm is a New England-area food company and poultry farm based out of Attleboro, Massachusetts, famous for their deli chicken salad and chicken pot pies. According to the Willow Tree website, they credit their chicken salad as one of the reasons the company has flourished over the years, and their products are also sold at grocery chains all along the East Coast of the United States.


Thank you for this recipe. I saw it on Pinterest and made it tonight for dinner with some chicken noodle soup. The chicken salad us delish! I used 2 cans of chicken breast in water and it worked great.


The recipes for these family favorites are what started the bakery at Wright's Dairy Farm. Known as Claire's Classics, these original treats were created to sell alongside the milk in the family's first farm store.


"The most important part of the Wright's Farm Restaurant story remains our fabulous dinners served family-style. The secret lies in our insistence on freshness and our commitment to consistency. Dinner begins with rolls made daily in our own bakery served along with crisp, fresh salad topped with Wright's Farm Classic Italian Dressing. These are followed by family-size portions of shell macaroni, truly unique French fries and our famous chicken. The macaroni is served with Italian sauce made from our own recipe."


"Our French Fries are so good that they alone are a reason to visit Wright's Farm Restaurant. Made from fresh, never frozen, specially selected potatoes grown in sweet soil, they offer a taste and consistency that can be found no where else. The main entree, Wright's Farm Restaurant chicken, is not only cooked to a succulent, tender perfection but we start out with the highest quality birds, delivered fresh from our grower, and inspected seven times to ensure quality and consistency."


Chicken breast is delicious, tender and dietary meat. An excellent combination of chicken, vegetables and sour cream. It turns out to be a spectacular and appetizing dish. Cook such a wonderful dish as chicken breast in a slow cooker and your family will love it! Even an inexperienced cook can put all the ingredients into it and choose the desired mode.


Dollop on the cream of chicken soup and pour the wine in and around the slow cooker. Sprinkle on the basil. Lay the chicken breasts on top. Drizzle with the remaining olive oil. Sprinkle on the salt and pepper. 2ff7e9595c


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