Coronation Chicken
07 Jul 2011 3 Comments
in Chicken Tags: Chicken, coronation chicken, curry
Serves 4-6
4-6 chicken breasts
Carrot, onion & bay leaf for seasoning
65g onion, chopped
25g butter
4 no-soak dried apricots, chopped
Large pinch of saffron
Grated rind of 1 lemon
30ml runny honey
40ml curry paste
225ml white wine
75ml mayonnaise
20ml double cream
Poach the chicken in a pan of water with the flavourings for about 20 minutes. Cool the chicken in the liquid and then drain and cut into bite sized pieces.
Meanwhile, sauté the onion in the melted butter, add the apricots, saffron, lemon rind, honey, curry paste and white wine. Simmer for about 40 minutes until it reaches the consistency of thin chutney. Cool and blend. Mix in the double cream and mayonnaise.
Fold the chicken into the sauce.
Chicken Salad
09 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment
in Chicken, Salad Tags: Chicken, chicken salad, peanut butter, Salad, sate
This is the quickest Chicken Salad ever….and very tasty!
Serves 4
4 cooked chicken breasts
2 carrots, peeled into strips
½ cucumber cut into ribbons
Mixed salad leaves
4 spring onions, shredded
6 finely sliced radishes
Fresh coriander
Sauce
5 tbs peanut butter
2tbs sweet chilli sauce
juice of 1 lime
Mix the salad ingredients together and pile onto 4 plates. Slice the chicken and arrange it on top.
Put the sauce ingredients in a bowl and mix together well. Add 2-3 tbs cold water until the sauce is runny.
Drizzle the sauce over the salad.
You can cook the chicken at the last minute and serve the salad hot or use cold chicken. This would also be good with left-over roast chicken.
Mexican Chicken
21 Oct 2009 Leave a Comment
in Chicken Tags: Chicken, Mexican, mexican chicken, tortilla
Apparently Mexican food is going to be the next food fashion so thought I’d get in there early!
Put 6 Waitrose chicken thigh fillets in a pan of cold water, brought to the boil and simmered for 15 minutes. Made a sauce with onion, garlic, peppers* and tomatoes** flavoured with paprika, chilli, cumin and a little brown sugar. Cut the cooked chicken into pieces and mixed into the sauce along with some borlotti beans and left-over cooked peas and green beans. Served wrapped in warm tortillas with shredded lettuce and yoghurt.
*see ….so many peppers
Playing hooky and Chicken Pie
24 Sep 2009 Leave a Comment
in Chicken, Out and about Tags: Chicken, chicken pie, pastry
Such a glorious Indian summer day that we decided to play hooky. Borrowed the grandson and went off to Sezincote – an amazing Indian House and gardens in the Cotswolds. Didn’t get home until half past six so quickly threw together a chicken pie…. Sautéd an onion with some chopped mushrooms and a small diced courgette, then added some shredded cooked chicken. Any excuse to use saffron so a few strands of that and a sprinkle of coriander, cumin and paprika too – very moroccan. One of my favourite ‘cheats’ is Waitrose Cook’s Ingredients coriander – comes frozen in a resealable foil pouch. A handful of that too and it smells delicious. A little chicken stock from the roast on Monday, thickened with flour, and a puff pastry top and Bob’s your uncle…in the oven by seven o’clock!
Now what to drink with it? Castillo La Paz – a great Tempranillo Syrah from Waitrose.
Sunday roast on a Monday?
22 Sep 2009 Leave a Comment
in Chicken Tags: Chicken, Nomu spices, roast chicken
Sunday roast on a Monday?
Bought a lovely plump free range corn fed chicken today. Brushed it with olive oil and rubbed NOMU poultry spices into the skin….. delicious! Cooked roast potatoes in olive oil and butter as I’ve run out of goose fat. Used the last of this year’s tiny carrots from the garden.
Went well with a bottle of Casillero del Diablo – on offer for £4.99 at the Co-op….bargain!!
