Chicken Broccoli Pasta

No story today. Just recipes.

Ingredients

5x chicken breast fillets

100g margarine

1 ½ tbs soya sauce

2t Cajun spice

1t coriander

½ t all spice

2 onions, sliced lengthwise

½ - 1 cup cream

lemon zest

1 broccoli head

Method

1. Melt the margarine in the frying pan. Add the chicken fillets and fry for a couple of minutes.

2. Add the soya sauce, Cajun spice, coriander and all spice, and fry for another couple of minutes.

3. Put the pot for the pasta on with some salt, and let it cook. Then add the pasta and cook till soft, but firm. Add some margarine and mix through. Set aside.

4. When the fillets are just cooked through, take it out of the frying pan and make it fine in a blender.

5. Put the onion in the chicken’s sauce in the frying pan and fry the onion till soft.

6. Add the chicken to the onion, along with the cream and lemon zest.

7. Cook the broccoli head in a little water in a pot, with a little salt, till just soft, but still stiff.

8. Remove the broccoli from the pot and dunk it in in ice water to stop the cooking process.

9. Break the broccoli into little trees and add to the chicken in the frying pan.

10. Mix the pasta and the chicken and dish up.

Garnish with extra lemon zest, and some chilli for a little bite. And enjoy!

Yours in oil and veggies

Risch

Chicken Hamburger

Friday nights are usually “take-out” nights. But not necessarily by buying junk food, by making it at home. For some reason, junk food made at home is much tastier, and much more filling than the junk food you buy.

There is no recipe for making a hamburger, though. Personally, I don’t like tomato sauce or hot-dog mustard sauce, so I try my best to avoid it all times. I prefer mayonnaise, chutney and decent mustard like Dijon or Hot English Mustard.

In making a chicken hamburger, tomato sauce and hot-dog mustards are very much off limits. Dead zone. Don’t even take it out of the cupboard. You use a white sauce, made with mayonnaise, smooth cottage cheese and a little Dijon mustard.

You also need to have lettuce, tomatoes, onion, buns (obviously, we like the hard crusted ones for burgers) and chicken patties. I prefer to buy the chicken fillets, not the chicken patties. I find it tastier and more… authentic. O, and cheese. Always, cheese.

Lucky for me, this is my blog with all my opinions, feel free to disagree and make your hamburger your OWN!!

Ingredients:

Lettuce

Tomatoes

Onion

Buns

Chicken Fillets or Patties

Mayonnaise

Smooth Cottage Cheese

Dijon Mustard

Cheddar cheese, grated

Method:

Spread the buns with margarine/butter. 

 Mix 2tbs mayonnaise, 1tbs smooth cottage cheese and ½t Dijon mustard. (Make more depending on how many burgers, and feel free to tweak the proportions to your taste!) Spread one half of the bread generously with the sauce. Add tomato and sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. 

Add the onion and the lettuce. Fry the patties in oil or bake in the oven, as per package instructions. Add to the bun. Add cheese to your liking.

Serve with onion rings.

And enjoy!!!

Yours in oil and veggies

Risch