For a delightful and delicious chicken meal, combining curry and sweet and sticky... this is heavenly!!
Preparation Time: 15min
Cooking Time: +- 2hours
Difficulty Level: Easy
Serves: 6
Ingredients
12 drumsticks (2 per person)
2tbs olive oil
2tbs soya sauce
4tbs chutney
pinch nutmeg
1/2t strong curry powder
1/2t mild curry powder
1/2t fennel seeds
Method
Put the drumsticks with the olive oil and soya sauce in a pot. A cast iron pot works beautifully.
Cook on medium heat for 30min.
Add the chutney, nutmeg, curry powders and fennel, mix through. Cook over slow heat for 30min.
Turn off the heat.
If you can, let it rest for another 30minutes before heating and dishing up.
Serve with soft, buttery, creamy mash...
And enjoy!
Yours in oil and veggies
Risch
You cannot make samosas without a filling. Basically you get chicken, mince, potato and cheese fillings for samosas. And samosas are associated with hot curry, too. However, you can make any filling you want for your samosas - so have some fun!!
This is my version of the mince samosa. It is very rich, and needs to be eaten warm. Samosas can be made a whole meal or be enjoyed for lunch. It is also a great on the road snack, for school, and can be frozen successfully.
Preparation time for the dough: 1 hour
Preparation time for the filling: 30 minutes
Serves: +- 48 units
Difficulty level: Medium - for the dough
Ingredients for the filling
700g mince
2tbs oil
1 onion, chopped
1tbs balsamic vinegar
2tbs soya sauce
4tbs chutney
2tbs spice for mince
1tbs parsley
1/4t ginger
1t fennel
1/4t hot curry powder
1tbs salt (or to taste)
1/4t black pepper
Method
Heat the oil in a frying pan. Add the onion and fry until starting to brown. Add the mince and fry until starting to brown.
Add all the other ingredients, mix well and cook until the mince is completely cooked.
Turn the heat down and let it simmer for about 10min, check constantly that it doesn't burn. The mince should be nicely browned and loosened. Once the mince is done, it has to cool down completely before filling your samosa cones.
What works well, is to make the mince before you even start with the samosa pastry. The longer the mince rests, the better the flavours develop, too.
Make your samosas as described in the Samosa Pastry recipe. (This picture just shows the Cheese Filling)
Fry in hot oil until nicely browned.
Scoop out of the oil onto kitchen towels to drain the excess oil.
Serve with a salad, or some fresh cream cheese &sweet chillie sauce...
And enjoy!!
Yours in oil and veggies
Risch
So, Thursdays are chicken or fish days, and since last week was fish, this week is chicken!! I am running very low on supplies in my kitchen, and I can only do grocery shopping next week. The added hurdle is that our income is also drastically reduced, so smart and inventive cooking will need to be taken another level.
The one very big advantage of having less money, is of course, the fact that there is less to eat, less temptation and if you're trying to lose some weight, it is actually perfect!!
Preparation time: 2 minutes
Cooking time: +- 40 minutes
Difficulty level: Extremely Easy
Serves: 5
Ingredients
1 piece of chicken for every person eating (we are 5, so we work on 5)
1tbs balsamic vinegar
3tbs soya sauce
4tbs chutney
ground black pepper
water
Method
Place the chicken pieces in a pot. I used an ovenproof cast iron pot. (I just love these cast iron pots, they add another level to the flavour for some reason, it could be all in my head, too!) I used frozen chicken pieces. Add water. Start off with enough to cover the pieces to half way. Cook for about 20 minutes. Turn the pieces over every once in a while. Add the balsamic vinegar, soya, chutney and pepper.
If the water is getting low, add some more. The more water you add, the more sauce you will have. Don't add too much water at the end of the cooking, it dilutes the sauce and you lose some of the flavour. Rather add it now. Cook for another 20 minutes or so, turning over the chicken every now and then. The sauce will be a rich brown colour and the flavour out of this world.
I served it with some grilled veggies and brown rice.
Who knew you can make wonderfully tasty chicken with 5 ingredients?
Yours in oil and veggies
Risch
Just another simple every day meal for today. Tuesdays are meat-nights. Have to be meat: stew, steak or tjops. And decentt veggies goes well with decent meat.
Tenderised steak: I marinated it in a sauce made up of: soya sauce, balsamic vinegar, soda water, red wine and chutney. It did not come out softer than without marinating, so I am not impressed. And I used too much balsamic vinegar. That is really strong stuff, remember: start with rather too little, and add, than too much. Fried it in a pan on the stove.
Broccolli: Cooked it until very soft. Added salt & Pepper. Added margarine to the last bit of water and cooked through. Added grated cheddar cheese and mixed and mashed. The cheese disappears, but you taste it.
Apple: Sliced the apple. Sifted icing sugar to cover the bottom of a dish. Arranged the apple on top in a layer, icing sugar, apple, icing sugar, cinnamon, added butter pieces all over and baked in oven 140degrees C until soft. Scooped some cream cheese over.
This meal is free of all your "white refined carbs", and except for the sugar over the apple, should fit nicely into a low carb diet.
Yours in oil and veggies
Risch
