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Showing posts with label moist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moist. Show all posts

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Crispy chicken goujons


These moist chicken goujons are full of flavour and have a golden, crisp crumb - perfect for whipping up a quick, delicious meal. Making chicken goujons from scratch isn't as time-consuming or as tricky as you may think, and they taste far better than shop-bought goujons. The other good thing is that they taste just as delicious cold, for lunch the following day!
Makes 8 goujons
- 8 good quality mini chicken fillets
- handful of plain flour
- seasoning
- 1 egg, beaten
- 2 slices of wholemeal seeded bread
- handful of freshly chopped parsley
- olive oil

1. Take 3 shallow bowls and fill one with flour - season well.
2. Fill another with the beaten egg.
3. In a food processor, blitz the slices of bread until crumbed, then mix with seasoning, and the chopped parsley, and add to the third bowl.
4. Take a chicken fillet and first, dip in the bowl of flour, coating the chicken (this helps the egg to stick).
5. Next, dip and coat in the beaten egg, then into the breadcrumbs until fully coated.
6. Set aside, and continue this process with the rest of the fillets.
7. In a large pan, heat some olive oil, then fry the chicken goujons, turning when one side is crisp and golden.
8. Cook for about 20 minutes on a medium-high heat to ensure the chicken is cooked through, and to get the breadcrumbs perfectly crunchy.

Enjoy :)

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Lemon and parsley salmon

(Completely forgot to take a picture once cooked!)
This is a simple dressing/marinade for salmon that is guaranteed to produce wonderful flavours and moist fish. It's buttery and it's tangy mm mm. Perfect served with new potatoes also tossed in a buttery, lemon and parsley sauce.

- salmon fillet
- few knobs of butter
- handful of fresh parsley, chopped
- fresh lemon

1. Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 4 / 180 degrees.
2. Simply place the salmon on foil, dot with the butter, sprinkle on the parsley, and squeeze over the lemon.
3. Wrap in the foil, place on a tray, and bake in the oven for around 20 minutes.

Enjoy :)


Thursday, 31 May 2012

Italian stuffed chicken breast with potato wedges

There isn't really much else to say that this photo doesn't already show - delicious Italian flavours, moist chicken breast, and soft flavoursome wedges with crisp skins. Mmmmm. Home-made potato wedges are far nicer than you could ever find in the freezer section at the supermarket, try for yourself! I served this with broccoli as well.

Serves 2
- 2 large chicken breasts
- buffalo mozzarella, sliced (about 3/4 of a ball)
- cherry tomatoes, sliced
- fresh basil, torn
- 1 onion, quartered
- olive oil
- 2 baking potatoes
- paprika
- salt
- dried mixed herbs

1. For the wedges, slice the potatoes into wedge shapes (half them, then half that, then half it again etc). In a deep sided baking tray, drizzle a generous amount of olive oil, then rub the wedges in the oil and lace in the tray. Sprinkle generously with the salt, paprika and mixed herbs. Bake in the oven for around 45 minutes - an hour at 180 degrees.
2. For the stuffed chicken, slice the breasts lengthways without cutting them completely in half. Place the mozzarella, tomatoes and basil in each one and gently close. (At this stage you could use cocktail sticks or wrap with bacon/proscuitto to secure the filling in place.) Place on a baking tray with the onion, drizzle with olive oil, and sprinkle mixed herbs on top of the chicken. Cook in the oven at 180 degrees for 20 minutes, covered with foil, and an extra 5 minutes uncovered.

Enjoy :)