Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Grilled Lemon and Herb Chicken with Mash


This was a lot more complicated than what I normally cook. I grabbed an app called Jamie Oliver 20 minute recipes when it was on sale on the android market. It only works on my phone which is a pity, it would be nice to have my tablets big screen when doing this kind of thing.

This recipe required:
Chicken breast
Potatos
Tomatos
Basil
Thyme
Lemon
Sweetcorn (I used baby corn instead)
Red Wine Vinegar
Olive Oil
Butter
A Red Chilli
Shallots

You boil potatos the for about 12 minutes.
Whilst they are cooking you roughly cut up the basil and tomato, dice the shallots, deseed the chilli and finely dice it. Then add them all to a mixing bowl along with some red wine vinegar, olive oil and a bit of salt and pepper.

You then take your chicken, cover it in glad wrap and then hit it with the base of a pan until it is about 1cm thick. You score the underside of it and rub some salt and pepper into it then you grade lemon zest onto the top of the chicekn, put some olive over over the top and sprinkle thyme over the top of that.

Your 12 minutes are probably up at this time, you should add the corn to the pot with the potatoes now. Then leave that for another 3 minutes. Once that is up, move them to a collander and let em sit for a bit.

Cook your chicken, then leave it in the pan with the heat off, you are close to the end.

Put your potatoes and corn back in your pot, add some butter, salt and pepper and mash!

Now you put some mash on each plate, put chicken on top, add some lemon juice and serve with the tomato and basil mix from the bowl.

It was pretty good though I needed to go through the recipe a bit more before cooking. I think next time I might add a bit more chilli to the mix.

2 comments:

  1. This looks pretty cool. Potato *and* corn mash is interesting. And it has chicken-walloping, which sounds fun!

    And while it has, essentially, three dishes - which can be a bit intense to juggle by yourself in a kitchen - each component by itself seems like it would be fairly easy once you get the hang of it. I shall try this some time!

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    1. Yeah, it was a bit stressful, but then again none of them were very complicated individually.

      The corn substitution I did meant that basically there were slightly crunchy bits in the mash. They didn't go nearly as soft as the potatos did.

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