Category Archives: Chicken

Braised Chicken with white beans

Chicken, Main Courses

For Two People

  • 1tbsp olive oil
  • 4 skinless boneless chicken thighs
  • 2 rashers back bacon diced
  • 1 clove garlic chopped
  • 1 onion chopped
  • 1 carrot diced
  • 1 teasp dried thyme
  • 300ml white wine
  • 150ml chicken stock
  • 400gm tin cannellini beans rinsed and drained
  • chopped parsley

Heat the oil in a wide pan with a lid and brown the chicken all over. Add the onion,carrot, garlic,thyme and bacon and continue to fry for two minutes. Pour in the wine and stock and season with salt and pepper. bring to a boil and simmer for 15 mins uncovered. Cover and continue to simmer for a further ten minutes. Stir the beans into the pan and warm through. scatter with the chopped parsley and serve.

I usually serve with a green veg.

Elizabeth’s Italian chicken

Chicken, Main Courses

  • For four
  • 125g Mozzarella Ball cut into 8 thin slices
  • 4 Chicken Breasts flattened with rolling pin between cling film
  • Handful Shredded fresh Basil leaves
  • 500g Fresh Pasta Sauce
  • 4 Slices Parma Ham

Pour Pasta Sauce in 8 x 12″ ovenware dish and add Basil leaves on top of sauce.
Season (salt and pepper) each Chicken Breast and fry in Virgin Oil until golden brown on both sides 3-4 mins. Add the chicken on top of Basil leaves and cover each escalope with a slice of Parma Ham then 2 slices of Cheese and 2 Basil leaves .
Assemble and cook in oven 180C for 30 mins.
Serve with Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes and green vegetables.
Tip. Brush the Basil leaves with a little oil, helps them not to dry while cooking.

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Chicken Crisp

Chicken, Family Favourites, Main Courses
  • 1 chicken breast per person
  • butter
  • garlic
  • plain crisps

Crush the crisps as finely a possible-I do it by bashing the packet with a rolling pin! Melt the butter and add the crushed garlic.
Dip the chicken in the garlic butter and then in the crushed crisps.
Put on a baking tray in oven Fan 180 for half an hour.

Quantities are a bit loose but do what seems right to you.

Spicy Turkey Lettuce Wraps

Chicken, Hot & Spicy, Main Courses, Starters

  • For four as a main course or eight as a starter
  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 4 garlic cloves chopped
  • 2 teasp grated fresh ginger
  • 2 chillies one finely chopped and one finely sliced
  • 500gm chicken or turkey mince
  • finely grated zest of one lime
  • juice of half a lime
  • 3 tbsp thai fish sauce
  • 1 tbsp oyster sauce
  • 1 tbsp kechap manis
  • 1 tbsp soft brown sugar (or any sugar)
  • 200ml chicken stock
  • 25gm thai basil(v important-not ordinary basil) Chinese supermarcket usually has this,especially at weekends
  • 2tbsps salted peanuts chopped
  • 4 spring onions finely sliced into long strips
  • 2 little gem lettuces, separeted into leaves to serve

Heat the oil in a large deep frrying pan
Stir fry the chopped chilli, garlic and ginger for a minute
Add the mince and continue to cook for five minutes until cooked through. Stir in the lime zest,juice,fish and oyster sauces,ketchap manis,sugar and stock. Simmer for another two to three minutes.
Add the basil and spring onions and give another quick stir.
Spoon the mixture into lettuce leaves and garnish with finely sliced chilli

Grannie’s Stuffing

Chicken, Family Favourites, Pork, Side Dishes

  • 1 cup oatmeal (not porridge oats)
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 4 oz sausage meat (pork)
  • 2 oz bacon, smoked streaky, chopped
  • 2 tablespoons chicken stock
  • Extra bacon needed to cover when cooking if not being cooked in the bird.

Cook (fry off) sausage, onion and bacon in a skillet breaking up the sausage. When cooked, add the oatmeal and stir in the stock. That’s it.
Either put in a bird (best) or heat up in an oven-proof dish with a few strips of bacon on top. Say half an hour at medium oven.