Sunday, May 22, 2011




I made a Croquenbouche from the masterchef recipe last night. I halved the recipe, only used 6 eggs and bought the custard from Woolworths cause there's only so much time in a day.

Chicken Strogranoff

INGREDIENTS
1 diced onion
500g sliced mushrooms
1kg diced chicken
1 cup flour
salt n pepper
paprika
3 tablespoons of tomato paste
1 tin diced tomatoes
500ml chicken stock
1 glass white wine
20g butter
1/2 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons sour cream
1 bag of baby spinach

METHOD
Cook the onion and mushroom with the butter in a pan on high heat. Toss the chicken in a bag with the flour seasoned with salt, pepper and paprika - adjust spices to suit your tastes. Add olive oil to the pan and add the chicken. Cook well. Add the wine and tomato paste. You can add an extra tablespoon of paprika at this stage if you want more. Add the baby spinach and cook until the spinach wilts. Add 1 tin of diced tomatoes. Pour in the chicken stock and simmer. Deglaze the pan as you stir on simmer. Add sour cream, stir, and serve on rice or pasta.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Chicken Pie


Shred sweet potato, pumpkin and potato. Cook in a small amount of butter till tender but not mushy and set aside. In the same pan brown some diced chicken. Make a white sauce from butter, 1 TBS dijon mustard, 2 TBS white wine, milk and 2TBS pl flour. Add some crumbled mersey valley tasty cheese and whisk. Combine all and cook in puff pastry. Twas delish.