Dinner 4/2
From elgourmand 12 years ago
- 30 to make
- Serves 2
My daughter and I have been as busy as fleas in a fit lately so we’ve taken to less complicated meals for dinner. These vary, of course, but one of our favourites goes something like this: DIY Chicken Nuggets, lightly steamed cauliflower or broccoli and Lazy Bugger’s Pasta; with maybe a small green salad. Read more Why DYI Chicken Nuggets? Well, the frozen ones you can buy here are rubbish. Don’t know what part of the chicken they use but they have way too much skin content. Cauliflower or broccoli may not be a big deal where you live but here a small head of either (enough to make one dinner for two) will cost 5% of a labourer’s weekly wage. They don’t grow here and when flown in fresh they are dear. Let’s face it, frozen broccoli or cauliflower is a very poor substitute for the real thing. The Lazy Bugger’s Pasta gets a bit of a tweak but it’s what it is. This is all pretty “High, Wide & Handsome” & you fill in the blanks; and play around with the combos. Green beans in Balsamic vinegar for a veggie, breaded fillets of fresh Yellowfin instead of Chicken Nuggets and like that. This is summer food; less time in a hot kitchen and sorta light and easy meals. See less
Ingredients
- DIY chicken Nuggets: shopping list
- • If you can get good ones readymade do that; if not.....or maybe not. shopping list
- • 2 – 2 ½ lbs (1,000 – 1,500g) boned chicken. I buy a bunch of chicken leg quarters and bone them; removing about 2/3 of the skin as well, ± on the skin to taste; but whatever piece of chicken, turkey or ostrich you want to use is okay. shopping list
- • ¼ - ½ cup olive oil. shopping list
- • 1 cup all purpose flour shopping list
- • 1 cup corn meal shopping list
- • A pinch of basil, parsley & sage, to taste. shopping list
- • salt and fresh ground pepper to taste. shopping list
- The Rest: shopping list
- • 4 cups of fresh medium cauliflower or Broccoli florets’ shopping list
- • For the Lazy Bugger’s pasta see pasta.html">Lazy Buggers pasta shopping list
How to make it
- Chicken Nuggets:
- 1. Mix the flour & corn meal together; with whatever spices you decide to use.
- 2. Grind the boned chicken, or whatever, and whatever skin you decided to use (if any) very fine. See Photo
- 3. Mold into small patties; these should be and should stay moist.
- 4. Heat the olive oil in a heavy bottomed skillet, cast iron works really well here.
- 5. Dredge the patties in the flour/cornmeal mix.
- 6. Fry these puppies to taste and drain on some paper towels See Photo. I usually cook half of the batch until just crispy but not quite done and freeze them for a later meal. You should get about 24 nuggets out of this; so you’ll have 12 for this meal & 12 for a later Dinner 4/2.
- The rest:
- 1. I just lightly steam the Cauliflower or Broccoli with a pinch of basil and then add a bit of butter and salt + fresh ground pepper; toss lightly. See Photo
- 2. Do the Lazy Bugger’s Pasta per Lazy Buggers Pasta See Photo
- A little mustard dipping sauce is good. If you want to get spiffy try grating just a bit of Havarti cheese over the cauliflower or Broccoli. Don’t make a cheese sauce here. The cheese should be lightly done & a bit hit or miss and not take over. Any cheese you like, of course, but Havarti works very well. As mentioned earlier, a green salad goes well; as do some nice baguettes; or like that.
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