Saturday, May 7, 2011

Recipe News: Chicken Stroganoff

“Sharon Skarbek from Bend, Ore., was looking for a recipe to make Chicken Stroganoff. She had misplaced a recipe she had for the dish which came from a package of frozen chicken breast from Trader Joe’s. She said she called the market chain but was informed that they no longer had the recipe. Since I did not receive any reader responses to her query and because I know people are always interested in new and different ways to use chicken, I thought this one was worth investigating.”

Includes recipe for:

Full article here.

Friday, May 6, 2011

How do you want your Egg

The Bacon Lettuce Avocado Sandwich

Ingredients-

Serves 4

Whole wheat bread - 8 nos

lettuce - for the base

Avocado(peeled pitted and sliced)- 2 nos -

peel and cut the avocado just before you use to avoid blackning

Bacon (cooked) - 8 rashes

Butter/margerine - to spread

Toast the whole wheat bread.

apply butter or margarine on one side.

on one bread - layer up lettuce,avocado slices and bacon and cover with other slice.

The fat from the bacon and the creamyness from avocado was so ridiculously good. Definitely not for the faint of heart (literally!).

Worth. Every. Calorie.

What to Do with Leftover Beef

We sliced an enormous amount of ribeye thinking that our family was
going to devour it at the Christmas dinner. We totally overestimated
their beef eating power and are now left with about 2/3 of what we
sliced. That is A LOT OF BEEF.

So our friend had an excellent idea how to turn
the Remains(beef) into a potential.

We went grocery shopping at our favorite asian supermarket.
And we picked up some yakisoba noodles and some sweet chilly sauce
for dinner… and yes, we added sliced beef.

top: notice the home Chef"s near perfect julienne skills

middle: m.o.r.e. b.e.e.f.;

bottom: fun stir fry action shot and we added some seasoning and some sweet chilli sauce.

And the Result - We had a perfect Stir fry beef noodles for dinner.

Mmmmmmmmmmm... Yummy.

How to Save Yourself $0.25

Everybody is trying to save a buck these days… I can’t help you there, but I can help you save $0.25, maybe even $.50!

Instead of tossing out the roots of cut green onions , we leave them in a container of water (leave at least 3 inches of the root). That way, you’ll keep it fresh and alive for a lot longer. Green onion grows pretty quickly, so this can give you 1-2 extra shoots from the same root. In the summer, we plant it in the ground which pretty much gives you an endless supply of green onions. (hey wait, I think I just saved you more than a dollar!)

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Chicken Tikka Masala Pizza

Chicken Tikka Masala Pizza

Marinade Mix for the Chicken

Ingredients for the Masala

Gently Crush the Cardamom Pods

The beauty of this recipe is that all of those ingredients you see in the last 2 photos (minus the cardamom pods) are thrown into a food processor and then immediately combined with the marinated chicken into the slow cooker. That’s it folks!

This dish on it’s own is amazing. The sauce made our house smell incredible and our tastebuds oh so happy. The only thing we did different was grill the chicken separately before putting it into the dish (that’s more about us wanting it to photograph well. ha!).

To turn it into a pizza, we made our own naan as the pizza base. (For those of you on the go, you can pick up naan- we’ve seen some at Whole Foods and sometimes in the frozen section of an Asian supermarket). We rarely bake bread so this was definitely new to us. We even had to run out and borrow a rolling pin!

Yeast and Flour; Ahhh I love our standing mixer

Rise!!!!!

Dustin’ the surface

Cuttin’ the dough

Rollin’ the Dough

Grillin’ the Naan

To assemble, Jared layered Anupy’s chicken tikka masala as the sauce and protein. And in addition, he roasted thinly sliced red onions and roma tomatoes for some additional toppings texture. We took a bite out of it and we impressed even ourselves!

Drizzlin’ extra yogurt

Ingredients

2 cups of tikka masala sauce (Recipe from The Indian Slow Cooker)
1 cup of marinade for chicken (Recipe from The Indian Slow Cooker)
2 chicken breast
1/2 large red onion (cut into wedges)
2 roma tomatoes
plain yogurt
cilantro (chopped)
4 pieces of naan (recipe from the little red house)
salt

Recipe:

Marinate the chicken overnight in the fridge
Season the chicken with salt
Grill the chicken on high heat with the lid open for 3 minutes, flip the chicken and grill on low heat with the lid closed for 7 minutes.
Cut the tomatoes cross wise
Cut the red onion into thin wedges
Coat the tomatoes and onion wedges with olive oil and bake for 20 minutes in a 350 degrees oven or until caramelized
If you are using store bought naan, warm it in the oven first
To serve, ladle tikka masala sauce over the naan and spread it evenly
Add the chicken pieces, caramelized onion and roasted tomatoes
Sprinkle with chopped cilantro
Drizzle with some plain yogurt

Chicken Tikka Masala Pizza

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Posted on October 17, 2010 by eataduckimust