Showing posts with label Chicken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicken. Show all posts

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Stuffed Chicken - Feta, Spinach, & Sundried Tomato

Ingredients
4 Chicken Breasts
1 Cup Bread Crumbs
1 Cup Fresh Spinach
1/2 Cup Sundried Tomatoes (chopped)
1/2 Cup Feta Cheese
Salt
Pepper

To prepare
Pound chicken breasts with mallet or rolling pin, to the thickness of 1/4 inch.

Place bread crumbs in a shallow bowl or plate and season with salt and pepper to taste.

Dredge chicken in bread crumbs. Place small handful of spinach, 1 tsp of sundried tomato, and 1 tsp of feta in the middle of the chicken breast. Roll.

Place prepared chicken breast in a casserole dish (lined with parchment paper or greased).

Bake at 400 degrees for 2o min, then broil for 5 min to create a golden brown crust.

Allow chicken to rest for 5 min before serving.

Serves 4

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Galinhada (Chickenzada)

Galinhada is a famous brazilian recipe that mixes chicken and rice. It's really easy to prepare, cheap and very tasteful. The recipe below is recommended for 6 people.

Ingridients:
- 1 1/2 cup of oil
- 3 tbsp of minced garlic
- Chicken thighs or drumsticks (or both), without skin (peel it if necessary)
- 1 onion (chopped in little pieces)
- 2 tomatoes
- 1 cup of chopped parsley
- 2 chicken flavor bouillon cubes (Maggi or Knorr)
- 3 cups of rice
- 2 quarts of water
- 1/2 lemon (the juice)
- 1 grated carrot

How to prepare:
1. Heat the oil in a big pan
2. Fry the minced garlic until it becomes golden
3. Put the chicken pieces and let it fry until it reaches a caramel color (stir if needed). Use salt at this point.
4. Mix the chopped onion, the tomato, the parsley and the chicken falvor builoon cubes. Mix everything and let it stand for 10 minutes.
5. Mix the rice, the lemon juice and the water.
6. When the rice is beginning to dry, add the grated carrot and mix.
7. Turn off when you notice that the rice reached a moistured paste consistency and that there still few water.
8.Let it stand for 10 minutes before serving. It's important that the rice remains moistured.