I have just realised that there is a pattern to this Friday posts but it is not intentional :) I didn't intend it to be about a restaurant one week and then about a recipe I tried the other. That just happened.
Following this pattern it's about a recipe again this week :)
Yeah I love cooking.
This week I made chicken curry and a delicious dessert with a friend.
You might recognize the kitchen as it is the same friend :)
Both recipes are actually from Jamie Oliver but since we never tell each other what we are making till we actually start making it, I did not know that beforehand either.
He chose the main course and I did come up with a dessert.
Chicken Curry:
Ingredients: (serves 4)
6 cloves of garlic
7 cm peeled ginger
2-3 fresh red chillis (without the seeds)
1 tbsp mustard seeds
1 tbsp paprika powder
1 tbsp Garam Masala (Indian spice blend)
2 tsp ground cumin
2 tsp ground coriander seed
Olive Oil
200 g plain yoghurt
4 medium-sized chicken breasts, skinned and chopped into pieces
1 tbsp butter
2 medium-sized onions, peeled and chopped into thin slices
2 tbsp tomato purée
1 small hand full of cashew nuts (chop up small)
sea salt
100 ml cream
1 hand full of fresh coriander, chopped
juice of 2 limes
Chop up the chillis as thin as possible and mix with the finely grated ginger and garlic.
Heat up some oil in a pan and roast the mustard seed till they start bouncing then mix them with the paprika powder, ground cumin, coriander, 1/2 tbsp of Garam Masala and your chilli-ginger-garlic-mix.
Take half of your mixture and add the yoghurt (set the other half aside).
Marinate the meat in your yoghurt-spice-mixture for half an hour.
Melt the butter in a pan and sweat it with the onion slices and the other half of your chilli-ginger-garlic-mix for about 15 minutes. After that you can add the tomato purée, 1/2 liter of water and 1/2 tbsp of sea salt and let it simmer for another couple of minutes. Set aside afterwards.
Fry the marinated chicken till it's done. Take the sauce, add the cream with the rest of the Garam Masala and season it further if needed.
Your almost done now. Just add the chicken into the sauce with the fresh coriander and the lime juice and your good to go.
We decided to have it with rice but it would also be really good with naan bread. And Jamie Oliver recommends you have a cool beer with it :D Since I don't drink I had sparkling mineral water with some more lime juice which was also very good although it doesn't sound that exciting :)
Enjoy your meal.
DESSERT!!!!! As you might have guessed by now: I'm obsessed with desserts! There is nothing in this world that is better then a good dessert :)
For our dessert we had something called Banoffee sundae which was sooooooo good I don't even have words to describe it. But it takes quite some time to make, since part of what you are making is ice cream, yeah!!! It's a great summery dessert though.
Ingredients: (serves 6)
- 6 medium bananas
- 200 g full-fat Greek yoghurt
- 1 good pinch ground cinnamon
- 2-3 tablespoons honey, depending on how ripe the bananas are
- 50 g raisins
- 3 tablespoons dark rum
- 50 g good-quality dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids)
- 50 g hazelnuts
- 4 tablespoons dulce de leche
When your ice cream is done you can start with the rest. Grate the chocolate and roughly chop the hazelnuts, then toast them in a pan till they are golden.
Heat the dulche de leche in a small saucepan until it is runny and, while it warms up, slice the remaining 2 bananas.
Take your dessert glasses or whatever you wanna have the dessert in and start with a layer of your sliced banana. Top with a scoop of banana ice cream, drizzle over the runny dulche de leche and finish off with the hazelnuts and your grated chocolate.
Sadly ours did not look like Jamie's lol. If you want to have a look at the original recipe: jamieoliver.com
And the most important thing: Have fun cooking :)
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| Yes we are silly enough to make faces with cooking spoons and our food :D |
J.
