9.1.17

Fish in a foil box/bag/thingy

Another one courtesy of Jamie Oliver. Some minor tweaks, but the original recipe can be found here.

Ingredients:

tinfoil (wider is better. You're obviously not going to eat this, but if you're like me, you'll need reminding to get some from the shops next time you're there)
1 onion
1 120-200 g fillet white fish (don't use salmon or anything similar - I tried this, and it doesn't keep the flavour as well)
100 g potatoes, peeled and diced into 1 cm pieces. If you're using new potatoes, keep the skin
1/2 bulb fennel, cut in segments, keep the frond (leaves? frilly bits that look like dill)
1/2 lemon, finely sliced
handful of cherry tomatoes, halved
olive oil
handful of pitted olives
salt and pepper to taste
white wine

Boil the potatoes until almost done. While they're boiling, preheat the oven to 200 degrees and make a sort of box out of the tin foil. Tear off a big piece and make it into a box with a lid. Put the onion, fish, fennel, lemon, tomatoes, olives, oil and salt and pepper into a biggish bowl and mix together. Once well mixed, put these into the foil box/bag, and sprinkle over the frilly bits of the fennel. Once the potatoes are done, add these to the mix, pour over some wine, then shove in the oven (carefully, of course) for about 25 min or so, until the fish is done and flaky. Add veg on the side if you so wish. 

Vegetarianish stew

"Vegetarianish" because I added some chorizo at the last minute. It's quick and lovely.

Ingredients:

2 onions, diced
3 cloves of garlic, minced
5-cm piece ginger, minced
1 chilli
1 carrot, finely diced
1 red pepper, sliced
1 400g tin chickpeas
1 400g tin kidney beans
250 g mushrooms, whole or diced
2 400g tins diced tomatoes
100 g chorizo
Spice of sorts (I used Cajun spice, but you could use anything)

Rinse lentils. Fry onions, garlic, ginger and chilli for a few minutes until soft. Add carrots and red pepper, mix in, add spice, and cook for a couple of minutes. Add chickpeas and kidney beans, stir in, and cook for a couple of minutes. Add mushrooms, stir in, and then add tomatoes and chorizo. Leave to cook for about 20 minutes or so. Enjoy.

3.1.17

Chicken Noodle Stir Fry a la Jamie Oliver

An adaptation of Jamie Oliver's chicken noodle stir fry recipe. Unfortunately, we were lacking space in terms of a wok big enough to fit everything in. Needs had to, so I changed it a bit. The result was quite good:

Ingredients:

250 g egg noodles, cooked according to instructions and kept to one side
2-3 chicken breasts, thinly sliced into 1 cm strips
5 cm ginger, chopped into thin strips
3 garlic cloves, minced
Chilli to taste, sliced thinly
2 red onions, diced
1-2 carrots, sliced thinly
1 yellow pepper, sliced
1 head broccoli, cut into small florets and with the stalk shredded as far as possible (second part optional)
Soy sauce to taste
Sriracha to taste
Coriander
Lime juice

1) Cook the noodles as instructed in a rather large pot (3-5 litres or so).
2) Season the chicken with pepper and fry in a large pan until browned, or for 3 minutes or so.
3) Add the ginger, garlic and chilli and fry for another minute or so.
4) Add the onion, carrot, pepper and broccoli and stir fry for a bit longer (3-4 minutes). Add soy sauce and sriracha to taste, then stir fry for a bit longer.
5) Add the stir fry, coriander and lime juice to the noodles and mix in. Serve warm.

Enjoy.