* 6 ounces dried pasta shapes in variety, such as fusilli, penne, shell, etc.
* 2 small, boneless chicken breasts
* Salt to taste
* Freshly ground pepper
* 2 tablespoons butter
* 1 tablespoon olive oil
* 1 ? cloves garlic, smashed through a garlic press
* ? large or 1 small bunch broccoli, stems and florets cut into small pieces
* ? cup chicken broth
* Juice of ? lemon
* Zest of ? lemon
* ? cup walnuts, chopped and toasted at 180? C for 2-4 minutes
* ? cup freshly grated parmesan cheese, plus extra for serving
Directions:
1. Start your pasta recipe by bringing a large pot of water to a boil and salting it generously. Cook the pasta till al dente to have pasta noodles of a perfect consistency. Drain it and put it to the pot, adding 1 ? tablespoons of butter on top.
2. Half way through cooking the pasta, start patting the chicken dry with a clean kitchen towel for the pasta recipe.
3. Season the chicken on all sides with salt and pepper. In a very large pan, put the olive oil and remaining ? tablespoon of butter and keep over a medium flame. Cook until completely melted and foamy and then add the chicken. Saut? brown and cooked through for the pasta recipe. Cook the chicken over a low flame to avoid burning it.
5. Keeping the flame low, add the garlic to the same pan that you cooked the chicken in. Keep stirring for a little while till the garlic is fragrant but not brown.
6. Add the broccoli, the broth and salt to taste for the sauce of the pasta recipe. Keep stirring to dissolve the browned bits on the bottom of the pan.
7. Cover the pan and turn the flame to medium. Keep cooking until the broccoli is just tender but not overcooked.
8. Add the chicken to the pan as well as lemon juice, zest, walnuts and the buttered pasta. Stir thoroughly to mix the pasta recipe completely.
9. The pasta recipe should be full of flavour and have a lemony zing. Add more seasoning according to your taste.
10. Add the parmesan cheese to the pasta recipe just before serving.
11. Your pasta recipe is ready to be enjoyed by all!
Rajiv Tiwari is an out and out gourmet whose love of food has made him travel to all top food destinations. In this bouquet of articles Rajiv discusses some quick tips on food recipes, and shows us how you can make people enchanted with lipsmacking food recipes. dried pasta, pasta noodlesThere are many ways that can make cooking dinner recipes fun, quick, healthy and easy. One must consider it as a time to be involved with the family and kids. There are a number of recipes that even kids can contribute with. These recipes can help you strike a chord between fun, cooking, health and taste. Get the kids involved in helping prepare the meal. They can do things like washing and tearing up vegetables and measuring out ingredients. One must add proper dash of fruits and vegetables to the dinner meals. Vegetables and fruits are often regarded as one of the healthiest ingredients while preparing a dinner meals.
These fruits and vegetables are easy on stomach and easily digestible. It also helps in providing a sweet and tangy punch to the meal. Try to chop the essential fruits and vegetables days prior to store it in the fridge. You can store them in containers in fridge and use them as per your needs. This would work wonders for the working class people that cook dinner after reaching home drenched in tiredness. Let us discuss a not so time consuming dinner recipe which is tasty and healthy alike. You can involve the kids too in preparation of it.
Lemon Poached Chicken & Potato Salad
Ingredients
Method
Place chicken in a large, deep frying pan with lemon rind. Cover with cold water. Bring to the boil over medium heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 12 minutes. Remove chicken from pan. Cool slightly. Slice across the grain.
Meanwhile, cook potatoes in a large saucepan of boiling water for 15 to 20 minutes or until tender. Using tongs, transfer to a chopping board. Stand for 10 minutes or until still warm but cool enough to handle. Peel potatoes and cut into chunks. Place in a large bowl.
Using a fork, whisk oil, 1/4 cup lemon juice and salt and pepper in a jug. Drizzle three-quarters of the dressing over potato. Stir gently to coat.
Place beans and asparagus in a heatproof bowl. Cover with boiling water. Stand for 3 minutes. Drain. Add to potato with chicken, dill and chives. Drizzle with remaining dressing. Toss gently to combine. Season with pepper. Serve.
Hint: Use a potato peeler to remove the rind from a lemon, avoiding the white pith which can make the poaching liquid taste bitter.
This recipe would take 20 mins for preparation & 30 mins to cook.
There are many websites and video channels online that provide many such healthy dinner recipes and cooking tips. India Food Network is one such website which you can refer to learn these easy to cook instant healthy recipes. It also provides many nutritional tips and ingredients list for cooking fanatics. Visit the India Food Network website for more information.
Processing ...The goal of these websites is to offer you the choicest recipes for Chinese & Mandarin food that you can cook and feast on from your own home instantly. These portals share a number of favorite Chinese food recipes with the masses so that one can experience the goodness of these mouthwatering delicacies whenever you desire without any hassles. Authentic Chinese food is not the same Chinese food which is available at your local Chinese eatery or takeaway restaurant. Authentic Chinese food is territorial, provincial, region specific whose specialty belongs to a certain section of the country. Hunan cuisine is one such unique cuisine which is a specialty and has originated from one of the food specific sector of China - The Hunan province.
Unique specialty and exclusivity of Hunan cooking is the type of avant garde use of chillies. Dishes are often made using heaps of fresh chillies, complete with seeds, so if you're feasting on Hunan cookery for the first time, be sure to have plenty of yoghurt or ample loafs of bread to minimize the heat or you may find that beer is more delectable and identically efficient. If you are trying the Hunan cuisine for the first time, you will need paper handkerchiefs to mop up the tears of chilly heat as well as tears of delight. Hunan cuisine is acclaimed for its exotic use of chili peppers, garlic and shallots, and for the utility of sauces to accent the fiery yet incomparable flavors in the platter of an authentic Hunan cuisine. Hunan dishes are often hit with the masses for its use of contrasts of flavors.
It is quite common if the Hunan dish you order or prepare is a blend of many flavors like - hot and sour, sweet and sour, sweet and hot - pungent, spicy, tangy and sweet all at once. Hunan cooking experts are acclaimed for their dexterity to create a unique blend of different spices & herbs with their ingredients. An apt example for a perfect spicy Hunan cuisine would be Hunan spicy beef with vegetables. It is a cuisine that is very famous and almost a kind of staple cuisine in the Hunan province. The uniqueness of this dish is that the beef is first immersed overnight in a citrus and ginger marinade, and then the marinated beef is washed and rubbed with chili paste before being mixed in a unique tasting brown sauce. The end result is a meat that is immensely tender which will melt on the tongue and it keeps changing its flavor to almost a new one even when you are chewing on it. Let us discuss a Hunan recipe which is sure entertain your spicy and tangy taste buds.
Hunan Province is the home of the sweet and sour sauce.
* 3 large chicken breasts, boned and skinned, cut in half
* 1/4 cup flour
* 1 egg
* 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
* 2 tablespoons cornstarch
* 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon soy sauce
Mix flour, egg, baking soda, cornstarch, oil, salt and soy sauce. Dip chicken into batter and fry until golden. Drain. Cut chicken crosswise into 1/2-inch slices. Arrange on a heated platter. Keep warm. Pour Lemon Sauce over and garnish with lemon slices.
Lemon Sauce:
* 1/2 cup water
* 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
* 1/4 cup lemon juice
* 1/4 cup honey
* 1 tablespoon catsup
* 1/2 teaspoon chicken bouillon
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 clove garlic, minced
* 1 tablespoon cornstarch
* 1 tablespoon cold water
Heat water, lemon zest, lemon juice, honey, catsup, chicken bouillon, salt and garlic to boiling. Mix cornstarch and water and stir in. Cook and stir for 30 seconds or until thickened. Serve hot.
India Food Network is a website that provides a number of recipes online. It is home to recipes of many types of cuisines like Continental, Chinese, Indian & Italian cuisines. You can enjoy a large number of recipes available on the web at the ease of a single click. Don't miss out on these exotic recipes and encourage the chef in you right away.
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