Hi Everyone!

Well another super easy dish this week that won’t break the budget.  It’s from the Italian section of Delicious – Love To Eat so as you can imagine it is packed full of flavour.  Loads of garlic, passata, herbs, capsicum and chilli make for a fabulous one-pot dinner. The recipe suggests serving it with polenta, however, I chose to serve it with a beautiful creamy mash. So given that the cooking of this is easy and there is really not anything I can tell you other than just cook it, you won’t regret it, I wanted to share an idea I had for this dish after I’d consumed it with the family.

Roman Chicken with Creamy Mash

Chicken thigh fillets are browned in a large pot, then set aside while garlic, red capsicum and a sliced long red chilli soften. Everything goes back in with bottled passata, dried oregano and thyme, and simmers gently until the chicken is tender and the sauce has thickened. Meanwhile potatoes are boiled and mashed with butter and milk until creamy, ready to soak it all up. It is an easy, one-pot Italian dinner that suits a weeknight. The chicken can also be shredded, returned to the sauce and tossed through al dente spaghetti if you would rather serve it as pasta.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 35 minutes mins

Servings: 4

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Italian

Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients

  

• 8 chicken thigh fillets
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 4 cloves garlic chopped
• 1 red capsicum sliced
• 1 long red chilli sliced
• 700 g bottled passata
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• 1 tsp dried thyme
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 kg potatoes peeled and chopped
• 50 g butter
• 1/3 cup milk or cream for the mash

Equipment

• Large pot
• Saucepan (for boiling potatoes)

Method

 

1. Heat oil in a large pot and brown chicken thighs on both sides. Remove and set aside.
2. Add garlic, capsicum and chilli to the pot and cook for 2–3 minutes.
3. Return chicken to the pot, add passata, oregano and thyme, and season. Cover and simmer for 25–30 minutes until chicken is tender.
4. Meanwhile, boil potatoes until soft, drain, and mash with butter and milk until creamy.
5. Serve chicken and sauce over the mash.

Notes

Rated 9/10. Variation: shred cooked chicken, return to sauce, mix with cooked al dente spaghetti and serve as "Roman Chicken (Spaghetti)" instead of with mash or polenta.

Source: Delicious - Love To Eat

Mango & Coconut Slice

A set-and-forget dessert that firms up overnight in the fridge. The base is rolled oats, desiccated coconut, honey and melted butter, pressed into a lined tin and baked briefly until golden, then cooled completely. Slices of ripe mango are arranged over the top and covered with a coconut milk mixture sweetened with caster sugar and set with gelatine. Left overnight, it firms into neat slices that cut cleanly. The flavour is mild and not overly sweet, which makes it feel light after a big meal, and the mango does most of the work.

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Prep Time 25 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Servings: 5

Course: Dessert

Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients

  

• 1.5 cups rolled oats
• 1/2 cup desiccated coconut
• 1/3 cup honey
• 60 g butter melted
• 2 ripe mangoes sliced
• 400 ml coconut milk
• 1/3 cup caster sugar
• 3 tsp gelatine powder
• 1/4 cup water

Equipment

• Slice tin, lined
• Saucepan

Method

 

1. Preheat oven to 160°C. Combine oats, coconut, honey and melted butter, press into a lined slice tin and bake for 10 minutes until golden. Cool completely.
2. Sprinkle gelatine over water and let it bloom.
3. Heat coconut milk and sugar in a saucepan until sugar dissolves, then stir in the bloomed gelatine until fully dissolved.
4. Arrange mango slices over the oat base, pour the coconut mixture over the top, and refrigerate overnight until set.

Notes

Mild in flavour, not overly sweet. Rated 9/10.

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Well let me tell you, the family loved it and so did all the people that scored the leftovers. I had comments like, healthy, non-fattening, light etc. etc (non-fattening is a bit of a stretch I think). Mangoes are of course always a winner for dessert. Another 9/10 score.

Until next week,

From my table to yours with love x

Source: Delicious - At Our Table