Main: Vegemite Roast Chicken
Delicious – Love to Eat
Dessert: Chilli Pineapple Mini Pavlovas
Delicious – Love to Eat
Hi Everyone!
Well this week’s Delicious – Love to Eat recipe is definitely a bit different. Who would have thought that good old Vegemite would work with chicken, but work it does. The mixture created of Vegemite, butter and parsley to push under the skin of the chicken does not look particularly appetising. In fact it closely resembles what one would find in the nappy of a new born!
However, this little chook was filled with scrumptious flavours that all worked so very well together. Served on a bed of healthy macadamia couscous and broccolini, everyone came away from dinner feeling light and yet truly well fed.
It’s a recipe that would work incredibly well cold. You could shred the chicken and add some blanched asparagus, cherry tomatoes and even avocado and you’d have a beautiful salad bowl.
It’s not a difficult recipe and I’m thinking that you could prep the chook in the morning or the night before and pop it in the oven when you get home from work. Serve with some smashed potatoes and you have a winner. This scored and very respectable 9/10.
Dessert was very interesting. When have you ever thought of pavlova and pineapple? Okay often, I know. Okay, so when have you ever thought of pavlova, pineapple AND chilli? Never? Well, I haven’t either so I really wanted to give it a go. Besides it is literally a pinch of chilli. Just when I didn’t think there was another different way to do the pavlova, I discover there is. This recipe heats the egg whites and the sugar in a double boiler whilst you madly whisk for 10 minutes, then you place it in the bowl of your stand mixer to beat the heck out of it. This created a very chewy pavlova which set the pineapple off beautifully. It’s not a difficult recipe and can mostly be done ahead.
The flavour of lime in the cream along with the chilli in the pineapple and the chewy pav certainly makes for an interesting taste sensation. Could I taste the chilli? Well, not intensely as it was more of an after taste in my throat. One of my family members didn’t like it, the rest said they couldn’t taste the chilli at all and loved it, so you be the judge. Give it a go and let me know what you think. The one family member who didn’t like the chilli taste bought the overall score down to 7/10. (I’m sneaking this one onto the Xmas menu for us this year!)
Next week we will be doing a prawn pasta from Delicious – Love to Eat. It looks amazing.
So until then,
From my table to yours with love x
