easy chicken recipes

Grilled Chicken Tostadas

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Ingredients

  • 500g chicken breast fillets
  • 2 red chillies, seeded and thinly sliced
  • 2 garlic cloves, peeled
  • 1 lime, juiced
  • 2 tablespoons Woolworths Select Spanish mellow olive oil
  • 2 red onions, cut into 1cm-thick rounds
  • ½ small iceberg lettuce
  • 2 small truss tomatoes
  • 1 avocado
  • 400g packet of 10  tortillas
  • 300ml tub sour cream, to serve

Instruction

1. Remove tenderloins from chicken and place on a tray. Cut chicken lengthways into 2cm-thick strips and add to tray.
2. Combine chillies and garlic in a mortar and pound with a pestle to a paste, stir in lime juice and 1 tablespoon of the oil, pour over chicken. Season and toss to coat.
3. Place onion and remaining oil in a bowl. Season. Cook onion on preheated barbecue grill, tossing with tongs until slightly charred. Meanwhile, shred the iceberg lettuce into a bowl. Halve and thinly slice the tomatoes into another bowl. Halve, seed and dice the avocado into another bowl.
4. Cook chicken on a preheated barbecue grill for 3-4 minutes, turning or until cooked through. Transfer to a plate.
5. Meanwhile, lightly toast tortilla on preheated barbecue flat plate until warmed through. Transfer to a tea towel lined plate, fold tea towel over tortilla to keep warm.
6. Serve grilled chicken with lettuce, tomato, avocado, sour cream and warmed tortillas.

Tip 1: To save time you can also use a 40g packet Fajita seasoning mix with 2 tablespoons oil instead of making your own marinade.
Tip 2: Tortillas can be torn and barbecued for quick crisps to serve with dip
Tip 3: Replace the chicken with two thickly sliced large eggplants for a vegetarian alternative.

 

 

 

Chicken Manchurian Recipe

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Ingredients

Chicken Manchurian Marination

  • 350 gms Chicken (Boneless Breast)
  • 01 Egg
  • 1/2 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1/4 tsp White Pepper Powder
  • 01 tsp Sugar
  • 01 tsp Ajinomoto / MSG
  • 01 tsp Vinegar
  • 1/4 tsp Dark Soy Sauce
  • 02 tbl Spoons Water
  • 02 tbl Spoons Corn Flour
  • 1/2 Cup All Purpose Flour
  • 250 ml Sesame/Vegetable Oil (Deep Fry)

Chicken Manchurian Sauce

  • 03 Tbl Spoons Sesame/Vegetable Oil
  • 01 Spring Onion Bulb (White Part)
  • 01 Spring Onion Stalks (Green Part)
  • 04 Garlic Cloves
  • 01 inch Ginger
  • 04 Green Chillies
  • 200 ml Water / Chicken Stock
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 01 tsp Sugar
  • 1/4 tsp White Pepper Powder
  • 01 tbl Spoon Dark Soy Sauce
  • 01 tbl Spoon Vinegar
  • 01 tbl Spoon Tomato Ketchup
  • 02 tbl Spoons Red Chilli Sauce
  • 02 tsp Cornflour in Water

Instructions

1) Add all the above marination ingredients to a bowl and mix them well, add the diced chicken boneless breast cubes to this marinate and refrigerate for 15 minutes
in a freezer.

2) Add 1/2 Cup of all purpose flour on a plate and retrieve the bowl of marinated chicken from the freezer and coat each chicken piece with all purpose flour and deep fry the chicken manchurian at a medium flame for 3-4 minutes and extract them when they are 75% cooked.

3) Raise the flame of the kadai/vessel which contains the oil to very high and after a minute when the oil is very hot now add the 75% cooked chicken from Step 2), now the chicken manchurian will get a crisp coating at the top and from the inside it will be succulent.

4) Grab a skillet and put the flame to high, add the oil mentioned in the ingredients above, add spring onions, garlic cloves and ginger finely chopped, green chilies, water / chicken stock, salt, sugar, all other ingredients mentioned above, finally reduce the flame to low and add the corn flour mixed with water to thicken the sauce, it will thicken in a minute of cooking time.

5) Drop the cooked chicken manchurian pieces from Step 3) in the skillet with this amazing succulent chicken manchurian sauce, but before you do that make sure you have put off the flame, otherwise the chicken manchurian which is crisp will become soggy and soft/tender from the outside too.

6) Finally, garnish with fresh spring onion stalks/greens finely chopped and serve hot with chineese fried rice / noodles, enjoy with family and friends 🙂

 

Sonora Beef Enchiladas Recipe

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Ingredients

  • 3 lbs. lean ground beef
  • 1 large onion, finely chopped
  • 8 cloves of fresh garlic, crushed
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 cup warm water
  • 1 lb. grated Monterey jack cheese
  • 1 lb. grated mild cheddar cheese
  • 1 – 32 oz. can of mild Las Palmas sauce
  • 1 cup of Mazola corn oil
  • 30 Guerrero flour tortillas (room temperature)

Instructions

Step One: Cook hamburger

1. Cook hamburger in a large frying pan and drain excess fat.
2. Add crushed garlic, onions, salt, pepper and 1 cup of water.
3. Simmer for 20 minutes until onion is tender.

Step Two: Prepare your enchilada assembly line

1. Place following items next to each other on your counter, work area:

  • Cookie sheet needs to be in the center.
  • Pour Las Palmas sauce in large bowl.
  • Pour hamburger into a large bowl.
  • Combine cheeses in large bowl.
  • Place casserole dishes at the end of the assembly line.

Step Three: Assemble enchiladas

1. Heat oil in large frying pan (oil is ready frying when oil bubbles around a wooden spoon).
2. With Tong #1, fry one tortilla in the hot oil. Flip once so it is fried briefly on both sides. Place on #1 cookie sheet.
3. With Tong #2, dip tortilla in Las Palmas sauce.
4. Remove from sauce and place on #2 cookie sheet.
5. Place about ⅓ cup of hamburger in the tortilla with a large spoon. Add about ¼ shredded cheese. Roll and place in casserole dish.
6. Once the casserole dish is full, cover with cheese and cover with tin foil.
7. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

 

Chicken Hot and Sour Soup

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Ingredients

  • 750 ml Water
  • 500 ml Chicken Stock
  • 1/4 Cup Carrot
  • 01 Spring Onion (Scallion)
  • 1/4 Cup French Beans
  • 1/2 Cup Chicken (Boneless)
  • 1/4 Cup Cabbage
  • 1/6 Cup Capsicum
  • 1/2 inch Ginger
  • 02 Garlic Cloves
  • 04 Green Chillies
  • 01 Egg
  • 02 tsp Vegetable Oil
  • 02 tsp Salt
  • 01 tbl Spoon Corn Flour
  • 01 tsp White Pepper Powder
  • 01 tbl Spoon Dark Soy Sauce
  • 01 tbl Spoon Vinegar

Instructions

1) Add oil to a cooking pot and cooking at a medium flame saute giner and garlic.

2) Add spring onions and saute for a minute and then add rest of the veggies and saute for two minutes and learn how to make chicken soup the easy way.

3) Add Water and Chicken followed by Chicken Stock and let it come to a boil and keep boiling for two minutes.

4) Add Dark Soy Sauce and Salt to taste along with White pepper powder and taste it for consistency.

5) Add the Corn Flour Slurry (Corn Flour mixed with Water) and add it to the cooking pot to make the Chicken Hot and Sour Soup thicker and creamier.

6) Add Vinegar and serve Chicken Hot and Sour Soup Hot, enjoy 🙂

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Easy Grilled Chicken Breasts Recipe

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Ingredients 1/3 cup oil olive oil or vegetable oil 1/4 cup cider vinegar (or red wine vinegar) 2 tablespoons dijon mustard 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon pepper 2 tablespoons Italian seasoning 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 tablespoon sugar 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts Instructions Combine all ingredients in a bowl or freezer bag. Add chicken and toss well to combine.  Marinade for a 30 minutes (or up to 4 hours) … Read more