Cilantro Lime Salsa Chicken With Goats Cheese Accompanied With Garlic infused Brown Rice. An Explosion of Flavours.

Everyone loves my cilantro and lime baked fish, this time I used Chicken and put a slight twist on it by Adding deliciously tangy goats cheese, my mouth is salivating at the thought. This is a easy simple dish & you'll never guess it, it's actually quite healthy, a bonus right? I served the chicken with garlic brown rice with spring onions but you can always dish it up with anything you like, fries, baked potatoes or even a salad, you're the cook, you decide!

Actual quote from the brother, "I'd pay good money if I was served this in a restaurant" kinda boosted, but then again he says that about pretty much all my dishes :)

Ingredients for the chicken (serves 6)

2 whole baby chickens & 1 chicken fillet

5 garlic cloves minced

2 tbsp salt

1 tbsp pepper

1 1/2 tbsp paprika

3/4 tbsp red chilly powder

1/2 tbsp cumin powder

1/4 cup olive oil

Zest & juice of 1 large lemon & lime

100g crumbled goats cheese

1 cup chopped cherry tomatoes

1 cup diced sweet peppers

1 cup thinly sliced spring onions

3/4 cup chopped coriander

Ingredients for the roux (sauce thickener)

1 tbsp butter

1 tbsp flour

1 1/2 cup milk

Method

Prepare the chicken, put slits In each peice, this allows the marinades flavour to infuse throughout the whole chicken. Set aside for later. 

In a seperate bowl add all the marinade ingredients together and set aside. 

Get a small saucepan and make the roux. Heat the butter until it's melted then add in the flour, whisk vigorously untill all the flour is cooked out, add in the milk and continue whisking until it has thickened, leave it to cool for about 20 minutes.

Once the roux has cooled down, add it to the marinade, combine well then add in all the chicken & coat well. Let the chicken marinade for a few hours for maximum flavor.

Before baking the chicken, to get a more crisp skin, pan fry only the chicken pieces on both sides for about a minute (use tongs to place the chicken in the pan, this stops you from scooping up any of the sauces in the marinade bowl), transfer the chicken to a roasting dish, pour over the remaining marinade sauce on top of the chicken & bake for about 20 minutes on high, just before taking the chicken out put it under the grill for a further 10-15 minutes on high to brown and crisp up the chicken.

Serve immediately with whatever you prefer.

Bon Appetit!

Family bbq tomorrow, Mega Excited. This is a quick & Easy Marinade for Steak.

Tomorrow the whole family have decided to get together & have a Bbq & I can't wait. We've even got the sumo outfits ready, how much fun is that going to be? So much I know.

We've decided to use rump steak as its best for bbq-ing. I was requested to make my juicy lemon & Rosemary burgers & also my steak as everyone thoroughly enjoyed it the last time I made it. So here's the quick & easy marinade!

Ingredients

5 pieces of Rump steak

3 1/2  tbsp cracked black peppercorns 

2 1/2 tbsp Sea salt

5 Crushed garlic 

Zest from 1 lemon

2 tsp Lemom salt 

Lemon rind cut into chunks

2 tbsp Chilly flakes 

1/2 cup Groundnut oil

All you gotta do is mix all the marinade ingredients including the lemon rind as this will give lots of flavor, coat the steaks in the marinade & let it sit in the fridge over night & you're done, so easy innit.

Sometimes simple is better & let me tell you, these steaks are to die for, so juicy & succulent with the garlic & lemon running through, not to forget the black pepper. Simply delicious.

How do you turn your bread into Restaurant Quality Garlic bread? I'll Tell you How With this Easy & Simple Concoction I Made up. Delicious!

My aunt owns her own bakery & cafe, every now & then she drops down & hands us freshly baked bread. How lucky am I? Well on this occasion she gave us two large bread sticks which contained all the goodness of omega 3, what could be better than that? 

Pizza night always needs some sort of garlic bread right? Instead of buying Dominos garlic bread I decided to turn these beautifully fresh bread sticks into my ultimate garlic bread with the addition of goats cheese & Spring onions, sounds lush I Know.

It's easy simple but absolutely delicious. What could possibly be better than home made garlic bread? Add a bit of this & bit of that & you're done!

Ingredients 

2 bread sticks

1 bunch of spring onions chopped finely

50g crumbled goats cheese

Salt & pepper

Chilly flakes

Rosemary

Lemon zest grated

3 tbsp melted butter

4 garlic cloves chopped extremely finely (or just grate them)

Method

Melt the butter & add the garlic, 1 tbsp pepper, 2 tsp salt & 1 tbsp chopped rosemary. Get the 2 bread sticks and slit them length ways as you would see on any shop bought garlic bread, in between the slits spread the melted seasoned butter, make sure you coat the bread inside properly. Stuff each section with goats cheese & spring onions. Lastly sprinkle over some red chilly flakes & lemon zest then place in the oven for about 15 minutes just till the bread is heated up through out. Serve immediately. 

Bon Apetit!