Dinner ideas

Kiwisj - can you please tell me how you make your teriyaki sauce?

Thanks

another thing thats really easy and yum is honey soy chicken (no not the pre marinated chicken - this is homemade) - just get drumsticks and put in casserole dish, mix up 1/2 cup soy sauce (i use the low salt one) and 1/3 cup honey pour over chicken and cook at i think 180C for about 40 minutes. i dont think this recipe has garlic in it but i have seen others that do. really really yummy

and if you didnt want to use that much sauce then just adapt it down to suit (i havent got around to doing so yet).

Turkish Chicken Casserole (from an NZ cookbook called Food From Friends, it's an Allyson Gofton recipe)

8 boneless chicken thighs
1/4 cup dried currants
1 cup orange juice (fresh is best)
2 large onions, peeled and thickly sliced
8 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced
1 tbsp toasted coriander seeds
1 bay leaf
50g butter
2 green peppers, cored and sliced
1 orange, peeled and cut into small wedges
1/4 cup honey
1/2 cup toasted walnuts

Put chicken thighs in a large container and cover with currants, OJ, onions, garlic, coriander seeds and bay leaf. Toss to coat in juice. Marinate in fridge for 4 hours or overnight (I never marinate it that long!! A couple of hours AT MOST lol) Turn a couple of times, or more if you marinate it longer.

Strain off juice and set aside. Heat butter in large casserole or frying pan and brown chicken on all sides. Set aside.

Add marinated onions, garlic, coriander and bay leaf to the pan and cook over a moderate heat. stirring regularly till onions are well browned.

Return chicken and orange juice, peppers, orange, honey and walnuts and bring to a simmer. Cover and continue to simmer on top of the stove or in a 180deg oven for 45 mins until chicken is tender.

Serve with quinoa (I usually cook 1 cup quinoa to packet instructions, that's enough for 3 for dinner plus leftovers for lunch).

Oh can you please post the self crusting quiche recipe...

Here's the link

Self crusting quiche

kiwisj wrote: Little Sal what's your chicken saag recipe?? Yummy.

Chicken Saag

225g spinach
2.5 cm fresh ginger
2 garlic cloves crushed
1 green chilli chopped
200ml water
1 T oil
2 bay leaves
1/4 t peppercorns
1 onion finely chopped
4 tomatoes peeled and chopped
2 t curry powder
1 t salt
1 t chilli powder
2 T natural yoghurt
8 chicken thighs
yoghurt and chilli powder to garnish

Cook spinach for 5 mintues. Put the spinach, ginger, garlic and chilli with 50ml of the water into a blender and process to a thick puree. Set aside.

Heat the oil in a pan and add the bay leaves and peppercorns for 2 mins. Stir in onion and fry for 8 mins. Add tomatoes and simmer for 5 mins.
Stir in the curry powder, salt and chilli powder. Cook for 2 mins over a medium heat, stirring once or twice.

Stir in the spinach puree and remaining water and simmer for 5 mins.

Add the yoghurt 1T at a time and simmer for another 5 mins.

Add the chicken and coat in the sauce. Cover and cook for 30 mins. Drizzle over yoghurt and chilli powder to serve.

It is a bit of mucking around but so worth it!! It's pretty spicey so I added a lot of yoghurt on top of mine.

heres the self crusting quiche recpie i use

Self-Crusting Quiche

1pkt Ham
5 Eggs
3Tbsp Melted Butter
1 1/2cups Milk
1/2 cup Flour
salt and pepper
1cup Grated Cheese.

Beat eggs, add melted butter, milk, ham and cheese. Stir in sifted flour, salt and pepper. Mix well. Pour into greased quiche dish and bake 30mins at 190'c. For a more grown up version try adding onion, spinich and tomato (or capsicum etc etc).