MENU: Fish and Fowl
Day 1
Chicken in Parmesan-Chive Cream Sauce
Day 2
Penne with Chicken, Wild Mushrooms and Peas
Day 3
Beer Battered Tilapia with Red Chile Mandarin Orange Sauce
Madras
Meal #1
Chicken in Parmesan-Chive Cream Sauce
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat and add 2 pounds diced boneless, skinless chicken breasts.
- Season with salt and pepper and add diced shallots, pre-minced garlic, thyme leaves or dried thyme and bay leaves.
- Add heavy cream to the pan and simmer until the chicken is cooked through.
- Meanwhile, chop sun-dried tomatoes to cooked rice.
- To the chicken add: freshly grated Parmesan and chopped chives.
- Remove the bay leaves from the chicken and fluff rice.
- Spoon all but 1 heaping cup of chicken over the rice, reserving the remaining chicken for the Penne with Chicken, Wild Mushrooms and Peas dish.
- Taste and enjoy!
Meal #2
Penne with Chicken, Wild Mushrooms and Peas
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat and add chopped leeks.
- Once the leeks have softened, add sliced shiitake mushrooms and cook.
- Meanwhile, chop your soaked porcini mushrooms and fresh or dried tarragon.
- Add to the skillet: chopped porcini mushrooms, chopped tarragon and the reserved chopped chicken and cook.
- In a small bowl, whisk together cornstarch and chicken broth.
- Add the cornstarch slurry to the skillet with your frozen peas and simmer.
- Stir in 1 pound penne pasta and cook to heat through.
- Stir in chopped parsley and season with salt and pepper.
- Place into a serving dish and enjoy!
Meal #3
Beer Batter Tilapia with Red Chile Mandarin Orange Sauce
- In a shallow dish, whisk together: beer, egg whites, baking powder. Place the all-purpose flour into a separate bowl.
- Season 4 tilapia fillets with salt and pepper and dredges into the flour and then into the beer mixture.
- Add the fish to heated oil and fry until cooked through.
- Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, combine: lemon juice, red chili paste, chopped canned mandarin oranges, chopped cilantro and salt and pepper.
- Place the finished fish fillets onto a serving platter.
- Top with sauce and enjoy!
Madras
- Fill 2 glasses with ice.
- Add to each glass: vodka, orange juice and cranberry juice.
- Garnish each glass with orange slices or lime wedges. Enjoy!
