Second Try
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madbakerThis week's Resolution Recipe: Chicken in Lemon Sauce.
1 1/2 lbs boneless chicken thighs
1 Tbsp lard
4 ounces yellow onion
scant 1/4 cup broth (I used house-made chicken stock)
optional spices:
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp rosemary
several threads saffron
1/4 tsp marjoram
2 Tbsp wheat starch
2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
Chop chicken and onion. Melt lard in a saucepan over medium heat. Add chicken and onion and cook, stirring, for 10 minutes until the chicken is cooked through and the onion has softened. Add broth and spices, and bring to a simmering boil. Whisk in starch. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 10 minutes or until thickened. Stir in lemon juice and serve.
I used boneless chicken thighs for ease of preparation. The spices (along with salt and pepper) are common in other recipes in this work.
Powdered wheat starch is available commercially in Middle Eastern markets. It is also sold in Asian groceries as "non-glutinous wheat flour".
What worked: This was much better than the last attempt at this recipe. The extra spices are a tad hand-wavey, but I'm okay with using them for the undefined "spices" mentioned. They really helped with the flavor. And the zing of the fresh lemon really came through in the completed dish.
What didn't: I was pretty happy with it.
Will I make it again? It's going into the tourney cookbook, so it will probably make future appearances. It'd be easy to make ahead and reheat in a boil-a-bag, although given how quick this is to make that might be overkill.
Fry chickens with lard and onions, and grind some unrefined starch [amido non mondo] and dilute it with pork broth, and strain it, and cook it with said chickens and spices. And if you do not have starch, thicken the broth with egg yolks; and when it near the time to serve it, put in lemon juice, bitter orange or citron juice. (Anonimo Toscano, late 14th - early 15th c.)Translator's note: this phrase, amido non mond(at)o, (literally, starch that is "unpeeled" or "unclean"), appears in a couple of recipes in this collection. Several interpretations and explanations have been suggested; the one I find most appealing is that the starch is still in lump form (a late step in its processing) and needs to be cleaned of impurities and then ground into a finer powder.
1 1/2 lbs boneless chicken thighs
1 Tbsp lard
4 ounces yellow onion
scant 1/4 cup broth (I used house-made chicken stock)
optional spices:
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp rosemary
several threads saffron
1/4 tsp marjoram
2 Tbsp wheat starch
2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
Chop chicken and onion. Melt lard in a saucepan over medium heat. Add chicken and onion and cook, stirring, for 10 minutes until the chicken is cooked through and the onion has softened. Add broth and spices, and bring to a simmering boil. Whisk in starch. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 10 minutes or until thickened. Stir in lemon juice and serve.
I used boneless chicken thighs for ease of preparation. The spices (along with salt and pepper) are common in other recipes in this work.
Powdered wheat starch is available commercially in Middle Eastern markets. It is also sold in Asian groceries as "non-glutinous wheat flour".
What worked: This was much better than the last attempt at this recipe. The extra spices are a tad hand-wavey, but I'm okay with using them for the undefined "spices" mentioned. They really helped with the flavor. And the zing of the fresh lemon really came through in the completed dish.
What didn't: I was pretty happy with it.
Will I make it again? It's going into the tourney cookbook, so it will probably make future appearances. It'd be easy to make ahead and reheat in a boil-a-bag, although given how quick this is to make that might be overkill.
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Date: 2019-07-08 02:45 pm (UTC)I think this looks easy and fast enough that I could make this during the week. I think I might try it tomorrow. I'll report back. :-D
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Date: 2019-07-08 02:54 pm (UTC)