Serves: 4
Calories: 470
Fat: 26g
Saturated fat: 14g
Suitable for freezing: no

• 30g butter
• 1 tablespoon sunflower oil
• 4 chicken legs
• 1 onion, peeled and chopped
• 250ml white wine
• 1/2x200ml carton crème fraiche
• 250g green grapes

1. Heat the butter and oil in a shallow pan and add the chicken leg, skin-side down. Cook for about 5 minutes over a medium heat to brown the skin, then turn them over and cook for another 5 minutes. Remove them from the pan.
2. Add the onion to the pan and cook for about 5-7 minutes, or until it softens but doesn’t brown. Return the chicken to the pan and pour in the white wine. Cover the pan and simmer the chicken for 25-30 minutes, or until the juices run clear when the flesh is pierced. Remove the chicken from the pan and boil the juices rapidly to reduce them by about half. 
3. Add the crème fraiche, grapes and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Simmer until the sauce thickens slightly, then return the chicken to the pan and serve.

Tip from our kitchen: try to use seedless grapes, but if you can’t, make sure the seeds are removed.

SERVES: 3
Calories per serving: 437
Fat per serving: 32g
 

·        2 chicken breasts, cut into strips

·        2 teaspoons thyme leaves

·        1 teaspoon lemon juice

·        5 teaspoons olive oil

·        1 tablespoon seasoned flour

·        1 medium egg, beaten

·        60g fresh fine white breadcrumbs

·        vegetable oil, for frying

FOR THE SAUCE:

·        100 ml créme fraiche

·        1 rounded teaspoon each of horseradish sauce, Dijon or English mustard, and coarse-grain mustard

1.      Put the strips of chicken in a shallow dish, add the thyme leaves, lemon juice and 3 teaspoons of the oil and leave to marinate for a couple of hours or, better still, overnight.

2.      Put the chicken in a sieve to drain off the marinade. Toss the meat in the seasoned flour, shake off the excess. Add the remaining olive oil to the beaten egg. Dip the chicken strips into the mixture, then roll them in the breadcrumbs. Place on a plate and chill for 15 minutes. Heat some vegetable oil, about 5cm deep, in a deep pan and fry goujons, a few at a time, for 2-3 minutes until crisp and golden. Drain on kitchen paper.

3.      To make the sauce:Mix all the ingredients and serve cold, or warm in a small pan. Serve in a bowl or spoon round the plate. Not suitable for freezing!

Note: You could use rabbit, pork or turkey instead of chicken! 

This simple dish is packed with flavour, and better still, it’s ready in 15 minutes flat. Mix chicken with chorizo, red peppers and lemon juice to make this Mediterranean-style dish.

Serves: 2
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Total time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

– 4 chicken thighs or 2 chicken breasts

– salt and freshly ground black pepper

– 2 tbsps. olive oil

– 1 romano red pepper, deseeded and cut into chunks

– 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed

– 60g chorizo piece skinned, sliced into 10

– about 8 sage leaves, chopped

– a few fresh thyme sprigs or 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme

– zest and juice of 1/2 lemon

– crusty bread and salad leaves, to serve

Preparation:

1. Slice the chicken into finger-width strips or chunks and season well while a wok or frying pan heats up. Add half the oil and brown the chicken all over for 5 minutes. Push the chicken to one side in the wok.

2. Add the rest of the oil, red pepper, garlic, chorizo, sage and thyme, and fry for a few minutes. Add the lemon zest and juice.

3. Stir well and heat through for a minute. Serve with bread and salad or green veg, if you like.

TIP: You can use 2 ready-roasted/chargrilled red peppers for extra speed.

Chicken hit by car doing 70mph but you’ll never guess what happened next

A plucky poultry played chicken with a car travelling at 70mph (112 km/h) – and the car came off worse.

Driver Huang Lingyong, 31, was at the wheel when the bird-brained pedestrian suddenly crossed the road in front of him. But instead of squashing the chicken and leaving it as roadkill, the bird smashed a huge hole in his bonnet, where it stayed until the car stopped moving.

Huang said: "I braked because I am an animal lover and didn’t want to harm the chicken. But it was too late. I heard a sickening thud and I thought the chicken had gone to meet his ancestors. I stopped the car, got out and walked around to the front. There was a hole in the bodywork and the chicken wedged inside. I thought it must be dead but then I heard a cluck-clucking and bent down to look closer. It was a little shaken up and its feathers all ruffled, but otherwise OK."

He added: "It seemed to me to be a very good advert for the durability of chickens and a very bad one for the quality of the car that I was driving. I took some video with my phone and uploaded the pictures on the web and I was not surprised when there was a lot of feedback from people who shared my opinion of the car."

The car manufacturer, a Japanese company, have insisted the bumper of the car, which was so easily destroyed by poultry, is not part of the original design, but is actually a cheap Chinese copy.

source: www.mirror.co.uk

to do 70 mph – 70-nel menni
poultry – baromfi
to play chicken – két autó egymás felé hajt, és az a “gyáva nyúl” = chicken, aki előbb elkapja a kormányt
to come off worse – rosszabbul jár
(steering) wheel – kormánykerék
pedestrian – gyalogos
instead of – helyett
to squash – kilapítani, összenyomni
roadkill – elütött állat
bonnet – motorháztető
to brake – fékezni
thud – puffanás
ancestor – ős
wedged – beékelt
to bend down – lehajolni
to be shaken up – megrendült
feathers all ruffled – a tollazata zilált volt
otherwise – egyébként, máskülönben
advert(isement) – reklám
durability – tartósság
to upload – feltölteni (számítógépe, internetre)
feedback – visszajelzés
manufacturer – gyártó
bumper – lökhárító
to destroy – tönkretenni 

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