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You can Cook Too 32 - Chicken Marbella

Patricia shows you how to make the mindbogglingly good Chicken Marbella developed by the Silver Palate gourmet food shop in New York.

She pairs it with Beautiful Noise by Neil Diamond.

 

For 4

 

1 cut-up chicken 2 ½ lbs or 8 pieces (oysters, legs or breasts) bone-in, skin-on

½ head garlic, peeled and finely puréed or minced

1 ½ tablespoons dried oregano

· 1 teaspoon kosher salt

· ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

· ¼ cup* red wine vinegar

· ¼ cup olive oil

· ½ cup pitted prunes

· ¼ cup Spanish green olives

· ¼ cup capers, with a bit of juice

· 3 bay leaves

· ½ cup light brown sugar

· ½ cup white wine

· 2 tablespoons freshly chopped flat parsley

*A cup is 250 mls

Method

 

1. In a large bowl combine garlic, oregano, salt, pepper, vinegar, olive oil, prunes, olives, capers with caper juice, and bay leaves. Add the chicken pieces and coat completely with the marinade (use your hands to rub marinade all over and especially under the skin). Cover and let marinate, refrigerated, overnight ideally.

2. Preheat the oven to 180 C.

3. Arrange the chicken in a single layer in a baking dish and spoon marinade over it evenly. Sprinkle the chicken pieces with brown sugar and pour white wine around them.

4. Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour, basting occasionally with the pan juices.

5. With a slotted spoon, transfer the chicken, prunes, olives, and capers to a serving platter. Add some of the pan juices and sprinkle generously with parsley. Serve remaining sauce in a gravy boat. Alternatively, you can brown the skin and de-fat the gravy before serving. Here's how: When the chicken is done, transfer chicken, prunes, olives and capers to a serving platter, then pour the gravy into a medium bowl and let the fat settle at the top. In the meantime, place the chicken back in baking dishes and broil for a few minutes to brown the skin. While chicken is browning, de-fat the gravy. Transfer chicken pieces back to serving platter and pour some of the gravy over top. Serve remaining sauce in a gravy boat.).

Serve with mashed potatoes, couscous or rice. Simple vegetables, no complex flavours because the dish is very flavoursome.

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https://extrafabulouscomics.com/comic/160/

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You Can Cook Too 31 - Canterbury Apple Tart

Patricia shows you how to make an open apple tart with 2 different types of apple and with a little bit of a lemon kick.

 

Pastry

4oz/100g butter

8oz/225g plain flour

1 egg, beaten

(you can add 1oz icing sugar if you wish)

- Or -

 

Use 1 sheet of premade supermarket pastry

 

Tart

3 eggs

8oz/225g caster sugar

2 lemons, grated rind and juice of

4oz/100g butter, melted

3 large cooking apples (Bramley, or similar), quartered, cored (no need to peel)

2 eating apples, cored and finely sliced (red ones look great unpeeled!) or alternatively grated with the cooking apples

1oz/25g Demerara sugar

Note: Don’t worry of the apples turn brown as they’re being grated, their colour is restored in the custard mix due to the lemon.

 

Oven: preheat a baking tray in the oven heated to 200deg C

 

Make the pastry, either by hand or processor, and then chill it for about 20 minutes before putting it into a 11inch flan tin. (If you go slightly over the edge with the pastry, you can then cut it off after cooking, so any over-brown bits disappear.) Put the tin back into the fridge while you are doing the next bit.

 

In a large mixing bowl, beat together the eggs, castor sugar, lemon rind and juice. Then stir in the melted butter. Get the dessert apples on standby, and grate the cooking apples straight into the bowl using a coarse grater. Stir in the cooking apples.

 

Pour the apple mixture into the flan tin, and then put the eating apples around the edge unless you’ve chosen to grate them. Lastly, put the demarata sugar over the mix to make little brown flecks.

 

Bake on the preheated tray for about 40 minutes. The tart needs to be set in the centre, and slightly brown.

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