Cafe Diablo Recipes

CAFE DIABLO

Steps:

• Heat water, brown sugar, chocolate, cloves, and cinnamon to boiling in 3-quart saucepan; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes.
• Stir in coffee. Remove from heat; cover and let stand 5 minutes.
• Stir in vanilla.
• Strain coffee through 4 thicknesses of cheesecloth.
• Keep hot in saucepan after straining.
• Heat brandy just until warm in small, long-handled saucepan.
• Remove from heat; ignite. Pour flaming brandy over coffee. Allow flame to burn out; stir.
• Pour coffee into cups or mugs.
• Top each with whipped cream and 1 Tbsp liqueur.
• Garnish with cinnamon stick, if desired.

CHICKEN DIABLO

Steps:

• In large skillet, heat oil.
• Add chicken and red pepper and saute for 5 minutes until chicken is tender.
• Add mushrooms and saute for 3 additional minutes.
• Add garlic, beef stock and cook for 3-5 minutes.
• Add apple juice, tomatoes, banana peppers, and parsley.
• Salt/pepper to taste.
• Simmer low and uncovered until juices reduce and thicken.
• You may also thicken the liquid with cornstarch or arrowroot powder.

CHICKEN DIABLO

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, mix together the hot pepper sauce, sour cream, ketchup and honey until smooth. Season with paprika and cumin. Set aside half of the sauce for serving later, then place chicken breasts in the remaining sauce to marinate. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
• Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and cook until fragrant. Place chicken breasts coated with marinade into the skillet, and cook until nicely browned on each side, and meat is cooked through, about 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, heat reserved marinade in a small saucepan or in the microwave. Serve chicken breasts over white rice, or over salad greens with sauce spooned over the top.

PUMPKIN-SEED-CRUSTED TROUT

Steps:

• Finely chop cilantro. In a sealable plastic bag lightly crush pumpkin seeds with a rolling pin. In a shallow dish lightly beat eggs. Have flour and pumpkin seeds ready in 2 other separate shallow dishes. With tweezers remove fine bones from fillets and season trout with salt and pepper. Dredge flesh side of 1 fillet in flour, shaking off excess, and dip flesh side in eggs, letting excess drip off. Coat fillet with pumpkin seeds and transfer, seed side up, to a plate. Coat remaining fillets in same manner.
• In a 12-inch nonstick skillet heat oil over moderate heat until hot but not smoking and cook fillets, seed sides down, until golden, about 3 minutes. Turn fillets carefully with a spatula and cook over low heat until just cooked through, about 3 minutes more. Transfer fillets with a spatula to a heated platter and keep warm while making sauce.
• In a small heavy saucepan boil lime juice and wine until reduced by half, about 2 minutes. Cut butter into pieces and add, 1 piece at a time, whisking until incorporated and sauce is smooth (it should not get hot enough to separate). Remove pan from heat. Add cilantro and season with salt.
• Spoon sauce over trout fillets.