St Davids Chicken Recipes

ST DAVID'S LEEK & CHICKEN HOTPOT

Steps:

• Cook the veg: Toss the potatoes, leeks and carrots together in a shallow microwave-safe dish with some salt and pepper. Pour over the stock. Cover the dish with cling film and pierce a few times with the point of a knife. Cook on High for 10 minutes until the potatoes are just starting to become tender.
• Cook the chicken: Remove the dish from the microwave, peel off the cling film and stir in the chicken. Cover the dish with fresh cling film and pierce again, then cook on High for 6 minutes or until the chicken is cooked and succulent.
• Finish the dish: Remove the dish from the microwave, uncover and stir in the cream and parsley plus black pepper to taste. Serve straight from the dish, with bread to mop up the juices.

CHICKEN DAVID

Steps:

• Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a large heavy skillet over medium heat. Saute onion until soft and translucent. Stir in mushrooms, garlic, prosciutto and salami. dredge chicken in flour, and place in pan. Season with salt and pepper. Cook chicken 5 minutes on each side. Pour in sherry, and cook until liquid is reduced by half. Stir in chicken broth, cream and marinara. Simmer until sauce is reduced to your preferred consistency. Stir in 1 tablespoon butter, and sprinkle with parsley.

DAVID'S SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Bring oil or lard to temperature. I like to fry between 275 and 325. If your oil gets too hot you can burn your chicken when it's sitting on the bottom of the fryer.
• While oil is coming up to temp take two or three eggs in a bowl add milk enough to make a wash. Add all of your seasonings to this and mix well. How much seasoning? Well that depends as I don't measure any of this. I sprinkle a bit of each that I'm using on both sides of the chicken, add some of each in the egg wash and to the flour. If you don't do this your finished chicken will be very bland.
• I use a gallon ziploc bag for my flour seasoning mixture. Add the flour about half a ziploc bag will do. Then generously sprinkle some of each of the seasonings you are going to be using into the bag. Zip shut and shake to mix all seasonings with the flour.
• And as stated above season the chicken. Now you can place in a large bowl your egg wash and chicken and mix until all chicken is coated with the wash.
• Take one or two pieces of chicken and allow to drip into the egg wash and after the access is off drop them into the ziploc bag. Close the bag and shake coating the chicken with the flour/seasoning mix until you've floured all of your chicken pieces.
• Gently drop into the hot oil and fry for 13 minutes at the 300 or so temperature. Like I said earlier you want to watch for burning of the pieces that are sitting at the bottom of the fryer so turn pieces every two minutes until they are somewhat floating. I vary fry time depending on how large the pieces of chicken are but usually no less than 12 minutes and not more than 15 at 300.

ST. DAVID'S DAY SUPPER

Steps:

• Wash and peel the potatoes. Cut them into thick slices. Cut off the roots and leaves of the leeks and wash thoroughly and slice.
• Put the potato and leek slices in a saucepan, cover with boiling, salted water, and cook for 8-10 minutes, until half cooked. Drain well.
• Grease an ovenproof dish, put the vegetable mixture into the dish, and sprinkle with the salt and pepper. Chop the ham. Put the ham on top of the vegetables. Pour the chicken soup over the top, and heat through in the oven (400F/200C/Gas Mark 6) for about 20 minutes.
• Wash and slice the tomato and place on top of the vegetables for the last 5 minutes of cooking time. Serve with hot bread rolls and butter.