Moroccan Chicken with Orange Recipe

Moroccan Chicken with Orange Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon tumeric
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
• 2 teaspoons paprika
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger

• 2 Tbsp olive oil
• 1 chicken, 3-4 lbs, cut into a few pieces (or  just chicken thighs and legs)
• Salt

• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 red onion chopped

• The peel from 1/2 orange,  chopped coarsely
• 1 orange , peeled and cut into small pieces
• 1 potato peeled  and cut into small pieces 
• 1 carrot peeled  and cut into small pieces 
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup raisins

• 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley

Method

1 Combine all the spices in a large bowl. Pat dry the chicken pieces and put in the bowl, coat well with the spice mixture. Let the chicken marinated with the spices for one hour
2 In a large, heavy bottomed skillet, or a large frying pan  heat the olive oil on medium high heat. Add the chicken pieces, sprinkle lightly with salt , and brown, skin side down for five minutes.  Lower the heat to medium-low, add the garlic and onions. Cover and let cook for 15 minutes.
3 Turn chicken pieces over. Add the orange slices, raisins, potatoes and carrots and 1/2 cup water. Bring to a simmer on medium heat, then lower the heat to low, cover, and cook for an additional 30 to 40 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through and quite tender.
4 Mix in fresh parsley and cilantro right before serving. Adjust seasonings to taste.
Serve with couscous, rice, or rice pilaf.

 Happy trying everyone :)


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Linguine with bœuf in black pepper sauce

Actually this is just a simple dish that resemble much like the Chinese Beef in Black Pepper sauce just that instead of Rice I substitute it to Linguine pasta because according to my #1 critique (aka Hubby) the linguine have a much absorbing taste to the sauce and therefore it is much more delicious. So, I tried it with a linguine and voila! It taste really nice and with an Asian and western taste to it so it’s just perfect for a light lunch :)

The ingredients needed to do this dish are :

1. Boeuf/Beef

- any kind preferably the one that is very Easy to chew when you cook it

2.  Sauces

- Worcester sauce, Sweet soy Sauce and a light soy sauce

3. Onions

 – Red, brown and garlic (chopped coarsely)

4. Vegetables

- Shitake mushrooms, leeks, green capsicum

5. Pasta

- Linguine No 11

6. Herbs

- Sweet dried basil, dried Thyme

7. Butter, salt and pepper

 

Preparation:

- marinate the beef with all the sauces and a Tbs of flour, salt,pepper and Thyme for about 30 minutes. 

- Stir fry the onions with a a few drops of olive oil until it's brown

- Next, mix in the marinated beef and stir fry again for another  5 to 8 minutes

- Then stir in the capsicum, leeks and mushroom and add a few tablespoons of water and cover it with a lid for another 5 to 6 minutes

- Finally, stir in a big table spoon full of  low fat yogurt and stir for a couple of minutes and put the lit on again for another 3 minutes with a low fire on.

- Shut the fire off and set aside.

 1. stir fry in progress with all ingredients in except for yogurt

 2. stir in the yogurt to the beef stir fry

3. Prepare the Linguine pasta for approximately 11 minutes 

4. the linguine no11 which is used and cook for 11 minutes

 5. Finished pasta is now stir in with a few slices of butter and some dried sweet basil herbs

6. The finished pasta prepared

 7. Now transfer the pasta to the stir fried beef on the frying sauce

 and mixed well

8. The finished pasta and the beef stir fry together.

 9. A closer look at the dish :)

 Voila! a simple dish made extravagant and taste yummy too :) 

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Vege power!

I'm not a vegetable person since i was a child and there's only a couple of vegetables that agrees with me and i am a very picky person when it comes to Vegetable and it's all because of it colours.

But all this changed when i live abroad and looking at other cultures and lifestyle and how they incorporated vegetables in their cooking and the taste was fantastic.

I also read a food magazine regarding how to incorporate vegetables in food they cook for their children even though kids hate vegetables in their food but by cooking the same food with vegetables in it the nutrients of the vegetables stays in the cooked food and makes it a healthy food to eat, even though kids will line up the vegetables that they hated on the side of their plates at the end of the day but indirectly they are already eating a healthy meal just beause you incorporated vegetables in them.

So sticking to this technique i have managed to convert myself to a vegetable tolerable eater and i have always managed to at least add 5 types of vegetables in all my cooking and so you can see what i did to this simple dish of soy sauce chicken stir fried with tomatoes, mushrooms, leeks, broccoli, carrots and finally green and yellow capsicum.

Now with the vegetables in it it is now a healthy food to eat. Voila!   

To non vegetable eaters, do try this as it will change your life for the good :)
well good healthy life that is:)


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Fish and prawn in Light soy Sauce :)

Today I've decided to update my cooking blog with a simple cooking that anybody in the world can do :) And i am sticking to my healthy ways and thats to try to cook a dish with 5 source of vegetables and this has been my ways of cooking healthily for my family :)


So here are the ingredients : 

Ginger, Brown Onions, Garlic and shallots :)

At least 5 types of Veges namely :-
Mushrooms, tomatoes, capsicums, Leeks and Broccoli

Fish & Prawns
Marinated in 1 teaspoon of flour, light soy sauce, salt and pepper mixed together and let set in the fridge for 1 hour or 30 minutes

Pour in a few drops of olive oil and stir fry the onion mixes as well as the marinated fish and prawns until they are golden brown

Browned fish and prawns 

Then throw in the veges and cook for another 5 to 6 minutes

And then pour in about a quarter of a cup of water and finally mix in the Broccoli and put on the lid for another 2 or 3 minutes and then shut down the burner.

And voila! a simple healthy dish for the family for lunch :)

  À bientôt et Bon Appétit !

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Chicken Céasar Salad

Pan fried Chicken
just season your skinless and boneless chicken fillet with:
Thyme
Salt & Pepper

Next step is fry pan it in a non stick frying pan using just a little bit of olive oil  until they are golden brown and after your chicken are done, cut into small bite size pieces

Salad
Any type of your preferred salad greens will do
Apple (skinned and cut into small bite pieces)
Hard boiled eggs ( sliced)
cheeze ( Any type you like, just cut it into bite size pieces)
Tomatoes ( cut into small sizes)

arrange all the ingredients mentioned above on a salad plate and dress it with the dressing sauce

Dressing:

olive oil, (6 Tbs)

balsamic vinegar (3 Tbs)

, salt& pepper

, Mustard seeds Ancienne (1 ½ Tps)

and a little bit of water

Mixing all ingredients together and shake it well and thats it :)

incase anyone needs to know how mustard l'Ancienne looks like here is a picture of it :)


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DAY 53 - Yummy Dinner :)

We had very good salad dinner for the past weeks and this is probably the most we ate because after this we have to wait for at least a week for our next harvest.

The digital farmer himself assembling his yummylicious salad which consist of 
the green salads, tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, cheeze and french dressing of his making :)

Ahh...the finished product :)
 

ready to chow down the salad :)

 ahhh ..look the massacred salad pods :) No worries, they will be right up back the next morning ;)

 

and after salad we had these..seafood paella :) yumm! yumm! indeed :)

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DAY 50 - Banana Fritters :)

I've tried a couple of times to make these Banana Fritters and always they came out too soft and just didnt like the way turned out and so this time i finally get to make it perfectly :) And thanks to my cousin all the way from Canada to help me by producing the perfect recipe for making them yummylicious Banana Fritters :)


Once again merci beaucoup Norma :)

As per requested by Bobby, here is Norma's Banana Fritters  recipe:)
And like you said, and now everyone can enjoy making them too :)

250g flour
a little salt
5 tbspn sugar
2 eggs (beaten)
4 Tbspn coconut milk or milk
6 bananas
cooking oil for deep frying.

Add sugar, eggs and coconut milk/milk to flour to make a fairly stiff batter
Bananas mash well
Add the bananas to the batter and mix thoroughly
Heat oil , fry tablespoons of batter till golden brown
Drain well and serve hot!

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