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Chicken and
Mushrooms With Fresh Asparagus
A Simple, Easy Mediterranean
Recipe
Here's an easy and satisfying
chicken and mushrooms recipe with fresh
asparagus tips that's quick to prepare and full of Mediterranean
flavour.
You'll need four boned out chicken legs which you can have the butcher
do for you, or if you want to do it yourself, why not watch David's:
How to Bone a Chicken video slide show.
It's important to leave the skin on these chicken legs but don't worry
the style of cooking makes sure that almost all the fat is drained
away. Leaving you with a healthy and delicious Mediterranean meal. Low
fat and low carb.
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This
is what
you'll need:
Ingredients
- Four boned out, skin on chicken legs
- Twelve large mushrooms
- Twenty four fresh asparagus tips
- Two large cloves of garlic - finely chopped
- Two or three tablespoons of cognac to flambé
- A large glass of medium sherry
- Olive oil to fry
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
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what you'll do:
Method
- OK - first fry the chicken legs - skin side
down
- in a large pan with some of the olive oil. Fry for fifteen or
twenty
minutes on a medium heat so that the skin gets crisp and well browned.
- Then - turn the legs over and cook for a
further ten minutes.
- Remove the chicken from the pan and keep warm
in the oven, at a medium heat - 160ºc/325ºf - warm enough to keep that
skin crispy.
- Now - fry the mushrooms in the pan until well
browned - remove and drain off all fat. Keep warm.
- Toss the asparagus tips in the pan until just
cooked - drain and keep warm.
- Right - throw the garlic into the pan and cook
for two minutes.
- Drain off most of the oil and fat and flambé
the pan with the cognac, stirring all the while.
- Add the sherry and reduce until about halve of
the original volume.
- Now you're ready to assemble - place the
chicken legs onto warm dinner plates - garnish with the mushrooms and
asparagus - spoon over the juices and .....
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Voila - superb Mediterranean
Food
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