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Parisian fondue (fondue with chicken breast)

24 fév

Fondue is always appreciated during diners with friends and family. It is easy to cook, as everybody is responsible for its own food and entertaining. The most famous type of fondue is the cheese one but try this yummy chicken version, you will love it!

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Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 3 minutes per piece
Difficulty: Very easy
Ingredients for 4 peole:
- 1 fondue pan of oil
- 400 gr of chicken breasts
- 1 bowl of bread crumbs
- 2 eggs

Fill in the fondue pan with oil and eat it until it is hot but not boiling.
In the meantime, cut the chicken breasts into small dices.
Prepare a bowl of bread crumbs and one with the eggs beaten.

Put the fondue pan in the middle of the table and give a fondue stick to each guest. Put the meat, the bread crumbs and the eggs on the table.
Each guest will have to put a chicken dice on his stick and deep it first in the eggs, then in the bread crumbs, and finally cook it in the oil.

Enjoy and remember: the one who is loosing the meat on his stick as a trick!!

Tip: you can skip the eggs and deep your meat directly into the bread crumbs.
You can do this recipe with chicken or turkey breasts equally.

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Quinoa with vegetables and chicken

02 déc

Quinoa is a kind of grain from South America. It is a good source of fiber, phosporus, magnesium, iron and calcium, as well as gluten-free. Not only it is a good aliment for your health, it is also tasty and easy to cook. My daughter and I love it! And you?

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Difficulty: Very Easy
Ingredients (for 2 people):
- 250 gr of chicken breast
- 1 courgette
- 2 carrots
- 10 flat green beans
- 150 gr of quinoa
- 1 teaspoon of all purpose seasoning spices
- salt, pepper

Cut into small cubes the carrots and the courgette. Cut the flat green beans into medium rectangles.
Put the vegetables and the quinoa into a rice cooker or a saucepan and cover with water. Add the spices and cook for around 20 minutes.

In the meantime, cut the chicken into small dices and fry it in a pan.

Once cooked, mix the quinoa and vegetables with the chicken.

Tips: you can also out shrimps instead of the chicken for a vegetarian version of this dish.

(top: All Saints, jeans: Desigual, earings: Aldo, make-up: Dior, nail polish: Deborah)

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Chicken curry with coconut milk

22 sept

The holidays are over…but you can still put a bite of exotic flavour into your life with this yummy chicken curry recipe, using coconut milk.

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Difficulty: Very Easy

Ingredients (for 2 people):
- 250 gr of chicken breast
- 1 onion
- 1 tomato
- 25 cl of coconut milk
- 2 teaspoon of curry
- coriander leaves
- slat, pepper

Cut the chicken breast into small slices. Peel the onion and the tomato and cut them into small dices.
Cook gently the chicken and the onion into a pan. When the onions are transparent, add the tomato dices and cook for 5 minutes at low fire.
When the tomato dices are smooth, add the coconut milk and cook for 5 more minutes before adding the curry.
Season with salt, pepper and sliced coriander.
Serve with basmati rice.

Bon apétit!

Tip: If the curry is too hot, just add some natural yogurt.

Top: Mango. Trousers: Stradivarius.

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Chicken stew « blanquette » recipe

28 fév

The name “blanquette” comes from the fact that the sauce used for this meat stew is white “blanc” in French. This French tasty recipe is a classic, and you can do it either with veal, chicken or turkey.

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: minimum 1 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients (for 2 person):
- 250 gr of chicken breast
- 2 carrots
- 1 leek
- 1 onion
- 100 gr of mushrooms
- 1 vegetable stock cube
- 1 lemon
- 10 cl of double cream
- 2 tablespoon of flour
- Salt, pepper
- 1 bay leaf

Cut the chicken into dices and cook it in a pan with a bit of butter.

Cut the onion, the mushrooms, the carrots and the leek into slices and add to them to the chicken.

In the meantime, boil 25 cl of water and dilute the vegetable stock cube in it. Squeeze the lemon, and add its juice and the flour to the vegetable stock. Pour the mixture on top of the chicken and the vegetables. The vegetables need to be cover with liquid so if it is not the case, add some water.

Pour the cream in the stew, as well as salt, pepper and the bay leaf.

Cook at mild stove for minimum 1 hour.

Tip: you can prepare the blanquette in advance, it is even more delicious reheated! Serve with rice or a mix of vapour potaoes and green beans.

Dress: Diesel

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