chicken fat

How do you make kale and quinoa taste better?

Chicken Maryland with kale and quinoa
Chicken Maryland with kale and quinoa

One of my most visited posts is Delicious Chicken Maryland recipe, it got me thinking that chicken fat is a great flavour enhancer. So how do you make kale and quinoa taste better? You cook it in chicken fat.

How do you make kale and quinoa taste better?
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: [url href=”http://about.me/garydlum”]Gary Lum[/url]
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • 1 Chicken Maryland
  • 50 g white quinoa
  • 50 g shredded kale
  • Chicken salt
  • Cracked black pepper
Instructions
  1. In the bottom of a hand made aluminium foil bowl add the quinoa and kale and a small amount of water
  2. Lay the Chicken Maryland on top and add some chicken salt and cracked black pepper
  3. Bake at 200 °C for 1 hour
  4. Let the chicken rest for 20 minutes after it’s finished baking
  5. Plate up and shoot a photograph
  6. Capture a time-lapse video while eating the meal
  7. Wash the dishes
  8. Write the recipe
  9. Blog (verb)

One of the things I learnt from my cooking class at 3 Seeds Cooking School was using aluminium foil to shroud and protect meat. It got me thinking that I could use aluminium foil to fashion a ‘bowl’ of sorts to capture the tasty salty oily chicken fat from a piece of Chicken Maryland as it cooks. To put that fat to good use, the bowl can contain vegetables or grains that can absorb the tasty goodness of the chicken fat.

It’s so simple to do and makes for a delicious accompaniment to my baked chicken.

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Chicken Maryland with kale and quinoa
Chicken Maryland with kale and quinoa

and yes after I stopped the time-lapse I picked up the bone and gnawed off all the meat.

How would you make kale and quinoa taste better?

 

Healthy Angus beef burger

Can a beef burger be healthy? Many would argue no. I’d probably agree when I analyse what goes into a burger, but with a little tongue in cheek and just because I like to be contrary, I’ve added quinoa and kale to my burger to make it healthful. Given hipsters like quinoa and kale, it must be healthful (or at least cool).

The secret to making this healthful burger extra tasty is cooking the quinoa in chicken fat and having the kale as part of coleslaw that is mixed with the chicken fat coated quinoa. In previous posts you will have seen how I like to add quinoa to the baking tray while roasting animal flesh so the oily fatty juices add rich flavour to the quinoa.

Toasted and buttered soft bread roll with a mighty big dollop of cream cheese
Toasted and buttered soft bread roll with a mighty big dollop of cream cheese
Toasted and buttered soft bread roll with a mighty big dollop of cream cheese plus some chicken fat cooked quinoa and kale coleslaw
Toasted and buttered soft bread roll with a mighty big dollop of cream cheese plus some chicken fat cooked quinoa and kale coleslaw
Toasted and buttered soft bread roll with a mighty big dollop of cream cheese plus some chicken fat cooked quinoa and kale coleslaw plus an Angus beef burger, some cheese, tomato and mustard
Toasted and buttered soft bread roll with a mighty big dollop of cream cheese plus some chicken fat cooked quinoa and kale coleslaw plus an Angus beef burger, some cheese, tomato and mustard
The completed burger. Toasted and buttered soft bread roll with a mighty big dollop of cream cheese plus some chicken fat cooked quinoa and kale coleslaw plus an Angus beef burger, some cheese, tomato and mustard.
The completed burger. Toasted and buttered soft bread roll with a mighty big dollop of cream cheese plus some chicken fat cooked quinoa and kale coleslaw plus an Angus beef burger, some cheese, tomato and mustard.
A DipTic of my burger
A DipTic of my burger

How would you make a beef burger healthy?