I love pomegranate seeds in meals and tonight was the first time I’ve cut one open and used the seeds in a meal and dessert.
I bought a Lilydale chicken yesterday and thought it would go nicely with a salad. After a light breakfast and lunch a roast dinner was in order, especially with My Kitchen Rules on television tonight. Tonight Ash and Camilla are cooking and so many people want to see them fail.
For breakfast I met Bron at U&Co Cafe in Kaleen
I had muesli with seasonal fruits
For lunch I had tomato on fried bread smeared with Persian feta
How to cook with pomegranate like they do on #MKR
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
- Lilydale Chicken for roasting
- Panko bread crumbs
- Crushed walnuts
- Chili flakes
- Quinoa
- Potato gems
- Fennel
- Parsley
- Red onion
- Capers
- Pomegranate
- Lime juice
Instructions
- Prepare the chicken with panko bread crumbs, crushed walnuts and chili flakes
- Add the quinoa to the baking tray and add some water, this allows the quinoa to cook in the chicken juices
- Put the chicken into the oven at 220 °C for 20 minutes and then turn down to 150 °C for 40 minutes
- For the last 20 minutes add the potato gems on a separate tray
- When the chicken comes out to rest turn the oven up to 220 °C and cook the gems until golden
- Scoop the quinoa out of the tray with a slotted spoon and allow the fatty oily goodness to drain off leaving great tasting quinoa behind
- Prepare the salad with the fennel, parsley, red onion, capers and pomegranate seeds
- Add a little lime juice to the salad
- Plate up the carved chicken, quinoa, potato gems and salad
- Shoot a final photograph
- Eat the meal while watching My Kitchen Rules
- Wash the dishes
- Write the recipe
- Blog (verb)
Notes
If you’ve never deseeded a pomegranate check out this video [url href=”http://youtu.be/8lH47Oorrdk” target=”_blank” title=”Deseeding a pomegranate”]http://youtu.be/8lH47Oorrdk[/url]
How to deseed a pomegranate
Although I didn’t use a wooden spoon. I’m Chinese so I used the back of dirty big meat cleaver
How I cooked tea tonight
I’m not sure if Lilydale is sponsoring MKR this year.
This is how it looked straight out of the plastic bag
I added some of my own touches like panko bread crumbs, crushed walnuts and chili flakes
What a gorgeous looking salad
I love my new carving board
My finished plate
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