Spicy vegetable chicken!!! Yummie!!!

Spicy vegetable chicken

Great spicy dish!!! If you don’t like it sharp, don’t use too much chili!!!

ingredients:

– 400 gr chicken breast, cut into smal dices
– green asparagus, thiny ones, cut into 5 cm pieces
– 2 spring onions, sliced I also use the green part
– 3 cm fresh ginger, very finely chopped
– 3 garlic cloves, very finely chopped
– 10 fresh shiitake mushrooms, sliced
– 3 fresh chili pepper (or to taste) finely chopped
– fresh coriander, roughly chopped
– extra virgin olive oil
– ground white pepper
– pinch of sea salt

marinade:

– 4 tablespoons light soy sauce
– 4 tablespoons dry sherry
– 2 tablespoons sesam oil

directions:

– Mix the marinade ingredients. Put in the diced chicken breast, cover with plastic foil
and leave it marinade (outside the fridge) for about 30 minutes

– heat a large pan with 4 tablespoons of olive oil. As soon as you reache high temperature, put in the sliced shiitakes. They absorp lots and lots of olive oil so wenn necessary add more olive oil. Wenn they are almost ready, add the chopped garlic and half of the green onions, stir well for about 1 or 2 minutes, make sure you don’t burn the garlic! Put this into a large nice bowl and set aside.

– heat some more olive oil in the same pan, once the oil is hot, put in the green asparagus and season with grounded white pepper and some sea salt. They are soon ready (2 or 3 minutes)
Put them in the same bowl as the shiitakes.

– take the chicken out of the marinade, drain well and throw the marinade away. Stir the chicken with the chopped chillies in the same large pan until ready.

– add the remaining sliced spring onions, stove for 1 minute, add the shiitake and green asparagus and toss well. Taste if it needs some more salt or pepper.

– top with fresh coriander

Delicious!!!!

Delicious mini zucchini pizzas!!!

Mini zucchini pizzas

This is another easy appetizer!!! So good and so healthy!!! You can top the pizzas however you like. I always use the same basic ingredients.

ingredients:

Basic ingredients:

– 1 zucchini, very well cleaned
– red pesto sauce (I don’t like the green pesto, it tastes to strong) or double concentrated tomato paste.
– ground black pepper
– gratex cheese au gratin or grated mozarella cheese

Toppings:

– white mushrooms, cut into very thin slices
– cherry tomatoes, cut into thin slices
– pine nuts
– basil leaves

– small pieces of good canned tuna fish
– some good quality anchovies, cut into little pieces
– capers

These are my 2 favourite toppings

directions:

Preheat the oven 200 degrees

– slice the zucchini (NOT peeled) into 3mm slices
– brush the red pesto on each slice
– cover with the toppings. I like to combine the mushrooms with the slice tomatoes, pine nuts and basil leaves. My other topping are the tuna with anchovies and capers.
– cover with the grated cheese

Put the mini pizzas in the oven for about 10 minutes. Remove and serve them. These are always a succes!!!

 

Mini zucchini pizzas with falco

 

spicy cold paprika soup with pernod

Spicy cold paprika soup with pernod

This is an appetizer or a starter, I made it so many times this summer. It’s easy to make and the best thing is, you can prepare it ahead. If you have some soup left, you can easily freeze it!!!

ingredients:

– 3 red paprika (bell pepper, capsicum)
– water
– 1 vegetable stock cube (groentebouillon blokje)
– pernod (pastis, ricard,…)
– pinch of ground cayenne pepper (ground chili pepper)
– 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
– olive oil

directions:

– wash the paprika, remove the seeds and cut into pieces
– put some olive oil in a large pot together with the paprika and stew it for a couple of minutes
– cover the paprika completely with water
– add the stock cube and ground white pepper
– bring it to boil and leave it boiling for at least 30 minutes
– mix very well with immersion blender (staafmixer)
– pour it through a fine sieve

Now you can serve it as a nice warm soup topped with a pinch of cayenne pepper and some drops of extra virgin olive oil. But if you like something special:

– put it in the fridge to cool down
– just before serving add some pernod, a pinch of cayenne pepper and top with some olive oil.

serve it in a nice glass with a small straw. Yummie!!!