Thursday, September 27, 2012

074 Chicken with mashed sweet potato and back fruit

Ingredients (2 ppl):

  • 300 g chicken breast
  • 1 sweet potato
  • 1 onion
  • 300 ml of water
  • allspice, chili, salt, pepper
  • 6 juniper berries
  • 2 stalks of thyme
  • 1 bouillon cube
  • 50 g back fruit
  • 1 lemon
Peel sweet potato and slice and dice. Cover with water and salt and boil for 12-15 min until soft. Pour off the water and mash the potato. Season with salt, allspice and chili.

Grate the peel of the lemon. Peel the onion and cut it into eighth. Mash the juniper berries with the knife. Wash thyme and dry it. Dissolve bouillon cube in water in wide pot. Add thyme, onion and juniper berries, boil it and let it simmer with the lid on for 5 min. 

Wash chicken breast and pat it dry, salt and pepper it. Dice back fruit. Put the chicken breast in the buoillon and let it simmer another 15 min. After 8 minutes add the back fruit and lemon peel.

Serve chicken breast with mashed sweet potato, back fruit and sauce.



(recipe from HelloFresh)

073 Pork tenderloin with gnocchi in apple-mustar-sauce


Ingredients (for 2 ppl):
  • 250 g pork tenderloin
  • 2 spring onions
  • 100 ml apple juice
  • 75 ml water
  • 100 g cream
  • 400 g gnocchi
  • 5 g flour
  • oil, butter, mustard, salt, pepper
Wash spring onions, cut off the green for decoration later and cut the rest in small rings. Wash tenderloin and cut it in evenly 2 cm thick slices.

Preheat the oven to 80°C and keep a oven form ready. Boil the gnocchi according to instructions. Take a pan with oil and saute the tenderloins from both sides (each 3 min). Season them with salt and pepper and keep them hot in the oven.

Brown the onions in the same pan, dust it with flour and sauté. Deglaze it with apple juice and water, add cream and two tablespoons of mustard and let it boil.Reduce you and let it cook for 4 minutes. Season with salt, pepper and a pinch of sugar.

Melt butter in another pan, add drained gnocchi and fry until golden. Mix with sauce and serve together with tenderloins.



(Recipe from HelloFresh)