[CH] Recipe Identification
(kodiak@flail.com)
Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:52:57 -0400 (EDT)
A long time ago, on some newsgroup, I came across a chicken recipe. I
believe it claimed to be of African origin, but I don't trust my memory at
all anymore. I remember the recipe, but I sure would like to remember the
NAME of the recipe. Here it is, but bear in mind that this is the recipe
as I execute it, after having made some modifications to the recipe which
I cannot remember to enumerate. All I can hope is that the extreme
brevity of the ingredients lends this mangled recipe to easy recognition.
Mystery Chicken
4 Boneless Chicken Breasts
8 Limes
1 Red Onion
Black Pepper
Peppers to Taste (I use 1 hab for every 2 breasts, or serranos if cooking
for the unenlightened)
Slice onion into medium strips. Chop peppers. In a bowl large enough to
hold the chicken breasts, place a layer of breasts. Follow with a
generous sprinkle of black pepper, red onion slices, peppers and the juice
of two lemons for each breast of chicken. Repeat until supplies of
chicken are exhausted. Cover and soak refrigerated for 1 hour or more.
Remove chicken pieces from marinade and broil, basting with marinade.
Cook marinade in a pan over medium heat until thickened and thoroughly
heated. Serve chicken over rice and under cooked marinade. Make non-CH
friends cry.
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This dish has a very strong bite to it. The lemon juice and onion join
forces with the peppers to communicate very forcefully. It also smells
INCREDIBLE when it's cooking.
Unfortunately, since going vegetarian, I haven't been able to enjoy this
dish. My normal substitutes for meat in recipes, tofu and portabellos,
both fail to make appropriate magic happen. I think it might do something
interesting with eggplant, but since I can't stand eggplant, I've never
bothered to find out.
Thanks for any help remembering the name, if I didn't just make all this
up. :)
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