Sunday, August 2, 2015

Chicken and artichokes with kippered lemon sauce

Chicken and artichokes with kippered lemon sauce

1/3 cup olive oil
3 Tablespoons butter
1 tin, drained, kippers in oil
4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
zest & juice of 1 lemon
2 pounds chicken, diced
1 jar (33 ox) artichoke hearts, drained, rinsed, and quartered
1/2 teaspoon dill weed dried, or 1-1/2 tsp fresh
1/3 cup parsley & basil, rough-chopped
salt & pepper to taste

Combine chicken chunks and artichoke quarters on a rimmed baking pan, add some salt and pepper & dill weed. Add juice of the lemon you're zesting, set aside.

In skillet, combine butter & oil, heat. After butter melts, add the kippers, and mash with the back of wooden spoon until they're roughly paste-like. When the paste is bubbling rapidly, turn off heat and add lemon zest and garlic.

Turn the oven broiler on high.

Drizzle oil mixture over chicken & artichokes. Mix well to coat. Stick in oven, set timer to 15 minutes. At least every 5 minutes, stir well to take the lightly browned bits to the bottom, and the raw bits to the top. When it's all done (roughly 15 minutes), pull out, garnish with parsley & dill, stir, serve.

Goes well with a salad.

4 servings, roughly 68 grams of protein, 61 grams of fat, 14 grams of carbs. (Not counting salad)

...okay, fine, the original recipe called for anchovies. But I like kippers, I had kippers, and it tasted good. Any strong tasting fish, including sprats, ought to do just fine.

2 comments:

  1. Sardines? Never thought of that...

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  2. I can see what would happen around Schloss Red. "Mrow."
    I keep chopping and check on the draining kippers.
    "MRRow."
    I gently relocate Athena T. Cat out of harm's way and start heating the stove. Something thumps me at knee height. "MROW!"
    "No, Athena, you won't like artichoke hearts."
    "MMRROOWWW!!"
    "I told you no." Chop chop, drain, stir.
    "MrrEEEEEEOOOWWWWWW hssssssssss!" (sound of cat with stepped-on foot and/or tail)
    "Sorry! Sorry, OK, here you can try a little."
    Lick, lick, clank, clatter, lick, lick, clatter as can is nosed across floor. "Burp."

    TXRed

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