I am not able to post the excel spreadsheet, so if you'd like the monthly menu and shopping list, please send me an email. Here is the first recipe, starting July 3rd. It is from an amazing book I bought a few years ago at Wild Oats. It is called "The Book of Latin American Cooking", by Elizabeth Lambert Ortiz.
Ingredients
A 3 lb chicken, quartered
1/4 cup lemon juice
2 tsp salt
3 tbsp butter
1 medium onion, grated ( I also use dried onion flakes)
2 tomatoes, chopped
1/4 tsp sugar
1 cup dry white wine (Pinot Grigio from Trader Joes works awesomely)
1/4 cup vegetable oil
6 ripe bananas, peeled and halved lengthwise
1 cup grated Pecorino Romano cheese
1 tbsp butter
Directions:
Season the chicken with the lemon juice and salt. Heat the butter in a casserole and stir in the onions, tomatoes and sugar. Add the chicken pieces and simmer for about 5 min, uncovered, turning the chicken pieces once. Add the wine, cover the casserole, and simmer for about 45 min (3.0 on the dial, ceramic top). Heat the oven to 450 degrees, because you will put the casserole in the oven after the chicken cooks :)
Use a pancake pan/shallow pan, butter it, and saute the bananas until they are a golden brown, on both sides. Once this is done, and the chicken is cooked, arrange the chicken pieces and the delicious liquids in a square Pyrex pan. Put the banana on top, cover with the cheese, a few 1/4 inch squares of butter, and bake for about 10 minutes. I served this with Trader Joe's Basmanti Brown Rice, and let me tell you, there are no leftovers today :)
Enjoy :)
P.S. : In Northeast Brazil, folks do this recipe substituting the chicken with fish, and it is delicious, as long as it is a hearty fish, like snapper or something like that.
Tomorrow, the menu calls for Turkey Meatballs
In Brazil, do they also eat it with brown rice, or is that just your healthy substitute? I always give my significant other a hard time for substituting with brown rice. We tend to alternate between white and brown rice to keep each other happy...
ReplyDeleteWill, we didn't use to have brown rice in Brazil, but I prefer the taste :) The Basmanti One is super light, and a good buy. Let me know what you think if you try it :)
ReplyDeleteDelicious and very easy to make! Loved it. I had it with white rice.
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