I, on the other hand, overcame my deeply rooted & irrational fear of combining chicken and bacon. I think I'm almost ready to experiment with swordfish and prociutto next...
Chicken with creamy mustard and dill sauce and crispy bacon
(Suvine kanaroog koore-sinepikastmega)
Serves 4
4 chicken fillets (ca 500 grams)
butter for frying
250 ml double cream
2 tsp Dijon mustard
2-3 cloves of young garlic, skins off & slightly crushed
100 grams of smoked bacon rashers, chopped
3-4 Tbsp fresh dill, chopped
To serve:
500-750 grams of new potatoes, boiled (I used Jersey Royals again)
sliced cucumber
Heat the butter in a heavy-bottomed frying pan. Add chicken fillets and brown on all sides (7-8 minutes in total).
Pour over the cream, add garlic cloves and mustard. Cover the pan and simmer on a medium heat for about 10 minutes.
Add the chopped dill, season with salt and pepper.
Meanwhile, fry chopped bacon on a dry non-stick pan until golden brown and crispy.
To serve, place chicken fillets on heated plates, pour some sauce on top and sprinkle with crispy bacon.
UPDATE 12.8.2006
Kalyn has included this recipe in her weekly round-up of South Beach Diet friendly recipes. Thank you, Kalyn!
14 comments:
Gorgeous, and sounds absolutely delicious. Saving this recipe!!
What a wonderful idea, looks and sounds really yummy!! Will definately give this one a try!
Looks good! Glad you made the leap of faith with chicken and bacon! I absolutely love the combination. As plain chicken tends to be a bit bland unless heavily spiced, the juicy tastiness of bacon is just the right thing to liven it up.
One good (and British) way to roast a whole chicken in the oven is to cover it with strips of bacon. The bacon protects the chicken from drying up and prevents its surface from charring - and also gets lovely and crisp in the process. Optimally, the chicken is put in the oven without bacon and the strips are laid on it when the chicken is approximiately halfway done.
The Arla site is so good! I have found so many recipes there. This sounds so good - have to buy a big bunch of fresh dill soon for freezing!
this sounds really good!
Kalyn - thanks! Note that the original recipe used chives instead of dill, and heated the cucumber slices through at the end (i.e. included them in the sauce).
How would it score on your South Beach Diet?
Pam, oh please do! I'm sure you can get some good bacon in Switzerland to go with the chicken.
Pippurimylly - I'm happy to have leaped, too:) I've seen the bacon covered turkey here in the UK, but it would surely work with chicken, too. And I have sometimes grabbed chicken & bacon sarnie for lunch. Just hadn't combined these two in my kitchen yet..
Clivia - I agree, Arla is good. I guess some 5 per cent of the recipes in my Estonian language database are from Arla. The dishes are very suitable for an Estonian palate, too, which is probably the reason why I rely on Arla so much.
K&S - it tasted good, too:)
I’m including this recipe today in a feature on my blog I call South Beach Recipes of the Week, where I spotlight South Beach friendly recipes I find on other great blogs. It includes your photo (with a photo credit for you, of course) and a link to the recipe. Please let me know if you have any concerns about how I’ve done this.
(So I guess it scores very well on South Beach, wouldn't you say!)
Pille, Thank *you* for letting me use it!
Mmm, that looks heavenly! Chicken breasts in a creamy sauce with crispy bacon - it's a winning formula every time!
See tundub küll väga maitsev, mitu lemmikmaitset üheskoos... peekon ja kana ja sinep ja ...
Kuna peale pikka puhkamist on külmik õte tühi, siis saab nüüd poenimekirja täiendada :D
Kalyn - you're too kind! It is an honour to be included in your round-up, and I'm glad to know that this chicken dish would pass the strict GI test (with some modifications, that is).
Jeanne - I wish I had known it earlier that this is a winning combination. I could have avoided many anxious moments of "what to cook for tonight":)
Thredahlia - tore, et maitsev tundub. Anna teada, kuidas siis tegelikult maitses! Ja Põltsamaa kange sinep ajab vist ka asja ära..
Maitses väga hästi, Põltsamaa sinepiga ja tilli asemel vähese murulauguga :)
See sobib vist isegi mu karnivoorsete kalduvustega meeslemmikule - kohe kaks liha korraga. Teen kindlasti inimkatseid, kui juhus avaneb :D.
Rõõm kuulda! Muide, rootslaste originaalretseptis oligi kasutatud murulauku, aga mul oli kapis kokkamise hetkel vaid tilli. Loodetavasti lähevad ka inimkatsed edukalt;)
Pille, just wanted to let you know that I've tried this - being a Swede living in Amsterdam, finding this (Swedish) recipe on an Estonian expat blog in Scotland I felt I had to close the circle somehow. It was absolutely delicious and my take on it is on http://mums.blogsome.com/2006/08/23/sommarkyckling/ . (I am guessing that if your Swedish is good enough to decipher the original recipe you might also be able to decipher the credit you're given. ;))
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