Stuffed, rolled chicken and that thing called baking

Posted by petra08 on June 9, 2014 · 12 Comments 

I have a friend who thinks nothing of baking anything. Whilst I, in my mind, manage to think about the mess, the ingredients I don’t have at hand and the fact that the last bread I made was so dense it might possibly have been used as a weapon, always makes me re think at least twice! When I went to Gothenburg, Sweden I spent a day with my friend. The rain was pouring down and it was a day for being indoors.

 

I was given the task of cooking lunch, my friend decided to bake a cake (just like that!) and even my godson decided to show me how easy it was to make cookies! Said and done we went to the store, I was trying and trying to find out what they liked and what they didn’t like and what, potentially, I was actually going to cook. After having asked about 20 times I was finally presented with boneless chicken thighs! I had spied some cooking chorizo, I didn’t have the time for any slow cooking so this would be perfect!

 

We talked whilst cooking and baking. My friend started by doing the base for the cake. It was a sponge cake base.

 

Cake mix

 

 

The cake baked whilst I started to prepare the chicken and home made fries.

 

Chorizo stuffed, bacon wrapped chicken

preparation time 10 minutes

cooking time 5 mins + 20 mins

oven 180C or 350F

serves 3-4

Ingredients

• 6 chicken thighs, boned and skinned
• 6 rashes of bacon
• 1 cooking chorizo (2 if they are very small)
• 6 tsp goats cheese or any cheese you prefer
• 1/8 red pepper
• 1 small piece of leek
• salt & pepper

Rinse and pat dry the chicken thighs. Cut away any excess fat and trim them if needed. Place the chicken thighs on a bacon rash. Chop the paprika and leek fine. Place some chorizo on top of the chicken, then goats cheese and finally some paprika and leek. Finish with some pepper.

 

 

Roll and either use a tooth pick or string to make nice rolls.

 

 

Pan fry the chicken all around until brown and set aside until you are ready to finish cooking them in the oven.

 

 

Home made fries

preparation time 10 minutes

cooking time 30 minutes

oven 180C or 350F

serves 3

Ingredients

• 6 medium potatoes or 2/pp
• 1 tbsp sesame seeds
• 1 tsp sea salt
• black pepper
• 1/2 tsp smoked paprika powder
• 1/2 tsp paprika powder
• 3 – 4 cloves of garlic
• 1-2 tbsp vegetable oil

Peel the potatoes or just rinse and cut them like fairly chunky fries. Mix all the ingredients for the fries, place the cut potatoes and the spice mix in a plastic bag or a bowl, shake and make sure everything is coated before placing them on a non stick baking paper and place in the oven for 30 minutes.

 

Add the chicken to the oven when 10 minutes has gone and they will be ready at the same time.

 

We decided that a slaw would be nice and my friend did a delicious carrot and apple slaw. It was as simple as it was good, grate 1 carrot and 2 apples, mix with 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar and some creme fraiche, salt and sugar. Let stand for at least 30 minutes before serving.

 

The chicken and potatoes did smell nice and we all tucked in.

 

 

 

 

The cake was next, my friend had made some rhubarb and ginger filling. This was the first layer and then she added some lemon curd and finally a layer of meringue before baking it until the  meringue colored.  The cake was served with fresh strawberries.

 

 

 

 

Needless to say it was delicious and somehow it tasted very Swedish!

 

The next baking project was cookies. I sadly forgot the recipe but the base flavor was coffee and white chocolate.

 

 

Here is one clue as to why I don’t bake very often, with me it tends to not stay on my hands but go all over myself as well as the kitchen!

 

 

Saying that we happily ate the dough whilst rolling cookies and it was delicious.

 

 

 

The cookies were delicious and even if I was very full there was room for a couple!

 

 

After eating the cookies it was time to head to the airport. It was a whirl wind trip home, I saw lots of friends, some not for long enough but worth every minute!

 

I have added this to Javelin Warriors Made with Love Monday, one of the best challenges as it means cooking from scratch, even made easier cooking what is in season and available. If you haven’t seen the blog have a look!

 

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