Chicken With Herbs Recipe [Pollo alle erbe Recipe]

Today I'm going to show you a delicious and low fat recipe (when you remove the skin or take chicken breast), that's a great alternative to classic fried chicken. Usually you take sage and rosemary but you can also take any other herbages as long as its taste underlines the chicken and does not overlap it.

Chicken With Herbages for 4 ( 380 kcal /serving)

4 chicken legs
2 garlic cloves
6 tbsp olive oil
FRESH herbs (I'm taking rosemary, basil and lemon grass , but you can also take other herbs like sage, thyme or oregano. Just don't take too much or it'll feel like biting into a tea bag.)
salt and pepper to taste
a pan with lit
Optional:
lemons
watercress

1. Peel the garlic cloves. Cut in half lengthswise and then crush it with a cooking spoon.
2. With a knife cut the chicken legs into half. Therefor, place the knife between the drumstick and the chicken back. Cut the skin and meat and then break it with your hands.
3. Lay the meat on a plate and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
4. Take 3 stalks of rosemary, 8-10 basil leaves and on stem of lemon grass, cut into half. Or change depending on what herbs you're using.

5. Let's fry the meat. In your pan, bring olive oil to medium heat. Put the chicken in with skinside down. Fry until golden brown.

6. Turn over and keep frying over low heat.
7. After 2-3 minutes, add your herbs and garlic to the pan and fry until they're releasing their aroma.

8. Close the lid and fry over low heat for 20 minutes. Sometimes baste with the fat in the pan.
9. Done! Just arrange with sliced lemons and watercress and you're done!

Buon Appetito!

Linguine ai Pesto Recipe (Linguine mit Pesto Rezept)

I've never tried pesto before, because its green color always prevented me from wanting to eat it. But the recipe is in the cooking guide and it didn't need much ingredients, so I decided to cook it inspite of myself.

Although the recipe requires linguine, I was cooking for the whole family and my grandparents aren't good with the long noodles, so I went for penne.


Linguine ai Pesto for 5 (770kcal/potion):

500g Linguine
45 basil leafs
3 tbsp parmesan
3 tbsp pine nuts
3 garlic gloves
4 anchovies filets
150ml olive oil
salt and pepper to your taste
a food processor kitchen machine

1. Peel and ad squeeze the garlic.
2. Put basil leafs in the kitchen machine and mix. Add pine nuts and parmesan and mix. Add anchovies and garlic and mix. Add olive oil, a little salt and pepper and mix to a paste. Let stand aside in the machine. (Mine's in a bowl, because my food processor wasn't big enough. You can use the machine for mixing basil, nuts, garlic and anchovies. If it's too small for the oil, just put everything in a bowl and stir fast.)

3. Cook the linguine in a large pot with lots of water and a bit salt. Drain, then put back in the pot. Mix the pesto again, then add it to the noodles and stir well, so the noodles are coated. Taste with salt and pepper.
4. Arrange on a plate and grate a little parmesan over it.
5. Buon appetito!!

I've realized, I'm a little focused on the Italian cuisine ... hm...

Pizza Margherita

As planned on Sunday (Who needs some intelligent forward looking planning when you can think everything through in less than 24 hours?... not me!) I went for groceries yesterday to buy everything for Pizza Margherita - invented in 1889 for Queen Margherita to resemble the colours of the Italian flag.

The recipe told  me to get pizzadough, basil, mozzarella and tomatoes. I don't think you usually put fresh tomatoes on a pizza, but I wouldn't argue with the recipe.

What I got was also very delicious!

Recipe for 4 [400 kcal/person]:
400g pizza dough (I was lazy and bought mine)
100g tomato sauce (not in the recipe, but came with the dough so I was using it)
fresh basil (as much as you like)
400g tomatoes
160g mozzarella
Salt, Pepper (it's not in the recipe but you'll need it)

1. Depending on your dough and oven type (mine's electric), preheat the oven. 220°C usually is a good temperature.
2. Wash the tomatoes, cut them in half, remove the stem and cut into half moons.
3. Pat the mozzarella with a kitchen towel, then cut into 5mm cubes.
4. Spread the dough on a baking tray. Mine's rectangular, but of course you can take a round one.
5. Spread the tomatoe sauce evenly.

6. Lay on the tomatoes, mozarella and basil and cover the pizza evenly.

7. Now put the tray in your oven an bake until the dough is done and cripsy and the cheese is melted. In my oven at 220°C it took 17 minutes. When you buy dough, it usually says on the package how long you need to bake it.
8. When done, sprinkle salt and pepper to your taste. Cut into pieces and buon appetito!


Well, what can I say? That's not it. In the end, I had some left over tomatoes and mozzarella cheese. Luckily I'm smart enough, what else to do with it. Check the next post for more!