{"id":517,"date":"2008-07-07T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2008-05-23T16:45:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T23:45:01","slug":"chicken-and-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/chicken-and-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken and rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s recipe week this week at Reenigne blog. Not my usual fare, but not completely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/sandwich\">without<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/roast-potatoes\">precedent<\/a> either. Some of these recipes (including this one) are from my mother, others I&#8217;ve made up or adapted myself.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 onion peeled &amp; chopped<\/li>\n<li>1 carrot peeled &amp; chopped<\/li>\n<li>3 sticks of celery washed &amp; chopped<\/li>\n<li>about 2 tbsps oil<\/li>\n<li>about 2 tbsps flour<\/li>\n<li>1lb chicken<\/li>\n<li>1 chicken (or vegetable if vegetarians are joining in!) stock cube stock cube dissolved in 10 &#8211; 15 fl oz boiling water<\/li>\n<li>handful frozen peas &amp;\/or sweetcorn<\/li>\n<li>a few mushrooms sliced<\/li>\n<li>about 2fl oz cream<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the chicken is raw cut it into bit size bits and fry it in oil &#8217;til it&#8217;s browned. It doesn&#8217;t have to be cooked through at this stage. Remove it from the pan with a slotted spoon to drain the oil off. Now fry the onion, carrot &amp; celery in the oil &#8217;til they just start to brown but you don&#8217;t want them too dark. Add the flour and stir it in until it coats the vegetables and cooks a bit. Add the liquid gradually, &#8211; stirring all the time and bring to the boil still stirring. It should thicken.<\/p>\n<p>Add the peas, sweetcorn and mushrooms. If you&#8217;re feeding vegetarians, separate out their bit and add the chicken to the rest. You could add other vegetables or extra mushrooms to the vege bit. Season with salt &amp; pepper and simmer the whole lot until the chicken is cooked through and the vegetables<br \/>\nare tender. If it&#8217;s not thick enough you can add some cornflour mixed with water to make it thicker. Add the cream at the end. If you&#8217;ve got any herbs bung them in too and it&#8217;ll be even yummier.<\/p>\n<p>Cook the rice in a separate pan while the whole thing is cooking.<\/p>\n<p>You can adapt it as you see fit &#8211; put in leftover sausages for example or add a bit of chopped up bacon with the onion etc if you&#8217;re all meat eaters, or serve it with pasta instead of rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s recipe week this week at Reenigne blog. Not my usual fare, but not completely without precedent either. Some of these recipes (including this one) are from my mother, others I&#8217;ve made up or adapted myself. 1 onion peeled &amp; chopped 1 carrot peeled &amp; chopped 3 sticks of celery washed &amp; chopped about 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}