Baked chicken with zuchinni,peas and mint.

This is a quick and tasty one. Hmm maybe even to good to give away! These ingredients all go together really well. We have some good textures with this dish, the soft zucchini which were going to pan fray and then add our peas at the end to give it some pop.

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast or thigh. 150 grams
• Zucchini, 100 grams. Cut into rounds.
• Peas, 80 grams. You can also use snow-peas or sugar snaps if you don't want to use frozen peas.
• Half a bunch of mint, roughly chopped.
• 2 garlic cloves chopped up finely or grated.
• 2 tbs of oil.

Method:

• Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees. Chicken breasts take longer to cook than thighs, so you can either butterfly it through the middle or cut it into smaller pieces. Cook in the oven for roughly 15 to 20 minutes. Also to speed up cooking time in the oven, before hand sear the chicken each side in a hot pan with a little oil. Chicken should be cooked above 75 degrees or if you do not have a thermometer, clear juice should start to come out.
• While the chicken is cooking heat a skillet with some oil, once it starts to smoke place zucchini in and toss quickly. Let the zucchini get a little brown in colour , then place the peas garlic and mint and toss in the pan so ingredients are all combined.
• Cooking time for the zucchini garnish should be nice and quick, so no more than 4 to 5 minutes.
• Place all ingredients on a plate and devourer.

Makes:2 to 3 serves

Prep/cook time: 30 minutes.

• Gluten free
• Dairy free
• Nightshades free
• Egg free

Portuguese-style BBQ chicken

My darling wife, Erica, made prepared a cracking main last night. All I had to do was whack it on the BBQ. She got the recipe from Australian Women's Weekly. I know, amazing, some decent content in that rag!

Here's what you need:

• 2 tsp sweet paprika
• 2 tsp chilli powder
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 2 tsp garlic powder
• 2 tsp onion powder
• 2 tsp salt
• 1kg of chicken (we used breast but thigh would be good too)
• olive oil

The method is easy:

• Mix the powdered ingredients in a plastic bag
• Slice the chicken evenly
• Throw the chicken in the bag and coat it evenly
• Cook on the BBQ (I sealed it on the plate then grilled it for a little more flavour)

We ate it with a salad. Lots of avocado as the chook was a tad spicy.

Note: you could remove the salt if you really wanted to.