Chicken Cobbler (Aldi)

Ingredients

  • 1 x 375g Chicken Thigh Fillets, diced
  • 2 x onions
  • ½ swede
  • 300g carrots
  • 40g butter
  • 40g Plain Flour
  • 1 tsp each English mustard and Dijon mustard
  • 1 x Chicken Stock Cube
  • 500ml Milk
  • 100ml Cream
  • 100ml boiling water
  • 1 tsp dried or fresh thyme
  • salt and black pepper
  • a dash of olive oil

For the Scones

  • 60g butter
  • 200g flour
  • 140ml milk
  • 2 tsp dried parsley
    1. Pre-heat the oven to 190˚C (or 170°C  fan forced)
    2. Peel and chop the onions.
    3. Sauté the onions and diced chicken in a large frying pan or wok with a little oil until lightly browned, then transfer to a casserole dish.
    4. Trim the carrots and cut into chunky pieces.  Peel the swede and chop into small chunks. Cook the carrots and swede in some lightly salted boiling water for 5 minutes. Drain and add to the chicken.
    5. Melt the butter in a small saucepan, add the flour and cook for a minute.
    6. Add the milk slowly, stirring as you do, then bring to the boil.
    7. Crumble the stock cube in the boiling water, mix to dissolve then add this to the white sauce along with the cream, mustards and the dried parsley, season with some black pepper and cook for a further couple of minutes.
    8. Pour the sauce over the chicken and stir through.

    To make the Scones

    1. In a large mixing bowl, rub the butter into the flour.
    2. Sprinkle over the parsley then mix in the milk with your fingers.
    3. Divide the mixture into 8 pieces, lightly roll into balls then put on the top of the chicken mix.
    4. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes until the scones are browned.

Steamed Chinese Cabbage Parcels

Stuffed with a yummy chicken mince filling, these steamed parcels are a delight to eat…without the calories – Servings: 4

  • 250 gm chicken mince
  • 1 egg white
  • 2 Tab spring onion, chopped
  • 2 Tab carrots, chopped
  • 2 Tab mushrooms, chopped
  • 1/2 tsp chilli garlic paste
  • 1 Tab soy sauce
  • 1/2 chicken stock cube crumbled
  • Black pepper and salt, to taste
  • 1 Tab sesame oil
  • 1 Tab ginger, chopped
  • 1 tsp castor sugar
  • 2 Tab ginger juice
  • 1 big Chinese cabbage leaves removed and blanched in hot water (moulding consistency)

    Serve with:

  • Soy and vinegar with ginger slivers and green chillies
  • Sriracha sauce
    • 1.Mix the chicken mince with all ingredients (apart from the cabbage leaves). Marinate for at least 4 hours or overnight.
    • 2.Now take cabbage leaves and put a tablespoon of mince in the center of leaf and tie up with spring onion green stem. Chop the extra stem.
    • 3.Steam well (20 minutes approx.) in a steamer. Serve in a bamboo basket with your favorite sauces.