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The easiest roast chicken dinner ever

May 25, 2012 in Cooking with Woolies, Woolies Pantry

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Isn’t it great how happy cooking can make you! This week has been one of those inexplicably mad weeks. Maybe it has something to do with the end of the month drawing near, but at around 4pm this afternoon my head was spinning with a never-ending to-do list.

I don’t know if you ever get yourself into the same spin, but the only thing that normally helps is a trip to the shops.

Usually shopping for clothes lifts my spirits, but since the leftover noodles didn’t quite hit the spot for lunch, a food shop was in order. This is where I happened across Woolworths’ butter-basted, easy-to-cook chicken. I originally thought of making peri-peri chicken from scratch, but I still had a few things to do so I thought I’d take the shortcut.

Roast chicken with shoestring potatoes

Roast chicken with shoestring potatoes

It is currently on the Eat In For 4 for under R150 special offer (which also offers the option of a Portuguese peri peri easy-cook roast chicken and a herby Tuscan version).

A delicious roast chicken dinner was ready to be put into the oven. All I needed to do was make my favourite shoestring potatoes to serve on the side. You can also cut yellow peppers in half, scoop out the pips and stuff them with rosa tomatoes, feta, olives, garlic and fresh basil. Drizzle a little olive oil over and season with freshly ground black pepper, but no salt as the feta is already salty.

It was so effortless (and did I say delish), that this meal became the highlight of my week. It may sound silly, but nothing makes me feel better than a home-cooked meal when you’re on deadline and teetering on the edge of a crazy week!

Do yourself a favour and give it a try. By cooking the chicken in the bag it retains all the beautiful flavours and the chicken is super moist.

Have a great weekend filled with food you love to eat.

Hannah

Consultant Food Editor, Woolworths TASTE

xx

Ps, on the topic of chicken, if you’re in the mood for a warming chicken casserole, follow the link to the Woolies Pantry for a delicious recipe. All the ingredients are ready to be bundled into a virtual basket and bought online. This recipe is one of Abigail Donnelly’s absolute favourites.

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Souper bowls

May 21, 2012 in Cooking with Woolies

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I really love what I do and getting paid for it, so I can keep doing what I love, makes me one really lucky girl. But sometimes my job takes me well into the night, and last night was one of those days.

I came home after 9pm, starving and with no energy to make myself a bowl of something hot and wholesome from scratch.

Then I remembered a Woolworths’ Fresh Asian Noodle soup mix that we recently shot for TASTE (the May issue with the gorgeous spicy pink cover), and that I still had a packet in my kitchen cupboard.

Everything is super fresh and super tasty, all I needed to do was add all of the ingredients to a saucepan with 1 L of water and slowly cook for about 35 minutes for a light and comforting Asian-style noodle broth. It felt so good to bite into crunchy mangetout and fresh red pepper knowing that it took minutes to make and my body was getting the nutrients it needed to get me through the next day.

Each packet is enough to generously feed four people, and I’m sure it’s going to become a regular in my home this winter. You can easily jazz of bulk it up by adding shredded, cooked chicken or boiled eggs and serve with prawn crackers.

I also can’t get enough of Woolworths Fresh Spanish Chorizo and bean soup, it’s gloriously spicy and has a robust, smokey flavour from the chorizo. I often add freshly chopped chilli with lots of fresh rocket and sometimes I even crumble a bit of feta in it for lunch at the office.

I hope you have a happy Monday and a great week.

Love Hannah

 

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