Spiced Chicken and Summer Vegetables en Papillote...

Cooking in paper (en papillote) is another technique that seal and retain all the wonderful cooking juices and flavor inside a dish without dissipated out. For my version, I use hindquarter of a chicken, marinated in spice mix, tossed in selection of summer vegetables: cherry tomatoes, celery, radish, green pea and shiitake mushroom. For fast and even cooking, I use maximum microwave heat for 5 minutes before continue on low heat for another 10 minutes. 

Detail recipe as below (single serving)

Ingredient: 

  • chicken hindquarter (roughly about 250g)
  • marinade (all spice mix, salt, pepper and sweet soy sauce)
  • 3 cloves of garlic, lightly crushed
  • thumb size of ginger, thinly sliced
  • 100g of green pea
  • 100g of cherry tomato
  • 50g of shiitake mushroom
Extra: Baking paper, approx 30cm square

Method.
  1. Marinade chicken in a bowl and leave for 1 hour to allow the flavor seeps into the chicken meat.
  2.  At the end of marinating time, add in all the vegetables along with garlic and ginger. Roughly mix all the component together.
  3. For en papillote, fold the baking paper diagonally in half to make a center seam. Place chicken hindquarter next to center seam and put the rest of vegetable mix on top of chicken. 
  4. Oppose the remaining half of baking paper and fold in the edge to make a tight seal as to resemble paper package. Put on microwave safe baking tray.
  5. Microwave at high heat for 5 minutes and continue cooking in low heat for another 10 minutes. 
  6. Allow standing time for another 5 minutes before serving. Serve in unopened package.  

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