Thursday, 29th January 2009
The Faux Pas
It can happen to everybody – even to a hobby cook like me - but I can bear it.
Yesterday I made the sad experience myself as my friend Frauke visited me. I wanted to surprise her with a delicious salad made out of chicken breast filet, lettuce, different fruits and a wonderful orange dressing. The visual appearance of the salad was really appetising.
I squeezed an orange and filled the juice in a cup where I added later some honey, salt, pepper, lime juice and olive oil. I stirred the dressing and poured it over the salad.
When Frauke has nearly finished the wonderful creation of mine I asked her hopefully about her judgement. It looked strange to me as she tasted again my product before she spoke, choosing the words very careful: not too bad but a bit wishy-washy. I felt this slight critic like a heavy scratch on my cook honour.
When my guest was gone and while cleaning the kitchen I met suddenly a cup of orange juice harmoniously resting beside a second cup of the same kind - but empty. Now I found the solution of that enigma. If the orange juice was still there I had used the chamomile tea in the other cup as basic for that awful tasting “orange - dressing”.
Here now the recipe with the strong advise to use only the ingredients which are mentioned below.
Ingredients for one portion:
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2 |
fistful |
leaves of a lettuce |
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1 |
small |
orange |
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1 |
fistful |
grapes |
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1/8 |
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canteloupe |
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2 |
tbsp |
sunflower seeds |
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½ |
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chicken breast filet |
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some |
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salt |
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some |
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pepper |
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some |
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cayenne pepper |
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some |
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olive oil (for roasting) |
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For the dressing: |
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Juice of ½ |
small |
orange |
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2 |
tbsp |
lime juice |
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1 |
pinch |
salt |
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1 |
pinch |
pepper |
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1 |
tbsp |
liquid honey |
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3 |
tbsp |
olive oil |
Directions:
- Wash and pat chicken breast filet dry. Then season it with salt, pepper and cayenne pepper.
- Heat oil in a pan and roast chicken breast filet until well-done (about 10 minutes).
- Wash leaves of a lettuce.
- Fillet orange.
- Wash grapes and cut into halves.
- Cut canteloupe into bite-sized peaces.
- Roast sunflower seeds (or use it unroasted).
- Prepare the dressing: Orangen- und Lime juice, salt, pepper, and honey, then add olive oil and stir it.
- Arrange leaves of the lettuce, orange, grapes and canteloupe on a plate. Then pour the dressing on the salad. Now distribute the sunflower seeds on the salad. Anschließend die Sonnenblumenkerne darüber streuen. At last cutt he chicken breast filet into pieces and arrange then on the salad.
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