Melba's Jammin said:I'm teaching a large group how to make the stuff in a couple days and
would like to provide a couple recipes for using it *other than* the
cream cheese and cracker thing.
O, Great Ones, have you any recipes for me to consider? I'm looking for
tried and true ‹ I've found a couple via searches, and hope for an
'actual.'
Thanks. I await your counsel and advise. I need them by tomorrow
night.
Below is something that would work with real pepper jelly and not the
reject stuff I made. Note that there are pecans in the salad!
Try Chicken a la Sade (from a 1997 post to rfc):
Okay, it's only a working title, but the bondage idea is important (to
me and to the aesthetics of the meal.)
I made a dead-in-the-water attempt at habanero jelly yesterday--turned
out to be hab syrup. (10 habs seeded and julienned, 10 cups sugar, 3
cups cider vinegar, one pkg pectin--basically off the mark--just ask
Barb S.) So the plan was to capitalize on the largess of failed jelly
with some chicken:
Four skinless chicken breasts marinated in lime juice and a dash of
soy sauce for 4 hours (or so)
three lemons, sliced thinly
Using cotton twine, tie the lemon slices onto the chicken carefully
like a skin. The idea is to make the lemon bits into a skin for the
chicken. Put the chicken and lemon packages in a non-reactive pan
into a hot oven (ca. 400 degrees) for 35 minutes, basting periodically
with:
1 cup habanero syrup (habs, sugar, cider vinegar, pectin)
2 Tblsp seame seeds
1/2 cup sherry
1/2 tsp orange zest
(reduce all to a thick glaze-which doesn't take long, so watch it)
Nota bene: I've done this before with apricot preserves, cayenne
chiles and sherry instead of the above concoction--you can figure the
proportions, yes?)
Serve with a green salad (Romaine, red onion, red grapefruit sections,
and toasted pecans) and rice to sop up the juice.
The pan juices drizzeled on the rice did a good job to fill out the
meal. My guests, who were in an adventurous mood, actually liked
messing with the twine to get at the chicken. One (PhD from Duke)
actually sucked the caramelized basting sauce from the twine on his
portion. It was yummy.
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