Thursday 16 June 2011

Chicken Fricassee for 3 or 4

1 Tablespoon / 2 oz of butter
1 Onion chopped
2 teaspoons medium Curry Powder
3-4 slices of bacon Cut into pieces 
1 heaped Tablespoon of plain flour
about 1/2 pt milk
75g of Pasta per portion
Chopped carrots and other veg as required
Left over pieces of cooked Chicken/ Turkey

Melt the butter and sweat the onion gently in a casserole with lid on.
When onion soft, fry bacon.
Then stir flour and curry powder into the fat and cook the roux for a couple of minutes - keep stirring.
Add milk slowly and keep stirring over heat to bring to boil and cook for a couple of minutes.
Add seasoning to taste
Add sufficient chicken pieces for no of portions required and cook fricassee for 15 minutes.
Place chopped carrots in a pan of boiling water and cook for 12 minutes
Now place pasta in large pan of boiling water and cook for 10 minutes
Drain pasta when cooked and serve with vegetables and fricassee