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Citrus Marinated Chicken with Citrus, Goji Berry and Herb Cous Cous

This recipe is nice and simple and most of it can be prepared in advance. With the chicken you can use any cut you like such as thighs, breasts or the whole leg. The freshness of the citrus goes wonderfully with the roast chicken and you could change up the recipe a bit by waiting for the chicken to cool before shredding it and combining it with the cous cous for a salad at your next BBQ. For a brief video of me making the dish head over to my Instagram page and to get more info on citrus fruit, when they’re in season and industry news head to https://www.citrus.co.nz/


Citrus Marinated Chicken with Citrus, Goji Berry and Herb Cous Cous

Serves 4


Ingredients:


4 Chicken legs (or Breasts)

Salt and Pepper

Citrus Marinade

300g Citrus fruit (eg Tangelos, Oranges, Mandarins)

4Cl Garlic

4 Sprigs Rosemary

12Tbs Cooking Oil

4Tbs Olive Oil

Salt and Pepper

Citrus, Goji Berry and Herb Cous Cous

250g Cous Cous

1C Boiling Water

2Tbs Olive Oil

30g Sunflower Seeds

30g Goji Berries

4Tbs Parsley, chopped

12 Mint leaves, ripped up

Salt and Pepper


Method:


For the Chicken and Citrus Marinade:

Peel or zest the citrus fruit, keep the flesh to one side and with a knife cut the peel into strips along with any zest. Slice the garlic and combine with the chicken, oil, rosemary and seasoning in a bowl. Cover and leave for at least 4hrs or overnight.

For Cous Cous:

Remove any seeds from the citrus fruit and cut into small chunks. In a metal bowl or pot place the uncooked cous cous and then pour on the boiling water and the olive oil. Cover with glad wrap and leave for 5mins for the cous cous to absorb all the water. Chop up the goji berries. Using a fork break up the cous cous and then add the remaining ingredients and stir to combine.

To Serve:

Remove the chicken from the marinade and season the chicken. Place on a roasting tray and bake in a pre-heated oven at 200C until the skin is nice and crispy and when the juices run clear when a knife is inserted into the thickest part and the internal temperature has reached 75C.

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Roast chicken and spiced pumpkin w citrus slaw and croutons

One of the topics I am passionate about is food wastage. In an ideal world we would show respect to our food and have none of it go in the bin.

Recently I was able to team up with Love Food Hate Waste (https://lovefoodhatewaste.co.nz) as part of Wellington on a Plate and hold a cooking demonstration on how to use up some of the most commonly usable but thrown away household food items.

According to the Love Food Hate Waste website: “New Zealanders throw away 122,547 tonnes of food a year. That is equivalent to 213 jumbo jets of food that has to go somewhere to rot, instead of being eaten. All of this food is worth about $872 million each year. That amount of food could feed the population of Dunedin for two years!” That’s only in New Zealand, globally “one third of food produced globally is wasted; that is 1.3 billion tonnes of food that is never eaten.” That to me is just mental and we can all do (and should) do our part by reducing our waste as much as possible. Shared here are some of the recipes that use some of LFHW’s top ten chucked out food items that you can try at home.

Bolton Hotel Menu Tasting 30

Roast chicken and spiced pumpkin w citrus slaw and croutons
Serves 4
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Prep Time
45 min
Cook Time
30 min
Prep Time
45 min
Cook Time
30 min
Chicken Salad
  1. 300g cooked chicken, shredded
  2. 200g pumpkin
  3. ¼ cabbage
  4. 1 carrot
  5. ½ onion
  6. 3 slices stale bread, diced
Citrus mayo
  1. 2 whole egg
  2. 500ml canola (or other neutral) oil
  3. 1 teaspon Dijon mustard
  4. Salt, pepper, sugar
  5. Juice of 3 citrus fruit ie grapefruit, lemon, limes, oranges
Spice mix
  1. 1tsp ground coriander
  2. 1tsp ground cumin
  3. 1/2tsp allspice
For the mayo
  1. Reserve 1Tbs of the juiced citrus and place the rest in a pot and simmer until reduced by ¾. Using a stick blender or in a blender or food processor blend the whole eggs with the mustard and reserved Tbs of citrus juice until it becomes pale in appearance. Drizzle in the canola oil slowly to emulsify. Once all the oil is incorporated and the mayo is nice and thick fold in the citrus reduction and then season with a little salt and pepper and sugar (if required) to taste. If the mayo is too thick you can thin down with 1Tbs of hot water.
To make the salad
  1. Dice the pumpkin, toss in a little oil and then toss with the spice mix. Season with salt and pepper. Roast on a baking tray at 180C until tender, about 15minutes. Cool. Cut the bread into cubes and toss in a little oil, season and bake in the oven until lightly browned and crispy. Chiffonade/shred the cabbage thinly, julienne/finely slice the onion (red or white onion ok) and grate the peeled carrot. Fold through enough of the citrus mayo so the slaw is nicely coated. Serve with the pumpkin, chicken and croutons.
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