… Braised Greens & Potato Gratin
So basically this is kind of like a Sunday lunch that you make in fifteen minutes (or nearly eighteen minutes in my case). This meal looked a bit special and so it seemed fitting for a Friday night.
Tonight I have Gavin, Debbie, Dan and Cat coming for dinner.
There seems a lot to do tonight. And there are lots of things on the hob. A big frying pan, a large lidded pan and a roasting tin. I have a small hob. A pathetically small hob.
It is unbelievable that you can make a gratin in fifteen (ish) minutes. But you can and it tastes good. Very, very good. There’s potatoes to slice and boil. Onions to slice and fry. Chicken to season and bash and then fry. And after all that there’s just a few vegetables to braise.
My potatoes took longer to cook than they should have and some of the chicken took a bit longer to cook than it should have as well. I think this was down just how much was on the hob so the top half of the potato pan and the bottom half of the frying pan were not really over the heat. It just took a bit too long to get the gratin under the grill. You use the potato pan to braise the veg and so the delay in the gratin making affected the braising of the vegetables.
It was all done and on the table in just under eighteen minutes. I was a little disappointed. This is my second worst time. This really was a delicious meal. The flavours of a nice Sunday dinner in under twenty minutes. You can’t really be too disappointed can you?
Oh, by the way this is the first fifteen minute meal I have cooked where I have seen Jamie cook it first on his TV show. I did notice that it helped with holding the recipe in my head and I didn’t have to consult the book anything like as much as normal.
As it’s Friday night I did make a pudding tonight. I had to step outside of the fifteen minute meals book for this as there are no puddings in the book. I made a strawberry and raspberry mascarpone tart. I made the pastry too quickly and without enough care so it was far from the best pastry I’ve made, but never mind.
This was a really nice meal and a really nice evening with some new friends.
How long: Seventeen minutes and fifty nine seconds
Who with: Dan, Cat, Debbie and Gavin
