Grilled Citrus Chicken
Pasta with Fresh Avocado Sauce
Cooking time: 25 minutes for menu Cooking schedule: see below for instructions
This can be served warm or cold, you can add the cooked sliced chicken on top or not. It's a very flexible dinner - as summer cooking should be.
Grilled Citrus Chicken
Total time: 25 minutes
This has a definite citrus flavor, the tart of lemon tempered by the orange marmalade and rounded out with the tomato in the ketchup.
Ingredients:
- 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- Marinade:
- 3 tbs orange marmalade
- 2 tbs lemon juice
- 2 tbs ketchup
- 2 tbs oil
Instructions:
- Mix all ingredients for marinade well with a whisk.
- Spoon over chicken breasts and let marinate for 10 minutes or longer.
- Either cook 10 - 15 minutes on barbecue grill or under broiler (4 inches ) for 6 - 8 minutes a side.
- They should be nicely browned and juices should run clear when pierced with a knife.
Pasta with Fresh Avocado Sauce
Total time: 25 minutes
Pasta with a creamy avocado sauce and fresh, chopped tomato. The avocado is heated, just slightly, to make it easier to mash and combine with the other ingredients. You could use milk in place of the yogurt.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup (3.3oz, 95gr) dried pasta
- 1 ripe avocado
- 1 garden ripe tomato
- 1/4 cup (2oz, 60gr) Greek or plain yogurt
- 1 tbs white Balsamic vinegar
- 1 tbs salad olive oil
Instructions:
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain.
- Cut avocado in half around the pit and twist halves -
they come apart neatly.
- Remove pit by inserting a medium-size spoon under the avocado, on the large end, as if you are lifting the avocado out of the shell. You will see the pit loosen; just tip the avocado over and it will fall out.
- Remove each half by scooping with a large spoon.
- Roughly chop avocado.
- Heat oil in a small saucepan. Add the avocado and heat, mashing with a fork or potato masher, chunky is fine.
- When mashed to your satisfaction, stir in yogurt (or milk) and vinegar. Stir well to combine and remove from heat.
- Roughly chop tomato.
- Put pasta in a bowl, add avocado sauce and stir to combine.
- Add tomato and mix in gently. Serve.
Cooking Schedule:
25 minutes for menu
Assemble all ingredients and utensils
Utensils: measuring cups, spoons, knives,
small bowl, dish for marinating, large pot for pasta,
colander, small saucepan, fork or masher,
barbecue grill or skillet
Put water on high heat for pasta
Make marinade, spoon over chicken
Light/ turn on barbecue grill
Pit, chop avocado
Make avocado sauce
Chop tomato |
Wait for water to boil...
Start to cook pasta
Start to cook chicken
Wait some more...
Turn chicken
Drain pasta
Remove chicken, let rest
Add sauce to pasta, mix
Add tomato, mix gently
Slice chicken
Arrange chicken on pasta
Serve all
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