The Grilled Chicken Platter

It is kind of ironical for me to write a food post about meat on a Tuesday but anyway. So, some chicken was lying in our deep freezer. I have cooked chicken the Indian way a lot of times. This time I thought of cooking it and presenting it a little differently.

I decided to present my husband with a platter just the way you get at fancy restaurants. The platter consisted of some grilled chicken with sautéed vegetables, mushroom rice and mashed potatoes on the sides, drizzled with some white sauce.

 

My husband really liked it and so did I. It brought a pleasant change to our everyday menu.

All you need is a little preparation beforehand. Below are the contents of the platter. All the ingredients will together create one platter on the whole. 

The Grilled Chicken Platter

For Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients

1 big potato (boiled)

4 tbsp milk

1 tbsp butter

Salt as per taste

Pepper as per taste

Recipe

Mash the potato in a blender. Add milk to it and blend again. It will become thick, creamy and sticky. 

Transfer it to a bowl and add butter, salt and pepper. Mix well in a circular motion.

Let it sit in the fridge till it is time to serve.

For Mushroom Rice

Ingredients

A fistful of rice

2 cups of water

6 mushrooms roughly chopped

2 tbsp oil

Salt as per taste

Pepper as per taste

½ tbsp oregano

Recipe

Soak rice for an hour.

Add oil to a pan and sauté mushrooms. Drain the rice and add it to the pan.

Season the rice with salt and pepper.  

Pour water and cover the rice till they are almost cooked. Sprinkle oregano and fold gently and they are ready.

For Sautéed Vegetables

Ingredients

4 beans

1 onion sliced in long strips

1 carrot chopped roughly

A few flowers of broccoli

A few flowers of cauliflower

Handful of sweet corn

1 tbsp oil

Salt as per taste

Pepper as per taste

1 tbsp green chilli sauce (optional)

Recipe

Put oil in a pan. Add onions to it. When the onions are slightly translucent add other veggies.

Sprinkle some water and add salt. Cover the pan till the veggies are slightly soft.

Add chilli sauce and pepper. Mix well and keep aside till it is time to serve.

For White Sauce

Ingredients

1 tbsp butter

½ tbsp of garlic powder

½ tbsp all purpose flour

1 cup milk

Salt as per taste

Pepper as per taste

½ tbsp oregano

Recipe

Heat butter in a flat bottom pan. Add garlic powder and cook for 5 seconds.

Add all purpose flour. Sauté for 15-20 seconds and add milk while constantly stirring the all purpose flour and butter mix to avoid any lumps. Season with salt, pepper and oregano and it is ready to drizzle.

For Grilled Chicken

Ingredients

2 chicken breasts

4-5 tbsp of Oil

Juice of a lemon

Salt as per taste

Pepper as per taste

1 tbsp of oregano

Recipe

Mix salt, pepper and a tbsp of oil in lemon juice to make a marinade.

Prick the chicken breasts with a fork at various places and pour the marinade over it. Rub the marinade proper over the chicken and refrigerate this for at least 2 hours.

Put a flat pan on flame and add some oil to the pan. Drop the chicken breasts into the pan and cook on low flame till the chicken is properly cooked (it is cooked once the flesh is white inside out). Keep tossing it till it gets golden brown. Sprinkle more pepper if you like. Sprinkle oregano and it is ready to be plated.

PLATING

Heat everything before you serve except the chicken which will be served fresh off the pan.

Put rice in a bowl and then place it upside down on the plate. Put a portion of veggies.

Further, put mashed potatoes in one corner. Take the grilled chicken off the pan and put it on the plate.

For the final touches drizzle the sauce over the chicken and serve it hot.

Notes:

If the chicken is taking time to cook. Cover it for a few minutes and then take the lid off. Keep cooking till it gets brown on the outside.

You can use as many veggies as you wish. I used what was available in my kitchen. You can use babycorn, capsicum and even zucchini.

Vegetarians do not fret. You can please your tummies with a similar platter by using big fat slices of cottage cheese (paneer) instead of chicken breasts.

HAPPY DIGGING IN!!!!