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glisharaOMG YUM.
Okay, the Pomegranate-Walnut Chicken? An INTENSE success.
I made a few changes to the recipe. First off, I cut the chicken breasts in half width-wise, because doing that always makes me feel like I have more food. I browned for slightly less time because of that.
I didn't grind the walnuts as finely as they say, and it gave the sauce an almost chutney-ish feel: I could cheerfully have eaten it with a fork. Cooking for only two people and two kids who weren't going to go for this meal, I halved all the sauce proportions, which meant it thickened more quickly than the recipe said (more surface area). I also left out the tomato paste, cause, um, I ran out of tomato paste. There was a lot of sauce left over.
I made it with saffron rice and a salad for the vegetable.
It was really, really good. Almost sweet, but balanced by the nuts to give it a nice earthiness. It really, really, REALLY didn't taste like a dish with only 300 calories per serving: I think the entire meal had well under 600 calories, even with a lot of salad and a decent-sized rice serving.
Definite thumbs-up!
Okay, the Pomegranate-Walnut Chicken? An INTENSE success.
I made a few changes to the recipe. First off, I cut the chicken breasts in half width-wise, because doing that always makes me feel like I have more food. I browned for slightly less time because of that.
I didn't grind the walnuts as finely as they say, and it gave the sauce an almost chutney-ish feel: I could cheerfully have eaten it with a fork. Cooking for only two people and two kids who weren't going to go for this meal, I halved all the sauce proportions, which meant it thickened more quickly than the recipe said (more surface area). I also left out the tomato paste, cause, um, I ran out of tomato paste. There was a lot of sauce left over.
I made it with saffron rice and a salad for the vegetable.
It was really, really good. Almost sweet, but balanced by the nuts to give it a nice earthiness. It really, really, REALLY didn't taste like a dish with only 300 calories per serving: I think the entire meal had well under 600 calories, even with a lot of salad and a decent-sized rice serving.
Definite thumbs-up!
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Date: 2009-02-09 11:46 pm (UTC)Vegan-influenced? New Age? Hippie?
I submit in my defense that it was my unthinking gut reaction. And, er, I apparently didn't think through the realism of my post very well. (Clearly, listening to Al Franken audiobooks about right wing smear tactics influenced my, uh, self-fact checking.)