Monday, June 22, 2009

White Wine Chicken Bake

This is has comfort food written all over it. It takes about 5 minutes to prep, and 1 hour and 15 minutes to cook.

4 Chicken breasts
1 Box of chicken stuffing (or about 2 1/2 cups)
1 Can Cream of Chicken Soup (I use the low fat cream of chicken)
4 slices Swiss cheese
1 stick butter
1/2 cup white wine-I am not a fan of cooking wine- I don't think it gives enough flavor. This dish gets it's flavor from the addition of the wine and cheese, so I would not substitute, but that's me and I love wine. You could use any dry white wine. The last time I made it we used a Chardonnay because that was what we had planned to drink with dinner.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Mix the white wine and cream of chicken soup together in the bottom of the casserole dish.
Place chicken breasts into the mixture, and add cheese on top of the chicken.

In separate bowl, melt butter in bowl and add stuffing. Toss until stuffing is coated-it will not puff up. Then add this mixture to the top of the casserole dish.

Cover casserole dish with lid or tin foil. Place in oven to cook for 1 hour. After 1 hour, remove cover and cook for an additional 15-20 minutes.

Enjoy!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Salmon burgers

Salmon Burgers
This was inspired by an episode I saw on the Paula Dean show. She uses a japanese breadcrumb instead of the traditional dry breadcrumbs, and it makes a big difference.

Burgers:
1-2lbs of salmon fillet-silver skin removed
1/2-3/4 cup of "Panko" (Japanese bread crumbs from the asian food aisle)
1 egg beaten
1/2 onion chopped fine
1/2 red bell pepper chopped fine
salt
pepper
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tsp dill
1 tsp mayonaisse

Instructions
1. Remove skin from Salmon, and chop remaining fish into the smallest possible chunks
2. Dice the pepper and onion finely
3. Add Salmon, onion, pepper, beaten egg, salt, soy, dill, breadcrumbs and mayo
4. Mix with hands or spatula, adding additional bread crumbs as needed
5. form into pattyies and place in heated frying pan with olive oil
6. Cook aprox 4 minutes on each side at a medium heat or until they are flaky and light pink. You could also do a quick flash fry and then bake for a more tender salmon burger.
7. Toast buns and add sauce below for additional flavor


Sauce:
1/4 cup mayonaisse
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp dill
hamburger buns
Mix all sauce ingredients and spread on cooked burgers as desired