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Introducing this month’s featured recipe from our seasonal spring menu: roast corn fed chicken breast, braised leg, pearl barley, glazed heritage carrots, wild mushrooms & mustard sauce Soubise
Chicken
Ingredients
Whole chicken, prepped and made into stock
Chicken breast, french trimmed
Chicken leg, deboned
Fresh herbs
Baby spinach
Method
Pan fry breast to order, glaze with butter and finish off in oven until cooked above 75c and rest before slicing.
Debone the chicken leg, season, stuff with fresh herbs and baby spinach and roll tight in cling film and chill overnight.
Remove cling film and pan fry until brown all over, then braise in chicken stock to finish and slice.
Pearl barley
Ingredients
White onion, diced
2 shallots, diced
Wild garlic, diced
Leeks, diced
Fresh thyme
Carrots, diced
2tbsp olive oil
2tbsp tomato puree
500g pearl barley
1500ml chicken stock
Method
Pan fry all of the vegetables, then add the pearl barley, tomato puree and stock.
Boil until cooked and then season.
Glazed carrots
Cut carrots into desired shapes, boil until cooked through, chill and then pan fry in a hot pan with butter and fresh herbs. Season and serve.
Wild mushrooms
Prepare mushrooms and pan fry with 2 fine diced shallots and 1 garlic clove, then chill. Some are for the sauce and some for plating.
Sauce Soubise
1tsp Dijon mustard
1tsp wholegrain mustard
2 white onions, diced
200g butter
Make a classic béchamel of 500g, add 1tsp of Dijon mustard then add 1tsp wholegrain mustard.
Sweat down the onions with the butter and seasoning until cooked but not brown and then puree in a blender.
For the sauce, mix the onion puree and the mustard with béchamel and then add some chicken stock. Whisk together, add a few of the wild mushrooms and serve.
