poached chicken with aioli also veggie version

[rivergirl]

This one is well worth making as it is very versatile, is good with pots,rice,pasta,chips even stuffed into bread rolls and baked in the barbie or fire embers. If you do not want to make your own mayo then just add grated garlic to shop bought .
The posh version is made with a jointed whole chicken but this poor mans version uses thighs and or drumsticks.

2lb chicken
2 large onions chopped
6 large cloves of garlic chopped
1 bouquet garni
4 small leeks sliced
2 large carrots smallish chunks
1/4 swede small dice
1 bunch fresh chives chopped
a good handful of frozen veg (peas, sweetcorn etc to throw in at the end)
salt and black pepper
aioli
fry the onions in butter and a little oil until translucent add the leeks and then all the veg and B.Garni cover with chicken stock and cook for about 10 mins add the chicken and if needed top up the stock. Simmer for about 20 mins add the frozen veg if using and simmer until everything is cooked.
Remove the B, garni and add salt and pepper to taste . remove about 4 ladles of the juice and put into a bowl add aioli and whisk to make a sauce ( try and add it slowly or the sauce may sep , if this happens its not spoiled just not so pretty or smooth) add the chopped chives. Pour back into saucepan and serve . ( don't forget the chunks of fresh baked bread to mop the sauce up.
If you want it a bit thicker remove more of the stock from the pan before you add the sauce. This can be frozen to reuse as stock again. If you put it in bread rolls strain off most of the sauce , you can then reuse this tomorrow by adding more frozen vegs.

veggie version.
Is exactly the same just remove the meat but you could add fish in just before the end ( salmon is good)

aioli
5 -10 cloves of garlic (I like 100
coarse sea salt
2 egg yolks
!heaped tbls mustard
500ml olive oil or half veg half olive
crush the garlic with the salt , in a bowl add it to the eggs and mustard and drizzle in the oil whisking.
You will need half of this recipe for the chicken dish.

[Fat Bob]

Psst veggies don't eat fish.. pescatarians do...

[rivergirl]

I know but I have met quite a few people who call themselves veggies but are fish eating . I love this stew just made with the veggies , its the sauce it screams to be mopped up with fresh bread

[Fat Bob]

They may - but they ain't... Sans death it sounds great.

[Calaf]

I know vegetarians who happily eat fish and a couple who also eat chicken. I also know one who eats chicken but not fish. Then there are the vegetarians that just think beef is meat.

It's up to them what they call themselves I suppose.

I don't eat yoghurt and mushrooms. Should I have a label? Apart from "fussy", that is.

ps- my neighbour is a self decribed "vegetarian" but has always been interested in my Jamon Pata Negra or whatever other interesting things I bring back from Spain and Italy.

[Fat Bob]

Why label themselves vegetarian when they most obviously are not? Yoghurt and mushrooms is a strange combination - I can understand your reluctance to eat this combo - who makes you do it?

Just firing up the ZHR oven for pizza tonight.

[turkey]

perhaps its cool to be a vegi but pescatarians sounds like the posh name for a pest control rat catcher type job. ? ;-)

no idea but sound like some folks just don't think things through, to me fish seem to suffer more than other animals so would have thought for folks who thinks its cruel they would be first off the list.

[cannyfradock]

Rivergirl

First off......brilliant recipe. Followed it nearly exactly with the exception of only having frozen petit pois as the frozen veg......it turned out perfect!!! I usually have home made Aioli at hand, but use Elizabeth David's "cheating" recipe....using a hard boiled egg yolk at the start which reduces the amount of oil needed to get the perfect "ointment".

Adding to the comments about Pescatarians......I always try to understand the why and wherefore of differing diets and read some time ago that Pescatarians are apposed to eating meat because of the "suffering" angle. The reason why they differ from vegetarians is that fish have no nerves which cause pain........likewise the make up of chickens also cause no suffering to the bird when humanely "taken". Thus Pescatarians will eat fish.....and sometimes chicken. I could of course be totally wrong, but I@m still learning.

Terry

[Fat Bob]

Pescestarianism probably came from people that lived from the sea.

Here are some excerpts from wikipedia:

Pescetarianism is the practice of a diet that includes seafood but not the flesh of other animals. A pescetarian diet shares many of its components with a vegetarian diet and includes vegetables, fruit, nuts, grains, beans, eggs, and dairy, but unlike a vegetarian diet also includes fish and shellfish. The Merriam-Webster dictionary dates the origin of the term "pescetarian" to 1993 and defines it to mean: "one whose diet includes fish but no meat".

Vegetarianism encompasses the practice of following plant-based diets (fruits, vegetables, etc.), with or without the inclusion of dairy products or eggs, and with the exclusion of meat (red meat, poultry, and seafood).

Semi-vegetarian diets consist largely of vegetarian foods, but may include fish or poultry, or sometimes other meats on an infrequent basis. Those with diets containing fish or poultry may define "meat" only as mammalian flesh and may identify with vegetarianism.

Semi-vegetarian diets.

Flexitarian diet: A predominantly vegetarian diet, in which meat is occasionally consumed.

Kangatarian: A diet originating from Australia. In addition to foods permissible in a vegetarian diet, kangaroo meat is also consumed.

Pescetarian diet: A diet which includes fish but not meat.

Plant-based diet: A broad term to describe diets in which animal products do not form a large proportion of the diet. Under some definitions a plant-based diet is fully vegetarian; under others it is possible to follow a plant-based diet whilst occasionally consuming meat.

I must admit to never having met or even heard of a Kangatarian.

I think it is good that people concider what they eat but should stick to standard definitions otherwise words become useless.

[baronkev]

I have heard of Pescatarians but never met anyone that called themselves Pescatarian. It is a silly word like kangatarian. Why put a label on yourself based oin what you like and dislike, as if you were special?

[Terry Hardwood]

Apr 16, 2012 7:07:16 GMT baronkev said:

I have heard of Pescatarians but never met anyone that called themselves Pescatarian. It is a silly word like kangatarian. Why put a label on yourself based oin what you like and dislike, as if you were special?

Vegetarians do think they are special.