Little people don’t need takeaway food to keep them happy. Sometimes if you get them involved in making their favourites it’s not only cost effective, but also instills a few basic cooking skills and hopefully an interest in food. Dean our grandson has been staying with us for a few days. 7 years old is not too young to be cooking under supervision. Well we don’t think so any way!….
Dean likes Pasta Bolognese – So here’s him helping to make it!
The finished results!
He’s also rather keen on Chicken Nuggets. But our home made version is considerably healthier….
We did give him breakfast and lunch so he didn’t need to stick to our “One hearty meal a day” gig, but even so we didn’t break our £4 a budget too dramatically…...
It's a long time since we had Southern Style Chicken. Clearly in the tent a deep fat fryer wasn't an option. In the hostel we weren't allowed to use one and I killed our old one by accident but that's another story!
This recipe works either baked in the oven for the slightly healthier version or deep fried.
Ingredients:-
2 Chicken breasts
1 tub of Buttermilk
Plain (Gluten free if you wish) Flour for the deep fried version
1 bag of salted Tortilla chips for the oven roasted version
Chilli flakes
Garlic Salt
Hot Paprika powder
Mixed herbs
Salt and Pepper
Method:-
(1) Cut the Chicken into strips.
(2) Place in a bowl in the Buttermilk and refrigerate for a least 2 hours.
(3) Smash the Tortilla chips into crumbs for the oven roasted version.
(4) Season the Tortilla chip crumbs or flour with the remaining ingredients.
(5) Coat the chicken in either the seasoned Tortilla chips or flour.
(6) Deep fry or roast at 180c until golden brown
We served ours with hand cut chips, home made Coleslaw and Chilli Tomato Ketchup.