Alrighty, let’s get this journey underway…. I decided to start with something relatively easy. But I’m saying that I’m doing to recipes together. I’m making a meal with both the “Sticky Honey Chicky Wings” and the “Shreddy Mango and Chicken Salad”.
It all began the day before when I quite easily made up the sauce for the wings and threw in my thawed chicken nibblets. It smells good. And even though it doesn’t say it in the recipe I will probably baste this in the sauce before I go to bed and throughout the day tomorrow to make sure to flavour soaks into the chicken.
The salad was nice and easy to throw together while I was poaching the chicken. I was running low on coriander so I didn’t end up putting in the whole amount of that.
I feel that my oven must run hotter than hers or it could be the fact that I was a little preoccupied with making the salad and I didn’t keep an eye on the chicken pieces but I put them in for the amount of time suggested and they came out a little burnt.
When it came time to tasting both of these recipes they were both quite flavourful. As my chicken bits were a bit over done they were a bit dry and to me were a bit burnt but that was entirely my fault and my husband and kids still ate and enjoyed them. The salad was so refreshing and light. The flavours all complimented each other and none really over powered the dish. My son complained that he didn’t like all the things in there but he complains about everything. My daughter and husband enjoyed it. My husband commented on how fresh it was and even enjoyed the mango even though he has said before that he doesn’t like fruit in his salad (little does he know I’ll be doing a few more shortly).
I think I will be making the salad again because it is a summery dish that would go down well on a hot day and it was so easy to throw together.
All in all I would give the chicken a 3 out of 5 even though I think the fault was my own in over cooking them and the salad would get a 4.5 out of 5.
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