Dijon Chicken Stew With Spinach And Ravioli Recipes

CREAMY CHICKEN WITH RAVIOLI AND SPINACH

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salty water to a boil.
• Heat a large skillet with a few tablespoons of olive oil and fry the onion until softened for about 5 minutes. Add the crushed garlic and cook for a further 30 seconds. Add a knob of butter and when it's bubbling, add the chicken and fry until golden.
• Add the flour and cook for about a minute or two then add the wine to deglaze the pan, scraping any bits that got stuck on the pan. Add the stock in 2 parts and cook until the sauce has thickened (about 3 minutes).
• Add the cream, Dijon mustard and chopped tomato and season with salt and a generous few grinds of black pepper. Allow the sauce to cook for a minute or two then add the chopped basil. Once that's in, add the spinach and stir through to wilt.
• Start cooking your ravioli by dropping each piece individually in the boiling water to ensure the pasta stays separated. It will take about 3 minutes to cook if it is fresh. I highly recommend timing the cooking of the pasta once the sauce has been made so that it can be added directly to the pan after it has been drained. It's ok if a little of the pasta water carries into the pan.
• Stir gently to combine and serve immediately with freshly grated Parmesan.

CHICKEN CATCHATORY-RAVIOLI STEW

Steps:

• Heat a big soup pot over medium high heat. Have a GH (grown-up helper) do this for you.
• WHACK the garlic with a fist or the palm of your hand. Separate the skins from the smashed garlic and throw just the skins away into the garbage bowl. WHACK the 3 cloves of garlic with the bottom of a small saucepan. Add extra-virgin olive oil, 2 turns of the pan, to the soup pot. Throw in the garlic and 2 stems each of the rosemary and fresh thyme herbs. The leaves will fall off the stems and give a delicious and really cool flavor to your special stew. Add the mushrooms, too and help stir as the mushrooms cook 3 to 5 minutes. Season the mushrooms up with a little salt and pepper as they're cooking.
• Next, have the GH open the can of tomatoes and pour into the soup pot. Use a sharp, small knife to chop the red roasted bell peppers. Keep your fingers on the hand that is not holding the knife curled under so you don't chop off a whole finger! You just want to cut up those peppers into pieces as big as your mouth, that's what they call "bite-size." Add the chopped up roasted red peppers to the tomatoes and stir. Squeeze as much liquid as possible out of the spinach. Add spinach, tomato sauce and chicken broth to the pot.. Stir really slowly or the soup will slosh out of your pot! Stir until the spinach is all broken up in the broth. Have the GH cover the soup and raise the heat to high.
• Have the GH cut up the chicken for you on a separate cutting board from the one you cut up the vegetables on. Tell them to use a plastic board. Cut the chicken tenders into 1-inch pieces across and add them to the stew. Tell the GH to go wash up right away with lots of soap and hot water so that the raw chicken doesn't get on anything else in the kitchen or any other food.
• When the stew comes up to a boil again, add the ravioli and leave the lid off. Cook stew until the ravioli is almost done, about 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and let the stew cool down a little bit. Have your GH serve up the stew and pass cheese and bread at the table to go with it.

DIJON CHICKEN STEW WITH POTATOES & KALE

Steps:

• Heat 1 tsp oil in Dutch Oven over medium-high heat.
• Add leek; saute 6 minutes or until tender and golden brown.
• Add garlic; saute 1 minute.
• spoon leek mixture into a bowl.
• Place 1/3 cup flour in a shallow bowl & dredge chicken; shaking off excess.
• Heat remaining 1 tablespoon oil in pan over medium-high heat.
• Add 1/2 chicken; sprinkle with 1/8 tsp salt & 1/8 tsp pepper.
• Cook 6 minutes browning on all sides.
• Add browned chicken to leek mixture.
• Repeat with remaining chicken.
• Add wine to pan, scraping pan to loosen browned bits.
• Combine 1 cup broth a 1 tbsp flour stirring with a whisk till smooth.
• Add broth mixture, remaining broth, water and mustard to pan; bring to boil.
• Stir in chicken mixture, remaining salt & pepper; cover, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Stir in potatoes, cover & simmer 30 minutes.
• Stir in Kale, cover and simmer 10 minutes.
• Garnish with red peppers and serve with bread, i.e, roll, toast, etc.