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RECIPE DEVELOPED FOR KIKKOMAN
Serves: 4
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
2 teaspoons rice bran oil
500g beef mince
2 cloves garlic, minced
2cm ginger, minced
Pinch dried chilli flakes
⅓ cup Kikkoman Teriyaki Marinade
1 x 200g packet plain corn chips
2 cups (440g) shredded Cheddar cheese
1 small carrot, shredded
1 cup coriander, leaves picked and roughly chopped
1 small Lebanese cucumber, finely sliced
1 long red chilli, finely sliced
6 spring onions, finely sliced
Chilli Soy Guacamole
1 large avocado
¼ cup full-fat yoghurt
2 teaspoons Kikkoman Soy Sauce
2 teaspoons sesame oil
Pinch dried chilli flakes
Method
1. Heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium-heat high. Add in the beef mince and cook, breaking up with a wooden spoon, for 4-5 minutes, until nicely browned and cooked through. Add in the garlic, ginger and chilli flakes and stir through for 1 minute, or until fragrant. Add the Kikkoman Teriyaki Marinade and stir through until well coated. Remove from the heat.
2. Preheat the oven grill to high. Spread the corn chips across a large baking tray (or two smaller baking trays). Spoon over the soy beef mince and sprinkle over the cheese. Place under the grill for 5 minutes until cheese is melted and corn chips are golden.
3. While the nachos are under the grill, make the Chilli Soy Guacamole. Add the avocado to a bowl and mash with the back of a fork. Add the remaining ingredients and mix together until well combined and creamy.
4. Remove nachos from the grill. Top with the shredded carrot, coriander, cucumber, chilli and spring onions. Dollop over the Chilli Soy Guacamole to serve.
Tips / Notes:
If you’d like your Chilli Soy Guacamole a little thinner for a drizzle consistency, add 1-2 tablespoons of water and whisk through.
RECIPE DEVELOPED FOR KIKKOMAN
Serves: 6
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Ingredients
1 whole free-range chicken (about 1.4kg), at room temperature
2 teaspoons rice bran oil
3cm ginger, finely sliced
3 cloves garlic, finely sliced
3 spring onions, chopped into 4cm pieces
4 star anise
3 cinnamon sticks
1 ½ cups (375ml) shaoxing wine
1 bottle (250ml) Kikkoman’s Soy Sauce
⅓ cup white sugar
2 teaspoons salt
4-6 cups of chicken stock (depending how much you need to cover your chicken)
To serve:
Steamed Asian greens (like bok choy, pak choy, gai lan)
Cooked white rice
1 long red chilli, finely sliced
Radish pickles
Method
1. Heat the oil in a 4 litre saucepan, which is only just big enough to hold the chicken. Add in the rice bran oil, garlic, ginger, star anise and cinnamon sticks. Cook, tossing for 2-3 minutes until the garlic and ginger are golden and fragrant. Add in the spring onion, shaoxing wine, chicken stock, white sugar, salt, and the Kikkoman Soy Sauce. Bring to the boil, then reduce to a simmer for 20 minutes.
2. Add the chicken to the stock, breast side up and bring to the boil again and cook for 20 minutes. Remove from the stove top, place on the lid, and allow the chicken finish cooking and cool slightly in the stock for 1 hr.
3. Remove the chicken from the stock and slice into pieces. Strain the stock, discarding the solids, and drizzle over the chicken. Serve alongside steamed Asian greens, rice, chilli slices and pickles.
Prep 00:15
Cook 00:45
Serves 4
Capable Cooks
Jerk Seasoning
2 tbs garlic powder
1 tbs salt
1 tbs white sugar
1tbs dried oregano leaves
2 tsp allspice
2 tsp chili powder
1 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground cloves
1 Lilydale Free Range Whole Chicken, butterflied*
2 tbs Australian Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Pineapple Jalapeno Salsa
1 whole fresh* pineapple, peeled and cored and cut into small pieces
2 jalapeno chili, seeds and membrane removed, diced
1 tbs Australian extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup coriander leaves, finely chopped
Sea salt, to taste
Kale Callaloo
1 tbs Australian Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 medium brown onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 birds eye chili, finely chopped
1 small red capsicum, diced
1/2 bunch kale, washed, stems removed and roughly chopped
1/4 cup coconut milk
Sea salt, to taste.
Yellow Rice
1.5 cups jasmine rice
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1/4 cup sultanas
Hot Sauce*
1/2 tbs grape seed oil
10 jalapenos, sliced*
2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
1/2 tbs coriander seeds
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
2 ripe peach, skin removed, chopped
1/2 tbs sea salt
1 tbs sugar
2 tbs rice wine vinegar
Garnish
Coriander sprigs, to serve
Lime wedges, to serve
Method
Step 1. To make jerk seasoning toss all spices together in a small bowl mixing well to incorporate. Cover chicken well on both sides with spices and allow to marinade while you start the other elements of the dish.
Step 2. While the chicken is marinating, make you hot sauce by adding all ingredients to a medium saucepan over medium heat. Cover and cook for 30mins until all ingredients have softened. Allow to cool slightly and using a stick blender blitz together until smooth. Set aside to cool completely, once cooled decant into jar or sauce bottle.
Step 3. Cook rice as per your preferred method adding turmeric and sultanas at the start of the cooking process. Keep warm until ready to serve.
Step 4. While the hot sauce and rice is cooking, preheat a hooded BBQ (or oven) to 200C. Cook chicken skin side up for 15 mins, flip and cook skin side down for 5mins or until slightly charred, turn again skinside up and cook for a further 15mins or until chicken is cooked through and when tested juices run clear. Allow to rest before serving.
Step 5. While the chicken is cooking make the kale callaloo and pine apple salsa. For the salsa, toss together all ingredients in a serving bowl and set aside in refrigerator until ready to serve. For the callaloo, sautee off the onion, garlic, chili and capsicum for 3-5mins, add kale and stir through, pour over coconut milk and cook covered for 5 mins stirring frequently until kale has wilted and softened.
Step 6. Serve all elements family style so that you can pick and choose how you plate your own dish, enjoy with a good dollop of the hot sauce, plus some extra coriander and lime for garnish.
Notes
* To butterfly a chicken, place the chicken breast-side down on a stable board and using poultry scissors cut along either side of the backbone and remove. Turn the chicken over again so that it is breast-side up.
Rotate the legs sideways and using the palm of your hand press down on the breast and flatten against the board.
* Feel free to use canned pineapple depending on seasonality.
* Hot sauce - this recipe will make more than you need, any left over hot sauce can be stored in an airtight container for up to 1 month in the fridge.
* Hot sauce - feel free to add extra chili to give the sauce an even bigger kick! Try adding a habanero for some real punch!
CREDITS
Recipe: Hayden Quinn
Food: Meg Yonson / Hayden Quinn
Styling: Breda Fenn
Photo: Luisa Brimble