After many days, I am back
with a food blog. Which means that I was back in the kitchen; nevertheless, it
is not yet time for the bachelors party. Yes, my wife has not gone to India. My
family won’t be leaving for India till end of June this year, which means that I
am still captive, which is good, because it also means that I am still being taken
care of well.
So how did I end up in the
kitchen? Blame it on my big mouth …. errr …. blame it on my fast fingers! We were
on one of our usual familial chat sessions on whatsapp and I happened to
poke fun at her. It was a routine humble poke by a husband, not offensive at
all, but her fast fingers promptly typed “No dinner for you tonight”. In
addition, since her relatives got involved, it became a prestige issue and she
found it hard to back out. That was it! Anyways, she was kind enough. She did take
out a frozen chicken breast and leave it in the sink for thawing and left
upstairs after promptly reminding me of my diet for the day, which was limited
to fresh vegetables.
Now this is how this dish
was born, out of a piece of chicken thawing in the sink, my dietician’s instructions,
a peg of Jack Daniels, some salt, a generous load of pepper, a few pinches of spice
from the jars lying on the kitchen counter (names of which I don’t remember) and
my laziness to chop a few vegetables.
Actually, the cooking and
arranging time for this dish is only around 5-7 minutes, which means it is easy
to cook. Most of the time consumed is for thawing (around 90 odd minutes) and
marinating (around 30 odd minutes).
Cooking this dish is as
simple as Agent Oso’s project and requires just three special steps:
1. Cut the chicken breast into
small pieces and marinate it in a base made up of a peg of Jack Daniels, plenty
of pepper, some salt and some mixed Indian spices. Then, leave it in the fridge
to marinate for around 30 minutes.
2. Pan fry the chicken, which
hardly takes 2-3 minutes.
3. Roll the fried chicken in
strips of Lettuce and secured each one with a toothpick.
That’s all.
