Sep 11 2008
Snowballs and sleigh bells…
Another of Nigella’s super-quick dishes, with dinner on the table before you realise you’ve started cooking!
- Chicken Schnitzel with Bacon and White Wine
Day Two of our ‘Cook Nigella Express Every Night’ Week and we had this simple supper- only four ingredients. I had been putting this easy peasy recipe off for some time as chicken escalopes are called for, and I couldn’t find them in the shops. I could’ve asked in a butchers but I always worry about how to pronounce the word escalope and so wimped out! Funnily enough Waitrose do turkey escalopes but not chicken. In the end I bought organic chicken mini-fillets and they seemed to do the trick.
This was easy peasy to cook although if I made it again I would a)use more bacon and b) not reduce the wine that the pan is deglazed with quite so much, as it needs to be a bit saucy. We had this with green beans (not enough!) as suggested but added in basmati rice for some starch. I could have eaten about three times as much but Dougal ate his fill.
The following day we took Nigella up on the suggestion of snipping the leftovers into some cream and parmesan, warming through and stirring through spaghetti. Schnitzel with noodles, ja!
I feel mini fillet is the wimps way of pronouncing escalopes!