Auberge Roast Chicken Rillettes With Armagnac, Thyme and Garlic

This is my “secret” recipe, that I make for the guests who stay in our Chambres D’Hotes – Bed and Breakfast! (Not so secret anymore!) It is always popular, and makes a nice change from the usual pork rillettes, and it is MUCH lighter in fat as well. Serve these rillettes as I do, with triangles of hot toast and a selection of cornichons, pickled onions and a good quality or home-made confit d’oignons…….a good Dijon mustard is also “le Must Have” as well as a selection of salad leaves! I have a recipe for confit d’oignons posted on Zaar: Recipe #211001

Basque-Style Chicken

This is delicious! I serve this over rice or Israeli couscous. *Note: . You can substitute canned San Marzano tomatoes for fresh tomatoes. You can also use kalamata olives in place of nicoise olives.

Bahamian Style Simmered Chicken

This is from recipeisland.com They noted that Bahamians usually soak this in lime juice the day before, as well, for a fuller flavor.

Rose-Thyme-Syrup

I had too much fresh thyme left and didn’t know what to do. So after I had made all different kinds of syrups all day, I thought whether a syrup could be made out of thyme and had the idea that thyme would taste great with roses. As I am half-Iranian – I have never seen an Iranian who really measures 😉 – I just went along with the ingredients I still had left, but to create a recipe, I actually did measure what I used 😉 Regarding the rock sugar I used 2 pieces of saffron-rock sugar, each of the size of a lychee. And the reason why I used gelling sugar was that I had not enough normal sugar left, so you may try the recipe using more normal sugar instead of the gelling sugar 🙂

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