Yes, We Cook!

This recipe was inspired by a recipe a friend emailed to me. It’s right here. The blog it comes from is quite delightful as well. It looks fantastic and suggests several possible variations. Generally when I get an idea I look up on google and enter the main ingredients of a dish and then I look at 4 or 5 or 6 recipes to come up with whatever I do. In this instance it was only this one recipe so it’s easy to link to it. I’m never without a source of inspiration though, whether it’s a memory from childhood, a cookbook or google at my fingertips.

Ingredients of my variation:

3 large chicken leg quarters cut in pieces and skinned

1 tbls coconut oil

1 – 14 oz can coconut milk

1 large bunch of cilantro cut coarsely

10 large garlic cloves peeled and smashed

Lemon zest from two lemons

Juice of one lemon

2 tbls grated fresh ginger

2 large jalapeño peppers, sliced round

Steamed brown rice

Brown chicken pieces and garlic in the coconut oil. (I use coconut oil in many things these days and I’m learning to switch to it for all my high heat cooking. It’s possible to get very mild flavored coconut oil, which I have yet to get a hold of, so I’ve not made the switch entirely)

Once it’s nice and brown put in all the rest of the ingredients and turn to a low simmer. Cook until meat is coming off the bone a bit. Serve over rice.

I just ate this. Wrote the above while it was cooking. It was very very good. I would make one change since I like heat. I would use a hotter variety of chili instead of the jalapeños. I didn’t taste any heat at all. The sauce was still very good and the house smelled delightfully lemony while it was cooking.

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