Chicken with Beetroot Mash

Ingredients for Chicken with Beetroot Mash:

1. Beetroot – 200 gm

2. Potato boiled and smashed – 50 gm

   Butter – 20 gm

   Salt and pepper – As required

3. Olive oil – As required

    Fresh thyme – As required

    Garlic – 2 cloves

    Mustard paste – 1 small paste

    Salt and pepper – As required

4. Chicken breast – 2

5. Olive oil – As needed

How to prepare Chicken with Beetroot Mash?

1. Cook beetroot adding sufficient water.

2. Divide beetroot into two halves, and add ingredients no: 2 to one part.

3. Mix it well. This mixture is called beetroot mash.

4. Make a fine paste of ingredients no: 3 along with remaining cooked beetroot. This is called puree.

5. Marinate chicken breast using this puree and refrigerate for one hour.

6. Take it out after one hour and use heart-shaped cutter to cut chicken breast.

7. Heat olive oil in a pan and fry chicken breast.

8. Flip both sides and fry each side for 10 minutes.

9. Make a ball from beetroot mash, and shape it to resemble a heart.

10. Using the heart-shaped cutter cut a heart shape from beetroot mash.

11. Brush the serving plate using the beetroot puree.

12. Arrange both chicken breast and beetroot mash in the plate and serve.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine, February 1-14, 2020

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