Manicotti with White Sauce

Marcella PortugalLeave a comment

manicotti

Ingredients

  • 1 pack of homemade manicotti
  • 3 tablespoon of olive oil
  • 1 diced onion
  • 5 smashed cloves of garlic
  • 1 cup of white wine
  • 1 cup of milk
  • 1/2 provolone cheese
  • 1/2 blue cheese
  • 1/2 mozzarella
  • Parmesan cheese
  • Salt and pepper as needed

Directions

  1. For the white sauce put the olive oil and the onion in a pan, and fry until the onion gets transparent
  2. Add the garlic, wine, and milk. Heat the mix up for about five minutes.
  3. Add the provolone and blue cheese and the mozzarella, and cook until they become a cream
  4. Add the salt and black pepper
  5. Put the manicotti in a baking dish glass, and add the white sauce on top
  6. Add the parmesan cheese on top of the white sauce
  7. Take it to a pre-heated oven at 350 F for about 15 to 20 minutes

Chicken Pie

Marcella PortugalLeave a comment

 

chicken pie

Ingredients

  • 1 chicken breast
  • 1 large onion
  • 1 large carrot
  • 2 cloves
  • 2 celery sticks
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 3 cups of water
  • 1 can of palm heart, sliced in pieces
  • 1 tablespoon of flour
  • Salt and black pepper as needed

Directions

Cooking the broth

  1. Put all ingredients in a pressure cooker at high heat
  2. When the pressure cooker starts releasing steam, put in low heat and leave it for 15 more minutes
  3. Carefully open the pressure cooker and remove the chicken from it
  4. With the pressure cooker open, continue cooking the other ingredients until the broth is reduced to about one cup (i.e., 1/3 of original amount of water)
  5. When it is done, remove from the pressure cooker and sift the broth

Shredding the chicken

  1. Remove the bones from the chicken breasts
  2. Shred the chicken meat at high speed in a mixer

Preparing the fillings

  • 1 onion diced in small pieces
  • 2 tomatoes diced in small pieces
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 1 tablespoon of butter
  1. In a regular pan, braise the onion and garlic in the butter
  2. When the onion is transparent, add the tomatoes, chicken meat, broth, and the palm heart
  3. Leave it cooking for 5 minutes
  4. Add the flour and keep mixing (to prevent lumps getting formed)
  5. Leave it at rest for later

Making the dough

  • 1 yolk
  • 4 cups of flour
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 7 ounces of (cold) butter
  1. Put all ingredients in a mixer
  2. When the mixture is all well blended, make a ball
  3. Remove a quarter of the ball and leave it for later
  4. Put flour on the table, and flatten the dough using a rolling pin, until it is about the size of the pie baking dish
  5. Roll the flatten dough around the rolling pin, and carefully put it in the pie baking dish
  6. Press the dough on the border of the pie baking dish and remove the excess
  7. Using a fork make a set of small holes on the dough
  8. Add a cookie baking sheet on top of the dough, and add ceramic beans on top
  9. Put it in a pre-heated oven at 350 F for about 20 minutes

Assembling the pie

  1. When the dough is fully cooked, add the fillings on it
  2. Flatten the saved quarter of dough using a rolling pin, and cover the fillings
  3. Mix an egg yolk with a bit of butter and spread the mixture on top of the cover
  4. Take it to a pre-heated oven at 350 F for about 40 to 45 minutes (until the top is golden brown)
  5. Enjoy!