Week 18 – Lemon and Herb Chicken with Mash

This week's recipe was a ’20 Minute Meal’ from the Jamie Oliver iPhone application. I chose it for something quick after work, and whilst it took slightly longer than the 20 minutes promised, it was definitely easy to make, and I could probably get it made within 20 minutes with a bit of practice.

The Chicken was simple – chicken breast with lemon zest and thyme, stir fried for a few minutes. To this, I added a tomato relish, made up from tomatoes, spring onion, chilli, basil, red wine vinegar and olive oil. I was really pleased with the tomato relish as the flavours combined well, and when added to the lemon chicken it really came to life.

Finally the chicken was accompanied by some mashed potato – however the mash also had sweetcorn in it – something I’d never tried before but found incredibly tasty, as it added extra flavour and texture to the potatoes.

I was really pleased with this recipe overall, and it’s something I definitely will be making again. However, I also liked the individual components of the meal, and intend to use both the tomato relish and sweetcorn mash ideas for other recipes.