Tales from Brennan's Cook Book of Terribly....Good Food! (All Rights Reserved)

This dish was an attempt to make 'Paprika Dill Chicken.' I would like to say I'm joking, but I'm really, really not. Once again, 90% of all cooking with Brennan involves me throwing out the cook book and saying, "I can cook better than any of you fools! FORGET YOUR SILLY DIRECTIONS!!!! MUHAHAHAHA!" *Lightning crashes in the background*

Well, I don't always have the lightning. It sort of comes and goes. And I don't really call people 'fools.' I'm usually the one with that label, really.

All of that aside, and in the interest of good cooking, you come out with something that actually end up looking a lot like a stir fry. It tastes QUITE good, too. Very different than anything I've ever made. Of course, that usually happens when I cook. We went through this. I only cook weird. And, um, act weird. And, uh....I recommend this. Easy to do.

Rrr-fry?

Ingredients:

1 cup of pre-cooked chicken
½ cup broccoli ( mine was frozen)
handful of chopped onion
3 cups macaroni, cooked
1 egg
¾ cup of sour cream
½ cup of chicken broth (or bullion cube mixed with water)
a couple spices: pepper (I used white), a combo spice (garlic, lemon zest, pepper) and a secret spice. (I would tell you, but I don’t know the name of it because it's in Dutch and I mistook it for black pepper, which it is certainly not. It’s tastes amazing, however.)


Steps:

1. Start cooking that macaroni if you don’t have it cooked. I’m sure you can figure this one out.
2. Take a Tbsp of olive oil, let it get hot in the frying pan, throw the chicken on to heat it up, let it fry a bit.
3. Once cooked a bit, take off for a moment, cook the broccoli and onion.
4. Throw the chicken back in for round 2, add the broth/water with bullion cube, add spices as desired. The ones I used worked well. Something with a touch of lemon, garlic and pepper is the basic idea.
5. Once the mixture is going at a hot rate with the liquid bubbling for a minute or two, crack egg, let the egg almost cook, stir it up in the rest of the mix like it's an embarassing stain on your clothing you want to get rid of. (You’ll get the super cool stir fry egg look.) I used a WHISK to make this happen in a nice uneven way.
6. Once most of the liquid has burnt off (Which should be fairly quick if your burner was on high heat like mine.) throw this all into a bowl and mix in ¾ cup of sour cream until coated. The sour cream is totally optional, but definitely worth it.
7. Throw the mix on top of cooked pasta. Add cheese or something colourful for garnish. If you like garnish. Or...if you think it's a waster of perfectly good food that could be used elsewhere, save it for Brennan's OTHER amazing dishes. Like...his Poor Man's Potatoe Stew! (Also dish ala weird.) Or his Steak Panzanella! (If Liz is reading this...I ruined your recipe. Twice.) REVOLT AGAINST THE GARNISH! DESTROY ALL WHO OPPOSE US! I mean, do it however you like. You know, I'm ok, you're ok, that kinda self-help book. Eat the pasta.


Est. time to cook on lousy burners: 40-ish minutes
Prep time: 5 minutes
Serves: Two medium portions