Chicken Haddie On Toast Food

THE BOSTON RITZ-CARLTON'S CREAMED FINNAN HADDIE

Steps:

• Cover the finnan haddie with water and simmer for 6 to 8 minutes. Drain and keep warm.
• Boil 1 1/2 cups of the cream until reduced by half. In a bowl, mix the egg yolks with the remaining cream and whisk in the hot cream. Return the egg-yolk mixture to the saucepan and whisk constantly until hot but not boiling. Season with cayenne.
• Divide the haddock over toast points, spoon sauce on top and serve.

CREAMED CHICKEN HADDIE ON TOAST

Steps:

• Melt 2 oz (1/2 stick) butter in bottom of a large sauce pan over medium heat. When foam subsides, add diced onion and reduce heat to low. Sweat onion until tender. Do not brown. Add milk, cream, mustard, cayenne, and raise heat to bring to high simmer without boiling. Meanwhile, melt remaining butter in small saucepan and whisk in flour, heating and stirring until roux has a shortbread or light butterscotch aroma - do not brown. Set aside to cool. Remove Finnan Haddie from package and lower gently into milk/cream mixture and poach for exactly 4 minutes. Immediately remove fish with slotted spatula or spoon to a plate. Let rest until cool enough to touch. Peel skin from fillets. Do not flake fish. Place skin in a small pan with additional milk to just cover, and simmer on low heat for 15 minutes. Strain into milk/cream mixture. With milk/cream mixture at high simmer, use a wire whisk to scoop up some of the roux and whisk it into the milk/cream mixture, about 2 tablespoons at a time. Let roux dissolve and observe texture of milk/cream mixture - You won't need all of the roux - it keeps in the refrigerator for several weeks, and is useful for thickening stocks, gravies, and sauces. The soup will take a while to thicken, so be conservative with the roux. Adjust thickness of soup with additional roux or additional milk. Add a splash of white wine and lemon juice, stir in green onions, season well with plenty of white pepper. Don't salt until after fish is added back in - the fish carries a fair amount of salt into the dish. Break Finnan Haddie into 2" pieces and place gently back into soup. Fold in green onions and hard boiled eggs and heat to a simmer. Test for seasoning. Place buttered toast pieces in heated soup bowls and ladle soup over toast. Garnish with minced parsley. Some people enjoy a splash of Tabasco sauce with this dish.

CHICKEN POT PIE TOAST

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the carrots, celery and onion and sauté until the vegetables start to turn translucent, about 2 minutes. Add the thyme sprigs, then sprinkle the flour evenly over the vegetables and stir to combine. Next, add the chicken broth, cream, bouillon cube, turmeric and salt and pepper to taste. Bring to the boil, stirring constantly, then reduce the heat to low. Simmer, stirring, until the liquid has thickened and the vegetables are tender, 10 to 12 minutes.
• Toast the brioche.
• Add the chicken to the pot and stir it into the sauce. Cook for a minute or two, then add the peas and cook for 1 minute more, stirring so that everything is combined.
• Place 1 slice of toast on a plate. Top with a ladle of the chicken mixture. Garnish with chives.

BOO'S SMOKY CHICKEN PATTIES ON BUTTERED TOAST

Steps:

• Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium high heat.
• Place chicken in a bowl and add the smoked paprika, grill seasoning and parsley to it. Using a hand held grater or microplane, grate the onion into the chicken. (Boo liked onion juice and its flavor, but she did not like big pieces of onion). Add the garlic (Boo LOVED garlic!) and mix to combine. Make a mini patty, the size of a quarter, and cook it up, a minute on each side, to taste and check seasonings. If you want it really smoky, like Boo, you can adjust the seasonings accordingly. Drizzle the chicken mixture with about 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil and form 4 large thin patties then place them in the pan. Cook patties 5 minutes on each side. Toast bread slices and spread liberally with softened butter. Serve patties on buttered toast with some chopped dark greens.

SIMPLE, BAKED FINNAN HADDIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Place smoked haddock into a glass baking dish. Whisk flour into the melted butter until smooth, then whisk in milk, and pour over the haddock.
• Bake in preheated oven until the sauce has thickened, and the fish flakes easily with a fork, about 35 minutes.

CREAMY CHICKEN TOAST

Steps:

• Season chicken with salt.
• Heat butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Cook chicken until outside firms up and inside is still medium-rare, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Transfer chicken to a plate and let cool.
• Reduce heat to medium. Combine green onions, red bell pepper, and jalapeno in the skillet. Add a pinch of salt. Cook and stir until softened, about 5 minutes. Increase heat to high. Pour in chicken broth. Stir until liquid is mostly evaporated. Stir in cream. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and cook until sauce is reduced to desired thickness, 6 to 10 minutes.
• Cut chicken into evenly sized cubes. Add chicken, accumulated juices, and creme fraiche to the sauce. Cook until chicken is no longer pink in the center, 3 to 7 minutes more. Season with salt, pepper, and cayenne. Turn off heat. Stir in tarragon and spoon chicken and sauce over toast.

CREAMED CHICKEN ON TOAST

Steps:

• Combine chicken breast strips, soup, broccoli, milk, cheese and Worcestershire sauce in saucepan; cook on medium heat 5 min. or until mixture is heated through and cheese is melted, stirring occasionally.
• Serve spooned toast slices.

CREAMED FINNAN HADDIE (SMOKED HADDOCK)

Steps:

• Cut the onions in half, slice thinly, then cut the slices in thirds.
• Place the smoked fish,(cut in half if you need to make it fit into the skillet)onions and bay leaf into a large skillet and cover with water.
• Bring to a boil over medium heat and simmer for about 10 - 15 minutes.
• Remove from pan, drain all liquid, remove any skin or bones, discard bay leaf and flake the fish with a fork.
• In the same skillet, melt butter, whisk in flour and cook over medium-low heat, stirring until the flour is foaming but not browned - about 1 or 2 minutes.
• Over low heat, gradually add in 1 ½ cups of milk, bringing to a boil, whisking constantly until the sauce thickens.
• Season with salt, pepper and optional nutmeg, and leave to simmer slowly for an additional 1-2 minutes. If sauce is too thick, add more milk, 1 tablespoon at a time, stirring constantly.
• Add the flaked fish and onions into the sauce, stirring to combine and warm throughout.
• Serve with boiled potatoes.

FINNAN HADDIE CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, heat the butter and oil, add the onion, and sauté over low heat for 5 minutes. Add the potatoes and cook for an additional 5 minutes. Add the thyme and wine and boil for a minute or so before pouring in the stock and stirring. Add the milk and bring to nearly boiling, then reduce the heat and simmer until the potatoes are almost tender, about 10 minutes.
• Add the corn, finnan haddie, and a grinding of pepper and bring to a simmer. Let simmer until the haddock is just cooked, about 10 minutes. Taste for seasoning, adding a little salt if needed.

CHICKEN LIVERS ON TOAST

Steps:

• Pick over the livers, cutting away any fatty bits and sinew, then pat the livers dry. Place the shallot, parsley and capers into a bowl and drizzle with half the olive oil and 1 tbsp of the Sherry vinegar.
• Toast the bread (preferably on a griddle but a toaster is fine). Toss the livers in the flour and cayenne pepper, and season generously with salt and pepper. Heat the rest of the oil in a frying pan and fry the livers over a really high heat for 4-5 mins until brown and crisp on the outside and cooked, but still a little pink in the middle. Splash remaining vinegar into the pan and bubble down for 1 min.
• Tip the contents of the pan in with the shallot and parsley, toss everything together, season to taste, then pile onto the toasted bread. Season with a little crunchy sea salt and serve.

CREAM CHICKEN ON TOAST

Steps:

• Melt butter, add flour making a paste. Remove from heat and gradually add milk, stirring constantly. Return to heat and bring to a boil, add chicken and salt and pepper to taste. Allow chicken to become hot and remove from heat to serve on toast.