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Chicken Breast with Beer Sauce

  • Pollo con Cerveza
    chickenbeersauce

    This is other of my favorite recipes. My Mother taught me how to make it when is was in college, this way she tried to make sure I was eating well and healthy…and it worked, suddently I stop eating pizza and burgers every day. šŸ˜‰
    Try it you will how easy to do and fast is!.
    This dish is also very popular in other mediterrenean cultures like Greece.
    Here it is:

    Ingredients: for 4 servings
    3 Chicken Breast
    1 Big Spanish Onion
    3 Garlic Cloves
    1 Cup of Beer ( I put like almost the whole bottle of beer)
    2 Tablespoons of Bread Crumbs
    1/2 Chicken Bouillon (Cut in half a chicken boullion, the “powder cube” one)
    4 Tablespoons of Olive Oil
    2 Bay leaves
    2 Tablespoon of fresh parsley
    Salt and pepper to taste

    Procedure:
    Chopped onion and garlic cloves. Heat olive oil in a frying pan with low-medium heat. Cut chicken breast in cubes and sautee for 3 minutes.
    Then add onion and garlic. Sautee all together for 4 minutes or until onion get brown and soft. Now add the 1/2 chicken broth.
    Finally add the beer and stir all together for 20 minutes. Five minutes before the time add parley and bread crumbs.

    Tip: If you want you can use chicken legs and wings instead of breast. Also you can try it with pork tenderloin. DonĀ“t forget to put bread crumbs, thatĀ“s the key to make the sauce thicker. Also if you don’t have this “chicken powder broth” you can add 1/2 cup chicken broth.

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  • How to read spanish wine labels

    Spanish Wine Label
    Spanish Wine Label Muga

    Knowing how to read properly a spanish wine label is going to give you enough information about the content (and maybe a great deal) of that bottle.
    Like a popular saying: You can not judge a book by itĀ“s cover; but when it comes to wine you can judge a wine by its label.
    A label provides you information about who made the wine, which year was made and where was made…

    Vintage: Very important. Every year is different, you should know if the vintage you are about to select was a good one for that Wine Region. Ex: One vintage can be a good one for a “Rioja” but a bad one for a “Ribera del Duero”. You get the idea??

    Denominacion de Origen (D.O) or Wine region: Every D.O has its special character and taste. Trying differents D.O is the only way to educate yourself about wich D.O is your favourite and matches your taste.

    Quality of the Wine. In Spain we have minimum of aging in bottle and in oak barrel for a wine to be considered by the spanish laws as Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva. And we are the only country in world who has that classification.

    Crianza: A wine labeled as crianza has spent at least one year in oak barrel.
    Reserva: A wine which says reserva on the bottle is a three year old wine and at least one of these years has to have been spent in oak.
    Gran Reserva: Wines are aged for at least five years, where two years are in oak and three years in the bottle.

    I hope you enjoy and find it usefull.

    Cheers

    samuel

    Spanish and Mediterrenean Diet, a World Heritage Tresure

    dietamediterranea
    I was reading my news last day and I came across with an interesting article about spanish cuisine and mediterrenean diet in general:

    Spain launched a drive Monday to win European support for a bid to include the traditional Mediterranean diet on a U.N. list of protected world cultural treasures.

    Spanish officials say the cuisine based on olive oil, fish and vegetables should be the first diet on the UNESCO list of traditions, festivals, rituals and crafts from around the world which the U.N. body certifies as part of a unique cultural heritage.

    No diets are currently on the list, but Spain quickly received backing from its Iberian neighbor, Portugal.

    It is “a very good idea by a member state with a very good cuisine, just like Portugal, France, Italy and Greece,” said Portugal’s Agriculture Minister Jaime Silva, whose country holds the EU presidency.

    Spain wants the diet included when UNESCO updates its cultural heritage list this year.

    The U.N. cultural agency’s compilation of so-called “intangible” cultural treasures complements its better-known list of World heritage sites that includes Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the Great Wall of China and the Statue of Liberty in New York.

    We have high hopes for this endeavor and believe that the characteristics of this exemplary diet will make it clearly deserving of the distinction, which is why we will spare no effort in championing it,” said a document presented by Spain to a meeting of EU agriculture ministers.”

    It said medical studies found the Mediterranean diet’s blend of olive oil, fresh fruit, vegetables and fish, combined with a “moderate” intake of wine provides “a quality nutritional model: rich, varied, balanced, healthy and appetizing.”

    It leads to fewer heart problems and a longer life, the document said.

    It said the diet was “a very important component of the cultural, social, territorial, environmental and gastronomic heritage” of the countries and peoples in the region, “historically forming part of a way of life.”

    Source: Yahoo News