Marinated chicken tenderloin and potato soufflé

Recipe by Mariella Scerri

Serves 2

Ingredients

  • 600g chicken tenderloin
  • 1 cup plain yoghurt
  • Juice and zest of 1 lime
  • Fresh coriander
  • Garlic
  • Salt and pepper 

Method

  1. Cut the tenderloin into strips and marinate in coriander, lime, yoghurt, garlic and salt and pepper. Marinate the meat for at least a couple of hours or overnight. 
  2. Over a high flame, with no oil, seal the chicken on both sides until golden.  
  3. Add the rest of the marinade and simmer for few minutes.

Tenderloin - packet of 600g (€4.50) – Tenderloin contains muscle and is therefore less dry and has much more flavour than breast, if a little bit more expensive.

Cost of meal €6.00

Potato Soufflé 

Ingredients

  • 4 large potatoes 
  • Butter 
  • Milk
  • Bacon strips (optional)
  • 2 eggs
  • Parmesan cheese – grated 
  • Cream

Method

  1. Boil potatoes until soft, adding salt to the water
  2. Mash potatoes, adding milk and butter, and add some grilled bacon
  3. Even out in a shallow pan and refrigerate. 
  4. Once ready to serve mix cream, eggs and grated cheese and pour mixture over the mash.
  5. Bake in moderate oven for about 20 minutes until the egg and cheese topping raises into a soufflé.

 Cost of meal €1.50