If you prefer Chinese or Japanese cuisine such as spring rolls or Chow Mein, you probably enjoy the Teriyaki sauce that is common, especially in Japanese foods, and consists essentially of Soy Sauce, sake (or mirin), and sugar.
In North America, this sauce has been used in multiple ways, and any sauce resembling traditional Teriyaki is called “teriyaki” even though it may not have sake or mirin, or if garlic is added (which is not typical in Japanese cuisine).
Merry belated Christmas! Christmas baking is done for this year, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves – New Year’s is just a few days away, and more cooking must be done. An amazingly cheap and fast dinner that the whole family can enjoy is Gnocchi, in all of it’s related recipes.
This particular Garlic Mushroom Gnocchi is extremely time-and-cost efficient, healthy, and full of flavor. Gnocchi takes only 3 minutes to boil, and don’t cook it too long otherwise it will get chewy and harder to consume.
Especially on a cold day, potato soup goes a long way. Serve with my Garlic Spiral Rolls for a complete meal.
Drunken chicken is a perfect dinner to make if you have limited time to make dinner. It is easy to make, and very flavorful.
Cook time: 1:15 hrs. Serves: 4
Ingredients:
1 (2lb) package drumsticks (or other dark meat chicken)
1/2 white onion
8 ounces of mushrooms (more or less depending on preference)
Salt, pepper
3 cloves garlic
3/4 cup white wine
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Roughly cut onion, and place on the bottom of a 9×13 baking dish.
Pour in pre cut mushrooms.
Mince garlic and set aside.
Rinse raw chicken in the sink, then place on top of onions and mushrooms in the baking dish.
Sprinkle minced garlic over chicken, and salt and pepper them.
Then pour white wine evenly over the chicken.
Cover with foil and bake in preheated oven for 1 hour, then raise temperature to 400, and take foil off, and cook for another 15 minutes, until chicken is brown.
Serve with white rice.
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