Howdy folks hows it going welcome to my virgin kitchen where as always i'm cooking a recipe
for the first time hence the virgin name i'm not a virgin okay so stop asking that i've
got kids yeah, ok so today we're making chargrilled chicken with lime and cumin and a mango salsa
I think you're gonna love it.
Looks amazing right and i'm quite excited because I got to use this griddle pan for
the very first time actually in the oven because its one of the ones that can go in the oven
not all of them do you melt the handle on it and stuff so if you wanna make this hit
pause on the video now write all the ingredients down lets get making it.
Right first thing you need to do is grab a little pan like this and you're not playing
table tennis with it we're gonna toast our cumin seeds.
So i'm just adding our cumin seeds about a tablespoon or a tablespoon and a half shake
it all around so it's nice and covered in the pan they will toast very quickly they'll
go a little bit darker colour and the smell is gonna be amazing.
Can you smell that literally 2 minutes is all it needs - oh my goodness.
So this is quite a boring unsexy bowl right now lets fill it up with some goodness i've
got some garlic cloves right there, that's two, our toasted cumin seeds in they go oh
yeah, just adding in the juice of a lime this is actually the second half there for i'd
just show you one.
The zest of a lime is going in there two about half a tablespoon of olive oil and a pinch
of salt check that out.
That bowl was part of my little blender thing so i'm sitting that on there and it's time
to whizz it up, here we go....
Alright so now i've got a bag with my chicken breasts in this is a freezer bag and our mixture
of cumin and garlic and lime i'm getting it in there and what i'm gonna do I'll make sure
I get every little bit in a minute I won't seal it up just yet but i'm gonna work it
all in i'm gonna massage it you know 'you've lost that lovin feeling' you know get it all
nice and coated in there.
If you want you can whack it in the fridge and marinade it to really intensify that flavour
but i'm just gonna do it for ten minutes.
Righty then nice big flame there, the chicken is sat to the side as you can see, gonna sit
the griddle pan on it, just get it nice and hot, no oil in there, hot.
Am I burning a toggle no I'm not don't wanna get burnt, that'd be kinda crazy.
The chicken's gonna go on there we're just gonna colour it and then it's gonna go in
the oven to cook through.
Alrighty our pan is nice and hot, whoooo.
Alrighty then folks that's the chicken done it was 3 minutes one side, 1 minute on the
other it looks good but the middle is gonna be pink so i'm putting it on a plate for the
minute i'm gonna clean up that pan then whack it in the oven.
Right so this is going in the oven now for about 20mins just to completely cook through,
we'll make a little salsa meanwhile.
So while that's in the oven and smelling amazing we're gonna make a very quick salsa here are
some mango chunks in they go oh my gosh, you'll see that nice pile of chilli I had there,
this is just one red chilli de-seeded and finely chopped, some freshly chopped mint
about a tablespoon of that and the same with some basil oh my goodness.
Get some pepper and just sprinkle it in there, and now comes the fun bit it's gonna be refreshing
so get your hands stuck in there mix it all together can you feel that?
How light that is, oh my goodness I wanna eat that right now!
i'm not gonna it will go great with the chicken but you get the idea you could add pineapple
to this, some more lime juice anything you wanna do.
Chicken is out, lets slice it up.
Folks I couldn't help myself I had to start cutting it up it's just so soft and tender
this chicken the smell I can't tell you it's amazing it's just going around the kitchen
oh my goodness, just little bits of chicken like this - boom alright that landed on the
floor but you get the idea.
And there we are serving it up on a board on a watercress bed, salsa some extra limes
there if you want, in fact you could garnish some extra juice there over the top if you
want - but the chicken is the headline act in this, that is how you
make my chargrilled cumin chicken with the mango
salsa.