Bourbon Chicken and Cinnamon Rolls

Today I managed to make 3 recipes even though the 3rd one does not really count as the Sausage roll ingredients were pre-brought and I just throw them together, even though hardly any effort they were made with lots of love...and the knowledge they would be wolfed down as soon as my guys got home.

Bourbon Chicken

3-4 boneless chicken breasts

1-2 tablespoons of oil

1 garlic clove (crushed/minced)

¼ teaspoon of fresh ginger (grated)

1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

1 /4 brown sugar

1 cup of apple juice                                                        

2 tablespoons Ketchup (tomato sauce)

1 tablespoon of cider vinegar

½ cup water                                                               

1/4 cup of soy sauce

Heat oil in a skillet

Add all the ingredients expect chicken.

In a separate pan cook the chicken until cooked through and browned brown

Add chicken to the sauce and bring to a boil

Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes

Bourbon Chicken

 

Cinnamon rolls (I use my bread machine for the dough)

1 /2 cup of water                                                       

1 /2 cup of milk

2 table spoons of butter

3/4 teaspoon salt                                                             

3 cups of all purpose flour

¼ cup of white sugar

1 egg

3 table spoons of butter (melted)

3 – 4 table spoons of cinnamon

Shake of ground nutmeg

1 cup of confectioners’ sugar (powdered)

1 ½ tablespoons of melted butter

1 /4 vanilla extract

1 ½ tablespoons of milk

In a sauce pan add the milk, water and butter and until very warm but NOT boiling.

Pour mixture into bread maker and then add the flour, sugar, salt, yeast and the egg.

(I but the sugar in one corner, salt in the other and yeast in the middle and then I add the egg at the VERY last minute!)

Turn machine onto the dough cycle.

When the cycle is finished flour a surface lightly. Roll the dough out into a rectangle.

With the melted butter, add the cinnamon (add as much cinnamon as YOU like)

Brush the butter mix onto the dough. Sprinkle some ground nutmeg onto the dough also.

Roll the dough length ways. Trim the ends of the dough, and then cut the dough into equal size pieces

(The recipe says 12 I make 14-16)

Put in a baking tray cover with a tea-towel and leave for 30-45 minutes to rise (hopefully they double in size)

Place in a preheated oven and cook at 350 ℉ / 190 °C for about 20- 30 minutes or until golden brown.

Melt butter, add to powdered sugar milk and vanilla and mix well. Pour over the rolls when rolls have cooled slightly.

*** My oven temps have changed greatly it seems with each oven in each country.

Currently the oven I have, when cooking the rolls it about 22 minutes



Cinnamon Rolls



I also made sausage rolls today but have no REAL recipe for these.

Also it feels a bit of a cheat – I buy the pastry which is a flakey butter pastry.

Then to the sausage meat I add so extra seasoning i.e. ground pepper, and onion powder.



Sausage Rolls



Mix all together and then place into the pastry and roll. Trim ends place in an oven tray and use a egg wash (whisked egg) wash each sausage roll piece. Cook until golden brown….Around 25 minutes at 350 ℉/ 180 °C