Thursday 26 January 2012

Monello Style Chicken Wings

Okay the Monello Style Chicken Wings are just one way of expressing the "The Monello Way"

In Italian "Monello" is how school teachers refer to those kids they have trouble controlling, it doesn't necessarly mean troublemaker, but it's close enough.

What you need to make this awesome finger licking dish:




Ingredients:

-Well chicken obviously "duh", somehwere to cook it, and non-vegetarian friends who can be able to enjoy the fruits of your lard labour

Spices: Now that's most important aspect of it, as unfortunately a lot of people fuck up when it comes to spices and seasonings.

-Cumin

-Chili powder ( I used good one from the Indian state of Kerala, but I reckon any would)

-Jerk Sauce( now I know you were about to unzip your trousers but that's not it), it's a sauce from the Caribbean, it goes immensely with chicken and it's great with fish too.

-Olive oil ( I live in Italy so for me it's cheap, high quality and easy to acquire, I know some places it's not the same, but try to use extra virgin olive oil as it's the nicest)

-Garlic, I made a paste with chopped garlic using a mortar, always use fresh and stay away from those jars of garlic powder you find at the supermarket, yuck!

-Worceshershire Sauce (don't worry if you can pronounce this, nobody can, you can refer to it by "Lea&Pressins" on the most famous producers

-Soy Sauce




Preparation:

-Chop the garlic, add green and black pepper and then crush the lot with a mortar, the end result should be a paste, to which, you can add a hint of say sauce, we're talking drops here no more

-By hand, drip all the wings and drumsticks in the sauce, be careful that both side shall be equally bestowned by the sauce' gloriousness.

.-Place the chicken in a baking tray.

-I'm sure you have a bowl somewhere where you made that sauce, add some beer, ale would be the test but as I'm sure you're some of sort of cheap twat the lager that you were drinking is just fine. Add some chili powder to the mix. With a spoon gently place on the wings in the tray.

Now they don't have to swim in it, just a few drops so they taste better, capisci?



Now the next step is leaving the wings to marinate a bit in all the goodness we doused them

In an ideal situation that would overnight, so the flavourings do get a chance to permeate that tender chicken and become part of. Obviously in today's stressed out world, just the fact that you're attempting to cook your own dinner is a massive achievement.

Normally making dinner would probably involve you trying to get revenge on that 15 year old kid that "boom" headshot you on Battlefield until the bell rings and you're save from further humiliation. The bell obviously being the microwave letting wifey know that the Hot Pockets are ready

Obviously if you don't have time to leave the chicken in the fridge all night, is fine, but they do need at least a couple of hours and you have to make sure that both sides get the nice flavourings on them.

Oven needs to be hot and ready with the grill function on.