We’ve lived on this side of the pond for almost 25 years. We’ve watched British tv (telly) for that entire time. That viewing history includes a lot of cooking shows (2 Fat Ladies, Hairy Bikers, etc.)
We can still be confused about British words for familiar foods.
An American cookie is a British biscuit – or bicky (sp) for short.
I always forget which bean is which – broad beans are lima beans and runner beans are green beans… I think.
Don’t get me started on sugar… powdered sugar is icing sugar and regular sugar is powdered sugar and there’s a 3rd kind that I’m clueless about.
An avocado pear is just an avocado for us.
And we eat a beet rather than a beetroot. (It’s not potatoroot or carrotroot.)
Thus this recipe is Chicken with Red Beets.
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You could just use cabbage or beets in this dish but we like a bit of both. Besides, it takes us 3 or 4 meals to use a head of cabbage. We had this with simple, boiled potatoes.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
- Category: Chicken
- Method: Skillet
Ingredients
- 2 chicken breasts, boneless, skinless, each cut into 2 or 3 pieces
- 2 cups roughly chopped Savoy or green cabbage
- 1 1/2 cups cooked red beet (beetroot) cut into sticks
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 cup (8oz, 240ml) chicken broth
- 1/4 cup (2oz, 60ml) red wine
- 1/4 cup (2oz, 60ml) Balsamic vinegar
- 2 tbs crumbled sage
- 1 tbs maizena (cornstarch, corn flour) dissolved in 1 tbs water
- 1/2 cup Greek yogurt
Instructions
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
- Add onions and sauté until tender, about 5 minutes.
- Add garlic and sauté a minute longer.
- Move onions / garlic to the side and add chicken, lightly browning both sides.
- Add cabbage, beets, stock, wine, vinegar and sage, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 – 25 minutes, stirring occasionally and turning chicken.
- Add cornstarch mixture, stirring until thickened.
- Remove from heat, stir in yogurt and serve.
Notes
You can substitute apple juice for the wine or just use more broth. Use red wine vinegar or cider vinegar for the Balsamic.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/2 recipe
- Calories: 617
- Sugar: 21.4 g
- Sodium: 716.3 mg
- Fat: 16.4 g
- Saturated Fat: 4.2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 36.8 g
- Fiber: 7.6 g
- Protein: 73 g
- Cholesterol: 210.3 mg
Keywords: chicken, cabbage, beets
You may have noticed that this does not include any winter squash. Don’t worry, I still have a lot of them left.
I always have a package of beets in the fridge – they are fully-cooked and shrink-wrapped, which is the only way to buy them here. They last for months so it’s my ‘reserve / emergency’ vegetable. Still, I have to use them at some point.
I like to have soup for lunch in the winter. I always make a vegetable soup and vegetable soups need cabbage…. but not the entire head.
You could call this dish a ‘clean out the fridge’ dinner.
One last bit on our shared language.
Brits tend to refer to the machine Americans call a vacuum as a hoover. The other night I saw an ad on British tv for a Hoover (brand name) cleaner. So now one can have a Hoover hoover.
When we lived in Andorra, which is in the Pyrenees, 4-wheel drive vehicles were common. The Brits called them all Jeeps regardless of the company making them.
Imagine the conversation:
Me: In Minnesota I drove a Jeep.
He: What kind?
Me: A Wagoneer.
He: I don’t know that model – who made it?
Me: Jeep.
He: Yes…. but which company?
Me: Jeep.
……..
It all makes life interesting.
Brits call a vacuum a ‘hoover’ from the brand name Hoover. I suppose years ago the first vacuum cleaner available was made by Hoover.
You’re right – but I still chuckle when I hear a Hoover hoover….
So far as I know (with my Australian who’s lived in England perspective) broad beans = fava beans; lima beans = lima beans; runner beans are very long flat green beans, different to regular green beans. I’ve never heard Brits referrig universally to 4WD vehicles as jeeps (why would they? they’ve got Landies), that must be an Andorra thing.
Most of the Brits in Andorra had not lived in the UK for years…. they worked in Hong Kong, K.L., Singapore, etc. so they were probably not the best authorities. But my British neighbor’s ‘runner beans’ look exactly like my regular green beans. But then his garden is in the shade, so…. lol
I love beets! I will eat them just about any way one can prepare them. Love borscht, love them boiled with just some butter, salt and pepper, roasted, grated raw, pickled (NO orange slice thank you very much!), mashed, you name it, I’ll eat them. I really haven’t met a beet I didn’t like with few exceptions, so I’m making this next week when we’ve had our fill of turkey and need a change.
You’ve been gone awhile. Now, you have Jeeps and everything else in the line, but when you say Jeep, you mean a Jeep, not a Cherokee or a Wagoneer (I don’t think they make those anymore) or any of the other models. Things evolve. For what it’s worth though, I have a Dyson, but I still hoover thanks to my paternal grandmother 😉
Orange slice? Nope, don’t think so. I had a Wagoneer and the hubs had one of the little ones – for about a week I don’t remember what it was called but it looked like the Army Jeeps. Anyway, when he almost tipped it going around an exit ramp (too fast) he traded it for something less ‘fun’.
I love my Dyson – cordless. I can ‘vacuum’ the ceiling webs with it.
Hmmm…for whatever reason, none of your replies are showing up so I can’t comment to your specific reply but yes, my sister-in-law insists that my mother-in-law always put an orange slice in her beets when she canned them, which she never ever did, but which my SIL is doing now. I’m forced to toss those when she gives them to us because they’re really rather horrible. Disgusting really.
I test drove the pre-production Jeeps that were still two years out. All of the models. I still loved the Jeeps the best though the others weren’t bad but yes, the Jeeps had no center of gravity and still don’t really, though the four door models are slightly better. But if you’re not careful, they’re very tippy if one takes a corner too fast. They always have been. That was their fatal flaw.
I loved my Wagnoneer, way back when, We have no need of a 4-wheel here…. no snow and no mountains although we do have a lot of people getting stuck in the mud because they don’t pay attention to small slopes lol. A 4-wheel was a necessity where we lived in Minn.
The replies are working again, by the way. A 4wd is necessary here in Michigan too, in my opinion anyway, but I leased a front wheel drive SUV. It was cheaper to lease and hubs has a big 4wd truck. Since I don’t work anymore, if I absolutely must go somewhere, either he can drive or I’ll take his truck and he can take my little SUV to work (hee!)
Another mystery – not solved, just gone. I love the internet lol