Xinxim

Pronounced Zinzim - a traditional Brazilian curry and apparently Pele's favourite dish. It's a combination of chicken and crayfish tails in a lime and peanut creamy sauce. This recipe is from Las Iguanas, which is somewhere we go quite a lot. Mr T made this one and it was banging.

Ingredients

• Chicken breasts/thighs, cut into chunks

• 100g crayfish tails

• 1 small diced onion

• 1 clove garlic

• 30g butter

• 1 level tbsp chilli puree

• 50ml lemon juice

• 25ml lime juice

• 350ml double cream

• 100ml water

• 1 fish stock cube

• 227g peanut butter

• Salt and black pepper to taste

• 1 level tbsp olive oil (the recipe states palm oil but I avoid that due to the environment and so on).
  

Method

1. Place the butter & oil into a large flat casserole on a medium hob & gently fry the chicken breasts to colour all over then remove from the pan.

2. Add the add the onion, garlic & chilli puree to the pan & fry without colouring.

3. Crumble in the fish stock cube & stir.

4. Add lemon & lime juices, cream, water, peanut & stir together.

5. Put the chicken back in, add the crayfish, cover & place in the oven for approximately 1 hour at 150C.

6. When ready the sauce should have slightly thickened.