Chilli Chicken with Mango Salsa

I was paid a lovely compliment during the week, one of those that makes your heart sing and the impact affects you long after the words have even been uttered. One of my dearest friends expressed her disappointment that I'd neglected my food blog. As I post one liners on Facebook, she knows I still cook lol.....but I don't get so far as to post the recipes. I go through my photos in iPhoto and see lots and lots of pics I've taken of meals I've cooked, meals that never had the recipes written out for and never made it to my blog. I started this recipe blog, mainly for my own benefit. I hit on a winning combination of ingredients and I want to remember it so I can recreate it. Sometimes I'll cook the same thing a couple of times and then it falls into the archives of my mind, and so does the recipe which inspired me in the first place. So my dear Karen, thanks to you, I'll make another attempt at maintaining my food blog. I'll never rival the good food porn sites, but I'll show my food with my so so photography and know somoene will enjoy it...........

Tonight's dinner is

Chilli Chicken and Mango Salsa

Thigh fillets (more tender than breast, even though they don't look as pretty on the plate.

1/2 cup of lemon juice

1 chopped fresh chilli

2 tblspn oil

2 tsp sesame oil

2 tblspn honey

1 clove garlic crushed

2 spring onions chopped

2 tblspn chopped fresh coriander

salt to taste

Marinade the chicken thigh fillets in the above. Cook the chicken on a griddle pan or BBQ grill plate. This recipe is from the Aussies Barbecue Cookbook and I would make an alteration or two. Because we make the dinner for two, we usually still make the full amount of marinade because we find that with all recipes for sauces and marinades, they tend to be a bit light on and we feel there's not enough to do the job properly. Sometimes we have a sauce or something left over and it will keep for a couple of days - I'd rather do that than be caught short. Having said that, anything with lemon juice, I tend to under add the lemon juice. I love lemon juice, but find its strong flavour often over powers the flavours of everything else.

The Salsa recipe is my own,

Mangoes chopped

Avocado chopped

red onion finely chopped

fresh coriander chopped

garlic, crushed

fresh chilli chopped

squeeze of lemon juice to help the avo keep its colour

olive oil

salt

This served with the chicken is delicious, and is also great with pork. We'll bake a potato to go with it. I'll hope to post a picture too.

** When I make the salsa again, I'd make the whole thing up ahead, but not put the avocado in until serving time. It didn't brown, but went mushy and the presentation wasn't as good as it could have been. The dinner was delicious.