Chicken Cutlets with Fava Beans
The recipe is meat cutlets with green fava beans, prepared in two ways: one with yogurt and starch, and the other braised with lemon and garlic. Begin by browning the cutlets with optional sheep tail fat, then sauté the onion, followed by the fava beans with salt, pepper, a little sugar, and hot water until tender. Mix cold yogurt with starch, then cook until thickened. Divide the recipe between two Pyrex dishes: cover one with yogurt and place it under the top heat only, and pour lemon and garlic over the other and serve it braised. Top the yogurt version with pine nuts.
A chicken dish made with fava beans, prepared in two different ways.
Like chicken with a bean-based side or sauce.
Ingredients
- 1 kilo Green fava beans
- Meat cutlets
- half a kilo Yogurt
- 1 tablespoon Starch
- Garlic
- Lemon juice
- 3 onions Sliced onion
- Pepper
- 2 tablespoons Ghee
- Salt
- Sheep tail fat
- 1 teaspoon Sugar
- about a cup and a little more Hot water
- Pine nuts
Instructions
- In a frying pan, heat the ghee; oil may be used instead. Melt the tail fat if using.
- In the frying pan, season the tail fat with salt and pepper, then add the meat cutlets and turn them until browned on both sides. Set aside.
- In the same frying pan, add the ghee, then the sliced onion with a pinch of salt and pepper, and sauté until the onion softens.
- In the same frying pan, add the green fava beans with a pinch of salt, a pinch of pepper, and 1 teaspoon sugar. Stir without covering until partially tender and still retaining their color.
- In the same frying pan, add about a cup and a little more of hot water, then leave the fava beans over medium heat, uncovered, until almost cooked.
- In the same frying pan, add the meat cutlets to the fava beans and stir the mixture until the flavors combine.
- In a bowl, mix the cold yogurt with 1 tablespoon starch and a pinch of salt until smooth.
- In a pot, place the yogurt mixture over the heat, stirring continuously until it boils and becomes creamy in consistency.
- In the first Pyrex dish, spread half of the fava bean and meat mixture, then pour the cooked yogurt over it. Place it in the oven under the top heat only until set.
- In the second Pyrex dish, spread the other half of the fava bean and meat mixture, then add the lemon juice and garlic, and serve it braised.
- Pine nuts may be sprinkled over the yogurt dish when serving.