Lavender Marinade For Chicken Or Fish Recipes

Steps:

• Strip all flowers from the stems. Place in a bowl and add the orange zest, garlic, honey and salt, to taste. Combine well. Add the olive oil and herbs and mix.
• Spread mixture over chosen meat. If the fish or chicken is very thick, make regular slashes and massage marinade into these. Leave to marinate for minimum of 20 minutes before grilling (broiling) or baking, as desired.

Steps:

• Mix all the marinade ingredients together and brush over beef, lamb or chicken. Allow the meat to marinate in the marinade for 2 hours minimum and then cook as required.
• This marinade is great for the barbeque. If making ahead, store in a covered bottle or jar and keep in the fridge until required.

Steps:

• To make the marinade, strip the lavender flowers from the stems and combine with the orange rind, garlic, honey and salt; add the olive oil and herbs.
• Slash the chicken deeply, spread the mixture over the chicken and marinate in the refrigerator 20 minutes.
• To cook the polenta - in a heavy saucepan, bring the chicken stock to a boil; add the polenta in a steady stream, stirring all the time until thick; this will take 2 to 3 minutes.
• Turn the cooked polenta out onto a 1 inch deep buttered tray and allow to cool.
• Heat the broiler to medium. (If using a barbecue, let the embers settle to a steady glow) Grill the chicken about 15 minutes, turning once.
• Cut the polenta into 1 inch cubes with a wet knife.
• Heat the butter in a large frying pan and fry the polenta until golden brown.
• Wash the salad leaves and spin dry, divide among 4 large plates.
• Slice each chicken breast and lay over the salad. Place the polenta among the salad, garnish with sprigs of lavender and tomatoes, season to taste and serve.

Steps:

• Place all ingredients except salmon, in saucepan over moderate heat, stirring with a wire whisk at all times until ingredients are reduced by one-third, to create a sauce.
• When sauce has cooled slightly, brush on salmon filet.
• Grill salmon, basting with sauce occasionally, setting some aside to top when served. Salmon is cooked when fish flakes.
• To bake salmon, preheat oven to 350. Cover salmon with sauce, setting some aside to pour on salmon before serving.
• Bake for 10 minutes or until salmon is flaky, basting occasionally.
• Wonderful with rice or potatoes.