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Project & Documentation:

Now this project essentially was watered down to just students of the class making a dish for themselves out of the things they had and potentially some additives to it. For mine, I decided to do a seared chicken recipe that was very simple, but delicious. That paired with the light almost cucumber taste of a mojito as the perfect like side drink.

Recipes for each below:

Mojito with Fresh Mint & Lime

Ingredients

1 ½ oz rum

6 leaves of fresh mint (reserve a couple leaves)

2 teaspoons sugar

1 lime (half squeezed juice and half cut in slices)

12 oz of soda water or lemon/lime soda

Ice (served over the rocks)

Garnish – leaf lettuce, piece of lime, and rosemary pieces

Preparation

Muddle mint and sugar together

Add squeezed lime juice to mix and sugar mixture, stir

Fill 16 oz glass with ice

Pour soda water or lemon/lime soda over ice

Add mint, sugar, lime mixture, thin slices of lime, and reserved mint leaves

Add rum

Stir slightly in  glass

Garnish with a slice of lime on edge of glass

Enjoy!

Serving size for one person
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Seared Rosemary & Lime Chicken Breast

Ingredients

4 tablespoons butter

¼ teaspoon rosemary (chopped/minced)

¼ teaspoon garlic power

¼ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon pepper

1 lime

1 boneless chicken breast

Garnish – leaf lettuce, piece of lime, and rosemary pieces

Preparation and Cooking Instructions

Mix chopped/minced rosemary, garlic powder, salt, pepper in a bowl.  

Add to mixture squeezed juice for lime and mix all ingredients together

Pour mixture into a plastic bag with chicken breast and marinade for 30 minutes to 1 hour

Heat frying pan and melt 4 tablespoons of butter in pan on medium to high heat

Add chicken breast into hot pan with butter and cook 4 minutes on each side until thoroughly cooked

Remove pan from heat and cover to all chicken to rest for 5 minutes

Garnish plate with leaf lettuce and piece of lime

Place seared chicken breast on leaf lettuce and top with rosemary pieces

Eat immediately. Can be served hot or cold, based on preference

Serving size for one person.
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1.First I made the marinade that was put in a package with the chicken so the flavors could sink in. This was where the rosemary was minced, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and then a lot of lime juice went.



2.Then in a pan i melted the 4 tablespoons of butter and got it up to high heat so i could sear the chicken and not just cook it. After it was hot enough, i covered the pan and let everything cook up on one side before flipping it and squeezing a bit more lime juice on the cooked side.

3. Between flipping and checking on the chicken so it did not burn, the moijito was made next. Taking the mint leaves and crushing them in sugar for some abrasion as well as sweetness. After that you fill the mason jar or cup with ice all the way up. You add rum to personal preference (cap full for me) then fill with spite or 7up, mix in few more leaves with crushed mint leaves and then squeeze in lime juice. 

4.Serve and eat it. The chicken was a great idea as a canvas for the other ingredients used in the dish along with what we grew. As well as the lettuce that was tender because of the hot chicken on top. Plus the juices and marinade made everything taste so well. Then the water cucumber taste from the moijito washed way the savory taste for some simple refreshment. Both compliment each other so well.

Project Summary:

Overall I think that this project was a very nice way to end the semester as it was not taxing on students who's moral and energy are low due to their lives changing so much with the world around them. As well as this was an easy project to work on and plan back when we were still on the grow project. These assignments were great and while we only cooked for ourselves, think that was better than a whole class as it allowed students to only use what was needed and not decimating a plant to serve to so many students. Very intuitive, interesting, and tasty project as a final.