Spiced Rum Sugar Chicken With Mango Mojito Salsa Recipes

CAPTAIN'S MOJITO

Steps:

• Place the mint leaves, lime wedges, and ice into a cocktail shaker; mash well with a cocktail muddler. Pour in the simple syrup, lime juice, rum, cranberry juice, and soda water. Cover, and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted. Strain into a chilled glass to serve.

MOJITO MANGO CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• To make salsa, heat oil in a skillet over medium high heat.
• Add green pepper and onions and saute about 4 minutes.
• Add minced ginger and red pepper flakes, saute another 1 minute.
• Now add mango and cook an additional 5 minutes.
• Now add rum and lime juice and simmer for one minute.
• Take off the heat and stir in mint. Set mango salsa off to the side.
• For the chicken breast preparation pat the breasts dry.
• Combine the flour, garlic powder, ginger, salt and pepper.
• Lightly pat the chicken into the flour mixture.
• Heat the oil over medium high heat in an oven proof skillet.
• Lightly brown the chicken for about three minutes on each side.
• Pour the mango salsa over the chicken.
• Put the uncovered skillet in a 350 degree oven for 10 minutes.

SPICED RUM-SUGAR CHICKEN WITH MANGO MOJITO SALSA

Steps:

• Place all Marinade ingredients in a pan and bring to a gentle simmer.
• Simmer 10 minutes, stirring frequently to prevent the sugar from catching then leave to cool completely.
• Cut three or four deep slashes through the skin side of each chicken breast. Pour over marinade, making sure that all the chicken is well coated and that the marinade has penetrated the slashes. Leave for at least 3 hours, or ideally overnight for the flavours to develop.
• When nearly read to cook the chicken, peel the Mango and cut the flesh into ½ inch dice. Add the scallions / spring onion.
• Grate the lime zest and add to the Mango, along with the chili pepper.
• Squeeze lime juice and stir into the salsa with the white rum and mint. Refrigerate for one to two hours for the flavours to develop.
• Preheat grill.
• Remove chicken from the marinade, scraping any extra marinade off.
• Place remaining marinade in a pan and heat gently.
• Grill chicken breasts for 5-7 minutes each side, until cooked through.
• Serve chicken with reserved spiced rum sauce and the Mango Mojito Salsa.

SPICED MANGO-MOJITO SAUCE

Steps:

• Purée mangoes in blender or processor until smooth. Transfer 1 1/2 cups purée to medium bowl (reserve remaining purée for another use). Mix yogurt, 4 tablespoons sugar, spiced rum, fresh lime juice, and chopped mint into purée. Sweeten sauce to taste with more sugar, if desired. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.)

SPICY MOJITOS

Steps:

• For the jalapeno simple syrup: Add the sugar, jalapeno and 1 cup water to a saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. When the sugar is dissolved, remove from the heat and let cool for 1 hour. Remove the jalapeno before using.
• For the mojitos: Divide the mint leaves between two pitchers, and muddle. Squeeze the juice of 1 lime into each pitcher, then add the simple syrup, evenly divided. Fill the pitchers with ice and top off with club soda. Add the rum to one of the pitchers. Stir and serve.

PINEAPPLE GINGER MOJITOS WITH SPICED RUM

Steps:

• Place the pineapple juice and slices of ginger into a small saucepan. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 5-10 minutes until the liquid has reduced by half. Leave to cool to room temperature, then discard the ginger.
• Make the caramelized pineapple next. Heat the butter in a frying pan until starting to foam.
• Dust the pineapple slices in the brown sugar and place in the frying pan. Fry, turning once, until both sides are golden and caramelized (about 3-4 minutes). Put to one side.
• Place 6 mint leaves in each glass (this recipe is for two glasses). Add the lime juice and lime slices to the glasses.
• Pour in the reduced pineapple-ginger juice and muddle everything together with a spoon.
• Fill the glasses up two-thirds of the way with crushed ice, then pour over the spiced rum. Top with the soda water (club soda) and mix again. Add more ice to fill up to the top if necessary.
• Garnish the glasses with a small sprig of mint and a slice of caramelized pineapple.