Roasted Chicken Breast with Mustard and Herb Spätzle and Mustard Glazed Carrots

Ingredients:
Chicken Breast:
2 Chicken Breasts
¼ cup Blended Oil
Salt & Pepper, to taste

Spätzle:
3 Egg Yolks
3 Eggs
2 cups Milk
1 tbsp Salt
4 tbsp Mustard
2 tbsp Parsley & Dill mix
Pinch of Pepper
4 cups Flour
½ cup Butter

Carrots:
5 Carrots
¼ cup Butter
1 Cipollini Onion, sliced
4 tbsp Chicken Stock 
1 Clove Garlic, diced
2 tbsp Mustard
1 tsp Lemon Juice
2 tsp of Sherry Vinegar
2 tbsp Hen-of-the-wood Mushrooms
¼ cup Vegetable Stock

Method of Preparation:
Spätzle:

Add the yolks, eggs and milk to a bowl and mix together. Add the salt and mustard and continue to stir. Add the parsley and dill mix, pepper flour and continue to whisk. After you’re done whisking add butter and stir it in. Let it sit for an hour or two.

In a hotel pan or a big pot of water, place the Spätzle into the perforated hotel pan. Push the mixture back and forth with a scraper so that the mixture starts to fall through the perforations. Gently stir the Spätzle in the water until they start to float. Place them into a bowl full of ice water. Once most of the ice is melted, scoop the Spätzle into another bowl.

Dump some onto a plate with paper towels. Place some butter into a pan until it browns. Place the Spätzle into the pan let it start to caramelize slightly. Stir the Spätzle so that it browns on all sides. 


Carrots:
Slice the carrots and quarter them up. Add butter to a hot pan throw the carrots in. Add the sliced onion to the pan as well. Add diced garlic to the pan. Add the stock and mustard to the pan. Next, add the lemon juice and sherry vinegar to the pan. Turn the heat down and let all the ingredients simmer. Also, add the mushrooms to the pan as well. Add some vegetable stock to the pan to help with the cooking process. Lightly stir. Add some Dill and Parsley to brighten up the carrots.

Chicken Breast:
Start but taking a paper towel and dabbing the chicken to get rid of some moisture. Add blended oil to a pan. Season the chicken with salt and pepper right before you place the breasts into a pan. Keep the heat on high as possible. Baste the top side of the chicken before placing into the oven. Cook the chicken skin side down the whole time. Place the pan in the oven at 400 degrees. Take the chicken out of the oven and place it back on the burner. Season the other side with salt and pepper. Flip the chicken over and let it cook. Add some butter and sherry vinegar to the pan baste the chicken. Garnish with crispy onions. 

Plating:
Place the Spätzle on the plate first. Next, add the carrots on top of the Spätzle. Garnish with some red mustard greens. Add the chicken on top. 

Pan-Roasted Chicken Breast with Tomato, Peach & Corn Salad | Tomato, Peach & Corn Salad | Corn Soup

Ingredients:

Tomato, Peach and Corn Salad:
1 Shallot, diced
1 clove, Garlic
3 Peaches, diced
3 Heirloom Tomatoes, diced
4 cups Corn
Salt, to taste
2 leaves, Basil, diced
4 tbsp Olive Oil
1 tbsp Sherry Vinegar
1 tbsp Pesto
Goat Cheese, to taste

Corn Stock:
5 Corn Cobs
2 white Onions
½ cup Celery
3 cups Water
1 sprig Thyme
1 clove Garlic
½ cup White Wine

Sweet Corn Soup:
4 cups of Corn
1 cup Corn Stock
1 White Onion, diced
½ cup Heavy Cream
¼ stick of Butter 1 tbsp Goat Cheese

Pan-Roasted Free Range Chicken Breast:
1 whole Chicken
2 tbsp of Olive Oil
Salt and Pepper, to taste

Method of Preparation:

Chicken Breast:

First, break down the chicken by Frenching the chicken by cutting the tendons and snapping the wings at the joint. Remove the breast from the chicken thigh. Add oil to a pan and let it heat up. Season the chicken breast with salt and pepper. Put the chicken in the pan skin side down and press down on it until the skin is nice and flat. After getting a nice sear in the pan put the pan in a 500-degree oven for about 20 minutes.

Corn Stock:
Snap the bottom of the corn and peel it down. Grab the top and snap and pull it down and shuck the corn. Cut the corn off the cobs. Snap the corn cobs in half and put them into a pot to start a corn stock. Soup: Slice up one white onion and add to a pot. Stir until it starts to become translucent. Add the corn to the pot and stir that in. Stir in the corn stock and heavy cream and let it come up to boil. Add soup to a blender to puree it. Salad: Add the diced shallot, garlic, peaches, tomatoes and corn to a bowl. Sprinkle salt and add the fresh basil to the bowl. Add the vinegar and olive oil to the bowl and mix it all together. Add two tablespoons of the salad to a hot pan to heat it up.

Plating:
Smear the pesto on to a plate and add the salad on top of it. After the salad is warmed up place the chick breast on top of it. Pour soup into a bowl. Garnish it with the pesto and goat cheese.