bernard matthews? No way!

[crisgal]

whilst out shopping my daughter begged me for some mini kievs. She's had them at a friends house and said she loved them.
I bought her the and she really did enjoy them.
I forced myself to try one and can see the appeal.
I never ever buy processed food though so have been trying to work out a recipe to make my own.
i can make the garlic filling and finely grind the chicken, and know how to pane (SP?) it.
My question is: Could i freeze little balls of the filling, then mould the chicken around it before breading. Or would the cold temperature affect the cooking of the chicken?
I'm just trying to think of a way that would keep the filling on the inside.

[crisgal]

hmm, i get what you mean, but isn't that making a tiny hole for the filling to ooze out?

[Old_Geezer]

Aren't these things covered with some kind of breadcrumb whatever ? I don't believe a small puncture will matter much as the outer layer would block it anyway.

[EcclesCake]

You'll be absolutely fine with your original plan. You will have to accept that some leakage of garlic butter is inevitable.

Just a thought but why go to the grief of making minced mini kievs when the real thing using whole breast is so much nicer....or is a whole breast too much for your daughter?

[crisgal]

oh i see. yes i think that would work. I could double breadcrumb couldn't i?

[vivandorron]

Any help.?-

http://www.bbcgoodfoo...odernday-chicken-kiev

Ron.

[merciasounds]

I usually remove that extra fillet bit then cut a small pocket into the breast and use homemade garlic butter straight from the fridge, rolled into a sausage shape and cut off roundells, then gg, crumb, egg crumb and put in the fridge for an hour then cook

[crisgal]

yes thanks.
I have made the large ones before but was wated to make the little golf ball sized ones, for y little girl x

[B00]

Crikey, isnt this a lot of effort?

Surely the odd pack of mini kievs as a 'treat' isn't THAT bad? Has to be better than going through all that malarky!

[crisgal]

lol at boo
yeah it sems a lot if effort and she did get them as a treat. I would rather make my own though, then i know it's pure chicken meat and not bum'oles and eyelids!
plus we only eat happy chickens.

[ChuckFickens]

I suspect anything that is being eaten is not really all that happy!

[B00]

haha @ chuck, that reminds me of a customer at work once. Coming up to Christmas she was asking when we were getting turkeys in (to eat, i hasten to add) before she came out with the classic..."are they happy turkeys?", I looked her squarely in the eye before replying "not any more, they're dead".

[crisgal]

lol

[Ratty2E]

I think it's great that you want to make your own from scratch, I would'nt touch a beak'n'bum burger/kiev and I certainly would'nt feed them to my or anyone elses kids. We like to eat happy animals too, that is happy when they were alive of course.

[joeluke]

Just hope your daughter doesn't ask you to buy turkey twizzlers

[crisgal]

how very dare you! ;)
she's knows better than that!

[bimbo123456]

But the filling for mini kievs is more like a sauce than the garlic butter in the larger kievs. If you make a fairly thick white sauce, add the herbs and garlic, and cool it overnight it becomes quite thick. Then you could do the equivalent of chicken sausage round the outside. Then breadcrumbs. Kinda like a scotch egg. This is only an idea mind....let me know if it works...

[vivandorron]

I hope bimbo hasn't scotched further suggestions .:-) I'm chickening out at this stage.!!

A tasty dish is thighs stuffed with a cream cheese and herb mix and wrapped in bacon; which is certainly nothing to do with kiev.

Sorry, I can't help being Welsh and not Russian............Ron.