Home cooking made easy: Restaurant quality dinners and baking with a four-year-old

Four-year-old Alfie helping his parents cook a restaurant quality meal Credit: ITV Tyne Tees

Lockdown life - there is no getting away from the downside of being stuck at home, with almost everything closed during lockdown.

From missing out on haircuts, to restaurants being shut, to the ongoing challenge of homeschooling. 

So in our latest series, Lockdown Life Hacks, we are providing you with a range of expert tips, so you can try them at home. 

Chefs at 21 Hospitality, Helen Doyle and Martin Malinowski, are showing us how to get restaurant quality meals without leaving your kitchen. With the help of their 4-year-old son Alfie, they're cooking Chicken Milanese with a Spaghetti Pomodoro.

Chicken milanese with spaghetti Pomodoro

Ingredients 

  • 2 cloves of garlic 1 onion  

  • Half a carrot grated 

  • Half a bunch of fresh basil

  • Olive oil 

  • 1 x 400g tin of plum tomatoes 

  • 2 x 150g skinless free-range chicken breasts

  • 100g plain flour

  • 2 large free-range eggs

  • 100g breadcrumbs

  • 30g Parmesan cheese 

  • 150g dried spaghetti

  • 1tsp dried oregano  

No restaurant meal would be complete without a delicious desert. Alfie and his sous-chefs are preparing soft meringue and rhubarb.

Soft Meringue with Yorkshire rhubarb 

Ingredients

For the Meringue

  • 180g room temperature egg whites 

  • 360g caster sugar 

  • 30g corn flour 

  • 10g white wine vinegar

For the Rhubarb

500g Rhubarb

100g caster sugar


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