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Kitty Coles food styling

Kitty has spent over 12 years working as a food and prop stylist, contributing to cookbooks by the likes of Pasta Grannies, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Ixta Belfrage, Thomas Straker, Anna Jones, Thomasina Miers, Bread Ahead, Bold Bean, Bee Wilson, Joe Wicks and Gennaro Contaldo, among many others.

Kitty Coles food styling

As well as cookbooks she writes for magazines and digital platforms and has written for publications such as Apartamento, Borough Market, Table Magazine, Elle, Sherrluxe and Guzzle.

Her writing often weaves food with travel, family and place, drawing on time spent between the UK, Ireland and Mallorca.

Kitty Coles food styling

Kitty writes recipes in a way everyone can understand. Simple, delicious food that doesn’t require a trip to a specialist shop or an afternoon of prep.

The recipes are clear and tested, but not precious. They’re meant to be cooked without too much thinking, adjusted as you go.

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AD | Crispy chicken with a lime, ginger and chilli dressing, served with a toasted sesame herb salad.

The chicken is roasted until crisp, shredded, then tossed through ginger, chilli, lime and all the juices from the pan. It’s really simple and tastes just as good the next day. I always make extra for lunch with rice or noodles.

I’ve been using a few tools from @josephjosephofficial recently that make prep much quicker, from zesting and juicing limes to getting everything chopped before I even turn the hob on.

Serves 4

Ingredients

* 4 chicken legs
* 2 tbsp neutral oil
* 25g ginger, finely grated
* 2 garlic cloves, finely grated
* 1 red chilli, finely chopped
* 1 tbsp white or brown miso
* 1 tbsp sesame oil
* 2 to 3 limes
* 4 heaped tbsp sesame seeds

For the salad

* Large handful mint leaves
* Large handful coriander
* 2 large handfuls mixed leaves or Asian greens (mustard greens, mizuna, little gem or pea shoots)

Method
Preheat the oven to 200°C fan. Season the chicken with salt. Heat the oil in a large ovenproof frying pan and cook the chicken, skin-side down, for 12 to 15 minutes, turning occasionally, until deeply golden. Roast for 35 to 40 minutes until the meat pulls easily from the bone.

Toast the sesame seeds in a dry pan until golden, then crush roughly.

Remove the chicken from the pan then stir in the ginger, garlic and chilli to the chicken juices for 30 seconds. Whisk in the miso with a splash of water, the sesame oil, the zest of 2 limes and the juice of 1½.

Shred the chicken, discarding the bones, and toss through the dressing with some of the crushed sesame seeds.

Mix the herbs and leaves with the remaining sesame seeds, more lime zest and juice, and a little salt. Serve with the chicken and rice or noodles.

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