recommend me a signature dish!

[loltolhurst]

Hi,

I need a signature dish thats different and impressive when chums come round. Needs to be:

Low cholesteral
difficult to do
impressive
a main dish
not too expensive
different from the norm.
healthy


Any ideas? Quite happy to try it a few times to get it right if its complicated

[Summertime]

Take away ?

[Simpo Two]

What kind of 'chums' are woried about cholesterol?

[grumbledoak]

Don't know about 'difficult' - chefs are not rocket scientists. Awkward and time consuming is more like it for e.g. Heston. Sous-chefs help here.

I just did this, could have used some work on the presentation but it was very nice and clearly takes work: http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/main-ingredient...

[Romanymagic]

loltolhurst said:

Hi,

I need a signature dish thats different and impressive when chums come round. Needs to be:

Low cholesteral
difficult to do
impressive
a main dish
not too expensive
different from the norm.
healthy


Any ideas? Quite happy to try it a few times to get it right if its complicated

Perhaps if you could advise of how experienced you are to enable us to guess at your level of ability?

Reason being some people can find certain levels of cooking easy, other terrifying. I've known people to believe creating something likes Eggs Bendict easy and complicated, same with Beef Wellington. I have friends who can create a fantastic Saltimbocca but cannot produce a risotto, same friends who can also cook to perfection a lemon sole but will struggle with producing a steak to order.

Do you have experience of/specialise in, meat, fish, veg, dessert?

[loltolhurst]

i'm a beginner but willing to try anything - how hard can it be

im the one worried about cholesteral seeing as mine is 11.2!

would just to have one dish that i can perfect and do for special occasions

[Shaolin]

Paella - customizeable to what you like and can afford and most people don't bother to make it, not too difficult either - you do need some cookery skills though.

[Google [bot]]

1.Steak, seasoned with salt and pepper, cooked slightly less than you prefer.

2.Fry up some chopped fresh chillis, sliced mushrooms, onions.

Place 2 on top of 1 and place slices/pieces (cheese-dependent) of blue cheese on top.

Slam under the grill until cheese melted to taste.

Serve with gallons of Shiraz.