Crown Chokes
By: Daniel Penn
Published: Friday, January 8, 2010 - 3:03am

Ingredients




1 Large Artichoke
1 lemon
2 cloves of garlic
1 large potato
2 chicken breasts
1 teaspoon of maple syrup
1 sprig of rosemary
1 teaspoon of olive olive oil
a smallhandfull of mozzarella cheese

teaspoon of parm cheese
salt/pepper to tatse

Preparation

1 Preparation of the artichoke 2 Pull apart center leaves of artichoke 3 Cut the center so that you take the prickly center 4 Use spoon to get all that out so you only have the center being empty 5 Add a bit of lemon juice to make sure it doesn't change color 6 Add artichoke to boiling water 7 Let boil for 10 min so it gets kind of soft 8 Take out 9 Add cold water so it cools 10 Cut the edges of artichoke 11 How to make the stuffing. 12 Boil the potato, or put into microwave to cook it up. (it just needs to be soft) 13 In a sauce pan at med-high heat add the olive oil, rosemary, maple syrup, crushed and finely sliced garlic and the chicken. Add the lemon sliced  up to the saucepan and cook it all together for for 15 min. So that it is all cooked up.  and put it onto a plate to cool. 14 Now there should be some sauce still left in the pan, so slice the cooked potatoe and add it to the pan to get all that tasty sauce. 15 Now cut up the chicken, potato and some grated mozzarella cheese and mash it up so that you can stuff it into the artichoke. 16 Bake in oven at 350 for 20ish min.

About


so i made this twice, and well this one looks so much better and is something that actually can be made by a lot of people. There are two steps.
Preparation of the artichoke
    * pull apart center leaves of artichoke
    * cut the center so that you take the prickly center
    * use spoon to get all that out so you only have the center being empty
    * add a bit of lemon juice to make sure it doesn't change color
    * add artichoke to boiling water
    * let boil for 10 min so it gets kind of soft
    * take out
    * add cold water so it cools
    * cut the edges of artichoke
now for the stuffing i used
    * some garlic lemon chicken that i made the other day
    * some potatoes that were boiled then mashed up with the sauce from chicken
    * grated parm/mozzarella cheese
i stuffed the center with all that and then put in oven at 375ish for 20ish min. I also added a bit of balsamic vinegar on the edge of artichoke
now enjoy. Its enough to eat for two people