Three Course Meal for 2 - Vegetable Soup, Chicken Pie with Rice & Steamed Apple

Flavored Bread Crumbs

• 2 oz bread roll
  ou 2 oz white bread
• 1 garlic clove
• 5 sprigs fresh cilantro
  ou 5 sprigs fresh parsley

Three Courses

• 9 oz carrots, cut into pieces (1 in.), divided
• 9 oz zucchini, cut into pieces (1 in.), divided
• 3 ½ oz leek, white part only, sliced, divided
• 18 oz boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into strips (4 in. x ¾ in.)
  ou 18 oz turkey breasts, skinless, cut into strips (4 in. x ¾ in.)
• 2 tsp salt, divided
• 1 pinch ground black pepper
• 2 sprigs fresh thyme
• 1 apple, cut into eighths
  ou 1 pear, cut into eighths
• 1 tbsp sugar
  ou 1 tbsp honey
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 lemon, grated zest only
• 5 oz yellow onions, halved
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 oz olive oil
• 1 dried bay leaf
• 23 oz water
• 4 oz long-grain rice

Béchamel Sauce

• 9 oz milk
• 1 oz all-purpose flour
• ½ oz unsalted butter
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 pinch ground black pepper
• 1 pinch ground nutmeg