Showing posts with label Sauce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sauce. Show all posts

Saturday, February 2, 2013

THE - Chicken Rice

Chicken Rice, Nasi Ayam, it has gotta be the simplest or prolly the basic-est food at all hawker centre.. Its like Chicken with Rice and Nasi with Ayam.. Simple food, simple pleasures..

Here's my take on my chicken rice.. A couple of years prolly 8-9 years back, I remembered watching Channel 5 on 1 morning and it was showing some chinese lady who is in the USA cooking Chicken Rice.. Back then, my memory was still capable on rememebering hence, miraculously i remembered roughly how it was made..

I had tried them a couple of times, improvised it at every tries and alhamdulillah it turned out good.. A reliable recipe i must say.. sorta! heh!

Before i start giving out the recipes, let me just get this straight that i had no intention on having these recipes on my own nor do i wanna be selfish.. There are times when i don't have any unit measurement on the litres of water used or the quantity of salt or sugar.. Whatever i have or knows i'll write it down, otherwise it would be agak-agak or estimation..

Chicken Rice



Chicken Stock:

* 1L of water
* Couple of chicken wings/parts (4-5 pcs)
* salt
* 2 cubes of chicken Knorr
[The original recipe is just water + chicken, it is tasteless, seriously tasteless]

Methods:
1) Cook the chicken parts in the 1L of water and bring it to boil.
2) Add in the Chicken cube & salt to taste.
3) Once the stock is up to your preference, turn off the heat. Let it cool properly. Best to cook them the previous night.

Rice:

* Rice (of course!), 5 cups
* 5 cloves garlic, minced
* 3 cm ginger, minced
* 1 Cube of chicken knorr
* 4 tbsp olive oil
[The original recipe uses chicken fats from the skin of the chicken.. Sound greasy doesn't it, so i had opted for olive oil]

Methods:
1) Washed the rice and drain properly.
2) Heat up oil in the wok and put in garlic and ginger. Stir well. (Garlic & ginger turns brown easily so you gotta constantly stir them!) PS: I get high from the smell of garlic & ginger.
3) Add in the Knorr cube and stir. Once dissolve, put in the rice. Yes the uncooked rice, stir fry them constantly for abt 3-5 mins and turn the heat off. Remove from stove and let it cool.

Rice meets Stock:
Note: DO NOT, use the whole 1L of chicken stock.

1) Once rice has cooled, pour in the required amt of stock to cook the rice (just like how you would cook a white rice). Stir them before putting it in the cooker and cook!
2) That is it!

Fried Chicken:
Note: This is not the recipe from the lady.. Its the basic, normal fried chicken recipe that i have, my own..

* Chicken thigh
* Light Soya Sauce
* Tumeric Powder (Kunyit Powder)

Methods:
1) Wash and drain the chicken. Pat them dry with a kitchen towel.
2) Marinate with light soya sauce & tumeric powder (Not too much of the powder)
Note: Due to the Soya Sauce, chicken turn brown easily. Do cook them on small fire/low heat.

Chicken Rice Chilli Sauce:

* 11 Red Chilli
* 5 Red Chilli Padi
* 4 cloves garlic
* 1 tbsp Vinegar
* 3/4 cup water
* Sugar
* Salt

Methods:
1) Blend all the ingredients together.
2) Cook them on low heat. Add more sugar/salt up to your preferences.

Happy Trying!

Friday, December 14, 2012

THE - Fiffy's Seafood Platter!

An entry via iPhone Blogger apps, doesn't allow you to save, only publish.. My lengthy post got lost when i fell asleep while posting an entry 2 days ago.. T_T

2 days back, as usual, had texted hubs to ask what's for dinner.. His reply this time was "Surprise me.." And so, i'd skipped lunch to shop for grocery at NTUC Parkway Parade instead.. Have i ever mention how i'd loved my trips to the supermarket.. i could spent hours in a supermarket, the big ones of course.. Back in the days when there was carrefour at Suntec, i would go there EVERYDAY.. i would gleam at the entrance of the market.. Oh and to me, supermarket has to be big.. There is no point making a small supermarket, where the alleys are freaking small and there isn't much much variety of products to buy..

Since i stayed in the North but work somewhere near the East, here are my fave's supermarket:
1) Ang Mo Kio - NTUC FairPrice
2) Parkway Parade - NTUC Finest
3) Northpoint - Cold Storage (They have the freshest thawed chicken)
4) Tampines - Giant

Back to "what's for dinner?"

Before he gets sick & tired of chicken, i'd to change the menu.. Seafood is like an expansive food to me.. So the once in a while indulge to Fish & co was what we had look forward to.. Like I'd mention previously, dinner has never been peaceful since we had Firas.. So, i'd decided to try make my very own Seafood platter for dinner!

Fried Calamari:

Ingredients:
* Squid
* 1 cup flour
* 1 egg, beaten
* pepper
* seafood seasoning
* salt

Methods:
1) Clean squid, cut it into rings
2) Mixed flour, pepper, salt & seafood seasoning into a bowl.
3) Dip squid into egg and then to the flour mixture. Deep fry it till golden brown.

Note:  If you are looking for a crunchy fried calamari, i wouldn't recommend this recipe. The taste is alright but it ain't crunchy.. (I am still working on a crispy calamari)

Cajun Prawn:

Ingredients:
* Tiger prawn (It's for family, and the bigger the prawns the tastier it is)
* Cajun Seasoning
* Seafood seasoning

Methods:
1) Clean your prawns, cut the legs leave the shell and the head on.
2) Season it with cajun and seafood seasoning
3) Melt butter on pan (i uses happy call), and cook it for about 5 mins on each side.. (prawns cook real fast, so overcooking the prawns may not be a good idea)


Mussels in Garlic Butter Sauce:

Ingredients:
* 1lb frozen 1/2 shelled mussels (you could use the one with both shell on of course)
* 1/2 block butter, room temperature
* 4 cloves garlic, minced
* 3 teaspoon parsley, chopped (you could use the fresher ones, but i'd prefer the bottled parsley flakes cos i could keep it longer)
* 60ml cooking cream

Methods:
1) Mixed butter, garlic & parsley with a wooden spoon.
2) On a small fire, put the mixture in a medium pot. Once butter has melted put in mussels.
3) Stir well, making sure the mussels is has butter on it. Then add in cream.
4) Cook it on small heat for 15 mins.

PS: Serve it with toasted bread.. The sauce is heavenly YUMS!
Note: I am upset with my Herbs Halibut cos the recipe i had online turns out to be freaking salty.. Let me work on that again before i post.

Happy Tucking!!