Simple Recipe - Curry Chicken Recipe

Didn't realise I didn't write my recipe on curry chicken till I search for it here.

Ingredients

Chicken whole leg 4 cut into pieces= 16 pieces

Blended chilies paste (dried chilies, small onion, garlic) 18 tablespoon

Spices 6 types - coriander seed half small bowl, cumin 1/2 teaspoon, fennel 1/4 teaspoon, cinnamon stick 1, clove 3, star anise 3. To fry without oil in pan and then dry blend.

2 stalks of curry leaves

3 or 4 potatoes cut into desire size or shape

1 coconut = 1 medium bowl coconut milk

Salt to taste

Method

Heat up oil, pour in the blended chillies paste, follow by curry leaves, salt till fragrance or cook. Then add in blended spices. 

Stir in chicken for few minutes 

Add in coconut milk follow by potatoes and salt till cooked. 

There you go easy peasy and delicious

Simple Recipe - Soy Sauce Chicken (Si Yau Gai)

There is quite a number of version of Soy Sauce Chicken, but to ensure my family will not be boring with what I cook, I gotta be innovative at time.

You can use fresh chicken or roast chicken for this dish.

Ingredients

8 chicken drumsticks/whole chicken

8 cups of water

Aromatics needed:

6 piece of slice ginger

1 whole garlic

2 stalks spring onion

3 to 4 star anise

2 cinnamon stock

6 whole shallots

Sauce Mixture 

1 cup soy sauce

1 1/4 cup dark soy sauce

1 cup rock sugar

1/2 cup Chinese cooking wine

1 tsp five spice powder

 

Steps

Stir fry all aromatics, add water in, add sauce mixture, bring to boil, add chicken and boil for 20 to 25 mins or till chicken in cooked. Done!

Simple Recipe - Chicken in dark soy sauce and onion

The fragrance of fried crispy onion in this recipe, believe me you will like it with just simple ingredients. 

 

Ingredients (Suitable for 2 to 3 person)

2 large whole chicken leg cut into 4 pieces each

Marinate with 1 teaspoon turmeric powder and 1 teaspoon salt

Slice 3 small onion

Fried till crispy brown and set aside.

Pound or blend

Ginger thumbsize

6 cloves garlic

1 big onion

Method

Heat up wok, add in oil fry the sliced onion till brown, set aside

Use the same oil, fry the chicken till almost cooked, set aside

Use the same oil and different oil if you prefer

Pour in the pounded/blended ingredients

Follow by 2 tablespoon cili paste (blended dried chilies, small onion, garlic) or (blended dried chilies, small onion, garlic, lemongrass and turmeric)

2 teaspoon sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce

Add in the fried chicken,  little water if necessary

Finally add in the sliced onion

 

 

 

There you go, simple dish that can be easily done and I am sure your family will love it..

Simple Recipe - Kung Po Chicken

Trying out this recipe today and it turned out fine. I am happy as long as my family likes it.

It is so easy as not much ingredient needed.

A plate of half of whole chicken breast

Ingredients

1/2 of whole chicken breast, diced

Slice ginger

Slice 3 cloves garlic

8 dried chillies, halve, discard seed

Marinate whole chicken breast:

1 tbls Light Soya Sauce

1 tbls Chinese Cooking Wine

1/2 tbls Sesame Oil

1/2 tbls Cornstarch

1/4 tsp Pepper

Sauce for half chicken breast

3 tbls Light Soya Sauce

1 tbls Dark Soya Sauce

1/2 tbls Black Vinegar

3/4 tbls Sugar

1 tbls CornStarch

6 - 8 tbls Water

Method

Heat up wok, pour in oil

Fry marinated chicken, 70% cooked, set aside

Add oil, stir garlic, ginger follow by dried chillies till fragrant

Add back the chicken

Pour in the mixed sauce

Stir till chicken nicely coated

Simple Recipe - Fried Shrimp Paste Chicken Wing

Fried chicken always goes well with my two boys. I tried out this way to marinate chicken wing and it turns out yum.

Ingredients

6 pairs of chicken wing (wing & drummet)

Marinate with:

2 tbls shrimp paste powder

1 tbls oyster sauce

2 tbls chinese cooking wine

1 tbls corn flour

1 tbls rice flour

1 tsp pepper

2 tsp five spices powder

1/5 tsp salt

Method

Marinate the chicken wings.

If you marinade longer, it will be more flavorful and tastier.

Heat up wok, pour in oil

Once oil is hot, fry the chickrn wings

Note: I am putting some salt since I only have vegetarian oyster sauce at home which is not too salty.

Simple Recipe - Braised Chicken with Bittergourd

Bittergourd is my hubby's favorite but is never mine because of the bitterness.

Ocassionally still have to cook eventhough none of us in the family like it but my younger son beginning to learn how to eat bittergourd. At times I will fry with egg, not too bad, is acceptable to me.

I was told by my mom that lighter green of bittergourd not so bitter.

Ingredients
3 whole chicken leg, remove skin, cut into pieces
1 large bittergourd, cut remove seeds, rub with salt
Minced garlic
Slice ginger
1 tbls fermented black bean (tow see)
1.5 tbls yellow bean paste (taucheong)

Marinate Chicken:
1.5 tbls soy asauce
1 tbls Shoaxing wine
1/2 tbls cornstarch
1/4 tsp pepper

Sauce/Seasoning (mix in bowl):
1 tbls soya sauce
1 tbls oyster sauce
1 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup water

Method
Blanch cut bittergourd for about 1 minute, set aside
Heat up wok, pour in 2 tbls oil, saute half minced garlic and ginger slice
Add chicken till cook half done, set aside
Heat wok, add little bit more oil, put in remainder garlic and ginger
Follow by taucheong and tow see till fragrant
Then bittetgourd, follow by chicken
Simmer with water till chicken is cooked thoroughly.
If you prefer a thicker gravy, stir tapioca flour with a bit water, add onto the simmering sauce

Eat with sambal belacan will give you the extra kick.

Simple Recipe -Pan Seared Boneless Chicken Whole Leg

My kids love fried chicken. Though is a bit messy during the frying process, as I do not encourage them to eat often fried chicken bought from stalls, I will once a while fried chicken at home for them.

I have bought deboned chicken whole leg and marinated them for at least an hour but best if you can marinate overnight.

You can marinate whatever sauce you have at home. You can have crispy skin by coating any fried chicken flour you have. Mine is not the crispy type but juicy.

Ingredients
2 whole chicken leg, optional cut into 2

Marinate
Pounded 2" ginger and 3  garlic
2 tblsp chinese cooking wine
1 tblsp sesame oil
1 tblsp Lea & Perin Sauce
1 tbslp Kikoman teriyaki sauce
1 tblsp Fish Sauce
Dash of black pepper

Method
Heat up pan, pour in cooking oil
Once hot, put in the chicken with skin down
After about 5 minutes, turn to other side, till cooked.

Simple Recipe - Steam Salted Chicken

For this Steam Salted Chicken recipe, is a quick one to prepare and it will not mess up your kitchen. You can use any part of chicken you wish. Here I use Chicken whole leg, deboned and cut into two.

Ingredients

2 whole chicken leg, cut into 2

1 tblsp dried wolfberry

1 tblsp ginger strip

5 Red Dates

4 Angelica sinensis (dong quai)

Seasoning

2 tblsp Sesame Oil

3 tblsp Aged Shoaxing Cooking Wine

Method

Marinate chicken with salt by rubbing on it for at least 30 minutes

Then scatter wolfberry, ginger, red dates and dong quai on top of chicken

Then pour seasoning on it

Steam 15 minutes

I love this simple steam chicken which my mom will normally use aluminium foil to wrap up the chicken pieces. You can try this way too.

Simple Recipe - Rendang Ayam

Cooking Rendang Ayam (chicken) has been my yearly affair during Raya.  Just last week my younger son requested me to cook as he wanted to eat with lemang.  It was already in my planning to cook Rendang to with lemang.

Lemang is a traditional food made of glutinous rice, coconut milk and salt, cooked in a hollowed bamboo stick lined with banana leaves in order to prevent the rice from sticking to the bamboo.

But my version of Rendang is not so dry as I prefer more gravy to go with rice or lemang. And I admit my version is not the best but as long as my two boys are satisfied with it, who cares 😉.

Ingredients

7 whole chicken leg

6 Kafir lime leaves

2 tumeric leaves

1.5 grated coconut = 1 thick coconut milk

Pinch of sugar

Salt to taste

8-10 tablespoon Kerisik*

To cut and blend:

25 dried chillies

8 small onions

5 garlic

1 inch ginger

1 inch galangal

3 lemongrass

1/2 inch tumeric

Method

Each whole leg cut into 4 pieces

Kafir lime leaves quater

Tumeric leave cut pieces

1.5 coconut add water to juice out 1 medium bowl thick coconut milk

Heat up wok

Toast half grated coconut, pound finely

Heat up oil

Fry the chillie paste till fragrant

Put in chicken

Then add in kafir and tumeric leaves 

Coconut milk

Salt and sugar

Lastly add in kerisik (toasted coconut)

*Kerisik:

Coconut is grated, toasted, then pound finely or ground to paste.

Simple Recipe - Fried Fermented Red Beancurd Chicken Wing

No one can resist fried chicken wings. My younger son especially the happiest person when he saw marinated chicken wings in the fridge which I have marinated a day earlier. He exclaimed & smiled knowing I will be cooking this dish.

The easiest way to marinate chicken wings is using fermented red bean curd.  My mom will normally marinate and keep a week in the freezer, it will be even tastier.

Ingredients
8 pairs Chicken Wings
2.5 cube fermented red beancurds smashed
1 tablespoon red beancurd sauce
Dash of pepper
1/5 teaspoon thick soya sauce
1/4 teaspoon sugar

Method
Marinate overnight
Heat up Wok
Add in Oil
Fry the chicken wings till cook

Simple Recipe - Honey Chicken Wing

Elder son has been complaining..."mom, why don't you come out with new recipe?".  Gosh, he is the most fuzzy one when comes to my cooking.

So today, I tried out a new way to cook chicken wings. Hubby and elder son commented it was tasty, well marinated. Is best if you marinate overnight or at least 2 hours. This recipe of Honey Chicken Wing is very easy, try it out.

Ingredients
6 chicken wings

To marinate:
6 tablespoon light soy sauce
2 tablespoon sweet dark soy sauce
Dash of coarse black pepper
Pounded 2" ginger & 3 cloves garlic
1/4 lemon juice and zest
2 tablespoon olive or any cooking oil
4 tablespoon honey
Pinch of salt


Method
Cut into two separating wing from the drummet
Blanch over boiling water, pat dry
Marinate overnight or minimum 2 hours
Then cook in oven 180°c for 45 mins or cook using stove till cooked.

Note: Since I am out of sweet dark soy sauce, I replaced with dark soy sauce and 1 tablespoon of brown sugar.

Simple Recipe - Kapitan Chicken Curry

A nyonya dish, that I tried cooking for first time after a lunch outing with family at Limapulo, my kids requested me to cook the same at home. Is not easy to be a chef at home, trying out different recipe to satisfy my children and upon any special request, I got to figure out how to churn out the dish. This dish  is named Ayam Berempah at Limapulo, mine with this recipe here tasted alright quite close though not exactly as Ayam Berempah.  As it turned out aromatic and thumbs up from my family members for this Kapitan Chicken Curry.

Ingredients to blend

Ingredients
6 chicken whole leg cut into 4 or 5 pieces
4 tbsp cooking oil
4 kaffir lime leaves torn into quarters
1/2 small bowl water
1 lime (juice)

Spice to blend
15 shallots
4 cloves garlic
3 stalk lemon grass
5 fresh red chillies
1.5" galangal
1/2" turmeric
1/2" ginger
3 candlenut
1" shrimp paste

Seasoning
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 tblsp brown sugar
6 tblsp thick coconut milk

Method
Heat up pot or wok
Put Oil, blended spices - cook till fragrant using small fire
Throw in half kaffir lime leaves, then chicken, water
Then remainder kaffir lime leaves
Lower heat to medium
Chicken tender, gravy thicken (add water if gravy too dry), put salt, sugar and swirl in coconut milk
Squeeze in lime juice