Teriyaki Herbs Chicken

This is something new, a Japanese teriyaki chicken with a twist - herbs added to chicken. It makes the chicken more flavourful.



Ingredients:
chicken drumstick - deboned
3 Tbsp teriyaki sauce
1 tsp dry parsley
1 tsp dill
1 tsp oregano
pinch of salt
1 tsp Lee & Perrie sauce
2 Tbsp honey


Method:
Make a few slits at the back of drumstick flesh
In a bag, mix all sauce, herbs, salt together
Add drumstick in, seal bag and toss to distribute marinate evenly
Set aside for 3hrs
Pre heat oven to 180C, place drumstick on rack and grill
Do not discard marinate sauce
5mins through grilling, add honey to remaining sauce
Brush over drumstick skin and continue grilling.
Few mins before chicken cooked, brush again, this time on
both sides.
Slice and serve hot this juicy succulent chicken meat.

Fish Egg Rolls

This is a very easy & nice dish with little ingredients. Good for those in a hurry to prepare few dishes for visiting guests.




Ingredients:
200gm fish paste
3 Eggs beaten
Spring onions chopped fine
Pepper

Method:
Heat up non stick pan
Pour beaten eggs and swirl pan to make into round crepe
Remove when cooked
Set aside and let cool
Repeat until egg finish

Once cool, take a piece of egg crepe
Spread fish paste thinly over one egg crepe
Sprinkle spring onion & pepper over
Roll it over (like sushi) and tuck ends in
Place on plate and cover with cling wrap
Steam for 8-10 mins till cooked
Slice into smaller piece and serve

Note: Do ask your fish paste seller if salt is added in it.
The one I bought already have salt so I don't add salt anymore.
Cling wrap is to prevent water from dripping onto eggs.
You can add red chili or carrot strips to make it more colorful.

Black Glutinous Rice

For those who love a taste of glutinous rice, this is a simple and yummy recipe.  

Preparation & cooking time: 1 hour

Ingredients:

100g lean pork meat, cut into little chunks

3 cups glutinous rice

6 pcs of mushroom, soaked and cut into stripes

0.5 cup dried shrimp

4 cloves of garlic, chopped

3 tbsp soya sauce

1 tsp salt 

hot water

4 tbsp oil

dark soya sauce

Method:

Soak the glutinous rice  in water overnight. Next day, drain the water and set aside.

Heat up oil, add in pork and stir fry.

Then, add in garlic, dried shrimp and mushroom.  Then,  continue to stir fry.

When the ingredients are 80% cooked, add in the glutinous rice. Add in dark soya sauce, soya sauce, salt, and continue to stir evenly, for about 5 minutes.

Dish out all the glutinous rice into a big plate.  Pour in hot water, sufficient to cover up to the surface of the rice.

Heat up water in a wok, and steam the glutinous rice on high heat, for 30-40 minutes.

Serve while rice is hot, with your favourite chili sauce.   Yum yum!  :)

by Aggie

Roti Jala Malaysia

Malaysia has a wonderful wide range of food. You can find mouth watering streets food and one of my favourite is Roti Jala.


Ingredients:
1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
1 1/2 cup milk (if you prefer creamier roti jala use fresh coconut cream)
1/2 cup water
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder

Tools:
Non Stick pan
Roti Jala Mold


Method:
Sieve the flour and set aside.
In a big bowl, mix all the ingredients well together and strain the batter.
Heat up non stick pan with medium heat and spray with olive oil.
Pour some batter into the mold and transfer the mold to the pan.
As the batter flows through the holes of the mold, make circular rounds to form the netty patterns (see pic below).
After the top is set and done or when the bottom turns light brown, remove the Roti Jala and fold it into triangle shape.
Serve Roti Jala with some curry.
I prefer mine with thick vegetable dhal curry.

Roti Jala with Dahl Curry

This makes a wonderful breakfast...

Sweet & Sour Fish with Pineapple

Ingredients:

2 pound fish fillet cut into smaller pieces (6-7cm long)

Flour for dusting

1/2 pineapple cut into cubes

1onion cut into cubes

3 Tbsp Sweet & Sour Sauce

3 Tbsp Chili sauce

1 Tsp sugar

1 clove garlic chop fine

Parsley

Fish Batter Ingredients:

2 cups plain pan cake mix

1 egg

1/4 cup olive oil

salt and white pepper to taste

Method: (Batter & Frying Fish)

Mix the above items (fish batter) together in a bowl and thin the mixture with water

Do not make the batter too thin

Heat up oil

Dust fish fillet with flour before dipping into batter

Deep fry until golden brown

Drain on paper towel

Method: (Sauce)
Heat up wok with some oil

Combine Sweet & Sour sauce + Chili sauce

Stir fry garlic until fragrant

Add Onions & Pineapple and stir

Pour in sauce, sugar

Bring to boil

Pour sauce over fried fish and serve hot

Garnish with some parsley

Tips: egg make batter crispy and dusting will make the batter stick to fillet

Steam Drunken Chicken with Mushroom

Ingredients:
2 chicken drumstick debone & cut into smaller pieces
3 Chinese dry mushroom soaked and cut into strips
2 Tbsp shaoxing wine
1 1/2 Tbsp soy sauce
Pepper
1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
3 cloves garlic chop fine
Spring onions

Method:
Arranged cut chicken pieces on a plate
Sprinkle cut mushroom, garlic over chicken
Pour wine, soy sauce, sesame oil over chicken
A few dash of pepper powder
Steam for 10-15 until chicken is cooked
Garnish with spring onions and serve hot over rice

Fermented Red Beancurd Fried Chicken (Nam Yue Chicken)

Nam Yue - Fermented Red Bean curd

Nam Yue has a very strong flavourful smell and can only be used in certain Chinese dishes.

Shops that specialise in soy sauce normally have Nam Yue on their rack. Its cheap , RM2 a

big bottle. This recipe is very easy, you just need couple of ingredients and you can make a

delicious fried chicken.

Ingredients:

8 chicken wings, separate wings from drumettes

(you might want to make a few slits on the drumettes)

3pieces nam yue + 1tsp of the sauce

1 1/2 Tbsp Chinese 5 spice powder

1 1/2 tsp sugar

1 tablespoon shaoxing wine

Method:

Mix all ingredients with wings & drumettes

Set aside for 2-3hrs for it to season
Heat up oil in wok (make sure oil is enough to cover whole drumettes/wings)

Make sure oil is hot before frying (you can see a bit smoke coming out if its very hot)

Deep fry by sets of wings and drumettes separately

Once turn brown, take it out

Serve hot

Stir Fry Pumpkin

Ingredients:
500gm pumpkin, remove skin & cut into cubes
Handful of dry shrimps
3 cloves garlic chopped fine
Spring onions
Salt
1/2cup water


Method:
Briefly wash dry shrimps
Heat up wok with oil
Fry garlic & dry shrimps until fragrant
Add in pumpkin & water
Stir to mix everything up and cover it to simmer until pumpkin is soft
Add salt to taste
(careful not to add too much salt as dry shrimps are already salty)
Garnish with spring onions


Tips:How to make spring onions curl up?
Cut spring onions into small thin strip and soak it in ice cold water
Within few seconds, it will curl up.

Home Made Chicken Burger

Ingredients:

500gms minced chicken meat

2Tbsp BBQ Sauce

1/2 tsp salt

1Tbsp Lee & Perrie Sauce

2onions chopped fine

Parsley chopped fine

1egg

1Tbsp corn flour

Method:

Mix everything into a mixing bowl

Take a handful of meat and roll it into a ball

Then use your palm to flatten it

Set it aside on top of a baking paper

Repeat until finish

Lay another piece of baking paper on top before laying another burger (see pic below)

Refrigerate for 2hrs

Spray some olive oil on burger before grilling

Serve it with lettuce, tomato, pickles,cheese & your preferred burger bread