Home made nuggets

My little girl likes to eat chicken nuggets at fast food restaurant. So I thought why not do some breakfast with home made nuggets?  This is my first time making this and she said it's yummy like french fries.  Am happy :)

Ingredients
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 or 2 teaspoon garlic salt 
black pepper
2 skinless chicken breasts (cut into small bite sized pieces)
1 egg
Vegetable oil

Steps:
1) Place flour in a resealable plastic bag and season with the garlic salt and pepper.
2) Place the chicken pieces in the bag with the flour and toss to coat (work in batches).
3) Whisk the egg and 1 tablespoon water in a bowl - add in some salt & pepper here too.
4) Remove the chicken from the flour, dip in the egg mixture one by one.
5) Heat up the oil over medium-high heat.
6) Cook the chicken till brown on each side, about 8 minutes in total.
7) Transfer to the paper-towel lined plate

You may try one piece first to check out the saltiness and if not enough, add on salt in the whisked egg.  Serve it with Tomato sauce! My gal like it this way  

For crunchy crust, you can dip in flour, beaten egg, then finely crushed cream crackers or cornflakes.  

Rendang Ayam

Given by my friend.. but yet to try it :) 

Bahan2
1 ekor ayam
2 biji kelapa(ambil santannya)
2 sudu cili serbuk
1 camca teh lada hitam
4 biji bawang besar
3 ulas bawang putih
seinci halia
seinci lengkuas
2 batang serai
daun limau purut
garam sedikit (ikut rasa)
kunyit serbuk sedikit

Cara memasak
1.lada hitam, bawang besar, bawang putih & halia di blend
2.lengkuas & serai dititk/ditumbuk (jgn sampai hancur)
3.panaskan kuali dgn 1 senduk minyak
4.masukkan no1 & 2 , cili serbuk , garam & kunyit
5.biar wangi sekejap
6.masukkan ayam
7.bila ayam sudah kecut sedikit , masukkan santan
8.rasa garamnya
9.masukkan daun limau purut ( optional)
  

Katsu Don / Katsu Chicken

Saturday's cooking class again at Teddy's Kitchen.
Recepi from http://www.artsfunstudio.blogspot.com or http://kiddocook.blogspot.com

KATSU DON1 bowl sushi rice
10g spring onion
1 egg
1cup udon sauce
1/4 yellow onion (sliced)
1 Katsu Chicken*
2pc Japanese ginger

Step-by-Step
1) Cook the rice and let it cool.
2) Boil the udon sauce. While boiling, insert onion & egg. When the egg is half cooked, insert Katsu Chicken for 4mins.
3) Pour udon sauce and chicken on top of the rice.
4) Place spring onion on top before serve.

Katsu Chicken
1pc boneless chicken
2sp salt
2litre water
1 egg
30g breadcrumbs
30g flour

Step-by-Step
1) Wash the chicken and soak in water & salt for 30mins.
2) Dry the chicken and roll with flour, egg then coat with breadcrumbs.
3) Pre-heat deep fryer at 90˚C, cook the chicken for 25mins.

Home cook food for my lil' angel's birthday

To tell you the truth, I seldom cook like this.  I only cook occasionally.  Working full time and taking care of 2 kids + 1 big one (you know who I mean..LOL)..is really exhausted.  Well, I'm blessed to be able to still enjoy my mom's home cook food everyday!!  Da best of all!!  so below is what I've cooked with hubby for my lil angel's birthday.  She is 6 years old this year and will be going to primary school next year.  I wish her good health and happiness forever.  This is the most important thing in our life.  I always talk to her how lucky we are..and every time she will tell me how lucky she is!  Yes, we are very lucky and blessed (including everyone out there)

Okay, I saw this recipe in the Ikea's book and thought it would be good to try it out.  It says:

An instant recipe to be a Swedish Chef!  well maybe mine doesn't look like the picture they have shown LOL

Crispy Lemon and Herb Butter Chicken

This meatball also refering to a recipe book ..my first try on that recipe and it turns out still okay.  Next time, I should add some prawns so then it will taste better.

Meatballs with water chestnut

Stir fried Broccoli

Homemade mash potatoes and Bacon chip

This is another dish that I tried for the first time.. normally I cook spaghetti. So this fettucine needs to cook for a bit longer. The sauce to accompany it also took me longer than usual and ended up everyone is waiting for it. This again from the Ikea's book and I'll post the recipe at the bottom for reference.

I think I'm new to this kind of taste and my family too LOL.  All the while I've been cooking the creamy sauce for spaghetti, but this time for a change, I thought why not try new things. Ended.. it's not a popular dish *^*  Maybe I should try new things when it's just a normal dinner so not to get disappointed with the taste *v*

Slow Roasted Tomato & Peppers Prawn Pasta

Lastly we have the fruits platter and all the kids enjoy it so much.  Of course I can see what they like as they only took their favourites and left the starfruit! My eldest sis was helping me with this and she should have cut the starfruit into star shape to attract them. Well I've told her the idea and next time I think she knows what to do ^v^

Fruits platter

Here is the recipe from Ikea:

Crispy Lemon and Herb Butter Chicken

Ingredients

1 fresh chicken
1 bunch each of these herbs: fresh basil, flat parsley, fresh rosemary
2 lemons
2 cloves of garlic
150g butter at room temperature
3 tbs olive oil
Salt and pepper

Method:
1. In a mixing bowl, mix them all together
   - Room temperature butter
   - Chop all the herbs
   - Grate all the lemon zest (without the bitter white of the lemon peel)
   - Grate the garlic
   - Squeeze the lemon juice

2. Carefully loosen the skin from the chicken and spread the above ingredients from mixing bowl evenly between the chicken skin and the meat.
3. Oil and season the chicken all over with salt and pepper.
4. Cook in an oven for 50 minutes at 225 degree C.

** Some tools from Ikea to help you with this ~ KOMMERS herb chopper, CHARM grater, KONCIS roasting tin.. check it out at Ikea.com


Slow Roasted Tomato & Peppers Prawn Pasta
Ingredients

A group
4 large tomatoes, skinned and roughly chopped
1 small red and yellow capsicum, sliced
1 tablespoon ginger strips
4 cloves garlic, crushed
2 red onions, chopped
4 green chilli padi, crushed
4 tablespoons olive oil
50ml water
1 teaspoon salt

B group
4 large fresh water prawns (udang galah), halved
1 packet fettucine cooked according to packet instructions
2 stalks spring onions, chopped

Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 160 degree C conventional heat setting.
2. Put all the ingredients in A group into a casserole dish.
3. Cover and bake for 40 minutes. 
4. Remove the dish from the oven and turn up the oven temperature to 180 degree C.
5. Add the prawns, cover and return to the oven for a further 10 minutes.
6. Remove from oven and toss in the pasta.
7. Garnish with chopped spring onions and serve hot.