Pan Fried Dumplings (Guo Tie)

Pan Fried Dumpling (Guo Tie) also known as Gyoza which is a popular dish in China and Japan as well as outside of East Asia. It is a very time consuming but it is fun when all family members share in making the dumpling.

Ingredients

Dough (20-22 pcs):
2 cup flour
¾ cup warm water
Pinch of salt

Fillings:
3 chicken fillets, minced
9 prawns, minced
8 water chestnuts (coarsely chopped)
1 pkt Chives (chopped)
3 glove garlic, minced
2 onion, minced
1 tbsp Tianjin preserved cabbage (冬菜)
1 small pc ginger, minced
2 tbsp light soy sauce
2 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp fish sauce
Salt and pepper to taste

Dipping Sauce:
1 tsp vinegar
2 tbsp light soy sauce
Sugar
2 clove garlic, minced
10 sliced preserved ginger (shredded)

Methods:

1. Mixed the flour with warm water and salt, knead into a dough and put aside covered by a wet cloth.

2. In a big bowl, mixed all filling's ingredient together and seasoned with light soy sauce, sesame oil, fish sauce, salt and pepper to taste.

3. On a lightly flour surface, halved the dough and rolled into 2 sticks. Divide the stick into 10 equal parts and flatten into circle.

4. Wrapped a teaspoon of the filling into the dough skin and pleat it.

5. Heat oil in a shallow wok and pan fried the dumpling.

6. When one side is brown, sprinkler some water on top, cover the wok and let it cook.

7. Once the water dry up, the dumplings should be cooked by now.

Serve the dumplings with the vinegar dipping sauce.

It is really very time consuming especially the wrapping part...got difficulty in getting it pleat like the standard Guo Tie but the taste rather good.

Turmeric Chicken

This is a simple and easy prepared dish. We did this with the reference of the recipe from this blogger but we used turmeric powder instead of fresh turmeric. It turn out quite nice.

Ingredients:
1 kampong chicken
1 tbsp turmeric powder
2 stalk lemon glass
8 medium onion
1 small piece belacan
6 dried chili
salt and oyster sauce

Method:
1. Blend the lemon grass and onion.
2. Stir fried the blended lemongrass and onion with turmeric powder, belacan and chili till fragrant.
3. Add in the chicken and lightly toss with the sauce.
4. Cover with lid and let it stew in low heat till the chicken cooked.
5. Add salt and oyster sauce to taste, let it simmer a while and the chicken is ready to serve.

Garnished with coriander and served with white rice. Snow White also fried celery with dried shrimp as side dish to make the lunch more complete.

Claypot Chicken Rice Using Rice Cooker

This is a simple one dish meal using rice cooker instead of claypot. Another signature dishes of Snow White upon Rapunzel request. It tastes as good as the claypot rice just that it has lesser burnt rice.

Ingredients:
14 chicken mid wings, marinated
1 cup of Chinese mushroom, soaked and sliced
2 cup of rice
5 slices of salted fish, fried and crushed
1 onion, minced
3 clove garlic, minced

Marinated for chicken
1 tbsp rice wine
1 tbsp oyster sauce
Salt and pepper to taste

Methods:
1. Heat the oil in a wok, saute the garlic and onion till fragrant.
2. Add in chicken stir fried till turn colour
3. Add in mushroom, a cup of water, 2tbsp dark sauce and 1tbsp light sauce.
4. Let the chicken simmer for a while till most water absorbed.
5. Washed the rice, put into the rice cooker with 2 cup of water and add in 1 tbsp dark sauce.
6. Add in the chicken and mushroom to the rice cooker and cooked.

When the rice cooked, sprinkle the salted fish over the rice. Garnished with some coriander and with cai sim (blanched and season with 1 tbsp oyster sauce) as side dish.

Curry Chicken Chinese Steam Bun

Snow White is craving for Pau (Chinese steam bun) and been wanted to try to make it. After some research from the internet, she finally did it today. It is quite successful and Babe also had fun in helping!

We have no bread machine so have to manual prepare the dough.

Ingredients

Bun:
3½ cups Hong Kong flour
1 tbsp shortening
¼ cup sugar
2½ tsp dry yeast
1 cup warm water

Fillings:
300g chicken fillet, cubed and marinate with salt and pepper
4 potatoes, cubed and steamed
1 big onion, diced
3 garlic, chopped
2 tbsp curry powder
1 tbsp curry leaves
salt and sugar to taste

Methods

Bun:
1.Put 3 cups of flour into bowl, cut shortening and stir in 2 tbsp sugar.
2.Combine the remaining 2 tbsp sugar with the yeast and add 1/3 cup of warm water, stir until yeast is dissolved.
3. Add the remaining ½ cup flour, mix well.
4. Combine flour mixture, yeast mixture and remaining 2/3 cup of water. Knead on lightly floured board for 5 minutes or till the dough is smooth and elastic.
5. Place dough in a bowl and will be ready for use in 2 hours.

Fillings
1. Heat oil in a wok, stir fried the garlic, onion and curry powder and curry leaves till fragrant.
2. Add in chicken and fried till cooked.
3. Pour in the steam potatoes and add salt and sugar to taste.
This curry chicken fillings is fried by Rapunzel.

When the dough double in size after 2 hours, rolled the dough into logs and divide the log into 14 equal portions.
Put some flour on the hand and flatten the dough with a thicker center and thin edges.
Place one tablespoon of the fillings in the center of the dough. Form the bun by pulling the dough up and around the filing. Pinch and seal like a bundle.
Place the bun on a parchment paper (we did not managed to get the paper so we used the plastic for steaming herbal chicken).

After all the buns are form leave them rest for 20-30 minutes to allow the bun to rise. Meanwhile get water to boil for steaming. Place the buns in the steamer and steam for 15 minutes.

Babe try to from a "pig" pau also but see what it turn out. ^^
The before and after steamed.........

Babe did not destroy Snow White and Rapunzel's hard work, the rest turn out just fine and looking good!

Chicken Pie

Today's menu, Chicken Pie. The fillings is very similar to the Shepherd's pie that Rapunzel once made but wrapped in a flaky pastry this time. The ready made puff pastry was brought from the supermarket.

Ingredients for fillings:

2 chicken legs (cubed, marinate with soy sauce, pepper & salt)

3-4 onion (cubed)

1 carrot (cubed)

3 stalk celery (cubed)

3 eggs (hard boiled and quartered)

3 clove garlic (chopped)

1 cup sweet corns

1 cup shitake mushroom (sliced)

3 Russet Potatoes (optional)

Method:

1. Fried garlic & onion.

2. Stirred in chicken cube and all vegetables till cooked.

3. Add oyster sauce, chicken stock, soy sauce, salt and large amount of pepper.

4. Pour some fresh milk or evaporate milk and add corn flour as we did not have potatoes. Let it simmer a while and dish up the chicken fillings and put aside.

5. Scoop fillings into the pastry mould, add eggs and cover the mould with pastry.

6. Oven baked till pastry cooked or turn golden brown.

Chicken Pie freshly baked form oven is ready to serve. It is very tasty and make you crave for more.

Chicken Mushroom Burger

This homemade chicken burger with steak sauce mushroom is simply delicious and fast to cook. The chicken patties and bun was bought from supermarket, just simply assembly the bun and toast with basil butter then add in the pan fried patties, fried egg, mushrooms with steak sauce and finally top with some cucumber, tomato and lettuce. Viola! A tasty chicken mushroom burger is ready to eat.

Steak Sauce Mushroom :
Saute the onion and button mushroom then add in 1/2 cup of steak sauce, add in 1/4 cup water to simmer then add in sugar to taste.

Serve the chicken burger with potato chips and a bowl of coleslaw to make a complete lunch.

Coleslaw

Shred the carrots and cabbage and toss with the sauce modified by Snow White.

Sauce Ingredients :

2 tbsp mayo

1 tbsp lemon juice

1 tbsp sugar

1 tsp mince garlic

1 tsp mince onion

Salt & pepper to taste

Baked Rosemary Chicken Chop

Chicken baked with rosemary and seasoning, side with french fried and boiled broccoli make a simple and delicious meal.

Marinate 4 boneless chicken thighs with 4 slice of gingers(minced), 2 coriander root(minced), 1 tsp dried rosemary. 1 tbsp oyster sauce, 1 tsp cooking wine, 2tbsp maple syrup or honey, salt and pepper for 1 hours.


Straight cut 3 potatoes, soaked in salt water and deep fried.







Steamed the broccoli and toss with olive oil and salt.







Grease the tray with butter, place the chicken into the oven and baked for 30minutes or till the skin turn golden brown.





The chicken is ready to serve with the french fries and broccoli. Sprinkle some sesame on top, garnished with coriander leaves and pour some juice from the chicken accumulated in the tray over the chicken. See, just like restaurant food! The chicken is juicy inside with rosemary infused and crispy outside.

Chicken Curry Noodle

Normally we eat the chicken curry with prata or bread, this time we simply blanch the yellow noodle and pour the Chicken Curry over it and tah da, a hot and spicy Chicken Curry Noodle is ready for lunch.

Chicken Curry
Ingredients:
400g chicken meats
1 packet curry paste
1 stalk curry leave
1 stalk lemon grass
3 medium size potatoes (cut chunks)
1 pc fish cake (sliced)
6 pcs tau pok (sliced)
3 cloves garlic, 3 chilies padi, 1 onions (blend)
1 tbsp chili powder
4 bowl chicken stock
1 cup coconut milk

Methods:
1. Deep Fried the potatoes chunks and put aside.
2. Boiled the chicken stock.
3. Heat 3 tbsp of oil in a wok and stir fry the blended garlic, chilies padi and onion.
4. Add in the curry paste, chili powder, lemon grass and curry leaves and stir fry till fragrant.
5. Add in the chicken meats stir fry with the curry paste till cooked.
6. Pour the curry paste and chicken into the boiling chicken stock.
7. Add in fish cakes, tau pok and fried potatoes into the curry soup.
8. Season with salt, sugar and fish sauce to your taste.
9. Lastly add in the coconut milk and let it simmer a while and the curry soup is ready.

Just blanched some bean spouts and yellow noodle and pour the curry soup over it, a fragrant yummy Chicken Curry Noodle is ready to serve.

Coca-Cola Chicken

Snow White using Coca-Cola to cook the chicken. The Coca-Cola give an intense sweet favour to the chicken and it is an easy to cook dish according to Snow White.

Ingredients:
16 pcs chicken wings
3 cloves garlic (minced)
2 cloves onion (minced)
2 slices ginger (finely shredded)
1½ tbsp soya sauce
3 chili padi (finely chopped)
1 cup coca-cola
Seasoning :
2 tbsp soya sauce
1 tsp cooking wine
½ tsp five spices powder
½ tsp salt
Pepper to taste

Method:
1. Marinate the chicken wings with the seasoning for 1 hour.
2. Pre-heat the pan, add a little oil to fry the chicken wings until golden brown. Dish out and set aside.
3. In the same pan, saute the garlic, onion, ginger & chili till fragrant.
4. Add in the fried chicken wings and stir fried till well combined.
5. Pour in the coca-cola. Simmer in medium heat until the sauce dry up.

Serve the chicken with white rice and fried some Chye Sim to go with it.

Pattaya Fried Rice

Pattaya fried rice, a Thailand cuisine made by covering chicken fried rice in the omelet shaped like pouch. We did not manage to cover the fried rice with the omelet except Rapunzel, so you can guess from above which plate belong to Rapunzel.

Ingredients:
2 cup of rice (cooked)
1 bowl of mixed vegetables(green peas,sweet corns & carrots)
2 pieces chicken fillet (cubed)
1/2 cup yellow capsicum (cubed)
2 small chilies (minced)
2 shallots (minced)
2 cloves garlic (minced)
2 tbsp ketchup
3 tbsp fish sauce
salt and pepper to taste
pinch of dried basil
4 eggs (beaten)-omelet

Method:
1. Heat oil in a wok and stir fried the shallots, garlic and chilies till fragrant.
2. Add in chicken, mixed vegetables and capsicum, stir fried till the chicken is cooked and the vegetable turn soft.
3. Stir in the rice and fried till all ingredients are thoroughly mix. Add in ketchup, fish sauce, salt and pepper to taste.
4. Continue to fry for another 2 minutes and check seasoning.
5. Dish the rice out and pan fried omelet.
6. When the omelet done, put a bowl of the fried rice at the center and wrap up, flip it over a serving plate.

Sprinkle some chicken floss or bacon, spring onion and fried shallots, top with some slices of cucumber and tomato, Pattaya Fried Rice is ready to serve.

麻油姜丝鸡 (Sesame Ginger Chicken)

又是姜丝又是麻油的，像是在坐月子吧。很喜欢这道菜因为好爱姜丝与麻油的香味，冷天吃还可暖身子。

材料：

1. 鸡小腿 16只

2. 腌料：酱清，蚝油，胡椒粉，盐

3. 麻油
4. 姜丝

5. 蒜头 5 瓣 (剁碎)

6. 洋葱 1粒 (切粒)

做法：

1. 把鸡肉和腌料放在盘上混合均匀, 腌约30分钟.

2. 煎香鸡肉至金黄色，放一旁.
3. 用麻油爆香姜丝，放入葱头和蒜头，然后下鸡翻炒大约3分钟.
4.下调味料（黑酱油，酱油还有盐巴，糖少许）
5. 适量的加水，慢慢炒到肉软汁干即可。

上菜时加点青葱和芫茜既可。

Prata Hot Dog Wrap

This is the second time we having the hotdog wrap. The vegetables used this time include shredded carrot, slice tomato, big yellow onion, tomato and lecttue. Snow White also deep fried the potato chip as a side dish.

Green Curry Chicken

Green Curry is a popular thai cuisine which is one of Babe's favourite dish. The curry can be as hot as red curry but with a zest of sweetness like mee soto.

Rapunzel used to blend the green curry paste herself but it is quite time consuming so we get the ready pack paste from supermarket.

Ingredients:
1 packet of Asian Home Gormet Green Curry
9 chicken drumlets
1/2  teaspoon of dried basil leave
4 lady fingers
1/2 red capsicum
1 sprig coriander leaves, chopped
1 Tbsp oil
200ml water

Method:
1 Heat oil in a saucepan or wok and fry the green curry paste for one minute over medium high heat.
2 Stir in chicken until well coated and chicken is half-cooked – three minutes. Reduce heat to medium, then pour over coconut milk followed by 200 ml water.
3 Add lady finger and capsicum, cook for 15minutes then sprinkle coriander leaves and basil leaves. Green Curry Chicken is ready to serve.

The Green Curry Chicken go very well with rice. Snow White also fried a plate of mixed vegetables (bean sprouts, 1/2 red capsicum, 2 stalk of celery, 1/2 carrot--leftover stock in the fridge) with salted fish to go with it. Look at the color combination, very appetising!