Black Pepper Chicken with Potato

Black pepper chicken is my husband's favorite dish, and most importantly (for me), it's super EASY to make, plus the ingredients are super cheap.

All you need is just:

- Chicken fillet

- Chopped garlic

- Potatoes

- Sweet soya sauce

- Light soya sauce

- Black Pepper

- Corn flour

- Water

First step is, you need to marinate the chicken. Just cut the chicken into dice-sized and mix both soy sauce and black pepper on it. For the details about how to marinate chicken, you can read this.

Click here.

Now I'm working, so, I normally marinate the chicken one day before cooking, wrap it, and leave it in the fridge over night.

How to cook:

1. Boil water and put the potatoes in the boiled water, until it's half-cooked.

2. Cut the potatoes into dice-sized, and leave them aside.

3. Heat the oil (I use olive oil)

4. Stir-fry chopped garlic

5. After it's fragrant, put the marinated chicken on the pan and stir fry it until it's cooked.

6. Put the potatoes in the pan, and stir fry them with the chicken.

7. Lower the flame, and add in a little bit of water. Then mix them well.

8. Close the pan for a few minutes and turn off the flame.

And here you go the black pepper chicken with potato!

Tips:

- If you like spicier and sweeter, you can add dark soy sauce and black pepper, after adding water (step 7). If you like it salty, you can add a little bit salt or light soy sauce.

- The ratio of chicken and potato is 2:1 in general. But that depends on what you like, you can put equal amount of chicken and potatoes as well. :)

Happy trying!

Salmon Mayo & Egg Wraps

If you are looking for an easy and quick making breakfast, you may want to try Wraps. You can wrap varieties of food and have a great and healthy breakfast!

So far, I have tried Salmon Mayo & Egg wraps, and it tastes good. Straight to the point, so here's what you need:

1. Wraps. You can heat it directly on the fire (so it will taste a little bit crispy), or you can heat it in microwave for 1 minute (that's what I did).

2. Salmon

I used "Ayam Brand" canned salmon mayo. I personally don't think salmon mayo is suitable for the wraps, I should have tried the light version of the canned salmon.

If you guys want to use salmon mayo, don't spread too much of the salmon mayo on the wrap. Otherwise, it will taste too rich in flavor.

3. Omelette

What you can do:

- Beat the eggs and mix them well

- Add in a little bit of salt, pepper and soy sauce. Don't put too much soy sauce, it will make the egg turn too dark in color.

- Heat the frying pan and oil.

- Stir fry any ingredients you want to mix with the omelette (For example, I used chopped onions and sliced button mushrooms).

- Pour in the beaten eggs, and stir fry the eggs.

How to wrap:

1. Spread the salmon mayo/salmon chunk on the wrap.

2. Spread the omelette on top of the salmon.

3. Ensure that the spread is at bottom half of the wrap, and you don't spread it at its edge.

4. After that, wrap the bottom part of the wrap (the part that's closest to you), then wrap the two sides of it (the side with the salmon chunk and omelette).

5. Roll it towards the top half that doesn't contain any spread. Or you can choose not to roll it up.

And here you go, your salmon & Egg Wraps....

Enjoy!

Ginger Chicken

This is one of the favorite dishes of my hubby. He likes ginger chicken a lot. So, I made one for him (and myself) like this!

In order to make the ginger chicken ala "ME", all you need is just the magic packet of mixed ingredients. I used Woh Hup, and it tasted nice.

What you need to do is, cut the chicken in pieces, and marinate the chicken with the ingredients for at least 30 minutes. After that, here's a few simple steps:

1. Heat the frying pan, and the olive oil.

2. Stir fry the chicken until it's fragrant, then add in the vegetables you want to use.

In the packet, they use carrots (you may need to boil the carrots half-cooked first, before stir fry them), cauli flower and peas. It's totally up to you and your creativity. But you may need to watch the amount of vegetables you want to add in. Make sure, the chicken is still the main ingredient, not the vegetables.

After trying Woh Hup, I will recommend this brand to you, if you want to try Ginger Chicken. The ginger chicken doesn't taste too strong (I dun normally like an over-strong ginger smell).

And... Woh Hup is Halal too... So, it's safe for Muslims....

Tamago in Microwave

If you are super busy person, but still need to cook for your family, this recipe can be super helpful. You can make this in 5 minutes, I swear!

You just have to sacrifice the presentation of the tamago, as it won't look so smooth and nice looking. But who cares, when the taste is the same, right? :)

Here's what you need:

1. 2 eggs

2. 1 tablespoon of Mirin (I don't have Mirin, so I use grain vinegar)

3. 3/4 tablespoon of sugar

4. 1/2 dashi stock (I don't have dashi stock as well, so I use chicken stock)

5. One or two small drops of light soysauce.

Here's how you make it:

1. Beat the eggs and mix all the ingredients into the egg, and mix all together.

2. Put the mixture on microwave container (preferably on the square-shaped container, if you want to make tamago sushi later)

3. Put inside the microwave, and heat it in high temp for 1 - 1.5 minutes.

And there you go the tamago...

You can cut the tamago nicely to make tamago sushi as well. Click here to see the recipe for sushi rice.

Happy trying!

Sushi Rice

You don't have to use Japanese rice to make sushi. Normal rice will do. All you need is, a few additional simple steps. Here's how:

1. Cook 2 cups of rice like normally you do it. If you never cook rice, here's some tips (Click here)

2. As soon as the rice is cooked, quickly scoop them out into a big bowl and separate them to cool it down.

3. While waiting for the rice to cool down, mix 5 tablespoons of rice/grain vinegar, 4 tablespoons of sugar and 2 tablespoons of salt into a pot.

4. Heat the pot in a small flame, and stir it, to mix those three ingredients together.

5. Once all are mixed together, pour it on the rice gradually, and mix it well.

6. Ensure that the rice is not too wet/sticky after mixing it.

And there you go, your sushi rice..... Isn't it easy? =)

Konnyaku Jelly

If you want to try some simple, healthy and nice dessert, you can try Konnyaku Jelly. Konnyaku is actually the brand of the jelly powder I normally use. Click here if you want to know what does Konnyaku Jelly look like.

Pre-requisite tips for making a more healthy jelly:

1. Use the colorless powder. It's always healthier choice to use the colorless rather than red, green, yellow color type of powder. With the colorless, it's always nicer presentation to fill in some cut fruits in the jelly.

2. Use jelly powder, instead of agar-agar. Jelly powder is more "elastic". Konnyaku brand is the most recommended.

3. Citric acid and liquid color are not really a must. You don't have to use it, if you just want a simple dessert.

What do you need:

- 1 sachet of Konnyaku jelly

- 950 ml water

- 200-250 grams of sugar

- cut fruits of your choice (My hubby and I prefer nata de coco)

- moulds for jelly (normally one sachet of jelly can be create 24 pieces of moulded jelly)

How to make the jelly:

1. Mix the powder and sugar together.

2. Pour the mixture into the water gradually, and keep stiring until the water is boiled.

3. Turn off the flame and keep stiring for around 5 min, until the bubble disappears.

4. Put the pieces of the cut fruits in the moulds, and pour the Konnyaku into the moulds.

5. Let it chilled inside the moulds, before refrigerating.

When it's done, take the jelly out of the moulds, and you can serve them like this...

Dried Beancurd Soup

This is my all time favorite homemade soup. If I remember correctly, my two brothers also love it. So, it's safe to say that, "Easy cooking soup to win your (boyfriend's) kids' heart can be beancurd soup." Well... Of course if you make it right. :)

Main ingredients:

- Beancurd

- Carrots

- Chicken Broth

- Salt

What you can add in:

- Meats (Chicken or pork)

- Tofu

- Pepper

How to make it:

1. Tear the dried beancurd into smaller pieces, and soak in the cool water.

2. Boil the water, and put the carrots in the boiled water.

3. When the carrots are half cooked, put the meat and(or) tofu.

4. Put the salt and chicken broth. The amount of chicken broth is normally more than salt.

And.... Your soup is done! Happy trying!