Last week; I tried out 2 simple dishes that you could easily try at home. I consider them as easy home cooked food. When I say easy…. I suppose its consider easy lar… LOL!
Chinese Five Spice Chicken Wings
(recipe by Ang Sarap) check out his blog for nice cooking recipes 🙂
Ingredients
1 kg chicken wings
1 tbsp five spice powder
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup soy sauce
2 tbsp vegetable oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
Method
1. In a small bowl, mix together all ingredients except the water, set it aside and let chicken marinate for at least 6 hours.
The after marination wings. This were only half portion…the other half already into the wok ready to be cook.
As required; 1kg of chicken wings… the chicken wings that I bought from supermarket were quite big. So all together, I got around 6 pieces of whole wing.
2. Place everything in a wok together with the water. Turn heat to high then bring to a boil, while boiling turn chicken once in a while to make sure its cooked evenly, let the liquid thicken then set the heat to low. This might take around 8-10 minutes.
3. Once liquid is thick, turn heat to low so it does not burn, turn the chicken once in a while to coat it evenly. At this point a small amount of oil is extracted from the chicken wings, stir fry chicken for a minute (add oil if needed), remove from wok then serve.
Ta..dah…. the juice, succulent and tasty Chinese Five Spice Chicken Wings ready to serve. You too can try this at home 🙂
Passion Fruit Agar-Agar
I got this idea by someone who posted on the internet. I couldn’t remember the website. Too bad…couldn’t credit the creator 😦
Do you like passion fruit? I like passion fruit but those we got here are usually sour. I still remember the passion fruit I had in Indonesia was big, juicy and sweet! Not forgetting they are selling cheap too. Unlike here. I bought a pack from market cost RM7!
Ingredients
passion fruits
sugar
water
agar-agar powder
Method
1. Wash and cut the passion fruits into 1/2. Using a spoon, scrap the passion fruit flesh into a bowl. Scrap it clean like ‘photo below’.
Place these cleaned passion fruit on a tray. I am going to use them as the agar-agar mould.
2. Follow the instructions at the back of the agar-agar powder (you can easily buy from supermarket), dissolve the agar-agar powder with water & sugar in a boiling pot, bring to boil.
3. Since we are going to add passion fruit’s flesh+juice…therefore, I am using 2 glass of water + 1 glass of passion fruit flesh with juice. Add sugar accordingly, because the sweetness may varies depending on the passion fruit.
4. Bring the dissolved ingredients (step 3) to boil. Boil for few minutes over low heat. Then pour into moulds (the passion fruit shells). Allow it to cool for awhile before you chill or refrigerate them.
An appetizing and refreshing dessert for an after meal 🙂
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arrrr i so happy u blogged the passion fruit agar agar. really wan to try try. tqvm Mel Mel.
Hehe…. you are most welcome, Mag! I hope you’ll like it too 🙂
i’m gonna show mami the recipe above, changing chicken wings to drumsticks hehe!
and eh the passion fruit agar-agar is creative ar! but i likey konnyaku jelly more!
Constance Ant – Good try!
I oso like konnyaku jelly. I like the QQ texture…. Mayb next time try using konnyaku jelly mixture 🙂
wah.. so nice the kai yik…
Simple Person – LOL!… Thank kiu…. 😉
Wow thanks for sharing this one, its not just the recipe its also the chef. You made that perfectly!
Thank you, Ray! 🙂
looks delicious! i can eat five of those wings, followed by three of the passion fruit slices 😀
Sean – Ahh….TQ TQ..you must be a fan of chicken wings 😉
Wahhhhhhh!!!! Look good!
TQ STP.
Hehe…. It was a good try 😉
Wah look so yummy Mel . Keep it up 😀
Thank kiu, Jenny! ^_^
I like chicken wings, will collect all the recipes to cook with it until hubby and Sam get bored LOL
The passion fruit bowl is so environmentally friendly, thumbs up!
Choi Yen – Ohh..great! I like BBQ chicken wings. Next time I can forward all wings recipe to you 😉
Yalo Yalo….indeed environmental friendly. After eating… the passion fruit kulit I gave to my colleague to make enzyme. Recycle & recycle. haha
I like the way you are reusing the passion fruit as a “container” for the jelly! Very creative, can spare some for me pretty please :))))))
Thank you, Ken!
Spare some passion fruit agar2 for u? Can de…But how to pass to you?
Nevermind, next time when you are coming to Penang only pass to me :p
I would love to eat your passion fruit agar agar! 🙂
That sounds very nice, gotta try your recipe this weekend! Thanks Mel!
Thanks Huai Bin. No worries. You are most welcome. Happy exploring 🙂
The agar agar sure look nice. Really creative.
Hi Rowena. Thanks for dropping by.
Ya…. the person who actually did this first indeed creative 🙂
Ooo the passion fruit jelly sounds interesting! Nice that u serve back in the shell too.
Thanks Baby Sumo. Yalor….environmental friendly too ^_^
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Thanks for your great Recipe 🙂
Love your agar agar idea!