Recipe: Non-fried Fried Chicken

Who doesnt like fried chicken?
If you dont, you are probably not human.

But anyway, I do like fried chicken especially taken with mashed potato and some yummy salad. Still, fried chicken can be unhealthy cos it is a high calorie dish and needless to mention, very oily.  Unless if you have a good pressure cooker, it can be very oily indeed.

For awhile now, I've tried to make a more healthier food (though I'm not always successful in that endeavour) especially with those fried ones and ended up buying an airfryer. And. I. Love. It.

So here's the recipe I actually develop using airfryer. However, this recipe can be used with oven as well.

Ingredients:

1 piece of chicken rib cut into thin slices

(For this recipe I use a piece of rib but the best part to use is actually the wing part. I don't like wings so..

If you use wings, cut it into 2 parts i.e. drumlet and the actual wing)

Ready mix fried chicken flour 

(ok this is a cheat. You can make your own mix if you want. If you don't know the recipe, Google it and you shall find)

Breadcrumb (optional)

Olive oil

1. Cut your piece of chicken into thin slices.  Imagine: :fish finger.  

If you want your chicken to be a bit thick it is ok too but the cooking time will be a bit longer.

2. Put your sliced chicken in a bowl. Coat them with the flour.  If you prefer your chicken slightly salty, you can add your salt now.  Or pepper if you want something a little hot (cos some like it hot). I dont like to add salt cos i think the flour flavor is already strong and you know, for healthy reason.

3. Leave them for about 15 to 30 minutes; a chance for the chicken to soak up the flour flavor.

4. On a plate, mix some flour with breadcrumb evenly. One by one, coat the chicken with the flour-breadcrumb mix and carefully put it on a tray/metal net (for airfryer).  Arrange the chicken so the spacing is optimised.  

5. Spray oil evenly onto the chicken. This is an important step.  You need to get the oil as evenly as possible onto the chicken otherwise, well you chicken wont look as good. 

6. Then you are ready to fry. For those who use oven, should heat up you oven before you even cut the chicken. For those using airfryer, we are ready to go baby!

7. For airfryer, i use 200 degree temperature for 5 minutes each side. Meaning, after 5 minutes i flip the chicken. So total cooking time is around 10 minutes.  The time and temperature are depend on quantity and the thickness of your chicken. You have to experiment, really, what temperature works for you.

Walla..done.

If you ask me, the taste is of course different from the regular fried chicken cos this version is less oily but it is just as delicious. It is crispy (that surprises me too). But then again, to each his own.

Have a try. You wont regret it. Taa

Resepi: Singgang Ikan Tongkol Putih

I know i know thousands people posted about this recipe. Oh well, this is my version. Hehe. No pictures though cause I already eat it.

Ingredients:
3-4 pieces white mackerel
1 inch galagal - cut to big pieces
1 inch ginger - lightly crush
2 big onion - slice
3 garlic - whole
1 asam keping
7-8 bird eyes chillies - whole
1 tsp gula melaka
Salt to taste
Filtered water

1. Put galagal, ginger, onion, garlic and asam keping in a pot. Pour filtered water in the pot; quantity of the water depends on you. I suggest 2-3 cups of water.  Bring it to boil.
2. After boil, add in gula melaka and chillies.  Stir quickly. Put in the fish and salt.
3. Cover and let it simmer on low heat for 10 minutes or so.
4. Finish. Eat the dish the next day.

Lunch is officially at 4.00pm

Its 3.20pm and I havent had any lunch yet. Why? Because I'm still not hungry.  I dont even know if I should bother making one.

Like yesterday, I took a 'nap' around 12.30pm and woke up at 5.00pm (A nap. Right.).  Needless to say, I skipped lunch but since I already had my menu all prepared, I still made somethings to eat.  But really I shouldnt have bothered though cause I wasnt even hungry which was weird.

This new development is boggling me.  The new development being, I'm not being hungry.  Its boggling me because I dont know whether this is a good thing or bad thing.  I reckon its a good thing because there's a healthy change in my diet nowadays.  But its still weird.

Oh well...Dont overthink everything right?

p/s: I think my lunch/dinner/evening tea could be cekodok pisang since I've a lot of pisang. Nyum nyum
pp/s: No cekodok. Only juice. :)

My Pinterest

My Pinterest is full of:
a. Food
b. Cats
C. Sherlock
D. Those lol posters

But by Pinterest I mean, Twitter, +Google and anything that resembles those things.

Bawang oh bawang

Take a guess on how much bawang costs these days.
Its rm3 per kilo.
Since Malaysian dishes almost always use bawang, everything gonna be hella expensive.
No wonder perompak is everywhere.
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Travelling? No, thank you.

Two weeks ago I was in Tawau. Its a surprisingly 'polite' town. When I say polite...yeah. We were there for 4 days.
Then a week after, I was in Kota Kinabalu for 4 days too.
And this week, im in Kuala Terengganu.  Thank God this trip is for 3 days only.

Anyway, what I want to say is, I sometimes, travel. When I say sometimes I mean almost always. It is unfortunate for me cause I hate travel for obvious reason.

So here what I wanna share is what i do to less-hate travelling.  Here is what I always practise:
a) buy mineral water before reaching hotel. Like, seriously, drink a lot of water. Makes you less cranky and keep your skin moisturise
b) bring a tin of your favorite tuna with you. I know you can get it from any 7eleven near you but its always more expensive and they dont always carry your favorite. This helps me from starving especially for dinner cause we dont always have access to restaurant nearby. At least the cheap one.
c) buy yogurt and eat it one per night. Helps with digestion. Do you know that sometimes our body dont digest as well when traveling?
d) just bring one pair of jeans. Just one. Im serious. Oh. And just one pair of pj or baju kelawar or whatever you wear to bed too. This is call light travelling.
e) if you can, put everything in your luggage except for your phone. Dont bring anything on board. Less hassle. And always travel with just one bag. Better a bigger bag than a lot of them.

Thats all I remember for now. If you cant do all, at least do the yogurt one. Its awesome cos it works.

This is the view from our hotel.

Right. Ta.

Mee Goreng Basah

Assalam!

We have roughly another week till Raya. Arent you excited?  Well, not really. I really like Ramadhan and I dont really like the way we overexaggerate on celebrating Raya.  But then again, thats just me.

Ramadhan allows me to cook my own food. I really am happy to be able to plan and buy and cook my own food. Its very satisfying and healty (some of the time).  Chances like this are hard to come in any other month.  So thats one more thing I like about Ramadhan.

Anyway, here is one of the dishes I made. Simple, one-meal dish.  Really easy too.  I've been experimenting on how to make the most sedap mee goreng for years now and I think I finally settle on this (for a certain value of sedap).  It is a bit lembap and is divine while hot.  A squeeze of lemon juice will make a world difference too (if you like that kind of thing).

Gambo tu ialah mee goreng basah desperate namanya. Hehe...supposely, kene ada hijau2 skit tapi biasala, apa yang ada je. Sayur hijau x dak. Jawabnya, taugeh je la.

This portion will feed 2-3 people.  I think..
Bahan-bahan:
1/2 peket mee kuning - basuh dan toskan
Kepingan daging/daging hancur
Taugeh - bersihkan dan buang kepala hitam tu
Sawi hijau - bersihkan dan potong
1 biji tauhu putih - cincang halus
2 ulas bwg putih - tumbuk kasar
3 cili padi (optional)
2 sudu cili kisar
2 sudu sos tiram
3 sudu kicap masin/ kicap manis (atau secukup rasa)
4 sudu minyak makan
1 cawan kecil air

1. Mula-mula, panaskan kuali. Masukkan minyak. Bila minyak dah panas, masukkan tauhu.  Biar masak skit tauhu tu, nampak perang2 sikit, masukkan bawang putih dan cili padi.
2. Bila bawang putih dah semerbak, masukkan daging.  Kacau sampai daging tu mengecut sikit (berubah warna), lepas tu masukkan cili kisar. Ratakan semua dan kacau dalam seminit supaya cili tu masak skit.  Masukkan air.
3. Biar mendidih sekejap, masukkan sos tiram dan kicap.  Kicap ni, ikut suka sebenarnya tapi jangan banyak sebab mee cepat rasa masin. Lagipun, kalau tak cukup rasa, boleh tambah kemudian. Kalau nak mee tu manis2, pakaila kicap manis. Kalau tak suka manis, boleh pakai kicap masin. Tapi, mee goreng sedap kalau pakai kicap manis (imho).
4. Masuk mee. Kacau sampai sebati dan mee agak kering.  Mee akan meresap kuah tu dan bertukar jadi hitam.  Rasa mee, kalau tak cukup masin, tambah kicap.
5. Tutup api. Masukkan taugeh dan kacau sebati.  Hiaskan dengan daun bawang&sup dan bawang goreng.

Tadaaa... dah siap. I made this in less than 10 minit. Maknanya senang je la.  Resepi ni memang tak pakai garam. Jangan letak plak. Masin kang sapa yang susah? hehe

p/s: Imho, mee sedap kalau rencahnya daging dan ada tauhu. Ayam pun ok tapi kurang skit 'kick' dia.