Cooking with me

Cooking with me

 Cooking sweet and sour chicken, fried rice and egg foo Yong.

Ingredients for the batter for your choice of meat:

BATTER FOR SWEET AND SOUR CHICKEN

1 cup of flour

2 tea spoon of baking powder

1 cup of beer

600g of chicken breast

Method for the Chicken and batter:

You can either shallow fry or deep fry.

First preheat oil to 170, then place you flour into the bowl withe baking powder. Now add the beer to mixture and mix with a whisk till runny when you lift the whisk and the flour clumps have disappeared. then coat the chicken (or your choice of meat) in a little bowl of flour, shake off excess flour. Drop chicken into the batter and coat evenly over the chicken with tongs or other utensil (or meat of your choice) and place int the deep fryer. cook for 4-6 minutes each side (or till golden brown) and drain the excess oil off. Keep warm until you have made the sweet an sour sauce.

SWEET AND SOUR SAUCE

Ingredients for the Sweet and sour sauce:

3 table spoons of water

2 table spoons of vinegar

2 table spoons of soy sauce

2 table spoons of tomato sauce

1 1/2 cups of pineapple juice or orange juice

1 table spoons of soft brown sugar

1/2 an onion (diced

1 table spoons of cornflour

Method for the sweet and sour sauce:

Over high heat add the water into a pot and blanch the onions for 5 minutes. Add the soft brown sugar and tomato sauce to a saucepan or pot and mix in well together. Now add the cornflour and combine well. Bring to boil for 2 minutes. Once boiling add the pineapple juice and mix well. After a little reduction add vinegar and the soy sauce. Cook for 5 minutes. Add more vinegar and soy sauce till your taste buds are satisfied. Pour your sweet and sour sauce over your chicken (or your choice of meat) and serve with cooked white rice.

FRIED RICE
Ingredients for the Fried rice:

600g of steak
400g of chicken (optional)
1/3 cup of olive oil
1 table spoons of oyster sauce
3 table spoons of soy sauce
3 cups of cooked rice (cold)
1 onion (diced)
1/3 cup of mixed vegetables

Method for the fried rice:

Fry meat and onions in some of the oil for 5 minutes. Then remove the meat from the pan and add the mixed vegetables to the pan with the onions still in. After the vegetables (if frozen) have softened for 2 minutes, then add the rice and remainder of olive oil. Now add the soy sauce and oyster sauce, blend in well for 5 minutes. Then add the meat back into the pan and mix for 2 minutes then serve.

EGG FOO YONG
Ingredients for Egg foo Yong:

8 eggs (your choice)
1 table spoon of olive oil per egg
1/2 an onion (sliced thinly)
1/2 a cup of mixed vegetables
300g of sliced steak

Method for the Egg foo Yong:

Over high heat place you steak and onions into a pan (or skillet) and fry for 5 minutes. Then crack your eggs into a bowl and add the olive oil and salt and mix well. Now add the mixed vegetables to the hot pan (if using a skillet boil the vegetables in a pot of hot boiling water) and wait until softened. Then add the egg mixture to the pan and wait 5-7 minutes to flip the egg mix (if using the skillet place into a preheated oven. Cook for 5-10 minutes longer to cook then serve with the rest of the recipes.

ENJOY