Posts Tagged ‘chicken’

Pad-Gonz

Monday, December 21st, 2009
Doesn't look amazing, but tastes great.

Doesn't look amazing, but tastes great.

Pad Gonz, it’s like Pad Thai, only not quite. The whole thing was easy to make, took less than 10 minutes, most of the stuff I already had in the fridge. I’ll be honest with you, I forgot a few bits as I was cooking it, I was going to incorporate Peanut Butter to give it that Satay’ish touch, I still think it would have worked, but never mind, I’ll try that next time. I’m separating this into two recipes because the chicken part would work with any sauce. I used to really like those packets of Chinese’y sauce you can get in the shops, but now I find they all taste synthetic… I promise I’m not a snob when it comes to food, but I really do find they taste of chemicals.

What you’ll need –
The Chicken Part

  • Chicken breast. (it’s cheaper with the skin on, which is easy to take off and you can always use it for Chicken Scratchings)
  • A couple of beaten eggs
  • Some flour
  • Some sesame Seeds (if you want).
  • Some Sun Flower oil
  • A pinch of salt, or some seasoning (maybe something like Mild Curry Powder would work?)
  • A wok, and some Kitchen Paper

What to do –
The Chicken Part

  • Cut up the chicken into bite-sized strips, the smaller they are, the crisper, but less succulent.
  • Beat an egg in a bowl, sprinkle some Sesame Seeds in there
  • Cover the chicken in flour with a pinch of salt or seasoning
  • Heat up the oil in the Wok, the hotter the better. Pour a drop of the egg in, if it’s sizzling, then you’re hot enough.
  • Dip the chicken in the egg, then put in the oil.
  • When the chicken coating is slightly brown, turn it around. If they all start to stick together, like a pancake/doughnut-with-chicken thing, separate them up.
  • When you think they’re all done, cut the thickest one in two, if that’s cooked, then the rest should be.
  • Leave them to rest on some kitchen paper.

What you’ll need –
The Stir Fry part

  • Honey
  • Dark Soy Sauce
  • Peanuts and/or Cashew nuts
  • A chopped chili (I like the mild ones)
  • Some chopped up red pepper
  • Chopped up red onion
  • Chopped up Spring Onion
  • The fried chicken from above (if you want)
  • The left over egg (from above, if you want)
  • Some noodles, straight-to-wok is fine.
  • Some sunflower oil (about half from above if you want… empty the half into a cup or something to dispose of later)
  • A wok

What you need to do –
The Stir Fry part.

  • Chop up your veg, chop up the nuts
  • Pour a drop of oil into the wok and heat it up.
  • Put the chili and spring onions in the wok (from here onwards, shake the pan around every 30 seconds or so)
  • Put in the Red Onion and Red Pepper
  • Then add in a generous drop of honey and a good few dashes of soy sauce, most (but not all) of the nuts, and the sesame seeds.
  • Add the noodles (and chicken from above)
  • Give it one last shake-up and pour onto a plate.
  • If you’ve got the left over egg from the chicken above, pour that into the wok and keep on stirring so you get almost like a scrambled egg.
  • Put the stuff back off the plate, into the scrambled egg, shake it all up, and put it back.
  • Sprinkle some chopped nuts on top
  • ….. enjoy =)
Just bung it in.

Just bung it in.

Egg and Sessimi seeds to cover the chicken and make the scrambled egg thinggy.

Egg and Sessimi seeds to cover the chicken and make the scrambled egg thinggy.

Fry up that chicken - Flour, Egg, Sessimi Seeds in sunflower oil

Fry up that chicken - Flour, Egg, Sesame Seeds in sunflower oil

Really really nice, works with most sti-frys

Really really nice, works with most sti-frys

The noodles take on the flavours and colour of the sauce.

The noodles take on the flavours and colour of the sauce.

The scrambled egg thing works well, soaks up the sauce and gives a nice texture.

The scrambled egg thing works well, soaks up the sauce and gives a nice texture.

Doesn't look amazing, but tastes great.

Doesn't look amazing, but tastes great.

Chicken Scratchings ! (Now I know why you can’t get these in the shops)

Monday, December 21st, 2009
CHICKEN SCRATCHINGS !

CHICKEN SCRATCHINGS !

It was cheaper for me to buy chicken fillets with the skin on, than to have them with the skin off. I didn’t need them in what I was cooking, and didn’t what to just chuck them away. When having a roast chicken, the best bit is the crispy skin… so can I do this by itself?

I covered them with some sesame oil and a sprinkling of sea-salt, put them on some tin-foil*, and put them in a low oven (about 150ish) for about 10ish minutes to crisp up. This is when I forgot about them and turned the oven off, without turning the fan off… I’m not sure if this effected things. When I did remember about them, about an hour later, they came out as the pictures show. They were a little too dry, but I think if I took them out at around the 12-13 minute mark, they would have been perfect.

* I’m going to tell you that it was to reflect the heat to the underside, rather than me being lazy and wanting to save on some of the washing up.

sesame and a sprinkling of sea salt, on tin foil.

sesame and a sprinkling of sea salt, on tin foil.

Chicken and Pasta (with sauce)

Sunday, December 13th, 2009
Quick'n'Easy pasta

Quick'n'Easy pasta

This is simple one, using the sauce from ‘Steak Sandwich with Mustardy/Creamy/Oniony sauce‘, I boiled up some pasta, griddle-pan’d some chicken and mixed it all up.

The sauce, before I heated it up, was quite thick (almost solid), but upon adding it to the heated pan after cooking the chicken, it became the right consistency again, but reduced to the point where there wasn’t enough pasta… so I added a few dollops of mayo, and that fixed things.

Griddle Pan up some chicken and boil some pasta

Griddle Pan up some chicken and boil some pasta


The sauce reduced quite a bit.

The sauce reduced quite a bit.


A dolop of mayo fixed that.

A dolop of mayo fixed that.


Add the sauce once the chicken is done.

Add the sauce once the chicken is done.


Quick'n'Easy pasta - Tuddah

Quick'n'Easy pasta - Tuddah