Monday, January 25, 2010

Chicken Satay


Chicken Satay is one of our favorite stater in Thai cuisine. So this time when we got the chicken from costco, I decided to give this a try. I had made this earlier but it was over even before I could click photo :) So now this time I made sure we click photos before making the strike.

Chicken Satay
Ingredients
400g Boneless Chicken Breasts
1 Spoon Brown Sugar
2 Garlic Cloves
1 Spoon Corriander Powder
1 Spoon Jeera Powder
1/4 Spoon Turmeric Powder
1 Spoon Black Pepper Powder
2 Spoon Oil
2 Spoon Soya Sauce
2 Spoon Lemon Juice
1/2 Cup Milk
Salt to taste

Method
  • Make thin and rectangular slices of the chicken
  • Add brown sugar, garlic cloves, corriander powder, jeera powder, turmeric powder, black pepper powder, oil, soya sauce, lemon juice and salt and mix well. Keep aside in refrigerator for 4 hours
  • After 4 hours, attach the strips of chicken on to scewer sticks, 2 pieces on one stick.
  • Bast the chicken with the milk.
  • Heat a non stick pan and cook the chicken with scewers on medium flame by flipping them over continuously every 2-3 minutes till done.

Notes
I read in lot many recipes to add fish sauce to the marination, but I investigated a bit and found that it is some what salty liquid and usually used instead of salt. Hence instead of going to asian shop for fish sauce I used normal table salt instead.

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Chilli Prawns


I was looking to make something quick yet something different from the normal preparation (Prawns Masala) and then I came up with this.

Chilli Prawns
Ingredients
300g Cleaned Prawns
1 Spoon Garlic Paste
1 Onion
4 Green Chillies
4 Spoon Dark Soya Sauce
2 Spoon Tomato Ketchup
2 Spoon Corn Flour
Salt to taste
Oil

Method
  • Marinate the prawns with garlic paste and salt.
  • Deep fry them in oil few at a time for a minute
  • In same oil, add halved green chillies, onion and cook them with constant stirring
  • Add soya sauce, ketchup and again cook for couple of minute
  • Add prawns and stir for another minute
  • Mix corn flour in two cups of water and add it to the cooking prawns
  • Cook for 3-4 minutes till gravy thickens and prawns become tender

Notes
Well I didn't have spring onions to garnish otherwise I might have added it a bit for garnishing.

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Shopping is A Lot Easier With List2Shop.com

Shopping for our daily needs can't be separated from our daily lives. It has become our habitual activity to shop our daily needs at specific store. It is necessary for us to create our shopping list before going to shop. Shopping list contains items we need to buy, quantity, and price. Unfortunately, many people don't have much time to make a shopping list. Actually, shopping list is just a
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