Friday, November 15, 2013

Asia Sticky Chicken Wings

Besides zucchini fritters that I made today, I also made chicken wings. Here is the recipe :



Asia Sticky Chicken Wings

Ingredients :

  • 600 gr chicken wings halves
  • 1 shallot thinly sliced
  • 1 clove garlic minced
  • 2 tsp Hoisin sauce
  • 2 tsp Asia barbecue sauce 
  • 100 ml warm water
  • 1/2 tsp 5 spices 
  • 1 tbsp of cooking oil
  • a pinch of pepper
  • 1 green chilli
  • 1 red chilli sliced for decoration
  • a pinch of sesame seeds for deco


Directions :

  1. Mix Hoisin sauce, asia barbecue sauce, 5 spices, pepper and warm water in a bowl. Stir it and let it dissolve evenly. 
  2. In a pan on a medium heat, put cooking oil and stir fry shallot, garlic until it smell good. Add in chicken wings, stir fry for few minutes and add in the sauce mixture.
  3. Let it cook in medium heat for 5-10 minutes, add in green chilli, and turn down the heat to minimum.
  4. Let it cook until no more liquid, stir the chicken wings once in a while during low heat cooking.
  5. Put the chicken on plate and decorate it with sesame seeds and red chilli.

Zucchini Fritters

My son doesn't like zucchini at all, nevertheless I bought zucchini in my last shopping. If I cook it like I usually do, he will eat like he is eating medicine….So, I try something new today. Turned out my son like it, even though it was a bit spicy :)



Zucchini Fritters (for 3 personne as side dish)

Ingredients:

  • 1 zucchini cut thinly like matches (I use carrot grater for salad)
  • 1/2 onion cut thinly
  • 1/2 red chili cut thinly
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tbsp fall purpose flour
  • 1 tbsp rice flour
  • 1 tbsp corn flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 block chicken stock
  • 1/3 tsp salt
  • a pinch of pepper
  • 2 tbsp cooking oil
  • Oil for frying (about 1 cm deep)
Directions :
  1. Mix egg, flour, rice flour, corn flour, baking powder, chicken stock, salt, pepper and cooking oil in a bowl, until it become smooth thick paste.
  2. Heat up cooking oil on medium heat.
  3. Add in zucchini, onion, chill into the mixture.
  4. Take 1 table spoon for 1 fritters and fried it until golden brown.