Garlic Chicken with fried rice

Here’s another recipe for the second post of the day!

It is a personal favourite dish that everyone can make in their homes. Especially good for couples, or when you are living alone. This dish always gives me a feeling of home, because the chicken tastes like the one made by my mum. And the best thing is, you can complete everything in just a frying pan! No fuss, no hassles. Hope you love it as much as I do!

Garlic chicken with fried rice

For Garlic Chicken (2 servings)
Ingredients
1. 2 pieces of deboned chicken thigh (Up to you whether to remove skin)
2. 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce
3. 1 tablespoon of sugar
4. 1 teaspoon of sesame oil
5. 1 tablespoon of minced garlic
6. Pinch of salt and pepper
Method
1. Marinate all ingredients together for at least 1 hour. If possible, you can leave it overnight.
2. Place the marinated chicken on a pre-heated fry pan. NO oil is required. (Do not pour the marinate into the fry pan at this moment, as it will be used for the fried rice.)
3. Pan-fry both sides of the chicken about 3 minutes WITH a lid. (For thick portions of the chicken, please give it more time and make sure that it it fully cooked.)
4. Ready to serve, or you can slice the chicken thinly to serve.

For Fried Rice (2 servings)
Ingredients
1. 2 small bowls of overnight frozen rice
2. Assorted vegetables (peas, carrots, corn), but anything is fine.
3. Cooking oil
4. Pinch of salt and pepper
Method
1. Defroze the rice in a microwave (600W, 2mins).
2. Using the fry pan that you have cooked the chicken, add a little oil and the assorted vegetables and fry for a few seconds. It does not matter if the pan is a bit burnt, because this will add flavour to the rice.
3. Add the marinate left from the chicken and any left bits of garlic.
4. Add the rice and separate the rice into grains.
5. Add salt and pepper to taste.
6. Serve.

Optional
1. After cooking the fried rice, you can use the same pan to cook a sunny side-up to add to your dish!
2. Add greens for a more nutritious meal.

Chicken Nanban チキン南蛮

Going to move 2 recipes here from my previous blog, so here is the first one! My recipes are all easy to cook, so hope you will like them!

Firstly, a very simple chicken delight from Miyazaki Prefecture in Kyushu, the southern part of Japan, but this is my own version which you can complete in less than 30 minutes. Best to eat with a bowl of piping hot white rice!

宮崎県の名物、チキン南蛮

Ingredients (Serves 2):
(1) Deboned chicken thighs X 2
(2) Cornstarch X 2 tablespoons
(3) Hardboiled egg X 1
(4) Mayonnaise
(5) Onion (cut into strips) X 1/2
(6) Soya Sauce X 2 tablespoons
(7) Lemon Juice X 1 tablespoon
(8) Sugar X 2 teaspoons
(9) Cooking oil

Method:
For onion sauce:
1. Place onion into a small pot over fire, and add items 6, 7 and 8 with 2 tablespoons of water.
2. Bring to boil and and rest till onions become slightly transparent.
For mayonnaise sauce:
1. Cut hardboiled egg finely and mix with desired amount of mayonnaise.
For chicken:
1. Place chicken and cornstarch into a clean plastic bag to coat chicken slightly with cornstarch. Make sure that the coating is even and light.
2. Heat cooking oil in fry pan. Pan-fry chicken with slow fire till both sides are slightly brown and inside is cooked.
3. Cut chicken into your preferred biting sizes.

To serve:
1. Place onion sauce at plate bottom with chicken on top.
2. Place desired amount of mayonnaise sauce on side of plate.
3. Garnish with green leaves. (optional)

Tips:
1. Instead of preparing the sauce, you can purchase Ponzu (ポン酢) from Japanese supermarkets and add a little sugar.

Ginger chicken with young broccoli

Another simple dish which you can enjoy till the last bit of gravy. The dish is sort of fusion, because the sauce is somewhat similar to teriyaki sauce, except for a missing component of cooking sake （料理酒）.

Simple to make, great to taste! Cook in less than 30 minutes!

Ginger chicken with young broccoli.

Ingredients:

2 X chicken thigh, deboned, cut into mouth-bite sizes (You can decide to keep the skin or not for personal health preferences)

Young broccoli (or even broccoli)

1 X small piece of ginger (thinly sliced into strips, 千切り)

3 X tablespoon of cornstarch （片栗粉）

Sesame oil for frying

(For sauce)

2 X tablespoons soya sauce

2 X tablespoons mirin

1 X teaspoon sugar

2 X tablespoon water

Method:

1. Boil broccoli till cooked and leave aside.

2. Coat the chicken evenly with the cornstarch.

3. Heat frying pan, add sesame oil and fry ginger in slow fire till brown. DO NOT burn the ginger. Remove ginger and set aside.

4. Using the same pan with the remaining oil, add the chicken and fry them till cooked and brown on both sides.

5. Add the sauce to the chicken, and try to coat every piece of chicken with the sauce. Reduce the sauce till thick.

6. Serve with boiled broccoli and sprinkle with ginger on top.

(Optional) You can also sprinkle sesame seeds on top to make it more delectable!

Hope you like this dish! Please feel free to leave any comments.

Oyako-don 親子丼

Oyako-don 親子丼 on a plate

Requests for recipes always come in through Facebook, and I have decided to update my simple recipes here instead of the other blog. Most of my recipes target the lonely people who lives alone or for couples. There are not huge servings, though really time-saving! Most can be completed in 30 minutes.

To start with, the first one shall be OYAKO-DON!

Ingredients:

1 X chicken fillet cut into mouth-bite sizes (w/ or w/o skin, breast or thigh), premarinated with 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce
2 X eggs (lightly beaten, to produce difference between the whites and yellow)
1 X bowl of cooked rice
1/2 X onion (thinly sliced)
(Optional) Sliced mushrooms

For the gravy:
2 tablespoons X light soy sauce
2 tablespoons X mirin (みりん, should be able to get from supermarkets)
1 tablespoon X sugar
2 tablespoons X water (or dashi water, if you have)

Method:
1. Mix all ingredients for gravy together.
2. In a small frying pan (preferably about the size of your plate or bowl), pan-fry the marinated chicken till brown and cooked.
3. Add the gravy and bring to a boil.
4. Add sliced onion, followed by mushrooms (optional). Let mixture simmer about a minute.
5. Pour eggs into pan. You will see that the eggs on the sides cook very fast, but do not worry. When you observe that the eggs in the middle are slightly cooked (but not full-cooked), remove from heat and serve over hot rice.
6. Garnish with greens. (Optional)

Hope this simple recipe works well for all. Enjoy cooking!!