Wine Chicken ( Kai Chou)

Suddenly I had the craving for Wine Chicken. What happen to me, hehe!! I'm actually craving from the  confinement's menu. My mom told me, she realize that I enjoy eating confinement dishes very much. Actually its true, I like being pregnant and enjoy a lot during the confinement month, I wish my confinement month could last longer instead of only one month. Am I a weird person?  I think it is very difficult to find someone like me cause most woman dislike this part. I enjoy taking care of my newborn baby and breastfeeding during my confinement month.

 Come to think about it, my mom helps me with all my confinements, she even came over to States to help me when I gave birth to Jade, my youngest daughter. I know she has done a lot for me during my confinement. She woke up very early in the morning to prepare breakfast for me. Every morning i wake up and all the hot yummy healthy breakfast will be served right infront of me. Sometimes ginger or kunyit fried rice, noodle in soup, fish porridge or  something very delicious. She comes out with many varieties of food and she really makes my day. She is very creative with all these confinement dishes from foods to drinks. She patiently frys the rice until brown and the aroma just to make rice drink for me. During my confinement month, she boils red dates water for me daily, without fail. Not only she prepares warm chinese herb water for me to shower everyday, then she will clean up the mess from the herbs after I finish showering. While I was taking nap in the afternoon she is getting ready to cook for the next meal. Omg ! my mom really did alot for me. I really wanted to take this opportunity to Thank my mom for helping me so much during the weakest moments in my life. Mommy you're the BEST and I love you very much. Wow!!  I noticed I've talk a lot about my mom, if I really want to talk about her, I  can talk for days. 

Lets get back to the Wine Chicken. I only have very little homemade wine left in the house so I use it till the last drop of the homemade wine and add some brandy instead. I enjoy this Wine Chicken very much and I feels satisfied right after eating it.

Hmmmm! I think its time to make some homemade wine. will definitely share the recipe with you too, this recipe is from my SUPER MOM !!!

Wine Chicken ( Kai Chou)

   Ingredients    :

   1              whole chicken ( prefered kampung chicken) chopped into bite sizes

   50 - 80 g  ginger, peel and cut slice

   60        g  black fungus, soaked and cut wedges

   1/3           cup homemade wine ( rice wine)

   1/4           cup brandy or V.S.O.P

   1/2           teaspoon peppercorns

   1              teaspoon sugar

   5              cups water

   4              teaspoon sesame oil 

   salt to taste

    Method    :

    Marinate the chicken with 1/2 salt and peppercorns for about 15 minutes.

    Heat  up the wok on high, pour in sesame oil and fry the ginger slice until aromatic or becomes 

    brownish. Add in the chicken to fry for 3 - 5 minutes, add in the fungus and continue to fry.

    Splash in the brandy or V.S.O.P and continue to fry. Pour in the water and bring it to a simmering boil

    Add sugar and salt to taste and rice wine and let it cook for another 5 - 8 minutes. 

    Yummy Wine Chicken is serve!!!

  

Wine Chicken ( Kai Chou)

Pork, Kidney And Egg Soup

This Pork, Kidney And Egg Soup is my mom's recipe. Another famous soup for confinement is which my mom will definitely make this for at my confinement. I usually will only drink the soup but will not be eating the kidney neither the liver.
My husband is a huge fan of this soup and will always request for this soup, today he brought home some pork kidney from the market and requested me to boil this for him. This will be his one dish meal tonight. I don't know how to treasure this soup however i am very good in cleaning and getting rid of the kidney smell. First you need to remove all the white and red tubes from the kidney. Soak the kidney in salt water for 20 minutes or more. Wash and change water frequently until the water becomes clear.

Pork, Kidney And Egg Soup

   Ingredients    :

   2         pig kidney, clean and halves 

   1         knob ginger approximately 5cm, thinly slice

   2         can chicken broth

   2         teaspoon cooking wine ( i use shaoxing)

   1         teaspoon salt
   5         peppercorns, smashed

   1         teaspoon sesame oil

   1         sprig parsley, cut into pieces

   2         eggs

# 120g   lean pork, thinly slice

# 1/2      teaspoon corn starch

# 1/2      teaspoon soy sauce

# 1/2      teaspoon sesame oil

(Marinate pork with all the # ingredients for 15 minutes or more)

   Method     :

   Wash and clean pig kidney, soak in water for a while. Blanch pig kidney in hot water for 6 - 10 

   minutes.

   Open can and boil chicken broth, add lean pork slice, peppercorn and ginger.

   Add pig kidney, salt and sesame oil, crack in the eggs and off the stove. Close lid and simmer for 5 -
   8 minutes, add cooking wine and scoop out into a soup bowl.

   Sprinkle with parsley, dash in pepper powder and serve while it's hot.

   Enjoy!!!

   

   

   

Chicken And Lemon Grass With Potato Soup

Mommy's corner soup of the day is Chicken And Lemon Grass With Potato, i even dump in a small pig stomach. Actually i seldom boil this soup at home, this is a must soup to drink during my confinement.

I absolutely have no desire to make this soup, technically i was trimming the lemon grass tree and i was wondering since i cut a lot of the lemon grass, how am i going to do with it. Am i goin to put in a ziplock bag to store in the fridge or should i cook curry or tom yum  again. Suddenly this soup comes into my mind cause the other hubby brought a big bag of potato, i even nag him why he brought back  such a big bag and how can we finish it before it grow sprouts. My elder sister told me before the potatoes are poisonous when roots grow. We are asian, we don't eat potato like the americans, to them potato is like their rice, it is their everyday meal. 

Besides lemon grass  can helps to stimulate the movement and i actually hear the little farts hehe!! excuse me from my youngest daughter in the middle of the night. No wonder my mom boiled a lot of this soup for me after my C-section surgery. Lemon grass can actually reduce stomach gas and prevent colon cancer and tummy fats. So, ladies quickly boil this now.

Chicken And Lemon Grass With Potato Soup

   Ingredients    :

   3         chicken tight or 1/2 chicken, removed skin 

   4 - 5    potato, peeled and cut to four pieces each

   1         whole red onion, peeled and cut into 4 pieces

   5 - 6    lemon grass, trim and smashed

   1         small pig stomach, clean and rub with salt

   5         cup water

   1         can chicken broth

   1         teaspoon salt

   1/2      teaspoon sugar

   1         tablespoon peppercorn seed, smashed

   1/3      cup  distilled vinegar

   Method    :

   Boil a pot of water and blanch the chicken, remove the chicken and remain the water in the pot. 

   Pour  the distilled vinegar into the pot and blanch the pig stomach for about 8 - 10 minutes.The vinegar

   water will remove the smell of the pig stomach. Remove from pot and set aside.

   Wash the same pot or use another soup pot to boil the 5 cup of water and the can of chicken broth.   

   When it is rolling boil, add in the pig stomach, lemon grass, onion and peppercorn. Let it boil for 45 - 1

    hour on medium heat. The longer you boil the soup the result better and is tastier. Add in the potato 

    and boil for another 1/2 an hour. Remove the pig stomach from the soup, let cool and cut into pieces.

    Dump it back into the soup. Add in the salt and sugar to taste and serve.

   Enjoy!!!

   

   

Turmeric Fried Rice (Nasi Goreng Kunyit)

This is one of the dish that my mom cooked for me during my confinement, suddenly I miss her so much. "Mommy I miss you so much" she might not be able to hear me now but I'm grateful with a press

on the phone, I can reach her right away. We live far apart, she is oceans away, eventually I talk to her ever alternate day, sometimes even twice a day. She is like staying nearby to me. Trust me, this is one of the extremely prefect tasty confinement dish but of course you also can eat even you're not on confinement, like me now. 

Turmeric Fried Rice

   Ingredients   :

   1        bowl of leftover white rice

   1        knob 2-inches fresh turmeric, cut thin slices ( or 11/2 teaspoon turmeric powder)

   1        knob of ginger approximately 11/2-inches 

   1        stalk green onion (cut slice)

   1/3     cup green bean

   1        1 egg

   50      gm chicken meat (cut cubes)

   1/2     sugar

   1/2     light soy sauce

   1/2     salt

   2-3     dash pepper powder

   2-3     teaspoon cooking oil

   (Marinate the chicken with a little bit salt, dash of pepper powder, 1/2 turmeric powder)

   Method     :

  

   Slowly fried the fresh turmeric and ginger with cooking oil on medium to low heat until aroma.

   Add in the chicken and adjust the heat to high, fried until it turns golden brown. Pour in the rice mix 

   well and fried for a while. Push the rice at the side of the wok/skillet and crack in the egg in the middle.

   Fried the rice until it become lighten and dry, dump in the green onion, fried for another 3 -5 minutes.

   Served while its hot. You may add a fried egg on top if the fried to serve.

   

   Enjoy!!!

Turmeric Fried Rice

Pork Leg Vinegar

Pork Leg Vinegar

Steamed Chicken With Ginger And Wine

Steamed Chicken With Ginger And Wine
   

    Ingredients :

 

    1/2      chicken, cleaned and chopped 

    1         knot ginger around 1 inch, thinly slice

    1         teaspoon oyster sauce

    2         dash pepper powder

    1         teaspoon salt

    1/2      teaspoon corn starch, add 1 tablespoon water

    3         teaspoon cooking wine ( i use shioxing)

    Method   :

    Boil water in a steamed, marinate chicken with oyster sauce, pepper powder, salt and corn starch

    mixture for 15 minutes.

    Before putting the chicken to steam, sprinkle ginger slice on top of the chicken and pour in cooking

    wine and steam for 20 - 25 minutes.

    

    Enjoy!!

Turmeric (Kunyit) Fried Chicken

Turmeric(Kunyit) Fried Chicken

    Ingredients    :

    1          whole chicken ( cut into pieces)
    50        gm fresh turmeric or ( 2-3 tsp turmeric powder)
    3          shallot bulb (peel and cut slice)
    21/2     teaspoon salt
    1/2       teaspoon sugar
    1/2       teaspoon light soy sauce
    3          dash pepper powder
    Oil for deep frying


    Methods    :

    Wash and wipe chicken to dry with paper towels, marinate with the above ingredients
    for 4 hrs or more.
    Deep fry the chicken with medium to high heat until the chicken is cooked. Remember to remove the
    slice shallot before frying,it is only meant for marinate.

    Enjoy this with nasi lemak !!!

Turmeric(Kunyit) Fried Chicken

Yummy!!! I think no one can refrain from fried chicken, especially moi. I'm a turmeric lover.

Turmeric is a plant of the ginger family, it is native to tropical Southeast Asia and one of the most powerful nature's healers. Years of studies have shown high effective results in treating cancer, obesity, melanoma and alzheimer's disease. It is peppery, warm and bitter in flavor with some mild fragrance. The fresh juice of raw turmeric will turn your hand yellow and will take a while to go off. Avoid touching your clothes while working with turmeric. I still remember when my mom prepare a lot of turmeric dishes for me during my confinement period and turmeric fried rice is one of it. I will provide this recipe in another post.

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                                                     Turmeric (Kunyit ) Fried Chicken

Ingredients :

7 - 8 Chicken Wings or (1 small chicken - cut into pieces)

10  Ounces Turmeric (peeled - blend or chop)

 2  Bulbs Of Shallot (peeled and cut slices)

 1 1/2 Teaspoon Salt

 1/2 Teaspoon Sugar

 2 Dashes Of Pepper Powder

1 Teaspoon of Light Soy Sauce

2 Teaspoons of Flour, add 1-2 pinch of salt,combined (Sprinkle on chicken before frying)

Method:

Waste, cut and wipe the chicken with bounty or paper towel

Marinate the chicken with all the above ingredients EXCEPT flour for 20 minutes at least,the longer your marinate,the more flavor it will have.

Heat the oil in deep fryer, wok or skillet. Dip the chicken pieces to the flour and fry until crispy or golden brown.

Drain the chicken in colander and pat it dry with with paper towel. 

Serve will it's crispy.Yummy!