Claypot Chicken Rice (without using claypot)

I had wanted to try out this meal long time ago but I do not have the claypot with me and I never think of I can replace with rice cooker. = P I just found out this tips from my friend so decided to give it a try. My ingredients are very simple. Here you go…

Ingredients

3 cups rice, washed and drained well
3 cups water (according to how many cups of rice)
2 skinless chicken breasts
5 black mushrooms, soaked till soft and cut into thin slices

Seasoning (A)

1 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tsp of pepper
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tsp cornflour

Seasoning (B) (mix together)

1 tsp light soy sauce
1 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp pepper
1 tsp sesame oil
2 tbsp dark soy sauce

What to do

(1) Marinade chicken with seasoning (A) for 30 minutes.

(2) Heat 1 tbsp oil in a wok and stir-fry marinated chicken meat, mushroom and mix in seasoning (B). Dish out and put aside.

(3) Put rice into an electric cooker and cook rice as usual. Add in chicken into the rice cooker when the rice is almost dry (about 7-8 minutes) and continue to cook till rice is completely cooked. Serve immediately.

Well, the taste is so delicious but it is not dark enough. I think I didn’t put enough dark soy sauce. Definitely, I will try on this recipe again…simple and easy!!! ^-^

Banana & Chocolate Muffins

I have 3 over-ripe bananas in the fridge and I don’t want my dustbin have it so I decided to use them to make banana cake.

Also, I can bring along the banana cake for our day trip later. Hmm…what trip that I mention here??? Check out my blog tomorrow you will know then… = )

Ingredients (makes 10 ~ 12 muffins)

275g plain flour

3 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

3 bananas

100g brown sugar

1 egg, lightly beaten

50ml fresh milk

75g olive oil

50g chocolate chips

What to do

(1) Sieve together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a mixing bowl. Mix in the chocolate chips. Set aside.

(2) Peel the bananas and mash with a fork in a bowl. Add in brown sugar, egg, milk and melted butter. Mix until well combined.

(3) Pour the liquid mixture into the dry ingredients. With a wooden spoon or a spatula, gently fold all the ingredients to form a wet batter. Stir gently, using only a few strokes and mix until the flour are incorporate into the batter. DO NOT Over mix. The batter should appear lumpy.

(4) Spoon batter into paper muffin cases. Bake for 20mins until muffins turn golden brown or a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.

(5) Let cool on a wire rack. Serve warm or cold.

Recipe taken from Happy Home Baking

Mini Sausage Bun

Bun bun bun again…haha. You must be wondering how come it is bun again? Well, homemade bun is really good to eat and easy to bake too! I love homemade bun. = )

Ok, this is my little sausage bun. They look so cute!

Recipe taken from My Home Kitchen
Ingredient A
300g bread flour
1/2 tsp salt
1+1/2 tbsp milk powder
50g caster sugar

Ingredient B
125ml water
1+1/2 tsp instant yeast
1 egg

Ingredient C
40g butter (I use 40g corn oil) 20g

For glazing
Milk

For filling
8 pieces chicken sausages

What to do

1. To make bread dough: Combine ingredient A in a mixer and mix well. Add in ingredient B and beat till a dough is formed. Add in ingredient C and beat till dough is smooth and elastic to the touch.

2. Leave dough in a big bowl, covered with a damp cloth. Let it rise in a warm place for 35 minutes until double its original size. Divide dough into 35g portions. Flatten and roll out each portion dough into a longish shape. Place a halved sausage roll in the centre, roll up and seal. Arrange on a greased tray, well spaced apart. Cover and rest for the next 40 minutes until buns double in size once again.

3. Glaze with milk and sprinkle some sesame seed on top. Bake buns in a preheated oven at 180 deg C for 15 minutes. Cool well on a wire rack.

Note: I had modified a little from the original recipe.

Scramble egg on toast

Bread and egg is a perfect couple! No matter how you mix and match them, it will always turn out perfectly. Also, both of these are my favorites. = ) This is a very easy, simple and yummy breakfast!

Ingredients (Serve 2)

4 eggs, at room temperature
2 tbsp milk
Dash of salt
Dash of pepper
1 tbsp butter
hot buttered toast, to serve

What to do

Scramble Egg

(1) Whisk eggs, milk, and salt in a bowl until small bubbles appear
(2) Heat a non-stick frying pan over medium heat until hot. Add in butter.
(3) Beat egg mixture again and pour into pan. Cook for 1 minute or until just setting.
(4) Using a spatula or flat-edged wooden spoon, push set eggs toward centre of pan, tilting pan to allow uncooked egg to run over base. Cook for a further 1 minute or until eggs form creamy curds. Remove from heat and set aside.

Toast Bread

(1) Preheat sandwich maker. Spread some butter on bread and place bread back on to sandwich maker and toast till golden brown.
(2) Spoon eggs onto toast and season with pepper. Serve with salad.

Little Bread Loaf

It is time for me to try on bread loaf! There are many ways for eating white bread such as you can make it as sandwich, toast and eat with jam, French toast and also you can make few kind of filling and just eat with the white bread like sausages, ham, scramble egg, tuna, sardine and many more! I do not have the square pan for the bread so I am using my little baking pan. This is why I name it as “Little Bread Loaf” = P

15 minutes later...

I thought wanna "plastic surgery" my little bread loaf to make it looks like French bread (which has flour sprinkle on top) = P

The original

"Cute little bread" = D

My breakfast!!!
@Hardboiled-egg on toast@


Yum ^-^ Yum

Ingredients

(A)
200g bread flour20g plain flour
Castor sugar 25g
Salt 1/4 tsp
(B)

Instant yeast 3g (1/2 tsp + 1/4 tsp)

Milk 115g
(C)
10g butter

What to do

(1) Combine ingredient (A) in a mixer and mix well. Add in ingredient (B) and beat till dough is formed. Add in ingredient (C) and beat till dough is smooth and elastic.
(2) Leave the kneaded dough in a big bowl, covered with cling wrap. Let it ferments for about 60 minutes or until the dough is double it size.
(3) Take out the dough from the bowl and punch out the air.
(4) Roll the dough back and forward to form a rope and fold the ends of the dough under so that it can fit into the baking pan.
(5) Cover with cling wrap and let it rest for 30 minutes or until the bun is double it size again.
(6) Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degree for 20 minutes.

(Note: I let my dough fermented overnight)

Honey Buns

This bun is one of the recipes in my “To Do List”. I wrote down my baking recipe in my cooking book (actually is in my computer). For bun / bread, I planned to start with those simple and easy ones and slowly get into the difficult and complicated ones. I found this recipe from Happy Home Baking. The ingredients and ways of making it are very simple!

My dough turned out quite sticky, I think I had mixed in the wrong amount of milk. So I had added an extra 1tbsp of bread flour. The dough was still sticky though. I dare not to add more bread flour as I was worried that it would stuff up the taste. I made the dough in the morning before I left to work. After I came back from work, the dough was still little bit sticky so it is hard for me to roll into ball shape for baking. The only way was to dust my hand with some flour so that I can hold the dough and shape it. Hmmm…at last I managed to shape them into ball size. Well, some of them were not round enough though. = P

This is my “Honey Bun”…it was soft and fluffy! Yum yum! Now, I really love homemade bun which you can taste it freshly and HOT! I like to eat it hot after it came out from the oven. I will definitely try on others homemade bun in the coming days. = )

Ingredients (makes 9 buns)

300g bread flour
4g (about 2/3 tsp) salt
4g (1 tsp) instant yeast
1 egg lightly beaten plus enough milk to make 200g
50g honey
30g unsalted butter

What to do

(1) Place all ingredients except the butter in the pan of the bread machine (according to the sequence as stated in the instruction manual of your bread machine). Select the Dough function of the bread machine and press start. After about 8mins of kneading (the ingredients should form a smooth dough by now, otherwise add in 1 tablespoon of bread flour if the mixture seems very wet), add in the 30g of butter. Let the machine continue to knead the dough. After the kneading cycle has stopped (20mins), Stop and Restart the machine. Continue to let the machine knead for another 10mins.

(2) Stop the machine and remove dough from the bread pan. Shape the dough into a smooth round and place in a lightly greased mixing bowl , cover bowl with cling wrap and let it rise till double in volume for about 60 ~ 90 mins.

(3) Remove dough and give a few lights kneading on a lightly floured work surface. Press out the trapped air as your knead. Divide into 9 equal portions and shape them into rounds. Cover with cling wrap; let the dough rest for 10mins.

(4) Flatten each dough into a round disc and press out the trapped air. Shape and roll into a smooth round ball.

(5) Place dough seam side down on a 20cm by 20cm square baking tray (lightly greased with oil or butter or line it with parchment paper). Loosely cover with a damp cloth or cling wrap and let dough proof for 45 ~ 60 mins or until double in size.

(6) When ready to bake, brush the surface of the dough with milk. Bake at preheated oven at 200 degC for about 15 ~ 20 mins until the bread is golden brown all over. Cover the surface with a sheet of aluminum foil if the surface browns too quickly. Remove from oven, unmold immediately and let cool on wire rack.

Recipe taken from Happy Home Baking

Note: I use hand to knead the dough as I do not have the bread machine. I had separated the dough into 2 baking pans as 9 doughs couldn’t fit in one pan.

Cheesy Meatballs Spaghetti

This is a very easy meatball recipe to cook with spaghetti. I used Raguletto Venetian with Onion, Herbs and Spices sauce and it was really tasty. Normally I will buy the brand of Dolmio but since this brand Raguletto is on sales now. So, I give it a try! Well, it is not too bad, it is still tasty. = )

Ingredients (serves 2)

250g minced chicken
1 egg, lightly beaten
½ cup grated tasty cheese
1 onion, finely chopped
1 cup mixed vege
1 garlic, finely chopped
250g dried spaghetti


What to do

(1) Combine mince, egg, cheese and onion. Season salt and pepper into the chicken mixture. Roll into balls.
(2) Heat oil in the non-stick frying pan. Cook half the meatballs for 4-5 minutes. Remove and repeat.
(3) Heat oil again in the non-stick frying pan. Add in garlic and stirring, for 3 to 4 minutes. Add in mix vege and the meatballs to the pan and pour over sauce. Cover, cook over a medium heat for 20 minutes until cooked through.
(4) Cook spaghetti in a large pan of boiling water and add 1 tbs of salt. Drain and place in bowl.
(5) Spoon over meatballs and sauce into the spaghetti. Serve.

Yummy yummy ^_^