Baked Chicken Drumstick with Home Made Sauce

We had been eating out quite often recently. It is time to prepare some healthy home cook food. =)

I wanted to prepare something quick and easy for our dinner so I could have enough time to watch my TV show at night. Before I leave home to work this morning, I had marinated the drumsticks with the gravy mix and leave it in the fridge.

All I need to do tonight is just put the drumsticks in the oven and cook through. Pretty convenience, right? ;)

Enjoy the hot food together with the “hot” TV show – MasterChef!. = D

Ingredients

2 chicken drumsticks,
a dash of mix herbs
a dash of extra virgin olive oil


Marinate the chicken with:-
a pinch of salt
a dash of grounded black pepper
1 tbsp of gravy mix
2 tbsp of oyster sauce
1 tbsp of light soy sauce
3 cloves of grated garlic
a dash of mixed herbs

What to do

1. Marinate the chicken drumsticks and cover the bowl in a zip bag. Leave it for few hours in the fridge.

2. Preheat the oven at 200 degrees. On a baking tray, wrap up the chicken with aluminium foil. Bake the chicken for 20-30 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through.

3. Place the chicken drumsticks on a plate and serve with potatoes and salad.

Cinnamon Sugar-Coated Maple Apple Cakes

Another recipe taken from Donna Hay! It looked tempted to me when I browsed on her website so I had decided to give it a try. I don’t have the Bundt tins so they were replaced by muffin cups.

Freshly baked from the oven

This is yummy! I love ground cinnamon so much… they taste so good. ^_^

Ingredients


375g self-raising flour, sifted
1tsp ground cinnamon
250g butter, melted
175g brown sugar
175g maple syrup
4 eggs
6 red apples, peeled and grated
2tsp ground cinnamon, extra
220g caster sugar


What to do

(1) Preheat oven to 180 degree. Place the flour and cinnamon in a bowl and mix to combine.

(2) Add the butter, brown sugar, maple syrup, eggs and apple and mix well to combine.

(3) Spoon into muffin cups and bake for 20 minutes or until cooked whr tested with a skewer. Turn out immediately.

(4) Place the extra cinnamon and sugar in a bowl and mix to combine.

(5) Coat the cakes in the sugar and cool.

Beef Patties with Mushroom Sauce

Sick of having food like rice or noodles for lunch or dinner? Well, try these simple patties that served with some greens. Tasty yet healthy! =D

Ingredients

280g beef mince

1 tbsp olive oil

½ brown onion

salt and pepper

1 garlic cloves, minced

½ tsp salt

¼ tsp pepper

2 large egg, beaten

Mushroom sauce
2 medium button mushroom, sliced
150ml water
1 tbsp of BBQ sauce
2 tbsp of oyster sauce
½ tbsp of corn starch mix with 3tbsp of water
Salt and pepper to taste


What to do

(1)Heat the oil in small sauté pan over medium heat. Add onion, salt and pepper and sauté until tender.

(2)Stir in minced garlic. Set aside. Mix cooled onions and garlic with mince, ½tsp salt, and ¼tsp pepper. Add egg.

(3)Divide mixture into 2 and place in ring moulds.

(4)Preheat pan for medium-high heat. Grill patties until brown then turn, cook until medium-rare, or to your liking.

(5)In the mean time, heat some olive oil in a frying pan. Sauté the mushroom till fragrant. Pour in the water and add the BBQ and oyster sauce. Bring to boil and add in the corn starch for thickening.

(6) Pour over the mushroom sauce and serve with salad.

 
 

Minced Meat Noodle

Since we almost had the same breakfast most of the time like toast, scramble egg, muesli, oat and etc.

Now, we kinda miss those days back in Malaysia, our breakfast will be noodles like hokkien noodle, wan tan noodle, nasi lemak and many more. It makes me mouth watering now… haha

Hence, this week I had prepared an Asian food for our breakie – NOODLE which is the simplest one! (";)

Ingredients

2 pieces of dried noodle
150gm minced beef
3 dried Chinese mushrooms, soaked then sliced
2tbsp of olive oil
3 cloves of garlic, peeled and smashed
1tbsp corn starch mixed with 3 tbsp of water
2 hard-boiled eggs, sliced

For seasoning
2tbsp light soy sauce
1tbsp oyster sauce
1tsp sesame oil
1tbsp dark soy sauce
dash of pepper


What to do

(1) Marinate the mince with seasoning and leave for 1 hour.

(2) Heat some olive oil in a wok, sauté the garlic and add the marinated mince and mushrooms till cook through. Add in the mushroom and cover the lid, turn to low flame and simmer until the sauce thickening.

(3) Bring water to boil in a pot. Cook the noodles as per the instruction on the packaging and set aside.

(4) Pour in the corn starch mixture to the mince; stir well and off the fire. Pour the sauce over the noodle and garnish with chopped chives and hard-boiled egg.

Chocolate Brownie

I came across Donna Hay’s website and saw this simple brownie recipe. Well, since I haven’t tried to bake brownie before, it’s a good chance for me to give this a go!

I’ve added in some chopped walnuts as I recalled the last time I had brownie they did have some nuts in it. You may add other types of nuts as well.

I was please as it turned out nicely and the taste was good too! =)

Ingredients

200g dark chocolate, chopped

250g butter, chopped

310g brown sugar

4 eggs

35g cocoa powder, sifted

185g plain flour

¼tsp baking powder

60g walnuts, chopped

 

What to do

(1) Preheat oven to 160 degree.

(2) Place the chocolate and butter in a saucepan over low heat and stir until smooth. Allow to cool slightly.

(3) Place the sugar, eggs, cocoa, flour and baking powder in a bowl. Add the chocolate mixture and mix until combined. Lastly add in the chopped walnuts and stir well.

(4) Pour into a 20cm square slice tin lined with non-stick baking paper.

(5) Bake for 50 minutes or until an inserted skewer withdraws clean.

(6) Allow to cool slightly in the tin before slicing. Serve warm or cold.

Cheese n' Banana Toasties

My favourite day – Sunday, which is also my favourite day to prepare some sinfully breakie. =D I had this mad idea to sandwich my raisin toast with cheese and banana. Haha!

It sounds weird, right? Tell you what, I tasted it… and it taste just as good as it look! Wahaha… I am not bluffing here. Truly, it tastes pretty yummy. Give it a try, you will then know. ^_^

I had captured the step by step of making it.

Ingredients: 4 slices of raisins bread, 2 slices of cheese, 1 large banana (sliced)

Step 1: Place 2 slices of bread in the sandwich maker.

Step 2: Top with cheese

Step 3: Follow by the banana

Step 4: Cover with the other slice of bread.

Step 5: Cook for 1-2 minutes

Step 6: Cut into half and serve!

Can you spot the melted cheese oozes out!!! Hmm… yummy yummy! =P

Enjoy~

Hot Cross Muffins

We have a long weekend this week as there are Good Friday and Easter Day, which means I have more time to do some baking! Initially I planned to bake Hot Cross Bun as it has long been a symbol of Good Friday tradition for centuries. If you wish to know more about the history, please click here.

While I was flipping through the recipe book for Hot Cross Bun, I saw this Hot Cross Muffins instead. So I decided to give it a try as it’s something special on this occasion.

All you need is:

Ingredients

375g self-raising flour

180g butter, softened

180g brown sugar

2 eggs, beaten

1tsp coffee extract

2tbsp milk

60g white choc melts, melted

What to do

(1) Preheat the oven to 190 degree. Put muffin cups into shallow muffin pans.

(2) Sift the flour into a large bowl and add the butter, sugar, eggs and coffee extract. Beat well until the mixture is smooth, then beat in the milk.

(3) Divide the mixture among the paper cups. Bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes, or until risen, firm and golden brown. Transfer the cupcakes to a wire rack to cool.

(4) Place melted chocolate in a small snap-lock bag. Twist the bag and snip off one corner. Pipe a cross over each muffin and leave to set.