culinary explorations of a new zealander who wants to broaden her food horizons, try new things, cook from scratch, find new favourite recipes, and share the fruits of her labour! please read, enjoy, try it yourself and leave comments!
Most of the time, I follow the recipes I find. But sometimes, I find several recipes, and then use bits from all of them! This is what I did tonight, and it turned out well. Felt like satay chicken but didn't have a jar of the sauce I normally use, so decided to try to make it from scratch. INGREDIENTS 500g chicken breast, sliced 1 onion, sliced peas 1 pack vermicelli 1 can of coconut milk (or cream) 3 tbsp peanut butter sweet chilli sauce (to taste) 1 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp white vinegar 2 or 3 tbsp of sugar 1/2 cup water salt (to taste) 1/2 tsp crushed garlic 1/2 tsp crushed ginger METHOD
Set some salted water to boil, for the vermicelli. Once it boils, add the vermicelli then turn off the heat.
Meanwhile, brown chicken and onion in oil, in a fry pan
Add ginger and garlic, cook for 2 min
Add coconut cream, peanut butter, chilli sauce, soy sauce, sugar, white vinegar, and salt
Stir and bring to a simmer
Reduce heat and simmer until thickens
Add peas and cook until tender
Serve on drained vermicelli noodles, or rice
So this was kind of an ad-libbed recipe, but it tasted good, and photographed terribly. I think I'll make it again in future, but on rice.
Trying my best to do more new recipes now that uni is not so demanding! Here is one I did today. I picked it out of one of my mum's old recipe books, because we had some manky looking (aka very ripe!) bananas to use up, and I didn't feel like making icing for a cake, or muffins, and we didn't have any oats to make my usual banana oatmeal muffins!
One problem I had with this recipe is that it was all in weight measurements, as opposed to cups and tablespoons/teaspoons and that was a bit of a pain. Luckily we had scales :) INGREDIENTS 90g butter 1 large egg 1/4 tsp baking soda 60g sultanas 125g sugar 220g flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 ripe bananas METHOD
Preheat oven to 180 deg C
Cream butter and sugar
Add egg and mix well
Add in sifted dry ingredients
Add in mashed bananas and sultanas
Pour into a greased (or silicone) loaf tin
Bake for 50 mins
Serve warm with butter
This was
a pretty easy recipe, aside from all the measurements! Came out a bit
dry, then realised it was in a part of the recipe book that said it was
part of the 'buttered sweet' section haha so best to serve it with
butter!! It tastes great too! :)
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