22 November 2012

Satay Chicken

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.

 

1 November 2012

Banana Sultana Loaf

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! :)


Recipe Inspiration: Rally Cookbook