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
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- 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! :)
Recipe Inspiration: Rally Cookbook
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