Crispy Honey Chicken

Chinese and a big smile in the face of all the household members, this weekend I had made  vegetable fried rice & hakka noodles to go with this chicken strips.

I am posting a very simple yet a very delicious chicken strips loved by young and the old. I never add ajinomoto to my Chinese cooking, its upto you if you want you can add.

Cooking time : 1 hr 30minutes

Serves : 5 pax

Ingredients

Chicken breasts washed and cleaned – 300 gms (keep in fridge so that its firm)

Corn flour – ½ cup

Batter

Egg – 1 no.

Oil – 1 tbsp

Corn Flour – 1 tbsp

Salt – ½ tsp

White pepper – ½ tsp or to your taste

Ajinomoto – ¼ tsp (Optional)

Sauce for the chicken coating

Red chilli broken – 4 nos.

Tomato ketchup – 4 tbsp

Honey – 3 tbsp

Salt to your taste

Cornf lour dissolved  in ¼ cup of water – 1 tbsp

Sesame seeds – 2 tsp *

Spring onion – green part for garnish

*you can toast  on tawa lightly and then add to the chicken

Chilli Garlic Noodles

If you are a garlic lover then you will love this simple and  very delicious noodles. You wont find any vegetables in this stir fried noodles because they are meant to accompany a sauce based main dish.

Very few ingredients in this noodle yet very yummy. Drizzle the soy sauce from the sides of the wok, so that the aroma will be released and enhances the flavor into the needles. Increase or decrease in the chilli flakes to your level of taste.

This is one of my daughters favorite noodles.

Serves : 3 pax                                                                               Time : 30 minutes                                                                    Recipe source : Nita Mehta’s cook book

Ingredients

Noodles – 200gms
Oil – 3 tbsp *
Crushed garlic – 2 tsp
Whole red chillies broken into bits – 3 nos
Red chilli flakes – ½ tsp
Sesame seeds – 1 tbsp                                                                  
Soya Sauce – 1 tsp

*I used sesame oil

Drums of Heaven

I have had the best of the Chinese starter -‘Drums Of Heaven (DoH)’  guess  where - ‘Rice Bowl’ Chinese restaurant in Bangalore, Brigade road and the drums of heaven he used to give would be  amazing,  just melt in the mouth like. The batter coated in the chicken drums would be so crisp and soft and would taste fantastic with chillie and tomato sauce.  Now rice bowl has moved to Lavelle road but never get those yummy drums of heaven. He makes so thick and the batter coated is too much.

I have had many times and cannot forget the yummy Doh and here’s the recipe!! It’s a perfect starter when served hot.

To make the best crunchy and yummy DoH  the oil should be hot and the batter mix should be very cold to get the proper starter. 

Vegetable Noodles – desi style with Indo mie

My favourite Chineseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee J. 

Getting prepared to make Chinese  takes lot of time  as It involves  chopping and crushing stuffs etc. Once you start making you can just finish it  very quickly. You can find so many variety of noodles in the market like Maggi, Indo mie and so on. I use these two in particular. I love to use  Indo mie better for this recipe or else go for maggi curry flavor. Its very rare you can find someone who say that they don’t like noodles L.

Lets go ahead with a  very basic  and simple recipe for now.

Ingredients

Indo mie  noodles – 2pack                                                                                                               Vegetables  cut lengthwise very think (carrot, capsicum, cabbage) if you have  sprouts  ok otherwise leave      Garlic crushed – ½ tsp                                                                                                                              Soya sauce – 2 tbsp                                                                                                                            Seasoning stuffs from the packet – use everything they have given                                                           Oil/butter – 2 tbsp – your choice                                                                                                             Onion – 1 big sliced                                                                                                                                     White pepper powder – optional – this is upto to  your spice level