Curry Marinated Chicken Breast with Steamed Veggies and Salad

ChickenChicken is the one of my favourite meats. When I buy chicken meat at Homeplus, it always has 5 pieces of breast fillet and I found that this amount of meat can serve about for 4 people. (We are not big eaters.)

As you know, once you defrost meat it is not good to re-freeze it. So I marinate all the meat once, then use a 2 person portion of meat for me and my husband, then keep the rest of the meat in the fridge and use it the next day.

-Ingredients for marinating chicken are (for 4 people)

  • 5 pieces of chicken breast fillet. (I found it is easier to slice it when it is partly frozen.)

-Seasoning for Marinating Chicken

  • Yellow curry – 2tbsp
  • Salt – 2tsp
  • Pepper – 2tsp
  • Refined rice wine 30ml / left over Soju is OK too, or white wine.
  • Ginger powder – 2tsp

-Marinating-

  1. Rinse the chicken.marinating chicken
  2. Thin slice the chicken.
  3. Put it into a container.
  4. Add the seasonings and mix it well.

I usually marinate for about 2-4 hours. But I found that 24 hours tastes better. However if you are in a rush, 30 minutes might be O.K too.

Side dishes
-Ingredients for side dishes are (for 2 people).
You can do in a different way by your choice.

For steamed and pan fried Vegetables

  • 1 medium head of broccoli
  • 1 carrot
  • 6 button mushrooms
  • 2 King oyster mushroomsVegetables
  • A thin layer of olive oil in a frying pan (for the mushrooms and the chicken)

For salad

  • 5 medium leaves of lettuce
  • 1/5 of each of a small green and small red capsicum
  • 1 medium tomato

-Preparation and Cooking-

  1. Start with long slicing some carrots.
  2. Cut some broccoli.Cooking process curry chicken
  3. Then steam some carrots and broccolis for about 10 minutes each. Keep them in the pot until you’re ready to eat.
    (I recommend to steam them separately, however if I’m in a rush I steam them together.)
  4. While it’s steaming, cut some mushrooms into quarters.
  5. Still while steaming the veggies, cut some lettuce into small strips, tomato into quarters,and thinly slice some capsicum.
  6. Put no.5 into a bowl. The salad is then ready.
  7. Pan fry the mushrooms in a little oil until they turn brownish. (That’s the veggies now done).

Main dish – Chicken

  1. Pan fry some chicken (in a little oil). Turn the chicken pieces as needed until they turn brownish.
  2. Serve all the above on the plates.

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Egg Fried Rice

Apparently my husband has a wheat allergy.

A Chinese medicine doctor recommend me not to feed him wheat products. So he’s cut out bread for breakfast, and I had to think what to feed him.I came up with egg and rice (that’s what we call this meal). I used to have this meal when I was a baby. It is not spicy at all. So it can be a good baby’s weaning food.
It’s very simple to cook. My husband can do it. So pretty much anyone can make it.

The ingredients are (for one person)egg and rice 1
-expected cooking time ; 3mins

  • Little olive oil (You can use other oil, my husband specifically likes extra virgin olive oil)
  • 15ml soy sauce (really just a dash)
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup of Steamed Rice

-Cooking-

1. Turn the gas on. Heat the wok about a minute.

2. Put some oil into a wok. (You can try with frying pan, however you can lose some rice when you stir.)

3. Break the egg into a wok.

Egg and Rice 2

4. Put some rice onto a wok. Then pour soybean sauce.

Egg and Rice 3

5. Stir it thoroughly.

Egg and Rice 4

6. Now it’s all done.

Egg and Rice 5

This is the “Rice Cooker”

This is my rice cooker. I bought it about 6 months ago.rice cooker
Whenever I travel overseas and still need to cook myself, I really miss having this rice cooker. Because I don’t need to worry about spilling water when rice boils, it never burns or sticks in the pot, and it always gives me perfect textured rice.

It’s a pressure cooker and it seems to make the rice sticker and shinier than just a normal electric rice cooker. It has different menu settings for white rice only, brown or grain mixed rice, and sushi/Kimbap rice. It can also cook sponge cake and steamed stew or meat etc (but I haven’t tried sponge cake with it yet).

It is absolutely my gem among other kitchenware and very convenient to use. The only problem I am having is that it is a bit hard to clean the hole where the steam comes out.

I usually cook a mix of brown and white rice – 1:1 (for 2 people), it takes about 25-30 minutes. However if I cook only white rice (for 2 people) it takes only 15 minutes.

Lastly, if you can’t use up the rice for one meal then just leave it in the rice cooker. Because it can be stored in the rice cooker for days and days. However it is best not to store the rice for more than 24 hours, because it’s not as yummy as it could be and the rice starts to dry out. It also may smell and change color but there is no harm.

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If you are interested in buying the same brand (cuckoo) rice cooker as I have, you can try Hmart online shop. Or if you are interested in buying a Japanese maker like zojirushi you can try amazon

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