Saturday, March 21, 2009

Chicken congee/porridge

(from my mom)

Ingredient

1 whole chicken (small one but not cornish hen)
4 garlic cloves
3 slices of ginger
2 C sweet rice (or rice) washed and soaked in water then drained

Wash and take off skin from a chicken
Place in a big pot.
Put 8-10 cups of water
Put garlic and ginger
Bring to boil
As soon as it starts boiling, turn off heat and wait for an hour  (if you have time), covered
In the mean time, prepared sweet rice: wash, soak for an hour
Then Bring to boil again 
Drain the sweet rice and
Put sweet rice or rice into the pot.
Stirring occasionally.
You can crush the chicken and take out the bones if you like.
If it turns thick and has the consistency of porridge, it's done.
 
Enjoy,
MOM

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Crispy wings

Try to get the wings already cut up.
If you bought the whole wings, cut into three pieces and
discard the pointy tips.
 
5 lb chicken wings
1/4 C Heinz white vinegar
1/4 brown sugar (less is OK)
1 TB salt
1 TB garlic power
pepper
 
Mix all together and marinate overnight.
 
Sauce:
 
1/4C soy sauce
1/4C brown sugar
1/4C pineapple juice
3-4 pieces of dried red pepper
 
Put them in a sauce pan and bring to boil
then keep it warm.
 
 
Heat oin in a frying pan.
 
Put 1/2 C (or as much as you need) potato starch in a Ziploc bag
and place 5-6 pieces of chicken wings into the bag at a time.
Shake to coat.
Deep fry the wings.
Deep fry the wings one more time.
 
Right after you take the wing out of the oil dip it in the sauce.