Japanese Chicken Karaage 炸鸡块 ～深夜食堂

I have a kid's taste, I am especially love fried chicken ^_^...

The other day i saw a blogger (sorry, i could not recalled which blogger) recommend this Japanese drama 深夜食堂 (like to listen their song too) and the story was taken from 深夜食堂comic books. I was quickly watched it using smartphone, and i especially like to watch when they sharing Japanese simple cooking recipe at the end of every show. I learnt this Chicken Karaage from this drama..

They share a tip to get crispy and crunchy chicken is to deep fry chicken for two times (Recipe shared by Just One Cookbook Nami also mentioned the same tip). Enjoy this fried chicken with shredded cabbage and Japanese manyonnaise, simply yummy!

I feel if i just deep fry using the usual corn flour or potato flour only, it will taste a little bit hard, so instead i added with some self raising flour and iced cold water to have more crunchy bite.

Japanese Chicken Karaage
(recipe source: inspired from深夜食堂, re-created by Sonia aka Nasi Lemak Lover)

3 debone chicken thighs (with skin on), cut into small equal bite size pieces

Seasonings
1tbsp Japanese soy sauce
2tsp Mirin
1/2tsp +1/4tsp salt or to taste
1tsp grated ginger
1tsp grated shallot

For deep frying
5tbsp potato flour 风车粉
3tbsp self raising flour
3tbsp iced cold water
Oil for deep frying

Garnishing- Japanese mayonnaise, tomato wedges, cabbage thinly shredded (soak in iced cold water for crispiness)

Method
1. Marinate chicken with all seasonings, keep inside the fridge for 1hr.
2. Add in potato flour, self raising flour and iced cold water, mix well.
3. Heat oil in a wok over medium high heat (to test oil readiness for deep frying is by putting chopstick in the oil and when you see bubbles around the tip).
4. Deep fry the chicken pieces in few small batches, fry for about 2mins. Drain on a wire rack.
5. Continue to deep fry till finished. Return the fried chicken to the hot oil and deep fry again.
6. Serve the fried chicken with shredded cabbage and tomato, and drizzle with Japanese mayonnaise.

Bento lunch for my children- Chicken Karaage and red Sotong shaped sausage (also a recipe from this movie but they using red sausages, i could not find this type of sausage here)

My lunch, love it!

I am going to cook more recipes from this movie..

I will be again away for a short "tumpang trip" , see you all next week....

Wish all my Malaysian readers have a "Happy Merdeka" and Happy holidays..

Teriyaki chicken meat balls

The other day i told you that my son Desmond refused to take my bento lunch as he is prefered to the foods from canteen..But now no more, he is keeps asking me to bring bento lunch for him, you know why, because his classmates always praise on his bento lunch. So now he is very proud to have bento lunch, little boy is little boy, hehehe..

Today i made this Teriyaki chicken meat balls for bento lunch. I like to use those tough part of chicken e.g chicken breast or meat attached to chicken wings to make into meat balls..

After i have learned on how to make Teriyaki sauce from the scratch from Nami (Just One cookbook), no more buying store-bought Teriyaki sauce because this sauce is very good (I increased the sugar amount because we prefer slightly sweet sauce).. Thanks to Nami for her kind sharing.

 Teriyaki chicken meat balls
(recipe source: Teriyaki sauce adapted from Just One Cookbook with minor changes)
Chicken meat balls ingredients
400g minced chicken (better with little fat)
1 onion (small size), chopped
1 sprig spring onion, chopped
1 egg white (small)
1tbsp light soy sauce or to taste
3/4tsp salt or to taste
1/2tsp chicken stock powder
1tbsp tapioca flour or corn starch
1tbsp water

Teriyaki Sauce
3 Tbsp. soy sauce
4 Tbsp. water
1 and ½ Tbsp. sake
1 and ½ Tbsp. mirin
2 tbsp sugar
1 inch onion, grated, including juice
1 inch ginger, grated, including juice

Method
1. Mix minced chicken, onion, spring onion, egg white and all seasonings in a mixing bowl, stir to mix well. Set aside for 1 hour.
2. Shape minced chicken mixture into small ball, place on a frying pan or HappyCall pan, sprinkle little oil, fry till both sides golden brown (took about 5mins).
3. In another saucepan, add in Teriyaki sauce, cook the sauce till sugar dissolved over low flame.
4. Pour Teriyaki sauce into frying pan with chicken balls, cook until the sauce is reduced a bit. Use spoon to pour on top of chicken balls a couple of times while you are cooking.
5. Serve warm with steamed white rice.

I use this grater that i bought from Osaka, can grate very fine ginger and onion or etc..

Also use the new HappyCall Pan (HCP) to pan fry the chicken meat ball, very good pan, no oil spill while cooking..

Actually i brought quite a lot of kitchenware from Osaka, this aluminium saucepan was one of them. I bought at very good price (about RM 12) and the aluminium is thick. 

I bet my kids will enjoy this bento lunch..

Happy Weekend ahead to all...

Salmon Onigiri (Rice Ball)

Ever since i started prepare Bento for my kids, every night i will ask my kids what they want to eat for Bento. The other day my son Lucas requested for Teriyaki salmon, but the little son Desmond said he has boring on my bento and he wanted to buy at the school's canteen..I was so upset when hearing this(understand that he is still small) ..Now i start to understand how my mother felt when we were complaint about the foods that she prepared for us last time..

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all mothers a "Happy Mother's Day" on this Sunday.

Anyway this was not stopping me to prepare Bento for Lucas, and he was enjoyed so much of this Salmon rice ball..

I use these moulds to make this triangle rice ball called Onigiri, which i won from a blogger's giveaway few years back.

 

A very quick and easy recipe, Thanks to Nami aka Just One Cookbook.. I have to simplify this recipe as i could not find some of the ingredients.

Salmon Onigiri (Rice Ball)
(recipe source: adapted from Just One Cookbook, with minor changes)

2 Salmon fillets


Japanese rice (2 cups uncooked rice) , cook in rice cooker with 2.5 cups water ,1tbsp Japanese vinegar and a pinch of salt

1tbsp sesame seeds
1 spring onion, green part only, julienned

Seasonings
1 tbsp cooking sake
1 tbsp Japanese light soy sauce
1tsp sugar
1tsp grated ginger

2 small packets of Furikake (salmon flavor)

Method
1. Bake salmon fillets at 200C for 10mins, set aside to cool. Break up into rough uneven pieces by hands and remove the bones if any.
2. In a non-stick frying pan, add in sesame seeds, stir fry till aroma.
3. Add in salmon, use a wooden spoon, break up into smaller pieces.
4. Add in seasonings and grated ginger, mix well.
5. Last add in spring onion, combine well. Pour the mixture into the rice cooker, add in Furikake, mix all together.
6. While the rice is warm, make rice ball with the triangle mould. Wrap with nori seaweed .

Other topics:-

There were two requests sent to me, requested for authorisation to use my photos. I am glad that they asked my permission unlike the earlier "no manner person" who still my photos and posts.

1) My Turmeric cabbage photo-an educational project at Fairfield Methodist Primary School which they are featuring popular foods for 4 races on the pillars at their canteen.

2) My "Ngoh Hiang" photo- for packaging sticker design..In return, he was helping me to convert my Nasi Lemak icon into watermark ,so I can place my blog's icon on all my photos for copyright purposes. Thanks Victor!



Vegetable dishes, Bento lunch box

There will be no specific recipe for today's post. I just like to share with you two simple vegetable dishes that i cooked recently and few Bento lunch box that i brought to school for my kids..



Vegetable dish 1 - Simple stir-fried Green Dragon Leaf (Ching Long Chai) , just stir fry with garlic and oil..

You can see i garnished this veggie in  Taro and rice vermicelli noodles soup.

Vegetable dish 2 - Superior stock cooked with Chinese spinach..I was prepared the premium scallop stock and cooked with wolfberries and later pour on top of blanched Chinese spinach

Mostly the bento lunch box that i prepared is Japanese way of cooking..

Bento lunch box 1 - Chicken Teriyaki adapted from Nami a,k.a Just One Cookbook..This chicken is very yummy. And I also learnt this simple and yummy chocolate sauce that pour on top of banana and mashmallow from Barefeet in the kitchen..

 

Bento lunch box 2- Japanese garlic fried rice (will provide recipe soon) and the delicious sausages that their daddy brought back from Frankfrut Germany..

Bento lunch box 3 - Caesar salad with Croquette (will share recipe soon)..

Bento lunch box 4- Lemongrass chicken skewer that i adapted from Sean..Wow, this chicken skewer was delicious, next time when i have BBQ party, i am sure will prepare this.Since the recipe is in Chinese, let me write a simple recipe for you:-

Marinate chicken cubes with finely chopped lemongrass, light soy sauce, fish sauce, sugar, salt and corn flour for 1hour or more..Thread the marinated chicken meat and canned pineapple cubes through a stalk of  lemongrass (lightly crushed the white part) . Pan fry or bake in the oven till cooked..