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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Chicken Noodles Vegetable Sauce

Chicken Noodles Vegetable Sauce

Ingredients

Chicken breast 2
Capsicum 1
Carrot 1
Spring onion 1
Onion 1
Celery stick 1
Green chilies 2 – 3
Black mushrooms 3 – 4
Cabbage ¼ piece
Egg noodles boiled ½ packet
Garlic paste 1 tbsp
Black pepper powder ½ tsp
Worchester sauce 2 tbsp
Chili garlic sauce 2 tbsp
Oyster sauce 2 tbsp
Oil 2 tbsp
Oil 2 tbsp
Salt to taste

Method

Cut 2 chicken breast into juliennes, boil ½ packet egg noodles and keep aside.In chopper put together 1 capsicum, 1 medium carrot, 1 spring onion, 2 – 3 green chilies, ¼ piece of cabbage, 3 – 4 black mushrooms and 1celery stick. Chopeprize well and remove in a bowl.Heat 2 tbsp oil in a wok, add ½ tbsp ginger garlic paste, fry for few minutes.
Then add chopperized vegetables, 2 tbsp Worchester sauce, 2 tbsp oyster sauce, 2 tbsp chili garlic sauce and a little sauce. Mix well and simmer on low flame.Heat 2 tbsp oil in a wok, add ½ tbsp ginger garlic paste and fry for few seconds.
Then add chicken and fry well till chicken is tender.Now add boiled noodles, ½ tsp black pepper and a little salt. Mix well and remove in a platter.Fry vegetable mixture on high flame. Spread on top of noodles and serve hot.

Friday, April 4, 2014

Life is Just a Bowl of Top Ramen Noodles

I get lots of email. Lots of great inspiring email, with great questions, and great compliments for me and my videos, and the occasional bizarre request that makes me chuckle. And, while it’s tempting to post some of these, I never have because of the obviously self-indulgent, self-serving nature of such an act. I can’t imagine coming to your favorite food blog and reading a post like “Hey everybody, check out this email and how great they think I am!” Well, I’m making a one-time exception, and posting an email I received today.

As you know from the last few posts, I’m in the middle of a very intense and time-consuming try-out for a position with About.com. If I get it, it would allow me the freedom to continue producing a steady supply of free video recipes for your viewing pleasure. I’ve been up working late into the night, and generally feeling overwhelmed, as I try to get as much done as I can before leaving for my sisters wedding Wednesday. So, the following email came at just the perfect time. Thanks Ginny, you made my day, and I feel like I have gotten my second wind, and will actually somehow pull off finishing this project during my trip. By the way, the email was inspiring enough, but the “P.S” about Rachel Ray made me laugh out loud, and is what really pushed me out of the darkness and into the light. From one former starving, Top Ramen-eating student to another, thanks again!! Here is the email verbatim, followed by an old post I did about Ms. Ray,in case youve never heard of her.

Hi Chef John,

I discovered you on you tube and you are quite a comfort. Just want to say thanks for the great/ entertaining/ informative/delicious videos on your website. I love cooking but find myself short on cash occasionally. Some nights when all I’ve got around are some ramen noodles or a frozen T.V. dinner, (and I just cant bear to eat one more) I turn on the computer and watch a few of your videos. Somehow, it is possible for me to live vicariously through the screen. Basically I feel more satisfied just by watching your food rather than eating mine. Trust me, if I had the extra cash I would be sure to send some your way so I could get some Culinary Karma. Keep up the good work,
Ginny

P.S. Who is Rachel Ray?

Mmm..mmmm…mmmm, Rachael Ray

I like Rachael Ray. There, I said it. It’s not her cooking, or her bubbly on-air personality, or her ubiquitous EVOO, or her 30-minutes meals (wow, she made a tuna melt in 30 minutes!). It’s simply the fact that every other “real” Chef in the country hates her. They talk about her like she is somehow ruining the entire culinary landscape like some kind of inedible weed. She doesn’t claim to be a Chef; she’s just a cute, perky home-cook that has fun in the kitchen, cooking simple, easy to make food. So, to these high and mighty, foam-making, agar agar-loving, sous vide-obsessed, micro-green sprinkling “real” Chefs, I say lighten up! Come on, she just made little meatloaves in cup cake tins! Yummmoo!

Now, I have to admit, I don’t watch her 30-minute meals show, or her talk show (is it still on?), but I do watch her “$40 a day” show. Why? For one reason, and one reason only… the sound/noise she makes after taking that first bite of every meal on the show. It goes a little something like this, “mmm…mmmm.” Whether you’re a fan of the show or not, I hope you enjoy this clip I found on Youtube. Mmmmmm, enjoy!

Friday, March 21, 2014

Special noodles

Special noodles

Ingredients

Egg noodles 1 packet boiled for 3 minutes
Chicken breast 1 thinly sliced
Salt ½ tsp
White pepper ½ tsp
Soya sauce 1 tbsp
Corn flour 1 tbsp
Oil ¼ cup
Crushed garlic 1 tbsp
White pepper ½ tsp
Soya sauce 1 tbsp
Sugar 1 tsp
Corn flour 1 tsp
Green onion leaves ½ cup 1 inch piece
Carrot 1 thinly sliced
Capsicum 1 thinly sliced
Cabbage 1 cup thinly sliced
Chicken stock 1 cup

Method

Marinate chicken breast with salt, white pepper, soya sauce and corn flour for 10 minutes.Heat oil in a wok add crushed garlic and fry till slightly brown.
Add marinated chicken and stir fry for 2 to 3 minutes.Add the chicken stock and cook till it begins to boil.Add salt, white pepper, sugar, soya sauce, add vegetables.
Cook till the vegetables are tender, thicken the stock with a corn flour paste add spring onion leaves, mix well.

To serve

In a platter the spread boiled noodles, top with prepared gravy, serve immediately.

Monday, February 17, 2014

Potato noodles puff

Potato noodles puff

Ingredients

Flour ½ cup
Boiled and mashed potatoes ½ cup
Water ½ cup
Butter 1 tbsp heaped
Salt and black pepper ½ tsp each
Crushed red pepper 1 tsp
Coriander leaves 2 tbsp
Eggs 2
Maggie 1 packet boiled
Oil for frying

Method

Add water and butter in a sauce pan cook till boiling add in flour, mix well, remove from heat, add mashed potato, seasonings, coriander leaves, eggs, noodles boiled mix everything well heat oil add drop tablespoon of this in hot oil fry till golden.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Thai Fried Noodles

Thai Fried Noodles

Ingredients

Rice noodles ½ packet
Prawns 300 gm
Bean sprout 1 cup
Tofu 1
Egg 2
Fresh red chilies 2 – 3
Chinese cabbage ¼ piece
Green garlic ½ bunch
Roasted peanut paste 50 gm
Radish 1 piece
Garlic cloves chopped 3 – 4
Brown sugar 1 tsp
Soya sauce 1 tbsp
Tamarind paste 1 tbsp
Crushed red pepper ½ tsp
Fish sauce 2 tbsp
Coriander leaves 2 tbsp
Oil 3 tbsp
Oil for fry
Salt to taste

Method

Soak ½ packet of rice noodles in warm water for 10 – 15 minutes.Heat oil in a pan, add a little soaked noodles and fry till comes on top. Remove and keep aside.Now fry 1 tofu and keep aside.Beat 2 eggs in a bowl, fry with a little fry and keep aside.
Heat the remaining oil in a wok, add 3 – 4 cloves of chopped garlic and 300 gm prawns, fry well till color turn to pink. Now remove prawns and keep aside.Cut 1 piece of radish, 1 cup bean sprout and ¼ piece of Chinese cabbage into thin juliennes, add chopped vegetables to the wok with fried tofu, fried prawns, 1 tbsp soya sauce, 2 tbsp fish sauce and soaked noodles. Mix for 3 – 4 minutes.
Add 50 gm roasted peanut paste, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tbsp tamarind pulp and salt to taste. Mix well and dish it out.Sprinkle with coriander leaves, top with fried noodles and chopped egg. Serve hot.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Fried Noodles Chicken Soup

Fried Noodles Chicken Soup

Ingredients

Egg noodles ½ packet
Chicken breast (chopped) 1
Spring onion 1
Black mushrooms 2 – 3
Chicken stock 2 glasses
Spinach ¼ bunch
Bamboo shot 1 piece
Carrot 1 piece
Lemon juice 1 tbsp
Black pepper powder ¼ tsp
Sesame oil ½ tsp
Brown sugar ½ tsp
Soya sauce 2 tbsp
Oil 2 tbsp
Oil for fry
Salt to taste

Method

Finely chop 1 chicken breast and keep aside.Cut 1 medium piece of carrot, 2 – 3 black mushrooms, 1 medium piece of bamboo shot and 1 spring onion into thin long slices.Heat oil in a wok, add in half packet of boiled noodles and fry till crisp. Remove the fried noodles and keep aside.
Heat 2 tbsp oil in a pan, add in sliced chicken, ¼ bunch of chopped spinach leaves and all the sliced vegetables. Sauté for 2 – 3 minutes.Also add salt to taste, ¼ tsp black pepper, ½ tsp sesame oil, 2 tbsp soya sauce and 1 tbsp lemon juice. Fry for 2 – 3 minutes.
Now add 2 glass of chicken stock, cook till it comes to a boil. Then add fried noodles and serve.