Sweet Sour Chicken - TM/Foodi

Been a while I cooked sweet sour meat for the kids. Decided to cook today as lazy to think wat to cook and this dish always their fav to have. 

Fuss-free easy frying for me. And this round lesser mess cos I used a ziplock to flour coat them. So so so much easier! 👏🏻 And i followed the traditional way of frying to pour back all the ‘fried’ chicken cubes for a quick aircrisp! Yums

After stirfrying my veg, did a quick cook for the gravy with my thermomix! So easy peasy! Important is no greasy kitchen 😍

Simple meal tonight ❤️

Sweet Sour Chicken 

2 Boneless leg, into cubes

1 egg

2Tbsp garlic powder

Pepper

Potato flour for coating

Onions, small pcs

Capsicum, small pcs

Cherry tomatoes, halves

Sauce: 

3Tbsp tomato sauce

2Tbsp plum sauce

1Tbsp sugar

1/4 bowl water

1Tbsp Lemon juice

1/3 rice bowl water

Cornstarch to thicken

1) Marinate chicken cubes overnight

2) Take a ziplock and add enough potato flour to coat and add in chicken cubes by pieces. Toss then well enough to be coated

3) Put nicely into Ninja and bake 180deg x15mins, flip and bake another 5mins

4) Once all is fried, put all back in and aircrisp for 3mins. Set aside. 

5) Add 1tbsp oil and onions - 3mins, varoma, rv sp

6) Add capsicum, tomatos - 3mins, varoma, rv sp

At 30sec point, add in above seasonings and thicken it

7)  Add in airfried chicken cubes - 30sec, varoma, rv sp

Marble Butter Cake - Thermomix

 

Been craving for marble butter cake and so heartpain to pay $0.90 for a small slice of it. Decided to wait patiently for my big eggs to come and bake 1 whole cake for myself. 

I didnt have any self raising flour so I replaced with plain flour + baking powder. Thankfully works well. And this time, I followed a tips from a Facebook page - JoJo Kitchen on making a failproof butter cake texture! And yes, indeed it helps so much! (Refer to the first 2 steps of the method below, they are not in cookidoo recipes)

Made a small boo boo as I took out the cake too soon before the center was cooked. Overturn to cool for 10mins then realised the batter was flowing out. Panic and quickly toss back to the baking tin and bake another 8mins. 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Thankfully it still soft and nice on the inside, only flaw would be the exterior is slightly crusty. 🙈 But the extra tips on blitzing the sugar and then a quick mix of the butter indeed improved the texture so much! 

Marble Butter Cake (adapted from Cookidoo)

150g sugar

250g butter, soften

5 eggs

50g milk

1tsp vanilla essence

250g self raising flour

1) Turbo the sugar 2s x 3 interval and scrap down (cover with mc)

2) Add in soften butter - 20s sp 5 (cover with mc) 

3) Add butterfly whisk - 2min sp 3.5

4) Add milk, eggs, vanilla in a measuring cup and drizzle down while mixing - 40sec sp 3.5

5) Add flour and salt - 30sec sp 2

6) Take out butterfly and mix 2tbsp cocoa powder to 1/3 of mixture (you can omit cocoa if you want to bake butter cake)

7) Bake in preheated oven at 170deg x 30-40mins

Yakisoba - Thermomix

 

Because the gal is watching some jap manga, some jap anime so she asked me, Mummy u know what is Yakisoba? Do you knw how to cook it? I told her I nvr tried before but will try to cook it for her if she wants to have a taste. And so, I got to work! 

I search cookidoo and found out that IT INDEED HAS A SHRIMP YAKISOBA RECIPE! Decided to add smoked duck since they love it. Jus a simple version would do the job I supposed. 🙊

And yes, its quick and delicious. But noodles wise, probably we would love to use angel hair next round. 😋😋 Made a simple lunch for everyone today! The 3 portion noodles got us a fair share each! 

Yakisoba - Thermomix (adapted from Cookidoo)

3portion Noodles

1 smoked duck

6 tiger prawns, halve

1/2 onions

sesame oil

oyster sauce

1) Bring water to boil - 15mins 100deg sp1

2) Add noodles in to blanch for 3-5mins once water is boiling. Drained and set aside

3) Add sesame oil, onions - 5mins 120deg rv sp1

4) Add prawns and smoked duck - 3mins 120deg rv sp

5) Add in noodles and toss them slightly - 1min 100deg rv sp 

(i stopped at 30sec and help to toss the noodles evenly)

Nutella Brownie w/Walnuts & Sea Salt chips

Been thinking what to do with my expiring nutella and decided to put into good use! Making a special brownie treat for my secondborn tutor! 

I overbaked slightly as I was busy with meal preps but luckily it is crusty at the sides and fudgy in the middle! This would go so well with a scoop of ice cream!

As I did not have any vanilla, I decided to load it with extra chocolate icecream! Lol! So rich, fudgy, chocolately! Great way to enjoy your Saturday dessert treat!  

Simple belated Teachers’ day gift for my secondborn tutor. Hope she likes it!

Nutella Brownie w/Walnut & Sea Salt Chips (adapted from Thermomix Truly Asian)

250g Nutella

30g dark choc chips

2 eggs

60g cake flour (I used plain flour)

pinch of salt

Extra choc chips or walnuts or desired toppings

1) Preheat oven to 180deg

2) Weigh using mixing bowl and add in all ingredients

3) Mix for 45secs, sp 5

4) Bake for 12mins x 160 deg (I lower as I am using Ninja foodi, if not maintain at 180deg)

Banana Walnut Cake - Thermomix

Been wanting to bake whenever I see my friends sharing their bakes. Today finally decided to drag my butt to bake! And it didnt disappoint me! 10mins is all it takes to make the batter and washing is so convinent! Jus a mixing bowl and a baking tin. Loving it!
 

Can u see how smooth the batter is? So nicely mixed up! And u knw its a good batter and feel nice about it when u sees it! OMG SMELL SO GOOD!!

I baked for 45-60mins, tenting it at the end to prevent the top from burning. End results is amazing! Soft and so fragrant this round! Youngest kept asking for bigger piece when I gave 2 aldy. Even secondborn loves it and go for second piece! 

Banana Walnut Cake (adapted from Cookidoo)

4 eggs

150g sugar

180g oil (i use olive oil)

250g banana

180g flour

1tsp baking powder

1tsp baking soda

1) Preheat oven to 150deg

2) Insert butterfly whisk. Add eggs, sugar, oil. 5mins, sp 3.5

3) Remove butterfly whisk. Add banana. 15sec, sp 5

4) Add flour, baking soda, baking powder. 45sec, sp 3

5) Pour batter out. Put walnut on top and bake at 150deg gor 45-60mins

Stirfry Economic Noodles - Thermomix

 

Trying to think new food for recess and decided to stifry fry yellow noodles. (actually need to finish up my balance packet lying in the chiller)

Decided to do ecomomic noodles style and add some hotdogs since it was so impromptu. Studied a bit and realised that a bit of water is needed to ‘mix’ the noodles well. 

Glad that it turn out well! Kids says its yummy and I had the balance for a late lunch! (cos i forgot to dabao food for myself, thinking that I could sup my youngest balance but he ate 1 packet of chicken rice by himself!)

Stirfry Economic Noodles - Thermomix

200g yellow noodles, rinsed

100ml water

2tbsp sweet sauce

2tbsp dark sauce

1tbsp light soy sauce

1) Saute garlic, 1tbsp oil 

3mins, varoma, rv sp

2) Add in ingredients (i used hotdog) 

2mins, varoma, rv sp

3) Add seasoning above then toss in noodles. (at abt 2 min, i use mixing spoon to toss a bit to ensure even mixing)

4mins, varoma, rv sp

tips: if u used a lot of ingredients, i recommend to pour out ingredients then go to step (3). Add on a 30secs to mix in ingredients with noodles. 😉

Homemade Assorted Bread - TM

 

Been a while haven bake bread buns so having my hands at them again! My gal has a special feeling for BBQ sauce so I made 3 BBQ sauce sausage buns for her! The rest were roll into sausage buns and thankfully this round all were nicely sealed!

Going for 2nd proofing after shaping them. Waiting patiently. And I cant wait to smell the bread baking 😍

Love how soft the texture is! So easy and convenient to make bread, just the lazy butt refuses to move! 😂😂

Recipe from Cookidoo - https://cookidoo.international/recipes/recipe/en/r495974

Black Glut Rice Dessert - H&C

So my gal requested for this dessert as has been a while since I made these for them. Decided to let it cook in H&C as I was busy with preparing lunch. 

Just dump all in and let it cook. Even cornstarch added in during the process of cooking. So save time and ‘supervision’ and most important on the stirring. Hurray!

A short video of the cooking process and how I love the pre-clean function that makes cleaning up effortlessly. 

Black Glut Rice Dessert

1/2 ricebowl black glut rice, washed and soaked overnight

1200ml water

Honey rock sugar to taste

Cornstarch

1) Put soaked black glut rice into H&C glass jar

2) Fill water up to 1200ml marking

3) Select cook, high mode and let it cook for 30mins

4) Stop and add rock sugar then let it resume cooking

5) Gradually add in cornstarch thru the top opening

Serve warm or chilled

Dinner in 30mins - Thermomix

Simple dinner in 30mins only a lazy weekend night. 30mins to stir fry my veg and chicken in my thermomix while i steam both my rice and otah in my Ninja. 

I stirfry the veg then jus use it straight for the chicken dish. So easy and just dumped it in! Do a preclean and so easy to clean up!

Ginger Sliced Chicken

2 Chicken leg, sliced

Ginger slices

2tbsp Oyster sauce

2tbsp Dark soy sauce

1tbsp Hua tiao

1/4 cup Water

1tbsp Sesame oil

1) Marinate chicken slices in huatiao for 30mins

2) Add ginger slices, sesame oil 

3mins, 120deg, reverse spoon

3) Add chicken slice, dark soy sauce

10mins, 120deg, reverse spoon

4) While it is cooking, add oyster sauce followed by hua tiao at the last 2-3mins

Brinjal w/Minced meat & Tau Kwa

 

Simple comfort meal. Kids love the sauce over their rice 😍

Cripsy taukwa without oil splattering, using the Ninjafoodi. 👏🏻👏🏻 

 

Along with my ‘disfigured’ Miso cod fish steam, so yummy! And yes, I scoop some of minced meat taukwa sauce over the boiled brocolli. 😍

A simple video of the steps to prepare this dish

Brinjal w/Minced meat & Tau Kwa

1 brinjal

2 tau kwa

200g minced meat

1/3 cup water

2tbsp oyster sauce

2tbsp dark soy sauce

1) Cut tau kwa into cubes and aircrisp in ninja. 

180deg x 10 each sides

2) Add garlic clove

Turbo 2s

3) Add 1 tbsp cooking oil and minced meat

5mins 120deg reverse spoon

4) Add in sauces, taukwa and brinjal

5mins, 120deg, reverse spoon