One Pot Meal, Take Two...

[khiemtran]

So, after Pork Five Ways on Sunday, it's Tuesday night and I have two chicken breast fillets, assorted vegetables, and roughly half an hour before dinner time. Time for Chicken Three Ways...


First, fry some chopped capsicum in the wok with a little peanut oil.



Toss with balsamic vinegar and salt and now we have dish number one (any leftovers will also be great as a cold appetiser).



Next take some chopped choy sum and put it in the wok with a chicken stock cube, half a cup of water and a tiny splash of soy. Cook until the choy sum is soft and the stock has boiled down a bit. Dish number two.



Put some more oil in the wok and deep fry one third of the chicken that you had marinating in egg white, salt and cornflour. Take it out, then stir fry it quickly with cut shallots, a tablespoon of Chinese wine, a teaspoon of soy sauce, a teaspoon of sugar and teaspoon of balsamic vinegar. (Oh, all right, a big splash of Chinese wine, a little splash of everything else...) Finish with sesame oil. Dish number three.



Next comes the next third of the chicken, which you marinated in fish sauce (four shakes or one tablespoon) and sugar (about a teaspoon). Stirfry it with chopped shallots and a big splash of Chinese wine.



Last third of the chicken now. This time it's thrown in the wok with a big dollop of dark soy (caramel) sauce, the yolk of one egg (I used the white for the first batch of chicken) and some grape tomatoes (smashed).



Last dish! This is "smacked" cucumber. Take a cucumber and put your cleaver on it broadside down, then strike the cleaver with your hand to crush the cucumber internally, then slice it up and let it sit for ten minutes with half a teaspoon of salt. This was supposed to be a salad dish, but I've been down with the flu for the last week and I realised that any salad made by me was going to be a risky proposition, so I sterilized it quickly in the wok with a light sweet and sour dressing (one teaspoon each, balsamic vinegar and sugar).



All done! The astute may notice that none of these dishes use chilli and garlic, which is quite unusual for me. That's because a) I've been coughing like mad and chilli is right out and b) we're all out of garlic!

Comments

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

I don't have any garlic in the house either. :-/ I bought some on Tuesday, and forgot it at the at the market stall. I'm going back to the market tomorrow, and I hope the lady remembers me and gives me "my" garlic. She wasn't a very friendly sort of person, so i don't know....

Your food looks delicious, with or without garlic.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Hope you got "your" garlic back! I was quite surprised that nothing turned out tasteless, considering I habitually use garlic in just about everything. Maybe I haven't needed to all this time...

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

I did! Get the garlic back, that is. The lady remembered me and said she had put it aside for me. She couldn't find it but gave me some more. :D

I think I probably use too much garlic (and onion), always thinking, "the more the merrier," but I can probably get away with less.