Fried Curry Chicken

Ingredients:

1 portion for say 4 persons:

Organic Chicken Wings and drumsticks, each x 6pc

Curry Powder - 2 tbsp

salt, black pepper, sesame oil, japanese soy sauce to season

1 egg

Corn Flour x 2 tbsp

How to Make:

1. Wash and wipe dry all chicken pieces.

2. In a large bowl, marinate the chicken pieces with the above ingredients until mix well for 15-30 minutes. If you think it's too "wet", then add some more corn flour.

3. Heat up a wok with corn oil until it reaches approx 180'C. Then add the chicken pieces in batches until it becomes slightly golden. Remove from wok and drain the oil.

4. Then deep fry the chicken pieces for a second time until they are golden all over and serve immediately!

* if the oil is over 180'C, turn down the fire and/or add some new oil. 

Best to enjoy with a cold beer! :)

Roast Rack of Pork

Ingredients:

US Organic Rack of Pork (you can get this from City Super) x 1 rack

Minced garlic, rosemary and thymes (or use herbs and spices you like)

Apples - cleaned, removed core and cut into 6-8pc for each apple

Apple Sauce

How to Make:

1. The night before your dinner, after washing the pork and wiping it dry, marinate it with the above minced garlic, rosemary, thymes, salt and pepper and olive oil. Wrap it in foil and place it a fridge overnight.

2. The day of your cooking, take out the pork 1 hour to room temperature before cooking. Remove the minced garlic marinate from the pork as the garlic got burned easily during cooking and roasting.

3. Preheat oven to 200'C.

4. Heat up a pan with olive oil, brown the pork on all sides, then put to tray and roast in oven for 1.5 hours until internal temperature reaches 75-80'C for medium or 80-85'C for well done. in the last 30 minutes of roasting, put the cut apples to the side of the tray. (if you put the apples too early, they will become too soft to eat).

5. After cooking, rest the pork under loose tin foil for 10 minutes before carving. 

Serve with Apple Sauce and gravy of your choice. 

Enjoy with your favourite white wine or Burgundy Red! :)

Strawberry Cheesecake

* recipe adopted from Tastemade Japan

Ingredients:

Cake Base:
Digestive Biscuit - 1 normal pack
butter 30-40g

Cake:
Strawberries - approx 150g - cut into quarters
Philadelphia cream cheese 100g
Yoghurt 100g
Cream 200g
Caster sugar 30g
Gelatin Powder 8g - dissolved in 30ml warm water (about 80'C)
Lemon Juice 20ml

Cake Top:
Strawberry - approx 150g - cut into halves
Strawberry Juice from "A"
Gelatin Powder approx 3-4g - dissolved in the above strawberry juice being heated
Mint Leaves and Icing Sugar

How to Make:

1. Butter your cake tin.

2. Finely grate the biscuit and mix well with melted butter and press to bottom of cake tin and chill at fridge.

3. Cake: put strawberries, caster sugar and lemon juice in a bowl, then place in microwave 600W for 3 minutes.

4. Sieve the strawberries mixture after microwave into a pan. Save the juice in the pan as "A".

5. Mix well the cream cheese and yoghurt with a electric mixer, then add the sieved strawberries mixture and the gelatin solution to the cheese mixture.

6. Pour to the cake tin and chill back at fridge for approx 30 min.

7. Heat up the "A" juice, check tasting. If not sweet enough, add some caster sugar. Dont boil it. Melt the gelatin powder in this heated juice until all dissolved. Once not so hot, pour it on top of the cake. Then decorate with the  cut strawberries on top. Then chill back at fridge.

8. When ready to serve, add mint leaves and sprinkle with icing sugar.

Enjoy!

Yorkshire Pudding

* Receipe from Jamie Oliver

Ingredients: (make around 8 pc)

Veg Oil or Olive oil
2 large eggs
100g plain flour
100ml milk
sea salt & black pepper

How to Make:

1. Preheat Over to 225'C.

2. Get yourself a muffin or cupcake tray and fill each compartments with around 1/4 vegetable oil. Then pop the tray to the hot oven for 10-15 mins so the oil gets really hot.

3. Beat the eggs, flours, milk together and season with salt and pepper until light and smooth. Pour them into a jug.

4. Remove tray from oven carefully, avoiding spill of oil, then pour the egg mixture to each compartment in the tray.

5. Pop it back to the oven and bake for 10-15 min ot until risen and golden.

Enjoy with your Roast Beef!