Pandan Chicken

Pandan leaves are called Pandanus amaryllifolius. It's a plant with sweet fragrance. I bought one plant from the nursery, so I have ample pandan leaves as and when I need them. Its easy to take care, they just need lots of water. You will need to water them twice daily to keep them looking fresh and green.

We will need to use some toothpicks here. Toothpicks? To pick your teeth? Nop. Its to pin up the leaves to wrap the chicken. We use toothpicks as I feel its safer then staples. I don’t use staples because I might forget to remove it and drop it into my chicken while I eat. Don’t want to have x-ray to see staples in my stomach. I am just paranoid. While frying the pandan chicken, you would be able to smell the aromatic pandan all over the house. Lovely.

 Ingredient

15 pieces pandan leaves

1 chicken breast

1 teaspoon sesame oil, 1 teaspoon sugar

1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1 dash pepper

7 toothpicks cut to half (total 14)

Prepare & cook

Clean pandan leaves thoroughly

Cut chicken to cube sizes

Marinate with 1 teaspoon sesame oil,

1 dash pepper, 1 teaspoon sugar,

1 tablespoon soy sauce (1hour)

Wrap up chicken with the pandan leaves

Use toothpick as a tool to pin the leaves together

Heat oil, start frying until meat looks cooked (about 10 mins)

Drip off the oil, ready to serve

Mix Vegetables

We understand that many children does not like to eat vegetables of any kind. Here is a dish which might help you a little to make them have some vegetables intake. Mix vegetable dish has always been a colorful dish. Mine comes in orange by carrots, yellow by the baby corns, green by the green leaf vegetables. Adding on the flowery carrot. Does this mean we are having carrot flowers? Or flowers with carrot? No no.. Its carrot made into a flower shape.

How to make the flower carrot. Cut the carrot to triangle shape at sides all around. After you are done, slice them, you will get a flower shape. There will be flowers all over the plate. Isn’t it a lovely decoration yet can be eaten. You can have it in other designs, square, circle is the normal, triangle. Any way u like it, to make it look more fun for the children.

Ingredient

1 carrot, 3 baby corn,

½ pack of green leafy vegetable,

I clove garlic, 3 prawns, a dash garlic powder parsley

1 tablespoon oyster sauce

1 teaspoon salt & sugar,

¼ cup water

Prepare & cook

Heat oil, add garlic few seconds

Add prawn & carrots, 2 minutes

Add corn, 1 teaspoon salt & sugar,

Add the greens, a dash garlic powder parsley

Add oyster sauce, ¼ cup water

Simmer for 7minutes

Ready to serve

Fried Baby Pomfret - Fish snack

Ready for some finger food? It’s a dish as titbits. Baby pomfret fish, it is really tiny, not bigger than your 16 year old kid palm. Look at the picture posted, it is really tiny and shiny. Why it is said to be a finger food? Since the size is small and tiny, it is obvious there isn’t much fish flesh. Doubt you could fill your stomach even after having a dozen. The ½ kilograms of baby pomfret is about a dozen (12 pieces) from the wet market. Ensure you drip dry your fishes before you start cooking. My pan only fits 4 fishes each time, so I have to fry another 3 rounds.

 How do you eat these? Do u pick out the fish bones or slice to be fillets? Nop, you eat them in 3 bites like biscuits? You could try this way, you could bite off both sides of the fin (left & right), bite of the head & its tail but not the centre bone. Of course, you would have to chew the fins together with it. Please DO NOT eat the centre bone as its hard. WARNING & DANGER, you have to be careful of the tiny bones, its not advisable for kids to have this dish. Even for adults, you have to be careful. But some people really like to chew the bones as its crunchy after it is been deep fried. Pleaseeee be careful it’s a ‘full of bones dish’.

Adding more taste, we had made some birds eye chili as sauce.

 Ingredient

½ kilograms baby pomfret

1 tablepoon salt

Prepare & cook

Clean fish and cut fins shorter

Marinate fishes with salt

Heat lots oil, wait till oil is hot

Throw in the baby pomfret, run away before the oil splash on you…… kidding

Remove it once it starts to turn golden brown

Ready to serve

For spicy kick if required

4 Birds eye chili, sliced

5 tablespoon soy sauce

WARNING & CAUTION : NOT for kids

Please DO NOT eat the center bone of the baby pomfret