Nigella Roast chicken w/ chorizo

Another Nigella's recipe :)

I know I know... almost all of the recipe in this blog belongs to her..

I admire her simplicity and passion towards foods hence my several try-out on her recipes..

well, this is the original shopping list taken from her website, I halved the quantity to serve 4 :

• 2 x 15ml tablespoons regular olive oil
• 12 chicken thighs (bone in, with skin)
• 750g chorizo sausages, whole if baby ones, or cut into 4cm chunks if regular-sized
• 1kg new potatoes, halved
• 2 red onions, peeled and roughly chopped
• 2 teaspoons dried oregano grated
• zest 1 orange

Steps:

Pre-heat oven to 200C (fan forced), Drizzle olive oil into the roasting tin..

Rub the chicken with the olive oil and turn skin side up...

Scatters chorizo, onion and potato around the chicken..

Sprinkle orange zest and oregano over the ingredients..

Cook (roast) for around 45 minute until cooked through, chicken juice will run clear, and baste the ingredients occasionally with juices from the roasting tin..

ps: I forgot to baste and turns quite dry and a bit tasteless.. will try my second attempt soon

so there you go, a one pot/tin roast chicken for scrumptious dinner :)

Enjoy..

Pancake

helllooooow... its been ages since I add anything to this blog.. so caught up on my assignments and have no time to try new recipes...

well, I'd like to post my version of quickie pancake :) hope you guys enjoy it...

The recipe will give you around 6-8 medium-sized pancake.. you can put it the fridge if you cant finish it in a go.. and reheat whenever you feel like having some...

Ingredients:

1 Cup self raising flour

1 Cup whole milk (you can make it with half milk half water if you dont like milk)

1 large egg

Couple teaspoon of sugar (or if you have any use vanilla sugar)

a drop of vanilla extract/essence

A lil bit of vege oil (to lazy to melt butter, hahaha)

*Maple syrup to serve (dont mixed disk in the pancake batter)

How to:

Mixed all the ingredients in a jug (easier to pour) with a whisk until smooth...

pre-heat your pan, and pour the pancake batter in batches...

Flip it when bubbles starts to shows.. leave it till browned not burnt though :p

repeat the step till you finish the batter..

I have been making this recipe for about 4 times in the past 2 weeks :p

but thankfully I have none left in my fridge, so less temptation for the midnight munch..

cheers,

Lira

ps: pics are not from recent try out :)

Caramel Croissant Puddings

Approximately a week ago, I came across another Nigella's recipe. It looks very tasty and comforting.... Something for you to snack on in the middle of the night.. So here are the recipe:

Ingredients

• 2 stale croissants
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons water
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 1 tablespoons BAILEYS - the original recipe is using Bourbon, I don't have any :P
• 1/2 cup whole milk
• 2 eggs, beaten

Steps:

Preheat your oven to 180C and tear up the croissants in pieces into a baking dish, I kinda use a ceramic loaf for this..

Next, put the sugar and water in a saucepan and swirl, heat on medium or high, and start boiling the mixture until it caramelize.. You'll know its done when its wonderfully golden brown..

*DO NOT LEAVE the saucepan caused it might easily burnt, you might have to start over if you burnt it..

Take the pan off the heat and pour over the cream, milk and Baileys, whisk to mix....

While still whisking, add the beaten egg ( I wait for about 3 minutes until the mixtures cools down before adding the egg, if the mixture is too hot you'll end up with scramble egg)... Pour this over the croissant, let it sit for 10 minutes, to allow them to absorb the liquid..

Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.. and there you go, your homemade caramel croissant pudding :)

You might notice from the recipe that it is not a diet friendly snacks but then again, I believe every now and then you should indulge yourself..

Mirin Glazed Salmon

I have been making this recipe for several times now, it still is a hit among my friends and boyfriend. Thought I might share it with you guys... So there you go, my take on Nigella's Mirin Glazed Salmon, hope you enjoy.. :)

Ingredients:

Marinade:

60ml mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine)

50g light brown sugar

60ml soy sauce

4 x 125g pieces salmon, cut from the thick part of the fillet so that they are narrow but tall rather than wide and flat Sauce:

Some of the salmon marinade 2 x 15ml tablespoons rice vinegar Garnish:

1–2 spring onions, halved and shredded into fine strips Cooking steps: 1. Mix all the marinade ingredients in a shallow bowl, or in my case in a large sandwich bag, and marinade the salmon 2. Cook the salmon in the hot, dry pan for 2 minutes and then turn the salmon over, add the marinade and cook for another 2 minutes. Cook it longer if you wish to have a "done" fish. 3. Remove salmon to plate, add the rice vinegar to the hot pan, and warm through. 4. Pour the sauce on top of the salmon and you may garnish it with the spring onion (chopped, stripped, julienned, however you like really... ) well, the pictures show how the dish should look like and how it actually look.. I try to get creative by adding scallop in to the recipe, but it doesn't taste as good, they taste fishy :p well, the left one is Nigella's and I grab it from her web.... :) nigella.com - http://www.nigella.com/recipe/recipe_detail.aspx?rid=92

Salero Kito - Malvern East

We were actually planning on eating at Thai Saffron, but since there is a new Padang restaurant just around the corner we decide to give it a try :)

so here is my review:

• Paru Goreng -- My fav dish :) It is thin and crispy as it should be...
• Telor Balado --- It sure is spicy and you cant really go wrong with egg, can you? :)
• Sayur Nangka -- looooovveeee the taste of the sauce, curry i guess, however the veggie itself is quite tough... prefer it to be melting in your mouth..
• Beef Rendang -- not my favorite but it taste good.. :)
• Cendol - too sweet for my taste but its good for those who "buka puasa"

you can choose how many dish you want:

1 dish would cost you AUD6.50, 2 for AUD8.--, and 3 for AUD9.--

Salero Kito open for lunch from 11 - 3pm and Dinner 5-10pm

will definitely go there to try other menus

cheers .

;)