Monday, September 9, 2013

Recipe: 'Golden pillow curry chicken'


One of the rare Sundays when I've decided to make a special dinner for the family again. ^^ Anyway, I posted this on my instagram and everyone thought I ordered it. Haha! #okIshouldnbeproud *pat self at the back*


Curry chicken recipe:

Ingredients:
1 kg chicken (washed and chopped into smaller pieces)
200 g potatoes (peeled and cut into big bite size)
A1 instant curry pack (bought from NTUC, just follow the instructions)
200g coconut milk

Method:
1. Marinate chicken with 3/4 of the A1 curry powder for an hour.
2. Heat up oil and stir fry the remaining 1/4 curry powder until fragrant. Add chicken and continue to stir fry for 10 minutes.
3. Add potatoes, stir fry for a few minutes.
4. Pour in the water and cover with lid, simmer at low flame. stir occasionally. If the curry is too thick, may add in little more water.
5. When potatoes and chicken are cooked, add coconut milk and cook for few minutes. 

Bread recipe:

Ingredients:

A: 80g warm water, 2tsp instant yeast, 1tsp caster sugar, 2tsp bread flour
B: 500g bread flour, 60g caster sugar, 1/2tsp salt, 1 cup milk (add slowly, you may not need this much), 1 egg , 25g butter

Method:

1. Combine A, cover and set aside for 10-15mins. 
2. Combine bread flour, sugar and salt in a bowl and mix well.
3. Add yeast dough from step 1, milk and egg (save some for brushing at the end) into the dry ingredients from step 2.

4. Knead until a dough is form. 
5. Add in butter, continue to knead until it form a smooth and elastic dough.
6. Cover dough with a damp towel and let it proof for an hr.
7. Punch out the air and cover dough to rest for another 10mins.
8. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to rectangular, big enough to enclose the curry chicken that is wrapped in aluminium foil. 
9. 
Cover with a damp towel and leave to  proof for 45mins.
10. Preheat oven to 190C.
11.Bake in a preheated oven for 20mins or till the bread is brown.
12.Remove bread from tray and cool on a wire rack.



Pour curry chicken onto a parchment paper and wrapped with aluminium foil. 


'open face' of the aluminium foil to face the dough.


Wrap up with the dough. 


Dinner is ready! :)


A lot of people were 'impressed' with this. But actually, it's really simple to make. Just play around with your bread proofing time! ) 


Rabboki again as requested by the brother. He has been pestering me to make kimbap too. Well, I will when I'm not lazy. :P Check out my recipe index for the recipes!:)


The satisfaction on their faces is my happy pill. <3 

Love, 
Lirong.

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