Chicken Chop with Mushroom Gravy

My son has been bugging me about wanting chicken chop for dinner.  If you walk in to any western style café,bistro or restaurants in Malaysia, you had definitely find chicken chop as their menu.

Everyone will claim theirs is authentic. And I would say this is the Malaysian style fried chicken with some sauce or gravy.  Typically you would find the chicken is deep fried.  I decided to bake them and broil it for extra crispiness.

You can have a black pepper gravy, mushroom gravy with side dishes that fancies you such as French fries, peas and carrot or mashed potato.  Since my hubby was away for his graveyard shift, I decided to have mushroom gravy as mushroom is not his thing.

Lets look at the how I prepared my version of chicken chop with Mushroom Gravy.


Ingredients

Chicken Chop
1 kg of chicken thigh with skin and bones
2 tbs of fish sauce
2 tbs of light soy sauce
some freshly grounded black pepper
salt if required
Olive oil
Panko breadcrumbs

Mushroom Gravy
1tbs butter
4 cloves of garlic - minced finely
5-6 medium sized button mushroom - chopped finely
1tbs black pepper powder
3 cups of water (or chicken stock)
1 chicken stock cube ( not required if using chicken stock)
1 tbs of flour

Garnishing
Peas, French fries, sweet corn.

How to prepare

1. Wash and drain the chicken pieces.
2. In a bowl, add in fish sauce, light sauce, fresh black pepper and some olive oil. Taste if you require any salt.
3. Add in the chickens, mix well.
4. Cover and marinate at least an hour.  Overnight will be perfect.
5. Preheat oven at 200C
6. In a baking glassware, coat it with some olive oil . 
7. In a plate of panko breadcrumbs, coat evenly the chicken pieces and arrange it the baking ware. 
8. Bake the chicken for about 30-35 mins with an additional of 3 mins on high broil to achieve the crispy pieces. 
9. Do not discard the marination juice, if any, for the gravy.
10. While the chicken is being baked, you can prepare your gravy.
11. In a pan/skillet - heat some butter.
12. Add in minced garlic and saute till aromatic and soft.
13. Next goes in chopped mushroom, saute well with butter and garlic till soft.
14. Add in the chicken stock cube if using, mixing well with mushroom.
15. Pour in water and any marinating juice, stirring and mixing well and allow it to boil and reduce a further.
16. Salt to taste, seasoning with black pepper powder and freshly cracked pepper powder.
17. Mix flour with some of the gravy, allowing no curdles and add on to the gravy and let boil for a few more minutes.
18. Simmer further into a thick gravy to your preferred consistency.
19. For serving - place the chicken pieces on the plate with some of your preferred side dish, pour over the gravy onto the chicken and ready to  serve.

Enjoy


Chicken Chop and Mushroom Gravy

Sathiarani

Quick and Simple Bake Salmon

A recipe shared by my niece, Mirosha from US. I tried this version of marination for our dinner a few days ago.  I could not find any chipotle powder so I substituted with paprika powder.  I love the use of paprika powder for marinating sea foods and meats. 

For side dish I had some carrots, potatoes, capsicums and broccoli.  My potatoes was slightly under-cooked, should have boiled and let it bake together with the other veges.

Ingredients required

3 cuts of salmon

Orange Juice from 2 oranges

Teriyaki Sauce enough to glaze the salmon

Chipotle pepper powder - enough to cover the salmons.

Vegetables of your choice for side dish.

  

• Thaw salmon, squeeze orange juice on it and let it sit for about half hour.
• Glaze it with teriyaki sauce
• sprinkle with chipotle pepper powde as per need
• bake skin side down for 30 mins on 180C
• broil on hi 5mins before removing and serve hot.

Enjoy

Sathiarani

Todays' Dinner - Oven Fried Chicken & Tagliatelline Pasta with Cheese and Herbs

My son has been asking for chicken chop for days now.  I remembered making this oven fried chicken just before summer holidays.  But never got to post it. The other time I made the chicken with black pepper sauce and mash potato.

Both kids were really happy with that version.  I thought I will make the same chicken however paired it up with a pasta that was given to by my friend when she went visiting her daughter in Italy.  And also I had a packet of McCormick's Herbs and Cheese that soon will be expiring.

It is quite simple to do this.  You need three different bowl.  Fillet dip into flour, next into egg mixture and then to breadcrumbs and place in a lined baking tray and bake.  And you get a beautiful baked chicken - it reminds me of like production line....

Oven Fried Chicken
Source :- http://www.laurenslatest.com/oven-fried-chicken-the-best-coleslaw-ever/

Ingredients

for the chicken-
4 chicken thighs, skin and extra fat removed & rinsed - I used about 800gm of chicken breast
1/2 cup all purpose flour + salt & pepper, to taste
1 egg
2 tablespoons milk
3 dashes hot sauce + salt & pepper to taste
3/4 cup panko bread crumbs
1 1/2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning
1/2 teaspoon paprika
salt & pepper, to taste
1 1/2 tablespoons peanut oil

Note - my bread crumbs had herbs to it so I did not add any Cajun or paprika only salt & pepper.

Directions
 

1.  Preheat oven to 180C.

2. Line baking sheet with foil and set aside.

3. First bowl, add in flour, salt and pepper, mix well and set aside

4. Second bowl whisk egg with mil, pepper and salt, hot sauce .

5. Third bowl add bread crumbs, Cajun seasoning and paprika, salt and pepper and oil - mix well

6.  Dredge prepared chicken in flour, next dip into egg mixture and finally into bread crumb mixture and place on prepared baking sheet.

7. Bake 40-50 minutes or until crust is golden and chicken is completely cooked thoroughly.

My version of Pasta with Cheese and Herbs

Ingredients

1 packet of pasta (about 250gm) - boil al dente
1 packet of McCormick's Herb and Cheese
4-5 pip of garlic - minced finely
a handful of broccoli - sliced into small size
2-3 tbs of olive oil

Direction:

1.  Heat olive oil.  Saute the garlic till fragrant

2.  Add in broccoli.  Mix well - fry for 4-5 minutes.

3.  Add in the pasta and the cheese and herb packet. 

4.  Stir well and cook for another 3 -4 minute and ready to serve.




Tagliatelline Pasta
 

Chicken all ready to be baked

 

Crunchy and golden brown and well done



Pasta with broccoli and herbs and cheese all ready

All ready with the pasta and chicken -
Really need to improve on my photography - the chicken looked burnt although it is not.