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Chicken

Thai Glass Noodle Salad (Yum Woon Sen)

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To Prep
Soak bean vermicelli in warm water for about 5 mins or until softened. Drain and roughly chop.

To Cook
Heat oil in the pan/wok and cook the chicken mince. Add a dash of fish sauce and stir fry until the chicken is cooked. Add bean vermicelli and stir to mix well. Remove from heat.
Add fish sauce, lime juice, tomato wedges and sugar to the chicken mixture and stir well. Add the mint, garlic, lemongrass, chilli and minced coriander; stir well.
Line a serving plate with lettuce and then spoon the chicken mixture over the leaves. Garnish with shallot and coriander leaves.

Golden Chicken Balls

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To Prep
Combine the chicken mince, cooked rice, ginger, garlic and coriander together in a bowl.
Shape mixture into small balls and refrigerate.
Cut the yaki nori sheets into four squares, spray each square with a little water to soften and wrap around a chicken ball. Repeat with remaining chicken mixture and nori.
Dust the balls in the cornflour and dip into the beaten egg; then roll in the panko crumbs. Refrigerate until required.

To Cook
Cook balls in hot oil for 3-4 mins or until cooked; remove and drain on absorbent paper.
Serve hot with mayonnaise and pickled ginger.
Your Golden Chicken Balls are ready!
Note: Canned tuna can be used in place of chicken.

Korean Soft Tofu Hotpot (Sundubu Jjigae)

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To Cook
Heat cooking oil in a saucepan. Cook pork quickly for about 2 mins over medium heat. Add garlic and continue cooking for 10 secs.
Turn heat down to very low and add the chilli powder and chilli oil and cook for 2 mins. Stir well and make sure you don’t burn the chilli powder.
Add water and onion and bring it to a boil. Simmer soup for about 5-7 mins. Add in pipis and cook for about 2-3 mins until shells have opened.
Add the tofu with the rest of other ingredients and bring to a boil. Simmer soup for about 1-2 mins and season with extra salt if necessary.
Add 1 egg yolk to soup towards the end of cooking time, careful not to stir yolk until its set.

Mamak Mee Goreng

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To Make Fritters
Mix all the ingredients for fritter to form batter. Use a tablespoon to scoop a big dollop into hot oil and deep fried till golden brown. Cooled and cut into chunks.

To Make Chilli Paste
Remove seeds from dried chillies, soak in hot water for 15 mins and blend with 2 tbsp of water.
Heat up frying pan with 3 tbsp of oil and sauté the chilli paste over low heat till fragrant and oil is separated. Add in brown sugar, tamarind juice, salt and cook for 1 min. Set aside to cool.

To Cook Mamak Mee Goreng
Put 2 tbsp oil into frying pan and sauté the chopped onion and garlic.
Toss in fried tofu slices and boiled potatoes and fry for 1 min.
Add in 1 tbsp fried chilli paste (add 2 tbsp if you prefer spicier), squid and fry for 1 min.
Toss in the choy sum and squid, stir and put in the fritters and tomato wedges. Cook for 1 min.
Toss in the noodles then the sauce ingredients and stir for further 30 secs or till well mixed.
Push noodles to one side, pour beaten eggs, stir it till half cooked.
Bring noodles together with the eggs and fry till cooked.
Toss in bean sprouts and chillies, cook for 1 min and plate up.
Garnish with cucumber julienne, sliced green chillies and lime wedges. Serve.

Curry Puff (Karipap)

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For Filling
Heat oil in wok, add in curry leaves and onion. Saute onion until translucent then add in potato.
Cook until potato has changed colour on the edges then add chicken breast, stir fry for 1-2 mins then add in curry powder and chilli powder. Add water and bring to boil.
Add salt, sugar, chicken powder & fish sauce to taste, then turn the heat down and cook until potato is soften and the liquid has reduced and form a dry paste. Cool completely before use.

For Pastry
In a large mixing bowl, bring 3 types of flours together and mix well. Set aside.
Rub in butter with flours until crumble, then add in cooking oil, to mix well.
Pour icy cold water over flours, mix thoroughly with a wooden spatula in the mixing bowl. Then, lightly knead till soft dough, do not over work. Cover dough with plastic wrap and rest for at least 15 mins.

To Serve
Divide and shape dough into 13g each ball. Then roll out each ball into a 8-10cm circle, wrap in potato filling. Pinch edges to seal, then deep-fry in medium hot oil until golden brown.

Nyonya Kapitan Chicken Curry

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To Cook
Heat the wok and fry the Masfood 101 Curry Paste, add in shallots, curry leaves, cinnamon stick, star anise and lemongrass saute for 10 mins.
Add in water.
Add in chicken meat and potatoes and continue to saute.
Add in coconut milk and kaffir lime leaves.
Dried chilli can be add in if prefer.
Cover and simmer until the chicken and potatoes are cooked through, minimum 30 mins.
Serve with rice or roti bread.

BBQ Chicken Satay

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To Cook
Mix marinade in a bowl and marinate chicken for 1 hr. Skewer the chicken cubes and grill until cooked.
Warm remaining satay sauce and serve as an accompanying dipping sauce
Serve with cucumber and onion as garnish.

For Satay Sauce
Blend peanuts coarsely with mini food processor and set aside.
Chop the spice paste ingredients and blend until fine.
Heat oil and fry the spice paste until aromatic and smell spicy. 3. Add the peanuts, tamarind puree, water, palm sugar, sweet soy sauce, oil, salt and stir thoroughly.
Simmer in low heat while continue stirring for about 3-5 mins until the peanut sauce turns smooth. Remove from heat and set aside.
Your Chicken satay recipe is ready!

Pineapple Fried Rice

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To Prep
Cut prawns into small pieces and coat with ½ tsp fish sauce. Cut chicken fillet into small cubes and coat with ½ tsp fish sauce.

To Cook
Brown chicken meat over medium heat until cooked. Set aside. Stir fry prawns until cooked, set aside.
Stir fry onion in heated oil over medium heat until fragrant, combine cooked rice and stir through. Add fish sauce, sugar and pepper, mix well.
Combine pineapple, chicken meat, prawns and pineapple juice, mix through raise up the heat, add capsicums and stir fry until well cooked. Remove from heat.
Omelette strips: Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan over medium heat. Pour 1 well beaten egg in the middle and move the pan to spread out the egg thinly. Place the pan over the heat until the egg is set and slightly brown. Roll the egg and remove from heat, thinly sliced when it cools down.
Top this Thai pineapple fried rice with omelette strips when served.

Chicken and Papaya Salad

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To Cook
Mix chicken with marinade ingredients.
Heat oil in a pan and pan fry chicken until golden brown and cooked through. Remove and allow to cool. Dice and set aside.
Mix all ingredients in a bowl and chill. Stir in seasoning mix ingredients before serving.

Stuffed Chicken Legs with Oyster Sauce

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To Cook
Mix marinade with chicken thighs for 30 mins.
Combine minced pork, mashed dace fish meat and salted egg yolk together. Stir well. Sprinkle chicken thighs with some flour. Arrange filling on top. Roll the chicken thighs and tie up with a string.
Heat some oil in a pan over low heat. Pan fry chicken rolls until golden brown at all sides.
Put the chicken rolls in a preheated oven at 180°C for 20 mins.
Remove and allow to cool slightly. Cut into pieces, remove the string and serve.

Chicken Rolls with Toasted Laver

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To Cook
Mix minced chicken with marinade.
Divide chicken meat into 2 portions. Spread 1 portion of chicken meat onto one laver sheet evenly leaving 1 cm on one edge. Arrange bell pepper strips on opposite edge. Start rolling up from bell pepper side to form a chicken roll. Repeat the steps to make one more chicken roll.
Slice the chicken rolls into about 1 cm rings. Heat up oil in a pan and pan fry chicken rolls until golden brown and cooked through. Serve with dipping sauce.

Chicken Coconut Soup

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To Cook
Place 1 cup of extra light coconut milk on medium heat. Boil chicken fillet for few minutes and drain. Set aside.
In a saucepan, over medium heat, bring the light coconut milk to the boil, adding galangal and lemongrass, for 3 mins, until fragrant.
Combine the meat and chilli, return to the boil for few minutes, adding fish sauce, sugar and lime juice.
Add kaffir lime and coriander before removing from heat.
Serve your Chicken Coconut Soup warm in a soup bowl.
Hint : If old galangal is available, put a piece of 2 inch length, a little crushed, and boil it first in the coconut milk for 5 mins and take it out. Galangal will help smooth taste and also good for digestion and will enhance the soup flavour