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Showing posts with label meals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meals. Show all posts

Monday, October 10, 2011

Sweet Soy Sauce Chicken Livers

If you’re in a hurry and you want to eat a hearty good meal, here’s an easy-to-cook recipe for you!



½ kg chicken liver

Salt, to taste

1tsp black pepper

1tbsp sugar

5 cloves of garlic, minced

1 medium red onion, chopped

1 jalapeno

½ cup of vinegar

2 ½ - 3 tbps of soy sauce, or to taste

4 tbsp of cooking oil

To prepare:
  1. In a bowl, prepare this mixture: mix soy sauce and vinegar together and dissolve the sugar in it; set aside.
  2. In another bowl, sprinkle salt onto the chicken livers, mix, then set aside.
  3. Heat a skillet to medium heat.
  4. Pour the cooking oil into the skillet.
  5. Sauté the garlic and onion in the skillet until golden brown.
  6. Add the chicken livers.
  7. Sprinkle with black pepper.
  8. Fold.
  9. Pour the soy-sauce mixture into the skillet.
  10. Add the jalapeno.
  11. Lower the heat and cover with a lid.
  12. Stir from time to time until the sauce thickens.
  13. Remove from stove.
Voila, your chicken livers are ready to eat! Easy, isn’t it? Enjoy!

Good for 2 servings

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Chicken Wings in Spicy Sauce Recipe



Ingredients:

10 chicken wings
1 cup water
2 tbsp olive oil
½ tsp Ground black pepper
½ tsp McCormick® powdered black pepper
½ tsp American Garden® powdered white pepper
1 tsp McCormick® dried oregano
1 tsp McCormick® Marjoram
1 tsp Sumac
1 tsp McCormick® all spice
1 tsp McCormick® turmeric
1 tsp McCormick® cayenne
1 tsp McCormick® Spanish paprika
Darin® powdered cardamom
2 tbsp sugar
9 cloves of garlic, chopped finely
1 medium onion, chopped finely
2 tbsp tbsp rock salt


To prepare:
  1. Sprinkle 1 ½ tbsp of rock salt on the chicken wings then set aside.
  2. Heat the pan in medium heat; pour the olive oil and sauté garlic and onion until golden brown.
  3. Add all the herbs and spices: Ground black pepper, powdered black pepper, powdered white pepper, dried oregano, Marjoram, Sumac, all spice, turmeric, cayenne, Spanish paprika, cardamom.
  4. Stir until the ingredients are mixed well together.
  5. Add 1 tsp rock salt.
  6. Add 2 tbsp water.
  7. Add sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved.
  8. Add the chicken wings.
  9. Stir until all the ingredients are distributed on the chicken wings.
  10. Add the remaining water.
  11. Cover with lid until it boils.
  12. Stir from time to time until water evaporates and the sauce thickens.
  13. Remove from stove.
Good for 2 servings.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Spicy Pork Sauté Recipe


Ingredients:

3tbsp butter
1 onion finely chopped
9 cloves of garlic crushed and finely chopped
800gms pork sliced into bite size
7tbsp soy sauce
2tbsp vinegar
1tsp McCormick® cayenne pepper
2 ½  tbsps sugar
2tbsps Worcestershire sauce
Black pepper
Salt to taste

How to prepare:
  1. In a bowl sprinkle salt on the pork and mix them together. Set aside.
  2. In another bowl, create a spicy sauce mixture by mixing the onion, garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, cayenne pepper, sugar, Worcestershire sauce, black pepper and salt to taste.
  3. Pour the mixture on the pork and mix them together.
  4. In a skillet, melt the butter in a low temperature.
  5. Separate the pork from the spicy sauce (Do not throw away the spicy sauce).
  6. Put the pork in the skillet. Stir until the pork and butter are mixed together. Cover with lid.
  7. Raise the heat up and stir until the water from the pork come­­s out.
  8. When the water from the pork comes out, stir it from time to time.
  9. Stir until the water almost evaporates.
  10. Lower the temperature and add the spicy sauce.
  11. Stir from time to time to distribute the spicy sauce on the pork.
  12. Stir until the spicy sauce is thick and the pork had absorbed the flavor.
  13. Remove from stove.


This dish is also good served with cucumber salad.

Good for 8 servings.