Monday, November 30, 2009

chicken

Am working like mad recently, 12 hours a day, 6 days a week until Christmas week. Hence no serious, emo, mind provoking blogs within the next two weeks.

So here comes another filler.

Peter and I are getting better in our cooking nowadays.


No bluff. The picture says a thousand words.

14 comments:

CH Voon said...

very oily food but look delicious!

Peter said...

Delicious it was! The only oily item in that dish was the chicken. If I had a functioning oven we would've browned the skin and baked it after that to retain the moisture and use less oil.

manglish said...

hahahahhahaha...Voon!!!!! i supposed they'd used olive oil? =P

Dorcas said...

looks delicious. Yum Yum Yum! but is that canned bake beans or homemade one? heheheh!!

Pike-chan said...

wow~ the chicken thigh looks good! And I'm viewing it when nearing my lunch hours, lolx..

Any recipe for the grill chicken?

Medie007 said...

wow... nice food~!

Peter said...

We tried the Southern American style of frying the chicken whereby once the skin is browned, turn the heat down to medium-medium low and cover the frying pan with a lid.

This part onwards it was self deduced
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Turn the chicken over every 3 minutes to make sure it is cooked on both sides. Do this for 2-3 times. You have to eyeball it for yourself.

The result was moist and tender chicken. The meat could literarily be peeled off the bone.

To manglish

We used Vegetable oil because it has a higher smoking point, i.e higher heat tolerance. Olive oil is bad for deep frying not only because of the low heat tolerance but it is also expensive and loses all its goodness if used for deep frying.

To Dorcas

Unfortunately it was canned beans. Still tasted good though :)

Peter said...

To pikey

Nothing special really. We marinated it for a couple of hours in salt, pepper, chilli powder and diced garlic.

Do make some small incisions along the chicken to get the marinade in there and not only on the chicken.

chloe-kohyee said...

my oh my peter...such details!

never knew about the oil heat tolerance etc...btw,i use olive oil here to deep fry...hahah..cant be bothered to get another bottle of oil just to deep fry stuffs

oh...there's this powder that i found in tesco here...very good...will get u guys a bottle (or 2-->>if u guys treat me nice)

hhehehe

Pike-chan said...

How long u need to grill the chicken and what temperature?

Peter said...

To Koh Yee
Sure we'll treat you nice :D. What powder are you talking about by the way?

To pikey
We did not grill. We fried. Temperature wise...I can't give you a number because it was done by eyeballing.

Dorcas said...

seems like you really love your chicken Peter, watch out for Susam's waistline!!!
There is a good website for cooking, you may find interesting?
www.taste.com.au it is actually one of my friend's company!!

Atlantisian said...

Am utterly surprise to see you all are interested with the chicken. And Peter peter, i thought you never bother to leave comments because you dont like PDA ( Public disply affection) ;)

Anyway, now you all know why i need to go for aerobic so frequently.

chloe-kohyee said...

dun worry peter,it's not ganja. this powder made sin chek go wow! ask susan to ask her wat it is

su...this is PDA from peter ah? sad la like that :p