Long Weekend

Here's to the long weekend.. and a hectic week ahead. 

As usual, Sarah baked while I cooked. Here was what I whipped up.

Roti kirai, chicken curry and churros. 

The best chicken curry I've ever made, in my opinion. The churros batter was a little hard but it turned out okay, though the squeezing part was a little difficult. Took two pairs of hands to squeeze and cut them.

AND it took me about 4 hours to finish cooking the entire roti kirai batter. O.M.G.

Only one side of my stove was working. Pfft. Can't wait for a functional double or triple stove-top.

There were mini donuts that Sarah made too, but we didn't take a picture of it, unfortunately. By the time we finished glazing the ENTIRE thing, we were too tired.

Haha! How to jualan like that?

Oh and if you're wondering, here's my simple recipe for the chicken curry.

I'm just gonna skip the ingredients list and go straight to the method.

Ingredients are underlined. 

Your welcome.

Directions:

1. Heat oil in pot (I covered the base of the pot in oil) and pop in 1 cinnamon stick, 2 star anise, 2 seeds of cardamom. Fry until fragrant. Here, I threw in a few curry leaves.

2. Throw in blended paste. 

(I used 1 medium yellow onion, 2 medium-sized red onions, 3 small shallots, 4 garlic, 1 stalk of lemongrass --> only use the bottom part)

3. Add 1 tablespoon of chili paste (boiled, drained and blended red chili) as well, for that slight fiery kick. You may add more if you please.

4. Fry the paste until fragrant. Oil should separate.

5. Add about 6-8 tablespoons of curry powder. (I used Baba's chicken/beef curry powder)

6. Mix well with the paste. You should be able to smell it. Keep stirring and don't let the bottom burn. It'll spoil the entire dish.

7. Add water. Little by little. My first time making this dish turned out to be a disaster cos it was too diluted. So, yeah. Bit by bit won't do you harm. Bring to a boil.

8. I added about 12 chicken pieces (I cut the 3-joint chicken wings into 2 parts) once I'm satisfied with the amount of water in the pot.

9. You can add in potatoes here too. I didn't though. Totally slipped my mind. Cover the pot and let it boil some more.

10. Taste with salt and sugar.

11. Add about half a small carton of coconut milk. 

12. Here's the adjusting part. You could tweak it to your taste. I like mine slightly sweeter, so I added a bit more sugar.

13. Serve.

Alhamdulillah, took me less than an hour to finish making this dish.

You could enjoy this dish with rice and some kick-ass sambal belacan.

You can google the recipe for making the roti kirai batter. It's THAT easy. It's only tedious to make.

Anyway, hope everyone is having a good weekend ahead. I'm listening to Celine Dion, Backstreet Boys, Mariah Carey, Bryan Adams and all the 90s' hits while doing my work and blogging at the same time. Talk about multi-tasking.

Till next time,

Mwah mwah!