4 Fruit Fennel Chicken salad

Gregg loves the Apple Fennel Salad I made for him few months ago. Yesterday I was recreating the recipe with slight changes. I added oranges and grapefruit I have in the fridge. They are few weeks old. However, it is still ok to consume, eventho not as fresh and juicy. Good to save lots of money and the hassle to buy more at the groceries. When you feel like eating it, just make it and find the ingredients in your house. Also, I keep the fresh mission figs in the kitchen (not in the fridge) so that the figs will shrink and have the sweetness enhanced. I help you save lots of money here. Hahahahhaha. To have some protein, just garnished with some sliced leftover roasted chicken.

Recipe soon to come...

Pumpkin Chicken Curry

Remember the pumpkins you have after Halloween? Well, use it for your curry. It is a wonderful flavor with creamy texture with less coconut milk in it. Healthy for you too. Halved the pumpkin and take out the seeds. Pop into the oven at 375F on a sheetpan with parchment paper for 45-60 min. Once done, you can use a spoon to scoop the pumpkin puree. You can keep some in the freezer for future use.

Making the curry, put some oil (preferably peanut oil) into a pot at medium heat. Add a packet of Thai Panang Curry paste (can use other curry paste if you have at home), fried with chopped onions and crushed garlic for a 1 min. Then add some chicken (use the breast cos easier to cook) which already cut into cubes. Fried for 2-3 min and then add in 1can coconut milk/cream. Put in the pumpkin puree (say 1.5 cup) and stir. Cook till the curry turn orangy red and creamy. Add salt and sugar to taste (it will taste a little salty than sweet). Optional, add a tablespoon of soy sauce for more flavor at the end. Serve with coconut milk rice or just steam rice.

Humus Roasted Chicken

I like to use the leftover food to makeover into another yummy dish. I used the leftover humus to make a sauce for the Roasted Chicken. Why, because it has the creamy thick texture to make the sauce tasty on the chicken. Ingredients to rub on the chicken for roasting: humus, garlic, thyme, cumin, paprika, olive oil and salt. Then the sauce, brown the garlic. Then add in the thyme, paprika and cumin to fragrant the oil. Add humus and let it cook until the humus gets mixed well. Lastly add some wine and reduced it. Add salt to taste.

Try it out and let me know the outcome. Bon Appetite...

Chef Chong
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