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Our Ultimate Sweet & Sour Chicken Balls

Our Ultimate Sweet & Sour Chicken Balls

I say ultimate because you’ll never get anything like these in your friendly Chinese! We adopted an American technique and marinaded the Chicken breasts cubes in Buttermilk. It soaks in really well and tenderises the meat. We also bought some Mono-Sodium Glutamate from the local Chinese supermarket, which added a real (not so authentic) Chinese style.

Ingredients for the Chicken Balls:-

2 Chicken breasts, cut into cubes
450ml of Buttermilk
1/8 of a teaspoon of Mono-Sodium Glutamate
Garlic Salt
Onion Salt

Batter:-

2 Eggs
Plain Flour (Gluten free for us)
Soda Water
Garlic Salt
Turmeric

Additional flour
1 Egg, battered for an Egg wash

Method:-

(1) Add add the marinade ingredients to a bowl and mix well.
(2) Stir in the Chicken cubes and cover.
(3) Allow to marinade in the fridge for 30 minutes.
(4) Mix the batter ingredients to form a reasonably sticky batter.
(5) Remove the Chicken in small batches and dredge in Flour.
(6) Dunk in the Egg wash and then Flour again.
(7) Preheat a deep fat fryer to 180c.
(8) dip eat piece of Chicken in the batter mix and fry in small batches making sure they don’t stick together.
(9) When they float and are browned, remove and drain on kitchen paper.

We used Sue’s Sweet and Sour sauce recipe and just served over boiled Rice with a sprinkling of sliced Spring Onions.

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Discount Fridge “Pub Classic”

We were probably very close to breaking budget with this one, but Camembert, Chorizo etc. and Pork Fillet just had too much potential to leave behind…..

Breaded  Camembert

Ingredients:-

Cornish  Camembert, cut into six triangles
Flour (Gluten free here), seasoned with added Five Spice
Breadcrumbs (Gluten free here)
2 Eggs, beaten for the Egg wash

Method:-

(1) Dredge each triangle of Cheese in Flour.
(2) Dunk in the Egg wash.
(3) Dredge in the Breadcrumbs.
(4) Deep fry in small groups until golden brown. Make sure to take them out of the Oil before the melted Cheese escapes!

Pork Fillet with Hot & Spicy Cured Meats & Cheese.

Ingredients:-

2/3 of a pack of  Hot & Spicy Cured Meats & Cheese. This was Chorizo, Peperami and Chilli Cheese
Small end of Pork Fillet, halved lengthways and beaten out
1 Red Onion, sliced
2 mushrooms, sliced
Soy Sauce
Salt & Pepper

Method:-

(1) Marinade the Pork escalopes in Soy Sauce, Salt & Pepper.
(2) Shallow fry for a couple of minutes on both sides.
(3) Lay the Cured Heat and Cheese over the escalopes and place under the grill for a couple of minutes.
(4) Gently fry the Onion and Mushrooms.
(5) Lay the  escalopes over the Onion and Mushrooms.
(6) Dress with the greens of a couple of Spring Onions.

We enjoyed ours with a home made sweet Chilli dipping sauce and hand cut Chips.

 

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