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Preparation Time: 30 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Difficulty: Easy
Serves: 2

Tomato Wine Chicken

Ingredients

1kg skinless chicken breast
4 egg yolks
oil for frying
1/2 cup tomato sauce
1/2 cup red wine
Worcestershire sauce
Soy sauce

Method

1. Cut the chicken into cubes and coat them in a bowl with the egg yolk.
2. Heat the oil in a wok and deep fry the chicken until golden brown. Drain well.
3. Drain the oil from the pan and add the remaining ingredients. Heat until the sauce boils.
4. Add the chicken to the pan and mix well, allow to heat through and serve.

Result

An exceptionally nice taste. It should have served four but only ended up serving two!

Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Difficulty: Easy
Serves: 2

Chicken with Mushrooms

Ingredients

500g chicken breast
350g button mushrooms
4 teaspoons rice wine
2 teaspoons soy sauce
2 teaspoons cornflour
2 cloves garlic
1/2 teaspoon five pepper mixture
2 teaspoons sugar

Method

1. Cut the chicken into bite size strips or chunks, chop the mushrooms into halves or quarters if they are large.
2. Heat some oil in a wok and stir fry the chicken until it is golden brown, then add the mushrooms and garlic. Stir for 1 minute
3. Add the remaining ingredients and cook for a further 2 minutes on a medium heat.

Result

Nice! Add different varieties of mushroom for a varied taste.

Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Difficulty: Easy
Serves: 2

Curried Beef

Ingredients

500g fillet steak
3 potatoes
2 onions
5 tablespoons curry powder
oil for frying
2 tablespoons sate sauce
1 teaspoon chilli sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1/3 cup chicken stock
3 teaspoons cornflour
1 tablespoon rice wine

Method

1. Slice the steak into thin pieces. Peel and cut the potatoes into chunks, peel onions and cut into quarters.
2. Heat some oil in a wok and fry the cubed potatoes for five minutes, then add the onion and curry powder and cook for a further two minutes then remove from the wok
3. Heat some more oil in the wok and fry the steak until golden brown. Add the potato/onion mix and stir for two more minutes.
4. Add the combined sate sauce, chilli sauce, soy sauce, stock, rice wine and cornflour, and stir until the liquid thickens, reduce heat and simmer for three minutes.

Result

Quite nice, reduce the amount of curry and chilli if you want a medium heat dish!

Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Difficulty: Easy
Serves: 2

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Ingredients

500g prawns
6 spring onions
4 tablespoons sugar
oil for frying
2 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 tablespoon lime or lemon juice
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt

Method

1. Remove the heads and shells from the prawns and devein.
2. In a pan, add 3 tablespoons water and the sugar, and stir over a low heat until the sugar has disolved, then bring to the boil and simmer until the liquid turns golden brown. Be careful not to burn the syrup. Remove from the heat and add 4 tabelspoons of cold water. The liquid will crackle and spit, and will form lumps. Return to the heat until the lumps melt.
3. Heat some oil in a wok and add the prawns, garlic and chopped spring onion. Cook for three minutes or until the prawns are ready.
4. Add the caramel and fish sauce and stir for one minute. Add the remaining ingredients and toss well.

Result

Yummy! But guess what? Prawns are still better just grilled!