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Harissa Honey Chicken Lollipops

Friday, May 06, 2022

This particular chicken lollipop recipe is a Indo-Chinese favourite appetizer where frenched chicken wings are marinated, baked (or fried) until crisp and tossed with a sticky sweet and hot sauce (harrissa honey sauce). Simply put, chicken lollipops are the fried chicken wings but with a more distinct look and spicy flavour.
The name “chicken lollipop” is referring to how the chicken wings look after trimming. To achieve the lollipop appearance, the meat on the chicken wing is cut loose from the bone end and pushed down, a culinary technique known as “frenching.” The recipe is actually very simple. The hardest part of the recipe is to form the chicken lollipops from chicken wings. If you plan to make a huge batch for a crowd, fry the chicken lollipops and make the sauce in advance. Then you can re-crisp the wings at a high temperature for a couple of minutes, re-heat the sauce, and toss to coat just before serving.
Here is a video on how to cut lollipops from the wings that I found on youtube.

	Harissa Sauce
8-10 Whole chicken wings (or simply use meaty chicken drumettes) 1 tbsp Cumin powder 1 tbsp Criander powder 1 tsp Garlic powder 1/3 - 1/2 tsp Cayenne pepper 2/3 tsp Sea salt Black pepper to taste Herbs and greens to garnish Pomegranate seeds to garnish	85 g Salted butter 100 g Harissa 1 tbsp Lemon juice 80 g Honey

Divide the chicken wing into 3 parts (drumette, winglet and wingtip) by slicing through the joints. Save the wingtip for other uses.
French the drumette. Holding the drumette (which looks like a chicken drumstick) by the meaty end, use a small, sharp knife to cut around the thin end of the drummette so the meat and skin are released from the bone. Push the meat down towards the fat end to create a lollipop.
French the winglet / flat. For the winglet, which contains two bones, cut the joint where the bones meet. Trim a small section of the meat from the circumference of that area to expose the bones. Remove one of the bones and push the meat to the end of the remaining bone to form a lollipop.
Transfer the prepared wings to a medium bowl. Add in ground cumin, coriander, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, salt and pepper. Rub the spice mixture into the wing pieces until there is no powder left in the bottom of your bowl. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, up to overnight.
Preheat your oven to 200C/400F and brush a baking tray with some olive oil. Arrange the chicken wings on the tray and bake in the middle of the oven for 35 minutes or until the chicken is nicely browned and slightly charred, and completely cooked through.
Bring sauce ingredients slowly to a simmer in a saucepan on the stovetop while your wings are baking. When the sauce starts to bubble, turn off the heat and set aside for 5 minutes. The sauce will thickens up after cooling a bit. Toss the wings in the sauce until thoroughly coated. Serve on a bed of fresh herbs and garnished with pomegranate seeds and chopped spring onions if desired.

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Beetroot Rye Bread with Cacao Nibs

Friday, March 04, 2022

Put a fun twist on your delicious homemade rye bread with some organic beetroot juice and cacao nibs. The sweetness of the beetroot not only adds depth and earthy flavour to your bread, but also balances perfectly the bitterness of cacao nibs.
It’s a slightly dense bread due to the use of rye and bread flour, but it is very satisfying and goes well with soup, salad or as a substantial and healthy breakfast with some sliced avocados. Score the bread any way you like, a simple cross is great or hashtag like I did. If you are interested, here is an article about bread scoring patterns I found on Bon Appetit.

260 ml Organic beetroot juice
250 g Bread flour
150 g Rye flour
3/4 tsp Smoked salt
10 g Fresh yeast, crumbled
2 tbsp Cacao nibs

Warm up the beetroot juice in a saucepan until lukewarm. Place bread flour, rye flour and smoked salt in the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with a dough hook. Crumble the fresh yeast into the lukewarm beet juice. Set aside for 10 minutes or until the mixture is frothy.
Add beet juice yeast mixture into the flour mixture and mix on low speed for 5 minutes. Increase the speed and knead until elastic and smooth. Cover with a clean tea towel and set aside in a warm place for 1 hour or until the dough doubles in size.
Turn out the dough on a lightly floured work surface. Using your fist, punch dough down. Add in cacao nibs. Knead to combine and shape the dough into a round.
Dust a proofing basket with some flour. Place the dough, seam side up, into the basket. Cover with a tea towel and set aside for 45 minutes to prove until almost doubled in size. Turn the dough out onto a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Brush or spray the surface with water. Use a small sharp knife or a bread lame to score the bread with decorative cuts.
Place a bowl of water on the bottom of your oven. Preheat the oven to 230C/450F.
Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes. Reduce temperature to 180C/350F and bake for a further 15 minutes or until loaf sounds hollow when tapped on the base. Remove from oven and set aside to cool completely before slicing.

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Filipino Coconut Macaroons

Friday, February 04, 2022

These Filipino-style macaroons are so easy to make and so delicious. they are golden crisp on the odges and soft, chewy and moist on the inside, they’re super addictive. If you prefer, coat them in chocolate to give it a even richer flavour. The addition of small amount of white spelt flour in the batter makes them taste more like cakes rather than standard coconut macaroon, but they are just equally delicious. They make a great midday pick or after-meal dessert or even as a lunch box filler. Don't confuse coconut macaroons with chewy, yet crisp airy French macarons. Macarons and macaroons differ in their main ingredient, which for macarons is almond meal, and macaroons is shredded coconut.
A macaron (pronounced "mack-ah-ROHN") , which has roots in Paris, is a meringue-based cookie. Its batter is composed of almond flour, egg whites, and confectioners’ sugar. Parisian macarons come in a variety of colours and flavours and usually filled with buttercream, ganache, jam, or fruit curd. The main ingredient of a macaroon (pronounced "mack-ah-ROON") is shredded coconut and its original recipe does not require sweetened condensed milk. As the recipe suggests, this is a Filipino-style macaroon, which is composed of butter, sugar, sweetened condensed milk and coconut of course.

100 g Unsalted butter, softened
150 g Sugar
2 Eggs, medium
1 can / 397 g Sweetened condensed milk
1/2 tsp Vnilla extract
70 g White spelt flour
200 g Desiccated coconut

Line one 24-vavity mini muffin pan with paper cups and place 9 standard-sized reusable silicone baking cups in a baking tray. Set aside. Use two mini muffin pans or 20 silicone muffin cups if you have them.
In a bowl, beat softened unsalted butter using a hand mixer on low speed until creamy. Add in sugar and beat together until well blended and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Add in sweetened condensed milk and vanilla extract and continue to beat until blended. In a medium bowl, combine white spelt flour and desiccated coconut. Add to the butter-egg mixture and beat until combined.
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F. Divide the thick batter into the prepared muffin cups.
Bake the mini muffins for about 15-18 minutes and 25-28 minutes for standard-size muffins until golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from baking pan and let cool on a wire rack for about 5 minutes.

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Asian-inspired Cabbage Salad

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Quick and easy, this Asian-inspired flavourful cabbage salad with radicchio, apple, fresh herbs and roasted salted peanuts is the ultimate throw-together feel-good salad. You can team the salad with some pork chop, or grilled chicken to create a super speedy and family friendly meal.


800 g Cabbage (Napa, savoy or white), finely shredded 1/2 Radicchio or red cabbage, finely shredded 1 Green apple, finely shredded 10 g Cilantro or flat parsley, chopped 1-2 Spring onions, chopped 75 g Roasted salted peanuts, chopped	1 clove Garlic 20 g Ginger root, peeled and chopped 120 g Peanut butter 5 tbsp Sesame oil 5 tbsp Soya sauce 4 tbsp Rice vinegar 2 tbsp Sriracha sauce 2 tbsp Coconut sugar 2 tbsp Water

Place all the ingredients for the dressing in the cup of immersion blender. Process until everything is smooth and creamy.
Finely shred the cabbage, radicchio and green apple. Chop the herbs, and peanuts.
Add shredded cabbage, radicchio, chopped herbs and peanuts in a large salad bowl. Add in half of the dressing and toss everything together.

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Thai Corn Fritters

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Make brunch for your family with these delicious corn fritters. With a light, crunchy crust and fluffy inside, these corn fritters are quick to make and sure to find favour with both the adults and the kids. Thai fish sauce and sweet chilli sauce give these tasty corn fritters a double dose of Asian flavour. Serve them while still warm for brunch or as a snack. You can buy sweet chilli sauce in Asian grocery stores or Amazon or make this typical Thai condiment at home.

Thai Corn Fritters

inspired by this recipe

2 Large eggs
100 g White spelt flour (or plain flour)
2 Garlic cloves, chopped
1 tsp Coconut sugar
1 tbsp Thai fish sauce
285 g Canned corn kernels, drained
1/2 tsp Sea salt
1/2 tsp Black pepper, freshly milled
2 Spring onions, finely chopped
Lard, to fry
Sweet chilli sauce, to serve
Baby spinach and cherry radishes, to serve, optional

Place the eggs, spelt flour, garlic, coconut sugar, fish sauce, half the corn kernels, salt and pepper in a food processor. Process to a puree. Add the chopped spring onions and the remaining corn kernels and stir well to combine. Heat the lard in a non-stick frypan over medium-high heat.
Working in batches, drop tablespoons of corn batter into the pan and cook for 2-3 minutes on each side until golden and cooked through. Transfer to a plate lined with paper towel. Keep warm while you make the remaining fritters.
Arrange baby spinach and cherry radishes on plates if using and stack the fritters on salad, drizzle with sweet chilli sauce or serve at side as a dipping sauce.