Chicken and Jackfruit, Indonesian thickened curry style

I tried to venture another new dish to me, which is my Indonesian favourite food. Been living in Indonesia pretty much for my whole life and I never cook (I blame my Indonesia maid), they are a good cook. As a result of being spoilt, when I first time came to Melbourne, I was unable to: wash, iron, dealing with electrician, cleaning (you wish), and most importantly COOK.

My first dish I created (other than instant noodle) was plain pan-fry egg. It just a normal egg, tasteless. But now, I am trying to make something harder.

The dish is chicken and jackfruit, Indonesian thickened curry style. CURRY! I hate curry, because it just too hard to make, got at least 10 spices you need and I do not even know where to find it. So I decided to buy the ready made paste which makes my life so easy. Put the chicken, paste and jackfruit + coconut cream.

One of the hardest dishes to cook even paste is being used. I thought this dish is a disaster dish, when I tried it, it was so spicy and the taste of the curry is incorrect. I decided to transfer the food into a bowl and after 2 hours (which makes the curry at room temperature, not too hot, not too cold). Tested again and magically I become so nice, the taste that I am looking for.

Chicken, Bacon, and Leek

This is another new stuff that I cooked, and the first time I am using leek. I like leek! It tastes sp good. I want to make stuff again using leek next time.


And this is the second time I am using chicken and bacon in a dish. Apparently they went quite well. Unfortunately on this dish, I did not put bacon as many as it should be and as the result of it, I can’t smell the bacon.
The overall was impressive; I taste like a different way of carbonara. And it went well with pasta. But I did not use pasta at all for this purpose.

The below pic is the picture after 15 minutes cooking on the stove, but haven’t put it in to the oven, looks so plain

And this is the final presentation of the food.

Chicken Frittata, serve with salty garlic peas puree

This is the first time I made frittata. Using the goodness of Zucchini, Ricotta and Vine ripe cheery tomato, it just amazing. The first main just blows my mind. I never expected frittata would taste that nice lah.
And the green stuff is the salted peas puree with a lil bit of garlic. If the puree being eat it by itself, it will be too salty, however, combined it with the frittata, yum… it just complement each other. The perfect start to the first main since the food itself is a light starter.

the funny thinkg about this frittata i made, it is only nice of a small portion. I had one big fritatta lunch on the next day and it just disgusting.....

Overall yummmm

Chicken with Chilli lime mayo

The second entrée is another chicken, shredded chicken to be exact, mixed with mayo, lime, chilli. Then put it in the fridge to chill it.

I think I put to much chilli. I am unable to finish since it was too spicy for me. In other case, just do not eat the chilli. And you can substitute it with capsicum if chilli is too spicy.

Another easy made food to do, no time wasted on this one. My friends love this one

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Mild curry flavour with Chicken, Egg, Mayo and Rocket salad

This is what happened to me on Saturday night trying to make food for whole week lunch and ended up having 6 courses dinner. I took me 6 hours to buy, prepare, cook, freeze, eat, and clean all the crap.

It is a really hard job to do, but the end result was lovely. It is not up to fine dining standard, but my friends were happy with my foods.

So, this is the first entrée, Chicken, egg, mayo and rocket salad curry flavour. I made the combination minced chicken; minced egg, mayo, mince rocket and curry powder, then mixed it together.

The flavour comes from the pre-made curry powder. Here is the pic below

It should be eaten in one bite. As it appears open your mouth, put the spoon in your mouth and enjoy it

Yum.... A good Start

When Breakfast becomes dinner

The Chicken Delay... I haven't got time to transfer and resize the Chicken pictures. meantime, this is the story about me almost straving to death....

I only have AU$10 left before my pay day, which is tomorrow. With $10, you can go to food court and have a decent food. But I feel like cooking. This is the time where I need to improvise, using cheap ingredients to create a yummy tummy food. One of my friends suggested making rice, egg with sweet soy sauce. I thought it carefully, it is not that hard to make rice, egg with sweet soy sauce, but where is the ART of it?

After thinking, and doing some analysis of expenses, I realise that I want to have Bacon and Egg… So, my dinner is a breakfast menu, with a slight twist and my home made special sauce.

BACON AND EGGS

This particular food is not hard to make, however I only have 1 egg ring, so it took me quite a while to cook it, and carefully plating it is a fun game to do too.

The main ingredients are Bacon, Ham, 2 Eggs, olive and the sauce. Cut the ham, bacon with the egg ring. Pan fried the bacon, and cooks the egg… the sauce, water, continental parsley, salt, pepper, then use gelatine.

This is the final presentation of it.
From bottom to top
White Egg – Ham – Ham – Ham – Egg Yolk – Ham – another egg

Isn't it look yummy?

Chicken - Chicken - Chicken - Chicken - Chicken - Chicken

Hi.... as u can see the headline, it is "Chicken" times 6...
I made 6 course full dinner, consisted recurring ingredient,you guess what? Chicken.I did not kill 6 chickens to make the food.. it is just about 2 chickens in total :)

The "Alobert Chicken Corner" menu:
2 Entree, 3 Mains and 1 Dessert!

The menu will appear one by one, day by day and it full of surprises....

Hopefully it can start tomorrow

Cheers