Chicken with kiwi n cashew nuts

Easy dish ready in 15 minutes! Healthy dish incorporated green kiw.

Recipe 

2 pcs of chicken filet (from a pack in Fairprice supermarket)

Some corn flour

1 green kiwi

1 teaspoon of Kikkoman Teriyaki Marinade with roasted garlic

1/2 tsp of sugar

Handful of cashew nuts 

Some cooking oil

Method

Remove the vein from the chicken dice chicken into cubes

Marinate with the sauce n sugar 

Remove skin from kiwi n dice 

Now coat the chicken with corn flour

Now heat the oil in the frying pan

Add in the chicken fry till exterior brownish

Add in the kiwi and cashew nuts and stir fry a short while

Dish up

Serve with rice

Some ingredients 

Ready to eat 

Zespri Cooking Contest with kiwis

Winning dish in 2011 - Baked fish with kiwis (photo taken under yellow lighting)

 

I would like to share a bit of my cooking history from year 2011.  I was getting pretty active in facebook and entered a contest organised by TheAsianParents and Zespri.

 

There were 5 teams competing during the event. Each team consisted of a parent and their child.

 

We donned on our chef's hats and aprons and went through a training session by the Chef Wendy at AFC studio and prepared 3 dishes including your original kiwi dish.

 

We learnt to cook Trifle cake with assorted fruits in a glass, served prawn cocktail with kiwis

and lastly my baked fish served with Green and Golden kiwis.

 

 

Isn't Joie sweet? She was only 5 years old.

My hubby with my girl.

 

 

Photo with other participants - my hubby carrying my son

 

Judges in action

 

My dishes

 

My coveted prize - a private cooking session with Chef Sam Leong

 

1st ever cooking contest and was awarded the Champion! Thank God and all supporters at the event!

 

Recipe for the baked fish

 

Ingredients

1 piece of halibut sole fish from Fairprice - remove any bones

1/4 of a red pepper (capsicum) seeds removed and diced.

2 pieces of garlic - minced

1/2 lime

1/4 large onion - remove skin and chop finely

1 Zespri gold kiwi remove skin and cut into half.

Use half the gold kiwi and cut into slices. Use the other half and cut into small cubes.

some mixed herbs - McCormick perfect pinch original all purpose seasoning.

a pinch of salt and black pepper.

1/2 green Zespri kiwi - cut into cubes

3 tablespoons of olive oil

 

Method

Preheat the oven to 200 degree celcius.

Wash the fish and dry it with paper towels.

Sprinkle black pepper on both sides of the fish and place on the aluminium foil.

Mix the oil with lime juice, minced garlic and some mixed herbs.

Spread the mixture onto both sides of the fish.

Top the upper side with red pepper, then the gold kiwi cubed, then chopped onions in this order.

Wrap the aluminium foil around the fish. Do not expose the fish.

Bake for 15 minutes.

Place the fish and sauce onto prepared plate with kiwi as garnishing.

Serve immediately.

A video from TheAsianParent covering the day's event

https://www.facebook.com/lily.chua1/posts/234699006579319

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cupcakes

Two choices - Kiwi or Nutella frosting?

 

This Kiwi glaze recipe comes from Benjamin Wong's cook Cupcake with Attitude.  Available at Popular and Prologue bookstores.

 

 

Assorted chocolate cupcake with Nutella Frosting

 

Personally I prefer the Kiwi Glaza - I used golden kiwis instead of green kiwi.  The Nutella frosting was a bit too sweet for me.  Will adjust again next time I bake.

 

So which would you choose?