Quick Chicken-Vegie Noodle Stirfry (GF)

mmmmm this was good and so easy! I'm working at a school atm and today we made something very similar in cooking class so I decided to use the inspiration for home :)

this will serve 6 probably

1 250g packet rice noodles (i wanted the fat flat ones but only had vermicelli)
oil of your choice, a few tabs
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1 onion, cut into wedges
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1" ginger, peeled and chopped
500g chicken breasts or thighs, minced (or chicken mince of course!)
vegies of your choice - i used a pack of baby corn, cut into strips, 1/2 wombuk, shredded, 1/2 bunch of broccoli cut into small pieces *
fresh mint and coriander to your taste, shredded or chopped
soy sauce, perhaps 1/4 cup? (to taste) gluten free if required
1/2 lemon or lime
sweet chilli sauce to serve (optional)

heat oil in wok. add eggs and swirl a few times to cook a thin omelette. remove from pan and when cooler roll up and shred. save.
add more oil if needed and cook onion, broccoli, garlic and ginger until just starting to turn translucent. add chicken and baby corn and cook over high heat, stirring until nearly cooked.
add remaining vegies and cook for 5 minutes until soft
add remaining ingredients - including squeezing juice over wok and shredded omelette - and mix well heating well, serve with sauce if desired

yum!


* you could also use any chinese greens, capsicum, carrot etc

Asian Noodle Salad - Gluten Free

since being a gluten free house we'd only eaten our old fave Asian Noodle Salad once - and it sucked :( it was really bleh. so I was very excited to have found a magic ingredient to make it so good again!!!

yay for changs for making GF fried noodles!

1/2 chinese cabbage (wom buk) or savoy cabbage, shredded finely
4-6 green onions / shallots - finely sliced
100g roasted slivered almonds or pinenuts (I used 1 whole packet)
1 pkt chang's gluten free fried rice noodles

dressing:
1/4 cup white vinegar
approximately 2-3 tablespoons agave nectar - you can get this in your supermarket's health food section, or a health food store (this is the magic ingredient btw!)
1 tab gluten free soy sauce
a few tbspns of sesame oil
around 2 tabs sesame seeds

combine all dressing ingredient and shake well
mix all ingredients except the noodles. add the noodles and mix well just before serving.

mmmmmmmmmmmmm

PS: the other salad is potato, bean and bacon salad whcih is pretty good too :)




posted by Karen on http://brazen20au.blogspot.com/

Nasi Goreng, gluten free

Kazari posted this a few weeks ago and we really enjoyed it when i made it, so i thought i'd post the GF version of the recipe. thanks kaz! the only problem was that geoff overcooked teh eggs as usual (he likes hard yolks, i HATE hard yolks, blerg!)

Nasi Goreng
2 tbs oil ( i use grapeseed)
1 tsp sesame oil
1 red chilli, finely diced, optional for kids
1 medium onion, finely chopped (tmx)
1 carrot, chopped finely in the thermomix
2 Cups shredded cabbage
200g beef or pork mince
1 cup bean sprouts
1 tsp sweet chilli sauce (if available GF)
2 tbs tomato sauce (ketchup, GF)
2 tbs GF tamari
3 cups cooked jasmine rice
1-2 egg per person
1/2 cup diagonally sliced shallots/green onions
2 tbs chopped fresh coriander, plus extra coriander leaves to serve

Heat the oil and the sesame oil in a wok. Add the chilli, onion and carrot and cook over medium heat for 1-2 minutes until just softened but not coloured. Add the beef and cabbage and cook until the meat has browned. Add the bean sprouts, chilli, tomato sauce, tamari and the rice and cook for a further minute, stirring to ensure everything is well combined. Turn off heat and cover the wok partially with a lid while you cook the eggs.

Fry the eggs in another pan.

Stir the shallots and coriander into the rice, then spoon into serving bowls. Top with an egg and extra coriander and serve with extra chilli and tamari as desired.

random links

i need to clear out my bloglines and i don't have the time or patience to put these into my othe rlinks posts, so just posting the lot here! thanks to all those who've shared these yummy recipes!

apple pie

black & white chocolate bark

Eggnog Bread Pudding with Bourbon Cranberries

Mocha Sandwich Cookies

Chocolate Covered Homemade Marshmallows

Sour Cream and Green Onion Biscuits

CrockPot Chai Tea Latte Recipe

CrockPot Roasted & Spiced Nuts Recipe

Asian Coleslaw

Hummingbird Cake Recipe

Capsicum and Tomato Relish Recipe

Pasta alla Vodka

Polenta Casserole with Fontina and Tomato Sauce

Sauteed Kale with Smoked Paprika

curried pork empanadas

vietnamese baguettes

caramelized onion dip

brown butter brown sugar shorties

pie crust 102
pie crust 103

parmesan grissini (tmx)

Raspberry Cream Cheese Coffeecake
cream cheesecoffee cake
Chili Cheese Souffle
Spiced Apple Cider
French Breakfast Puffs
Strawberries and Brown Sugar Cream

garlic cheese biscuits (scones)

peanut butter pinwheels

mexican meatball soup with rice & coriander

wheat-free banana loaf

white chocolate holiday bark

cranberry cinnamon rolls

lemon shortbread
brown sugar shortbread

sweet & sour grilled pumpkin

buttermilk cranberry scones

sweet potato biscuits with bacon and thyme (scones)

rosemary garlic sweet potato fries

panforte (tmx)

Bandh Gobhi Massallam (a whole cabbage smothered in a nutty curry and baked until tender)

Mughlai-style Indian tomato soup

Lasuni Dal Palak (daal)

Dahi Wale Aloo (potatoes)

Links - Vegetarian / Vegetables #2

first list of links to try here http://brazen20au.blogspot.com/2008/07/links-vegetarian-vegetables.html

baked vegetable jalfrezi

Dhansak (eggplant, pumpkin & lentils, indian)

5 minute indian style cabbage

malai kofta

paneer tikka

Punjabi Aloo Gobi – Spiced Cauliflower and Potatoes

creamy black lentils

dani's greek style baked beans

red kidney bean curry

roasted garlic cauliflower

mediterranean carrot rolls & salad

sweet potato falafel with yoghurt tahini sauce

cauliflower & date curry

paneer pasanda

masoor dal with lemon

malai kofta

Asian Noodle Salad

I think I've posted this one before but thought i'd post it again as it went down so well at the canberra eb chrissie do today (it's on the back of the noodle packet too) I've changed the way i make it a little from the original recipe - i'll put the original amounts in brackets...

1/2 - 1 chinese cabbage (wom buk) or savoy cabbage, shredded finely
6 green onions or 1/2 red onion - shallots - finely sliced (i usually use these but forgot to buy any )
100g roasted slivered almonds or pinenuts
1 pkt chang's fried noodles 100g (original or onion flavoured) www.changs.com
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/4 cup (1/2 cup) castor or brown sugar (actually i generally don't use this at all now, just lots more ketjap manis!)
1 tbspn ketjap manis - sweet soy sauce (1 tbspn changs soy sauce)
a few tbspns of sesame oil (2 tspns sesame oil, optional)
(1/2 cup olive oil - i don't put this in at all)

combine all dressing ingredient and stir until sugar is dissolved (i just shake in a jar)
mix all ingredients but the noodles. add the noodles and mix well just before serving.

you can add chicken or grilled sliced beef to this to make a meal in a bowl out of it.

Links - BBQ ideas (marinades, salads etc)

Asian BBQ chicken

Barefoot Contessa's BBQ Sauce

Barbequed Chicken

Beetroot & Haloumi Salad with Walnut Dressing

Garlic-Mustard Glaze (for meat)

grilled corn salad

Mango, avocado & red onion salad

Mom's warm potato salad

napa cabbage salad with buttermilk dressing

Potato Salad with apples and bacon this one looks soooo good!

Southwestern three bean salad

Summer lovin' salad (with bacon, chicken, hard boiled eggs, blue cheese, dijon mustard etc etc mmmm)

thai noodle salad

wild rice salad


assorted recipes from eb (main meal ideas)

that'd be right!

ryan and rory are miserable with middle ear infections so i decided to make chicken soup (i had put the chicken in the SC for a roast but didn't think anyone would feel like it tonight.) rory asked for rice so this recipe was born.

it's FAR too bland and tasteless for me but rory's onto her second bowl already lol

Chicken & Rice Sickie Soup

1 cup rice
2-3 chicken stock cubes
1 onion, finely chopped*
2 zucchinis, finely chopped*
1 large carrot, finely chopped*
1/8 of a cabbage, finely chopped*
3-4 tomatoes, blended into puree
around 2 cups of finely shredded cooked chicken
lots of garlic - around 4-5 cloves or more, finely chopped*
pinch of saffron

simply place ingredients into the saucepan and top up with enough water to read 2cm below the top of the pan. bring to the boil and then reduce to a simmer, cook until the rice and vegetables are soft. you will get some scum on top but keep stirring it in and it will pretty much disappear when the soup is done.

serve with parmesan cheese and cracked black pepper


* i chopped them all in the thermomix but a food processor would work just as well.

I'd imagine this would be very easy to make in the slow cooker and would probably take about 4-5 hours on low.

OPERATION BUTTERMILK

this afternoon's assignment (much as i'd prefer to be sleeping - child-free) is to use up the carton of buttermilk i bought which is out of date tomorrow. i bought it planning to make pancakes (but never got around to it) and a marinade for chicken (but we have no meat left).

anyway, this is what i'm going to try:
black devil's food cake
spiced prune buttermilk loaf

i've also got to cook the cabbage to go with the beef casserole for dinner tonight (i love my cabbage slow cooked with a little butter, until it's soft and sweet - YUM!)

will report back on the recipes some time later...

REPORT
well the devil's food cake is ok. the kids seem to like it, not really my style (i prefer 'real chocolate' cakes like my mudcake). i must remember it's eggfree though for those days when i have no eggs in the house!

the prune loaf has only just gone in the oven but the batter is delicious and being fought over as i type! lol
ETA - the prune loaf is DIVINE! definitely one i will make again more than once. so delicious and you'd never know they were prunes.

Indonesian Slow Cooker Chicken

tomorrow night's dinner (i will get it ready in the crock tonight)

Indonesian Slow Cooker Chicken with rice and an asian cabbage salad.

Indonesian Slow Cooker Chicken
from here

Serves 4

4 skinless chicken breasts
2 tablespoon soy sauce
3 cloves garlic -- crushed
1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger root
2 teaspoon sesame oil
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 cup peanut butter

~ In a small bowl, combine soy sauce, garlic, ginger, sesame oil and cayenne pepper.
~ Place chicken in the slow cooker.
~ Spoon sauce mixture over the top of the chicken.
~ Cover & cook on low heat setting for 6 hours or until chicken is tender & fully cooked.
~ Remove chicken from slow cooker and stir peanut butter into juices until smooth.
~ Spoon sauce over chicken to serve.

Serve with steamed or stir-fried veggies, and rice.

the asian salad recipe is again to use up the vegies in the fridge (it's not likely the kids will eat it lol) and will be a cross between the thermomix recipe and the changs asian noodle salad recipe. i'll use
red cabbage
wombuk (chinese cabbage)
shallots (that would be spring onions to you Dani ;p)
red onion
and maybe noodles

and a dressing of
sesame oil
sweet soy sauce
white vinegar

normally i would try to have some vegies that might tempt the kids but i really don't want leftovers! so i'd rather that they just have chicken and rice!