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Chicken Breast Recipes Series

As most of you would know by now, we are Japanese food junkies and The Food Critic especially LOVE the Japanese Sukiyaki soup SO we started cooking our own Sukiyaki soup using chicken breast meat at home instead of spending more $$ on Japanese restaurants.

It is pretty simple to make sukiyaki, actually so, here it is:

Japanese Sukiyaki Soup Recipe

Ingredients

2 large carrots, cut into chunks

3 medium sized tomatoes, quartered

300g chicken breast meat, sliced thinly (and about 1/4 of chicken carcass), all seasoned with salt

10 fresh shiitake mushrooms, sliced thinly

1 stalk of medium sized Chinese white cabbage

I think this is called Chinese white cabbage

Cut it this way

Half clove of garlic, peeled and crushed

2 Japanese tofu, sliced

An assortment of fish balls (the quantity depends on how much you want to eat)

8 tbsp sukiyaki sauce (you could always get the Kikkoman Sukiyaki Sauce or if you are in Penang, I’d recommend you go to this shop and they’d recommend you some really great sukiyaki sauce)

Instructions

1. Boil a big pot of water.

2. Dump in the chicken carcass

3. Then in goes the carrots and tomatoes

4. Let it simmer for a while before adding the cabbage

5. Time to pour in the sauce

6. Then add in the mushrooms

7. Finally, add in the tofu and fish balls

8. Let the soup come to a boil and taste to see if there’s enough flavour to it. If not, add more sauce.

It is ready to be served hot with rice or it can be eaten as it is.

The original recipe also calls for bamboo shoots but we don’t like bamboo shoots so we gave it a miss. Still the soup was out-of-this-world!

Keep a lookout for more chicken recipes and chicken breast recipes here.

Every once in a while, we’ll get really tired of eating rice, rice and more rice each day so sometimes, I’d like to cook noodles for a change. Even my son loves noodles. I usually like to buy organic noodles, especially when there are so many different types of healthy, wholesome noodles to choose from.

Recently, I bought a packet of soya noodles. So, I decided to give it a try in a basic and easy stir-fried noodles style.

This is the soya noodles I bought

It’s soya mixed with wheat. And this is what it looks like:

Here’s the recipe for:

Fried Vegetarian Soya Noodles

Fried vegetarian soya noodles

Ingredients

Mushrooms, carrots and green leafy vegetables

5 fresh shiitake mushrooms, sliced

5 fresh brown mushrooms, sliced

1 large carrot, sliced

1 cup any type of green leafy vegetables (siew pak choy, choy sam, kale), washed and roughly chopped

2 pcs of the noodles (as you can see in the picture, the noodles are shaped in one piece by piece and there are two in the picture)

water

salt

2 tbsp diced garlic

3 tbsp mushroom sauce

2 tbsp light soya sauce

2 tbsp dark soya sauce

Instructions

1. Boil a pan of water, add a dash of salt, then put in the noodles.

2. Let the noodles boil for a few minutes until softened and then remove and place on a plate.

3. Heat up the wok with some cooking oil (about 2 tbsp), then sautee the garlic till fragrant.

4. Add in the mushrooms and carrots, then stir fry for a few minutes over medium heat

5. Add in the green leafy vegetables and stir fry for a minute or so

6. Add in the noodles and continue stir frying over medium heat

7. Finally, add in the sauces and some water (about half cup to one cup)

The reason you need to add water is because this type of noodles dry up pretty fast and it absorbs water pretty fast. So, adding water will not make it soggy but moisten it so that it won’t be too dry.

8. Continue stir frying it for several more minutes and then remove from heat and serve immediately.

Here it is, fried vegetarian soya noodles

As for you meat lovers out there, don’t worry.

You can also add some meat to this dish:

Just add some homemade char siew or roast pork to it

You can find the roast pork recipe here. I hope you try out this fried vegetarian soya noodles (or any other noodles you have on hand) recipe and tell me how it turned out. Feel free to tweak it to your liking as stir fried noodles are pretty free form and you can add anything you want.