Lunch

[SAHM_TAN]

buds:

SAHM_TAN:

buds,


The jap rice brand is Hitomebore. But I think any short grain rice will do bah.

Thanks SAHM_TAN, for all the details. I initially thought sushi should be quite easy to make but from your sharing seems like there are quite a few know-hows that one needs to be equipped with.. same with claypot rice, which I am also currently keen to try out.

Will letcha know when I try it out! :callme:

Thank you! :please:

@ Harlequin : Thank you for chipping in your crucial tips! :please:

My claypot rice supper easy.

I dumped all ingredient in the rice cooker, last 13 mins I add in the marinated chicken breast meat, cut up.

For the sushi, it's quite easy lah.

With your deft hands sure can roll roll

If you want short cut and don't mind the msg can use the seasoned vinegar. Then can mix in with the rice once it's cool.

The mixed rice will be sticky so need to wet hands and knife blade when handling the rice

I'm a klutz. So if I can sushi, so can you

[SAHM_TAN]

tinkfirst:

Thank you SAHM_TAN and HArlequin. May I know any specific brand of vinegar to buy?

I buy those used for sushi, can be found on the shelves for jap foodstuff. I look for those in glass bottles.

[vinegar]

buds:

wonderm:

Buds, thanks for your chicken salad pita recipe. Tried that for lunch today, well received by everyone. :thankyou:

You're most welcome, wonderm.

Glad your family liked it. Was I right about the under 30min? :evil:

This base recipe is great for a variety of quick fixes involving breads of all types. Cheap and easy to get ingredients, simple to do and yet quite filling for any meal of the day actually, plus not much cleaning up to do after meal time.

Goes great with cream soups as well. :drool:

buds,
thks for sharing wonderful recipes.

where to buy the pizza base?Cold storage?which section?

where u buy the Focaccia? Delifrance?

[happyheart]

buds:

Don't feel like eating rice? Sick of plain ol' bread too, huh?


With just simple ingredients you can whip up this filling quick meal in under 30 minutes.

The ingredients :

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Pita Bread

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Lingham's Chilli Sauce
Lady's Choice Salad Sauce
Fresh crispy lettuce

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The bird was purchased from Cold Storage already grilled. We personally love the supermarket's black pepper grilled chicken. Nicely marinated and grilled to perfection.

The bonus was, the birdies were on offer that day. Woohoo! Only SGD $4.99!

Other ingredients:

Big Yellow Onions & Capsicum

Optional Ingredients :

Black pepper (grind)
Tomato
Cucumber

Saute a few slices of the big yellow onions until they are fragrant. Add in the diced black pepper chicken together with the chilli sauce and salad sauce. About 2-3 tablespoons each (for a small bird). After a good quick stir fry, add in the sliced capsicums.

If you like to add in extras like diced tomatoes, cucumber and what nots... go on.. just throw them all in! We like our capsicum crispy so turn off the fire after a few stirs round the pan.

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Rinse some lettuce and slot a nice crispy leaf as base inside a pita that has already been cut in half.

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Use a small spoon to delicately fill up the pita with the stir fried ingredients. Drizzle more of the sweet Lingham Chilli Sauce if you like. A small bird can fill about 9 to 10 pitas like the one pictured above!

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Here's a close-up of the quickie meal of Chicken Salad Pita.

This same preps went great with my pizzas...

Taken before it was popped into the oven...

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This one taken after the DING of the oven! :love:

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......and also the Open-faced Mediterranean Focaccia Sandwiches. You can put as much filling or topping depending on which staple you use for it. We use the Prego Traditional Herb Sauce as our base.

By the way, those open-faced sandwiches.... ours were this thick. Yup, size does matter.

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Plus they were topped with ultra happiness boosters called mozarella cheese. All grated with love. :love:

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ok :thankyou: So creative! one dish and you can make it into various presentation. I am so going to try it. Is the pita bread a good option for lunch box, will the juice lsoften the pita?

[buds]

happyheart:

ok :thankyou: So creative! one dish and you can make it into various presentation. I am so going to try it. Is the pita bread a good option for lunch box, will the juice lsoften the pita?

Thanks for your compliments. It's always about presentation, right? Kids and husbands or rather, men, in general... :roll: are visual creatures.

Entice them to like what they see and they will eat it.

Pita is definitely a great lunch box option. For me, i bag them in ziploc bags or those disposable transparent da bao plastic bags with/without the red/orange strings. They can choose to heat it up right away in the microwave (mornings are always a mad rush for the school bus :roll:) or they can bag it to school, as-is.

Yes any juice will soften the pita. So if you intend to have this packed off for junior or hubs use less of the fruit salad sauce/cream... and stir fry the mix till it is dry instead of moistly juicy. Juice content also varies between the veggies you select to stir fry them in. Tomatoes will surely add to the juice content even if you use less fruit salad sauce. But if you or the loved ones you are packing for like tomatoes, you can consider setting aside some slices in a separate compartment in your lunchbox. Dry the lettuce with a paper towel after rinsing as extra measure. If you are still wary about the pita wetting itself before break time, then you may consider bento-ing it. Yup, separate all the ingredients. The ones having them can just add in the ingredients from the separate compartments of the lunch box come their break time.

[buds]

vinegar:

buds,

thks for sharing wonderful recipes.

where to buy the pizza base?Cold storage?which section?

where u buy the Focaccia? Delifrance?

You can find them all at Cold Storage. Yup, all the ingredients featured in this quick fix meal episode can be found under one roof. Pizza bases come in different sizes, brands and price tags. :moneyflies: I only wanted to buy the cheapest. :oops: You can find them together with those ready-made pizzas in flat-packed boxes in the freezer section.. yes, usually where the potato wedges are.. where the roti pratas are too..

The focaccia at the bread section. Looks like this..

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Smells heavenly even from the outside. Yup... bursting with rich flavour kinda aroma.

[Harlequin]

tinkfirst:

Thank you SAHM_TAN and HArlequin. May I know any specific brand of vinegar to buy?

I use the Tamanoi Instant Sushi Seasoning, Sushi Powder Vinegar (cos am lazy to supervise my maid ) bought from Isetan supermarket. It comes in packet, about palm size, packet is in orange color. There is another brand in yellow packet about the same size.

A packet is for 4 cups of rice (before cooked).

Sprinkle while mixing with hands (wearing disposable gloves), I prefer to do when the rice is cold, it's easier on the hand and also help to determine the rice stickiness, the vinegar will make the rice less sticky and harder to roll the sushi, California roll would be no problem.

It's pre mixed with sugar and salt, easier for me cos my girls like the taste.

There is another brand, not sure of the name, in yellow packet, a bit more sour... not well received by my girls.

Hope this helped, enjoy rolling your sushi.... try the exotics, eg, Char siew or Peking duck

[Harlequin]

Oh, a tip… If you find the rice not sticky enough after mixing in the vinegar solution/vinegar powder, try to mash the rice by pressing it harder, this help to bring out the starch, and you will get the stickiness after a few minutes.


Using the bamboo mat helps to roll more uniformly, also less likely the seaweed sheet broken or stick to your fingers.

[kitty2]

SAHM_TAN:

When I was learning to make sushi roll, I read many online articles and watched YouTube on how to roll the sushi. I compiled and used selected portion fr each source.


Tools sushi bamboo mat. You can buy this fr Daiso. Daiso also sell the plastic container to get sushi roll without rolling. If you are using the bamboo mat, can consider to use plastic to cover it. I don't use bamboo mat. I free hand roll. The important thing to abt rolling the sushi is to keep the stuffing tight and roll it tight. Or else the filling might fall out when you slice the sushi roll. But not too much strength hor or else the seaweed might break. Don't fill too much ingredient becos will be difficult to roll and you might not be able to make a roll. Heehee.

Seaweed - place the rough side of the seaweed face up. This is the side you put the rice

Rice - fr what I read, after washing need to let it air dry and then soak for 30 mins. But now I just wash and soak heehee

I use the vinegar use for sushi, I will add in sugar and salt. The portion is 3 tablespoon vinegar, 2 tablespoon sugar and 1 teaspoon salt. This is for 11/2 cup rice. My kids like tangy and sweet rice so I a bit more of vinegar and sugar. I will warm the vinegar to help dissolve the sugar and salt. There are also seasoned vinegar then you can skip this but it contains MSG so I don't buy seasoned vinegar.

When the rice and vinegar mixture have cooled I will mix both.

Before you start rolling prepare a bowl of water.

When you have the seaweed top with some rice, wet your fingers before spreading the rice evenly on the seaweed. Leave a finger spacing at the top and bottom of the seaweed. The max limit for the filling is about half of the seaweed length.

Filling - up to your fancy. My fav is egg, jap cucumber, avocado for younger kids and older kid and me get additional smoke salmon. From the top of tjr seaweed, the side closest to you, I will line cucumber first follow by egg, avocado and salmon and then repeat but without cucumber. The ingredients will need to be sliced length-wise. For avocado, I use a spoon to scoop a thin slice. The filling is placed on the rice covered seaweed.

Then I free hand roll making sure gently tightly roll all ingredients together.

Now the cutting of the sushi, wet the knife blade fr the bowl of water. I get rid of excess water then cut. After each cut wet the knife blade and get rid of excess water. From the YouTube there's a way to let the water flow off but I just \"scrape\" the blade against the edge of the bowl LOL.

I fried the egg used for sushi making.

I think that's about it.

:salute: :thankyou:

[Jennifer]

I had spaghetti at Swensens.


Then my boy sabo me by ordering a dessert which he could not finish.