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Our Ultimate Sweet & Sour Chicken Balls

Our Ultimate Sweet & Sour Chicken Balls

I say ultimate because you’ll never get anything like these in your friendly Chinese! We adopted an American technique and marinaded the Chicken breasts cubes in Buttermilk. It soaks in really well and tenderises the meat. We also bought some Mono-Sodium Glutamate from the local Chinese supermarket, which added a real (not so authentic) Chinese style.

Ingredients for the Chicken Balls:-

2 Chicken breasts, cut into cubes
450ml of Buttermilk
1/8 of a teaspoon of Mono-Sodium Glutamate
Garlic Salt
Onion Salt

Batter:-

2 Eggs
Plain Flour (Gluten free for us)
Soda Water
Garlic Salt
Turmeric

Additional flour
1 Egg, battered for an Egg wash

Method:-

(1) Add add the marinade ingredients to a bowl and mix well.
(2) Stir in the Chicken cubes and cover.
(3) Allow to marinade in the fridge for 30 minutes.
(4) Mix the batter ingredients to form a reasonably sticky batter.
(5) Remove the Chicken in small batches and dredge in Flour.
(6) Dunk in the Egg wash and then Flour again.
(7) Preheat a deep fat fryer to 180c.
(8) dip eat piece of Chicken in the batter mix and fry in small batches making sure they don’t stick together.
(9) When they float and are browned, remove and drain on kitchen paper.

We used Sue’s Sweet and Sour sauce recipe and just served over boiled Rice with a sprinkling of sliced Spring Onions.

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Ingredients:-
 
1lb Lamb Shoulder
2 ½ cups of Rice
5 Tomatoes, peeled, seeded and diced
1 tbsp Tomato Purée
1 Red Onion, sliced
1 White Onions finely chopped
4 cloves of Garlic, grated
¼ tsp Chilli powder
4 tbsp Oil
1 tsp Cumin
6 Cardamom Pods
2 pinches of Cinnamon
Salt
Coriander leaves
 
Method:-
 
Preheat oven at 350 F.
In a dutch oven, pan fry the meat over medium high heat. Brown on all sides without burning. 
Add all the onions and sweat. 
Add garlic, tomatoes, chilli peppers and tomato paste. Add salt and spices.
Cover everything with boiling water and put the dutch oven in the oven for 45 minutes. 
Check the tenderness of the meat and continue cooking if necessary. Also check the liquid level and add water while cooking if necessary. 
Remove the dutch oven from the oven and place on medium heat.
Add the rice to salted boiling water, cover and cook rice 15 minutes (5 minutes over medium heat then 10 minutes on low heat). Check the amount of liquid and add water to cook the rice if necessary. The rice should be slightly sticky and.
Sprinkle with Coriander leaves and serve hot.
Drain the rice and serve the Skoudehkaris over it with the Khamir as a side.
 
Khamir
 
1 ¼ cup (Gluten free) Flour
2 tbsp Sugar
1 tsp Baking powder
Pinch od Salt
1 Egg
¼ cup of Milk
 
Method:-
 
Mix all the dry ingredients.
Add the milk and Egg.
Blend into a smooth dough.
Roll out on a floured surface until ¾” thick.
Cut into squares
Fry on both sides.
Drain on kitchen paper.
 

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