Healthy Polenta Chips

Potato chips replacement!

Finally. Let's be honest here, you can not just stop with eating 1 chip.

Here is the healthier version of potato fries. Eat them by itself or eat them as a side with a juicy steak.

What you need:
- 2.5 cups of water
- 1 cup of polenta
- 1.5 tsp of chicken stock (powder preferred)
- 1 tsp of rosemary
- Salt to taste
- Olive oil spray

Ingredients needed

Note that you will need to prepare a aluminium lined dish/container/baking pan.
Here I used 20cmx20cm.

Step one:
Pour the water and chicken stock into a saucepan, let it boil.

Step two:
In thin steady stream, pour the polenta into the boiling water mix while stirring.
Not too fast because you do not want it to clog up in mix.

Steady Stream

Step three:
After the polenta mixture become thicker and mashy, sprinkle the rosemary evenly while stirring.

Step four: 

While it's still hot, pour the polenta mix to the aluminium lined tin and press it down. Make sure there are no bubbles. 

Set aside to cool and set.

Step Five:
When cool, take out polenta out of the tin and start on cutting them into pieces.
Here, I cut them into 6cm x 3cm x 0.7 cm

Step Six:
Preheat the oven on 180C.
Lay the pieces on baking paper lined tray and spray them with olive oil.
When finish, pop them into the oven for 20 minutes.

Step seven:
Take them out from the oven, let them cool for a bit and then enjoy!
Good to go with BBQ sauce or chilli sauce.

That's it for now!

Until next time,

Tania xx

Potato Skins with Blue Cheese

With the Ashes Test still going, I wonder what will be the best munchies to go with it?

POTATO SKINS!

Here I used both golden delight potato and red delight potato.
Pick golden delight potato if you want to be able to fit more fillings and crunchier skin.
Pick red delight potato if you want more of 'bite-size' potato skins, as they are available mostly in medium size (flatter compared to golden delight potatoes) and they have tender skins (which tends to curl when you bake them).

Red and Golden Delight potatoes

Potato skins is similar to pizza, you can throw anything in the fridge and you are good to go.
This time, I have leftover blue cheese. So, here we go!

What you will need:
- 1kg of potatoes
- Oil Spray
- 150g Chopped bacon
- 50-75g Blue Cheese
- 100g Mozzarella Cheese
- 100g Red Capsicum (or any other colour)
- a handful of chopped onion spring
- Jalapenos and chilli flakes (if you like it spicy)

Step one:

Preheat the oven on 180C

Wash the potatoes and put them in the oven for 45-50 minutes

Bake for 45 minutes

 Usually, while waiting, I will cook the bacon, chop the capsicum, jalapenos, and onion spring.

Cooked bacon

Step two:
Take them out and cut them in half, length wise.
Scoop the inside, leave about 5mm of potato. (Careful! They are hot!)

Scoop them out!

Step three:
Put the scooped potatoes skin-side up on the rack and spray them with the oil.
Put them back into the oven for 10 minutes.
After that, flip the potatoes over (skin side down), spray and pop them into the oven for 10 minutes.

Step four:

Put bacon, capsicum, jalapenos, cheeses on and put them back to the oven for 10 minutes.

Ready to be put into the oven

Step five:
Take them out of the oven and let them cool a bit.
I know you can't wait to eat them up, but believe me, hold your horses.
You can serve them with sour cream and sweet chilli.
But I like them as they are, the blue cheese give that enough saltiness that you don't have to add anymore flavour.

Do not forget to sprinkle the onion spring and they are ready to eat!

DONE!

Beer on your left hand, potato skins on your right, what more can you have..?
Enjoy!

That's it folks!

Until next time,

Tania xx

Doritos Crusted Chicken Breast

People usually go with cornflakes for that extra crunch with their kitchen.

BUT, why don't we use Doritos?
The good thing about this is you can go with your favourite Doritos flavour.

So, lets get to it!

What you need:
2 cups of buttermilk
2 cups of flour (plain or self raising, whatever you have at home)
5 eggs
300g Doritos
900g chicken breast (without skin and bones)
Cayenne Pepper/Chilli Flakes (Optional, Sprinkle on coasted chicken before baking)

Step 1:
Cut the Chicken breast 2.5cm cube or smaller.
Pour the buttermilk into the chicken and keep in the fridge for 2 hours.

Step 2:
While waiting, crush the doritos (you can do it inside the bag).
Tip: For finer texture, you can put them in a food processor.

Step 3:
After 2 hours, take out the chicken from the fridge.
Preheat your oven at 180C.
The routine is to coat the buttermilk-coated chicken with flour, and dip it into the egg and cover it with doritos.
Repeat the routine for all pieces of chicken.
Lay them on baking paper-lined tray.

Step 4 :
Bake the chicken for 15 minutes.
Tip: Do not forget to check the bigger piece of chicken, if they are cooked or not.

Step 5:
Serve while they are still hot with any sauce you like! Tomato, BBQ, mayonnaise, or your own homemade sauce!

ENJOY!

Until next time,


Tania xx

Mini Bite Size Tortilla-Crust Pizza

Greetings, Food lovers!

So, instead of doing assignments, I procrastinated by making these mini bite sized pizza. So I thought, might as well blog it for people out there who's been eating Nutella sandwich while studying (Yes, you!)

Its a pizza, you practically can put anything you have in the fridge, slice em and pile em together.
This is ideal for any events, thus BE CREATIVE! You can put duck and blue cheese, if you prefer your pizza that way. :D

Ingredients

Ingredients (Clockwise):

• Tortillas (for the base)
• Cabanossi
• Corn (Can be fresh or from a can)
• Pizza sauce (you can use tomato sauce)
• Diced Capsicum
• Mix of tasty and mozzarella cheese
• Chilli flakes

And you will need:

• Cookie cutter (A can will work too, shown below)
• Muffin Tray (Preferably the mini ones)
• Spoon (or your finger!)

Step one:

Cut the tortillas

•  Cut the tortilla into smaller round pieces. I dont have a round cookie cutter, I used the bottom part of a can that comes with the corn. You can use a cup, or if you have steady hand you definitely able to slice it with knife. I find it easier to heat the tortilla in a microwave (not oven!) for 25 seconds and then cut them. 

Step two:

Prepare the base

• After cutting them into smaller pieces, place them on the muffin tray as shown above. 

Step three:

Pizza sauce

•  Put a layer of pizza sauce on the tortilla. Not too thick, because you dont want the tortilla to go soggy (in the future). 
• I mixed the chilli flakes with the pizza sauce, but if there are people who does not eat chilli you can just sprinkle them on top. 
• After applying the sauce, heat the oven up to 180 degrees Celsius. 

Step four:

Assembling

•  Throw (carefully) all the other ingredients into the tortilla. 

Step Five:

Oven time!

•  Place them into the oven for 10 minutes, 180 C. 

TA DA!

•  Check them between the 8th and 10th minute. I prefer my cheese to burn a little bit so I left them for the whole 10 minutes. 

Step six:

Lookin' good!

• Leave them for a couple of minutes before picking em up. It will be easier to pick up because the tortilla will hold its shape and you don't want to burn your finger and taste buds. 

 Step seven:

DONE!

•  And that it, Folks!

I hope you enjoy your pizza, because I certainly did! 

Until next time, 

Tania xx