Korean Fire Chicken

I was craving something spicy last week when the weather was really crappy. This spicy and sweet dish really lifts your mood.

It was actually quite easy to make, and I did tone down the spiciness just a notch so my flatmate could eat it without dying. Also I didn't have quite a whole chicken. But you can just adjust the spiciness to your taste.

Here's the ingredients (And I'll try to be more specific with the amounts)

• 1 kg Chicken
• 2 Onion diced
• 4 cloves of Garlic crushed
• 2 tablspoon of Soya Sauce
• 1 tablespoon of Sesame Oil
• 2 tablespoon of Honey
• 2 tablespoon of Sugar
• Pinch of Salt and Pepper
• 2 stalks of scallion/spring onion/ eschallots (Was having this discussion with Squishies what the long green tubes with white bits at the end are called....)
• 1 tablespoon toasted seasame seeds
• 1/2 Nashi Pear
• 1 tablespoon Chili Powder
• 3 tablespoon Korean Chili Paste
• 1 tablespoon of Dried Chili Flakes

Directions:

• Marinate the Chicken with 1 of the onions, 1 stalk of scallion, garlic, soya sauce, seasame oil, honey and sugar for 30 - 45minutes
• In the food processor/blender thingy, add the nashi pear, chilis, honey, sugar, other onion and blitz into a thick red paste - aka Fire sauce
• Brown the chicken in a hot pan with some oil, add the Fire sauce to the chicken and cook until sauce thickens.
• Serve with remainder scallion and scatter the toasted seasame seeds
• Best serve with white rice

Korean Night

Never been a fan of cooking Asian food, though I do love eating it! So this morning my Asian BF (Dr Rats) told me she passed her full license driving test, (Yay! Congrats! so I offered to cook her dinner to celebrate. And then came the guest list....

Had Singerboy, Ms CrazyChicken, DangerousDriver and The Handsome Welshman (THW).

I remembered I still got most of the ingredients for this Korean dish - Fire Chicken that my flatmate made previously.

And it was really yum. So working along that line, i got the noodles to make Jap Chae (potato glass noodles), got some kim chee, dumplings and Endamame beans and also some Chinese broccoli just in case there wasn't enough veggies.

Being my first attempt, I was quite happy with the results. Dr Rats even said "But thank you for dinner, it was very very good! Very impressed la cause it tasted like the restaurant stuff!" YAY!

And considering it wasnt that hard to make, will definitely do it again!