Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Easy recipe & you become a chef overnight

I am late for this posting, I remembered later during the day. I am sorry guys!

I thought of an easy recipe for students to make if they could spare 20 mins. If you have a sauce like ketchup, mustard, soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, or the popular one they use at Asian restaurants is Hoisin Sauce (should taste like Asian bbq). I use it for dipping and marinating. Also, if you just have salt, pepper, vegetable or olive oil, this is ok for any type of marinating you want to do via seafood, poultry, tofu, etc.

With a sandwich or frozen bag, clean the meat first, slice it into pieces if necessary. Judge by its size and usually it's one (large) tablespoon of sauce. Dump it in the bag. You may salt and pepper it for added flavor.

Zip it up and mush or mash the meat & sauce together, saturating it, then put the bag in the fridge for 10 mins. or longer if you want more taste.

Heat a skillet or if you don't have a skillet, use a saucepan. Heat it on high heat with one or two tablespoon of oil. Wait until the oil looks runny, add the meat. Use a spatula to flip it every three minutes. On medium heat. When it's done, the seafood has an opaque color or meat has a grayish color, chicken is white, etc.

While you cook the meat, this could be multi-tasking by adding two more things to cook. Add veggies (chopped, frozen, or canned) in another saucepan and boil with water. Veggies should always be above water level. Add instant cook box of rice, pasta, or conscious in another saucepan and also boil with water according to instructions.

Optional you could cook the meat right away without marinating in the bag, I've done this before and it taste fine.

Of course there are alternatives. Olive oil is best for flavor so use it whenever you heat something. Also salt and pepper (black & lemon). If you are lucky, go for soy sauce. You can also get away making peanut butter sauce like the Thai sauce in some dishes. Mix one tablespoon of soy sauce and one table spoon of PB, add in olive oil, and you should get a salad dressing. Try to mix equal parts should get mixed results.

Also try to cook several days in a row so then you don't have to waste time making something when there are leftovers.

2 comments:

Spencer said...

I don't get it, are you trying to make a patty out of the meat? It sounds like a good college dinner.

Anonymous said...

Lmao!!! No, no, I'm making marinated meat with no other seasoning. When it comes out, it should look like what you see on the cooking channel. It's a trick of the trade :)