Korea Fresh Ginseng Chicken Soup

Happened to came across The air-flown Korea Fresh Ginseng, brought in by Korea Agro-Fisheries Trade Corp into Tastefully KL last weekend. 

As most of you may know,  ginseng have been traditional taken to aid many health condition and often taken for general health. it's taken to improve thinking ability (good for work n studies), anti-inflammation and improve immunology system and many others. 

As I have been working hard lately and find myself get easily tired and poor focus. I decided to make some tonic and herbal to drink. Mom says, ones get younger by consuming tonic. 

The Ginseng that I came across at Tastefully is small and slim but the aroma n flavour is powerful. The leaves and stem is also edible. 

Since we got this good stuff, I have make into a Ginseng Chicken Soup, double boil for 8 hours to consume. 

Ingredients :

1 pc x Korea Fresh Ginseng

1 Whole Chicken leg n Thigh

2 pcs x Jujube

Pitch of salt

Step :

1) Boil water - you will need it to pour into the double boil electric boiler.

2) Clean chicken and de-skin. Remove any fats. 

3) Boil the chicken in another pot and let it boil over 15 - 20 mins or until completely cooked. 

4) Wash ginseng thoroughly and de-seed jujube. 

5) Place chicken,  ginseng and jujube into the ceramic pot, pour in hot water, cover it and put into the double boiler. 

6) I turn under high heat until the water is very hot then switch to auto to let it simmer for 8 hours. 

The soup is clear and golden in colour. 

Double boil

Cover with a ceramic lid. 

Double boil,  is a Chinese cooking technique that is commonly used to cook soup and herbal. It uses a ceramic jar put inside the larger pot filled with hot water. The soup is cooked from heat generated from the steam. It cook over long hours,  6 - 8 hours, to finish. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_steaming

The Guild-Free Citrus Sweet & Sour Pork

It's always enjoyable to explore new taste into old recipe. Today, I have adapt Sweet & Sour Pork (咕噜肉 ) by infusing Lemon into the recipe.

The other day, I have also made a different variation of Sweet & Sour Pork using Lychee as part of the ingredients. The combination of Lychee and ketchup matches well but the proportion have to be careful so that the ketchup and vinegar does not over mask the Lychee taste. As I am short of Lychee today, I used Lemon in the recipe.

You may have order Sweet & Sour Pork in any Chinese restaurant and you should have know that the pork must be deep-fried crispy, which is not easy to copy at home as it will be messy and uses a lot of oil.

I do not like to do deep-fry at home for many reasons - it's not healthy, it contain alot of calories (and very fattening) and oil is expensive! Lolz. Hence, I have been exploring with my Airfryer to achieve the deep-fry result like how you see it in the Chinese restaurant or Tai-Chow.

This recipe make a small portion of Sweet & Sour Pork with Lemon.

Suitable for 2 - 3 pax.

Ingredients :

For Pork Marination :

200g pork (lean meat - slice into thin pieces)

1 tbsp Chinese Rice Wine

pinch of Salt

a dash of fish sauce

1 Egg (beaten and pour in some to the Marination, just need to wet the pork)

Mix well and leave it a side for 30 mins.

For Coating :

4-5 tbsp of multi-purpose flour

2 tbsp of corn flour

1 tsp of baking powder

1 tsp of Paprika

0.5 tsp of ground rosemary

0.5 tsp of groud black pepper

0.5 tsp of salt

Mix well

For Sauce :

1.5 tbsp of ketchup

1 tbsp of plum sauce

1 tsp of hoisin sauce

1 Whole Lemon (cut and extract half of the lemon for juice, and the other half to slice)

2 bowl of water (water to adjust according to the taste)

Mix well

Sauce thickening :

1 tbsp of corn flour

half bowl of water
You will only use 2-3 tbsp only.

To finishing :

3 tsp of Brown Sugar (sweetness to adjust accordingly)

Cooking

Pork Marination & Coating

Lemon Sweet & Sour Sauce

Pre-heat AirFryer for 5 mins@200°C.

Put in the pork into the AirFryer for 15 mins@180°C.

Coat the pork with the some oil. Alternative, you may spray oil on the pork. Just ensure the pork is well coated with oil. Turn on AirFryer for another 15 mins.

Now, heat up your frying pan and pour in the sauce. Quickly add in water to dilute the sauce. 

When it bubble, add in 2 - 3 tbsp of the Sauce thickening. Mix well and watch the sauce to thicken.

Note : If you do not like it to be too sourish, you can reduce the sauces amount including lemon juice and do not cook the lemon any longer.

Transfer the ready pork into the Sauce and add in 3 tsp of brown sugar. 

Adjust sweetness to your liking.

Tara! It's ready.

Hope you like it.