When we run out of ideas on what to cook, just see what meats, seafood and vegetables are in the refrigerator and try to mix and match them to create a new dish. Or, just surf the World Wide Web to look for ideas. We need not copy ingredient for ingredient nor method for method when we do that as cooking is an art. We can add our ideas to whatever recipes that we have seen and create another new dish. For this dish - Braised Chicken with Capsicum Sprinkled with Sesame Seeds, I have seen a video (just the method without the weight of ingredients) on the World Wide Web. I have just estimated the ingredients and went ahead with cooking it.
Ingredients:
- 300 g chicken meat
- 1 1/2 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 6-8 g white sesame seeds
- 100 g capsicum, various colours
- 1 tbsp + 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1/4 cup water
Method:
- Wash and cut the chicken into bite sizes.
- Marinate them with dark and light soy sauces, pepper, salt and sesame oil for at least an hour.
- Toast the white sesame seeds till golden brown and fragrant. Set aside.
- Wash and cut the capsicum into little squares.
- Heat up wok or pan with sesame oil.
- Saute the garlic till fragrant.
- Add the marinated chicken and fry them.
- Add some water to braise the chicken till they are cooked.
- Add the capsicum and give them a quick stir (as I like to maintain their crunchiness).
- Scoop them onto a serving plate.
- Sprinkle the sesame seeds onto the chicken.
- Serve