Friday 5 March 2010

Baked Portuguese Chicken with Egg Fried Rice 焗葡國雞飯

Gebacken portugiesisch Hähnchen mit gebraten Reis - Rezept auf Deutsch
焗葡國雞飯 - 中文食譜


Baked Portuguese Chicken with Egg Fried Rice
Galinha à Portuguesa
Ingredients for 3 servings
  • 1/2 chicken
  • 1 onion
  • 1 carrot
  • 2 medium size potatoes
  • 2 bowl (400g) cooked rice
  • 1 egg
  • 1 table spoon desiccated coconut
  • 1 table spoon butter
  • few pieces of ginger
  • Chicken seasonings: 1 teaspoon soy sauce, 1 tea spoon rice wine, 1/2 teaspoon sugar, 1/2 teaspoon corn starch, a pinch of salt
  • Portuguese sauce: 3 teaspoons Turmeric paste (yellow ginger paste), 200ml coconut milk, 200 ml full milk, ~200ml water
Preparation
  • Wash the chicken and cut into chunks, marinade with the seasonings and set aside.
  • Peel onion, dice half of the onion into small cubes and thickly slice the other half.
  • Carrot and potatoes cut into wedges and set aside.
  • In a soup bowl, mix turmeric paste, coconut milk and milk together.
  • Beat egg and season with salts.
  • Preheat a big frying pan, add butter and onion cubes to fragrant, pour in egg and rice. Fry until rice are aromatic, remove from pan and rest in a oven dish.
  • Add oil, ginger and chicken, pan fry until the skins are golden brown, remove from pan and set aside.
  • Put onions into the pan and fry to fragrance, following with carrots and potatoes, fry all the ingredients for few minutes. Then pour in Portuguese sauce and chickens. Add water depending on the texture desired. Cover the pan and turn to low heat, simmer for half hour. Stir occasionally to avoid burning. 
  • Preheat oven to 200°C (Gas Mark 6).
  • After the sauce are thickened. Remove from pan and pour over the rice. Sprinkle with desiccated coconut. Set into the oven and bake until golden brown.

Wir Sind Helden - Stiller
Prepare all the Ingredients first!
Then get ready the egg fried rice


Pour over the Sauce

Mini Tips:
  • If don't know how to cut a chicken, seek help from your butcher. Or replace by 1 pound of chicken fillets and chicken wings.
  • Turmeric pastes already contains herbs to give more fragrance. If using turmeric powder, you may add cumin seed and mixed herbs as desired. These ingredients can found in South Asia food store.
Yum!!!

3 comments:

  1. wow...you seriously have the recipe for this?!?!? THIS IS MY FAVOURITE CHINESE DISH!!!! "gook-poh-gok-gey fahn" ?!!! excuse my chinese loll ...but this is just EXCITING!!! i will have to definitely try this!!!

    by "full milk" do you mean whole milk??

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  2. You are totally cool! "gook-poh-pok-gey fahn". My mom cooks this dish since I was young, and it was highlight of the evening.

    Yes, Full (fat) milk means whole milk.

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  3. oh this is just too cool! i loved eating this at thos dai-pie-dong's u know?? (the fast food places loll) and ALWAYS wanted to know how to make this!! thank you TONS for posting! do you know any substitute for rice wine?!

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