Showing posts with label Chinese New Year Snack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese New Year Snack. Show all posts

Samosa With Spring Roll And Chicken Filling

 Samosa is an Indian snack. It is light and crispy and can be  made in different ways. Each person add their own different fillings. Mashed potatoes with chicken and other ingredients can be mixed in the fillings.
Samosa is very appetizing.

Ingredients:
150g chicken
3 potatoes
 3 onions
1 tbsp garlic
 1/2 tsp anise seeds
 1/2 tsp salt
 oil for deep frying.
 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
 12 Spring roll wrappers
 Flour paste (fairly thick made by mixing warm water and pastry flour).

Method:
1. Wash and boil potatoes till soft. Mash them till fine.
2. Ground chicken meat in a blender.
3. Heat up a wok and fry chopped garlic,onions, coriander, cumin and anise seeds together till fragrant.
4. Add the previously prepared ground chicken and mashed potatoes.Stir till cooked. Set aside to cool

5. To prepare the samosa, cut the wrappers into rectangular shape. Put some fillings on top of the wrappers. Fold into triangle shape



6. Brush flour paste on edges of the wrappers to keep them glued to each other.
7. Deep fry until golden brown

Crispy Fried Nya ku (arrowroot)

Nya ku is also known as arrowroot in English. It is a popular snack of the Chinese people during Chinese New Year. It can be cooked into dishes or deep fried into thin slices crispy snack. It can also be planted as a decorative plant.

Ingredients:

1/2 kg nya ku
oil for deep frying

Method:
1. Clean the nya ku. Scrap the skin using a small knife or scrapper.
2. Shred the nya ku thinly.


3. Heat up a wok and pour in enough oil for deep frying.
4. When it is hot, put in the nya ku piece by piece.
5. Keep the fire low so that the nya ku will not burn.
6. Take the nya ku out when it turns into golden brown in colour.


7. Drain them. well.
8. When cool, put them in an airtight container.