Chinese Satay Dish

If you like peanut butter and Chinese Satay, then you might like this dish. It's really tasty.

Ingredients:

Chicken fillets (one per adult, half per child)

onion

1-2 garlic cloves

green pepper (other colours fine too)

A little fresh ginger

If you want to be authentic, use sesame seed oil

For the sauce:

quarter pint of water

two tablespoons soy sauce (dark is really tasty)

two tablespoons peanut butter (either crunchy or smooth is good)

squeeze lemon juice

teaspoon sugar

Method

Prepare the onions, peppers, garlic and ginger

Stir fry the chicken in vegetable or sesame seed oil until white all over.

Add the vegetables and stir fry until soft

Add the water, peanut butter, lemon juice and sugar into the pan and turn the heat down. Cook gently until the peanut butter melts and covers the ingredients with a lovely brown sauce. Stir gently to include all the ingredients.

Serve with long grain rice (20 minutes then wash with hot water to make it hot and fluffy) and peas (add frozen ones near the end of the cooking time) and enjoy.

My youngest doesn't enjoy this yet, but my eldest loves it when I serve it. You could experiment with other vegetables; these work for me. 

I really must start taking pictures!!

Photo Credit: Taken by Mike Johnson at The Busy Brain on Flickr.

The Great Brownie Bake Off

If you are really into cakes, then you might like to take a look at the Chocolate Consultancy website. They are holding a Brownie judging competition in London on 9th October which you can find out about here.

If you don't live near London, fear not! You can post your entry and the website gives tips on how to do it: for example letting the cake cool before packing it up. It sounds a really great innovative idea so well worth checking out.

The prize includes six months' worth of chocolate so can't be bad, although in the name of healthy home cooking, I suggest that you eat it slowly!

Let me know in the comments if you try this!