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Stir fry chicken with fermented black beans and bell peppers

September 6, 2008 – 2:30 pm by wiffy

Here’s part two of my growing bell peppers post, featuring a recipe cooked with the harvested bell pepper ^_^

This is a deliciously homely and pleasing Chinese stir fry dish which I learned from a cookbook. There were so much flavour in this dish, that we needed extra rice to go with it

Ingredients
(Serves 2)

Credits: Recipe taken from “100 Homemade Dishes” by Irene Wong

150g chicken, chopped to small pieces
1/2 red bell pepper, cut to wedges
1/2 green bell pepper, cut to wedges
1 tsp fermented black beans (finely chopped)
1/2 tbsp chopped garlic
1 tsp chopped shallots
1/2 tbsp Chinese cooking wine (”shaoxing”/”hua tiao” wine)
1 tbsp cooking oil

marinade:
1/2 tsp light soy sauce
1/2 tsp dark soy sauce
dash of white pepper
1 tsp corn starch
1 tsp olive/vegetable oil

Seasoning:
1.5 tbsp water
1/4 tsp sugar
1 tsp oyster sauce
1/2 tsp corn starch

Directions
1. Mix chicken with marinade and leave on for at least 10 minutes.
2. In a wok, heat oil and stir fry bell pepper wedges until cooked and side aside on a plate.
3. Using the remaining oil, stir fry fermented black beans, shallots and garlic till fragrant.
4. Add in chicken pieces and stir fry for 2 minutes. Sizzle cooking wine, cover the lid and cook for 3 minutes.
5. Pour in seasoning slowly and stir until the sauce is thick.
6. Return cooked bell peppers to wok and stir evenly.

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This is my entry for :Grow Your Own”, a food blog event started by Andrea, and currently hosted by … me!! Do you grow your own food too? Details on how to participate in the current edition here.

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Grow Your Own: Bell Peppers

September 5, 2008 – 2:48 pm by wiffy

Oh, how I luuurrrvvveeee bell peppers (aka capsicums) - especially big, red, organic ones

Don’t they make the loveliest food porn models?

These are the bell peppers which I harvested together with my eggplants in July.

Do you know?

… that if your bell peppers are the red variant kind, you can get different colours of bell peppers by harvesting them at different times? The bell peppers will grow from green to yellow to red. Personally I like to harvest them when they are yellow or red

Bell Peppers, turning from yellow to red… can you see some remains of green, and the onset of red from the yellow base?

Fortunately I took these photos back then, because sadly, my plants aren’t looking that great currently, sigh >o<

So anyway, pssstt… wanna find out what I wokked with these home-grown bell peppers? Stay tuned for the recipe, coming up tomorrow! =)

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I’m hosting Grow-Your-Own!!

September 3, 2008 – 8:09 pm by wiffy

Oooo I’m so excited!~ Because … I’m the current host for Andrea’s Grow Your Own event, & this is also the first food blog event I am guest hosting. Thank you, Andrea, for giving me a chance to take part in this event, in more wonderful ways than one =) If this is your first time at my humble food blog … thanks for visiting and welcome! ^^

My previous GYO posts::

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[GYO Rules]

- Make a dish that uses at least one item from your very own garden or farm and post about it. Your garden doesn’t have to be big. Container gardens are welcome! If you hunted or foraged, those items are also eligible. You can also use something that was given to you, but the giver must have personally grown or raised the item. If you paid for it, then it doesn’t count.

- Anything edible that you have grown or raised qualifies, including fruits, vegetables, herbs, sprouts, edible flowers, nuts, grains, legumes, dairy products, eggs, livestock, and anything else I might have forgotten. Produce from both indoor and outdoor gardens are welcome! Different regions will have different things available, so feel free to feature things unique to your area. (Rambutan trees, anyone?) We are all about celebrating variety!

- Please make sure your dish is posted during the month of the event because we like to celebrate seasonal items. One post per blog, please.

- If you want to include one of the Grow Your Own badges in your post, feel free to grab one from here (scroll towards the end). (Please upload to your own server/image repository.)

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[Submission Details]

- Closing Date:: 15 September, 23:59, GMT +8

- As a courtesy, please include a link to this announcement in your blog post, as well as to Andrea’s Recipes, and then update later with a link to the round-up.

- You can submit your entry using the easy form below.

- In case the form doesn’t work for you, you can also email your entry to (wiffy AT noobcook DOT com)