On last Saturday dinner, I decided to cook western food for my fellow friends. I went to JJ in Kepong to get all my items needed for dinner. The menu is Cordon Bleu Chicken and black pepper spaghetti as main dishes, garlic bread, mushroom soup, French fries and chicken wing as entree and orange juice as drinks.


Cordon Bleu Chicken 1. Pound the chicken breast to flatten it 2. Place one slice of cheese on top of the breasts 3. Add one slice of chicken ham on top of the cheese 4. Start at the narrow end and roll the breast completely 5. Roll the chicken breast into the flour to cover completely with flour 6. Place the chicken breast into the egg and roll the breast in the same direction 7. Roll the chicken breast into the bread crumbs 8. Add enough oil in the wok (I dun have pan) and heat it to real hot 9. The oil should bubble when placing the chicken breast into the wok 10. Make sure the seam end breast is on the bottom first to prevent unfolding 11. Deep fry till it turn into golden brown and flip them over 12. Check to make sure they are golden brown before taking them out.

Black Pepper Beef Spaghetti 1. Cook the spaghetti in the boiling water as instructed on the package 2. Add two teaspoon of salt 3. Drain it and set aside 4. Fry crush garlic in the heated oil to fragrant 5. Add in button and soak mushroom and minced beef 6. Pour in black pepper sauce, pepper and salt to taste. 7. Add in spaghetti and stir fry to even.

For garlic bread just spread the garlic butter and baked it over 200 degree in the oven. Do not use French loaf as the result will be extremely hard after baking. It's my mistake that I have bought a french loaf as my garlic bread.

I bought big US potatoes and slice it together with the skin. Make sure the skin is completely clean though. Deep fry the potatoes until it turned golden brown, take it out and sprinkle some salt and fried garlic. Somehow the outcome is not that good. The French fries is crispy when just taking out from the wok but it became too soft in no time.

I am not sure how Daph did her marinated baked chicken wing but it taste rather good. This is my first time preparing western cuisine for my friends. I love the Cordon Bleu Chicken but the meat is a little too tough. On each plate, there is baked corn, salad and baked bean. I made a total of 3 plates of spaghetti where two are beef and another is chicken. Somehow I prefer the beef version. The French fries is a little soft while the garlic bread is hard. The mushroom soup taste just nice with pastry flake and slices of button and soak mushroom.

Overall, it's a successful western dinner. It seems to me like everyone enjoyed it. We have fun and a wonderful Saturday night. The preparation for all this took me and Daph more than 4 hours. By looking at the picture, the dishes lacking some decoration. Next time I need to learn how to decorate my dishes to make it look more pleasant. After dinner, we watch Harry Porter at Pavilion at 12.05am and comeback around 3.30am. We are so exhausted by the end of the day. |
6 comments:
Here is the comment Emperor's tongue
Well Executed!!!
But anyway, a normal typical cook won't pound the chicken breast before they roll it with cheese and ham.... At least tat smart pants assy Bu did not do tat. So which URL teach geh? :P
Just type Cordon Bleu Chicken in google box and see which recipe say typical cook won't pound it?
Hahaha!! Then u recheck all those webpage and URL see the cook/chef is it a typicall asean or it is a ang mo?
Asean style cookery tak ada pounding!!
Haha.. u mean asian one? Icic.. I follow mat salleh nye..
Baliah Choong, FFK!
Tak kisah asian or mat salleh, everyone have their own secret recipe and method. Penting mahu sedap. Test more to improve, kasi ah choong seorang liu kou sui ...
Orang ada hal sikit la.. Bo pien la.. Haha
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