Desiccated Coconut Gula Melaka Chicken Wings

I joined a Facebook group named "Singapore Home Cooks" which hold many challenges weekly, This is the 4th week that they are holding it, the theme was "Chicken Wings". This is an ingredient that many home cookers will use in almost their daily meal like me. I decided to give it a try on a recipe using gula melaka. Gula Melaka is normally an ingredient used in dessert only till recently my friend, Rita, told me that she ate Gula Melaka Chicken Wings in a Nyonya Peranakan Restaurant with her family. According to her, it was tasty but too sweet.

With the inspiration from what she had mentioned and my unawareness of the actual taste, I take a risk to try cooking this dish. As we all know that coconut is always a best partner of gula melaka therefore I planned to combine this two ingredients together with chicken wings to work out a dish.

Here it is, first trial of this recipe.

Desiccated Coconut Gula Melaka Chicken Wings

Recipe attached as below:

Ingredients

3 pcs Chicken Wings
1 tsp Salt
2 tsp Soya Sauce
1 pinch Grounded Pepper
1 tsp Ginger Juice
Cooking Oil (enough to fry the chicken wings)

Coating

100gm Plain Flour/All-Purpose Flour
1 egg
100gm Desiccated Coconut

Sauce

45gm Gula Melaka, crushed
15ml Water
25ml Coconut Milk
10gm Butter
¼ tsp Salt

Method

1. Season the Chicken wings with salt, soya sauce, grounded pepper & ginger juice for 2 hours or overnight.
2. Coat the chicken wings with plain flour then egg & lastly with dessicated coconut.
3. Deep-fried it till cooked.
4. Add the gula melaka & water in a thick bottomed pot and cook until gula melaka melted. Keep swirling the pan so that the sugar can cook evenly.
5. Once the gula melaka is boiled, take it off the heat and add butter. Stir until it's completely melted into gula melaka.
6. Next, add in the coconut milk and salt and whisk in until you have a consistent sauce.
7. Add in the chicken wings & coat well or you may choose to drizzle it over the chicken wings.
8. Serve & Enjoy !

*Note: 

• You can choose to increase the amount of ingredients for sauce as it can be store in refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. 
• Serve it on a cake, in a cake, over ice-cream, tarts, crumbles, pancakes, brownies, waffles, toast, granola.

Fried Carrot Cake - Black

Fried carrot cake is one of the foodies in my growing up life as breakfast or tea-break or supper no matter it is black or white. Being loving it so much and seen many homemaker cook this at home.

Recipe out there are always for large portion of 2 pax and above. Therefore it is really hard for me to follow when I just need just 1 pax amount. After a few try, I finally found the right amount for each ingredients to dish up an amount just nice for 1 pax especially like myself with a small consume ability for each time.

Carrot Cake for 1 pax

Recipe attached as below:

Ingredients

150 gm carrot cake (store bought)

3 tsps chai po, minced (also known as Preserved Turnip/菜脯)
1 clove garlic, minced
1 egg, beaten
2 tbsps cooking oil
1 - 2 tbsp of Black Sweet Sauce (depends on how dark you like to have it & the type of black sauce you use)

½ tsp homemade sambal chilli (add more if you like it to be more spicy)

Method

1. Soak and wash the chai po then set aside.
2. Minced the clove of garlic and set aside.
3. Heat the wok with cooking oil. Add the carrot cake and cut up the carrot cake while stir frying for about 5 mins. Scoop into a bowl and set aside for later use.
4. Add chai po and garlic into the remaining oil in the wok and stir fry till fragrant.
5. Add back the carrot cake and stir to mix then add 1 tbsp of black sweet sauce.
6. Add in the beaten egg, ½ or 1 tbsp of the black sweet sauce together with the chilli. 
7. Enjoy it !!!

I personally have a preference of ingredients. If there is time allowance, using homemade carrot will taste even better. But if you do not have the time, no worry, you may buy the ready made carrot carrot from most of the supermarket like NTUC Finest, Sheng Siong.

Ready-made Carrot Cake Pic 1

Ready-made Carrot Cake Pic 2

I also like to use Kwong Cheong Thye (KCT) Black Sweet Sauce as it is able to give me the same taste as those carrot cake sold out in the hawker centre. you can purchase it from it's retail outlet in aljunied or some supermarket like NTUC Finest do carry. 

Black Sweet Sauce by KCT