February 29, 2012

February 28th: Chicken Strips & Peanut Sauce, Baked Eggrolls

A couple more tries from Mom's cookbook, some good, some not so good:


Chicken Fingers & Peanut-Apricot Sauce


My family swooned. To quote Olivia: "Mom, I think I'm going to eat all this chicken, because I love it." Anything that gets my child to eat more than a couple bites of meat wins in my book. Yay, peanut sauce.




Baked Egg Rolls


I served this with the suggested accompaniment of plum sauce, but we three did not like the plum sauce, so I ended up throwing out the entire (big) pot. That was disappointing. The egg rolls were good, but even better the next day when I made some tweaks to the recipe. I'm going to suggest even more, which I intend to try out in future: 


(1) double the sauce mixture
(2) use 1/3 cup filling per egg roll
(3) fold as per egg roll shape, rather than rolling as per spring roll shape
(4) cook in a pan with plenty of oil in the bottom and turn halfway through


Assembly line


In well-oiled pan, and turned so coated in oil


The finished result; not too shabby, hey?



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