Month: October 2022

Instant Pot Chipotle Chicken

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Wanted something quick to make with chicken thighs looked around several recipes and came up with this.

Ingredients

  • 1 small onion rough chipped
  • 3 cloves garlic smashed
  • 2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce + 1 tsp of the adobo sauce from the can
  • 1 tablespoon chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • 2 teaspoons cumin
  • 2 teaspoons oregano
  • 1 bay leaf 
  • 1 tsp chicken bullion
  • 1 cup water
  • salt and pepper
  • 2 lbs chicken thighs (fat trimmed)

Directions

Add all ingredients into Instant Pot. Add chicken and mix around and submerge chicken in liquid as much as possible. Cook on high pressure for 10 mins. Let pressure naturally release. Chop and add on top of rice with salsa. Enjoy

Chinese Green Onion Pancakes

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This is an incredibly simple recipe and easy to make but is enjoyable and satisfying to eat. I first tasted this in a visit to China and wanted to try to reproduce it. Here is the recipe that I have come up with for 3 pancakes, enjoy.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup of All Purpose Flour or Bread Flour
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup of boiling water
  • 4 green onions sliced into rings
  • 3 tablespoons of oil or butter for frying

Directions

Put Flour and Salt into a bowl and mix dry ingredients. Add boiling water and stir and mix together with fork till dough comes together. Separate into 3 balls and let rest for 30 mins. Roll out balls into disks and sprinkle 1/3 of the green onions on each. Roll up into a cigar shape with onions inside, then coil up cigar into a disk. Then roll out into a pancake and fry each pancake in 1 tablespoon of oil over medium high heat till browned and cooked.