Airfry Peanut Butter Banana Brownies

I came across this simple brownie recipe on FaceBook:

Batter ingredients:

Add these:
-1 Tbsp Cocoa Powder
-1 Tbsp Peanut Butter
To mix in:
-1 banana (mashed)

Airfry the batter in a container at 160°C for 30 minutes.  Top the brownie with dark chocolate chips and a sprinkle of sea salt flakes.

Here is another way to bake it with similar ingredients: 

These are the ingredients required:

Easy Way to cook Chicken Breast

 I am not a fan of chicken breast but this looks like an interesting way to eat it.

These are the ingredients required to cook it:

These are the ingredients for the mashed potato dish:

DIY Chocolate Popcorn

I buy nuts and herbal soup from Signature Market.  Recently, I came across their recipe for making chocolate popcorn.  These are the ingredients required: 

-2 Tbsp Popcorn Kernels
-2 Tbsp Butter (melted)
-1 Tbsp Honey
-3 Handcrafted Bellagio Chocolate Beverage powder from Signature Market
-A pinch of salt

Here are the steps to make chocolate popcorn:

1) Cook popcorn kernels over fire till they pop.  Put them aside to prepare the flavouring ingredients.

2) Melt the butter and add chocolate powder to mix.

3) Add popcorn to coat.

You can use unsweetened cocoa powder to make chocolate popcorn by mixing it with sugar and melted butter.  

I read that you can make your popcorn taste even better by adding 1 teaspoon of baking soda which will form tiny bubbles in the caramel to make it airier.  If you do not want your caramel to be hard and dense on the popcorn watch this video to see how it should be added. 

Ways to Eat Nian Gao

I have shared earlier, how nian gao is made and how it can be eaten, deep fried with sweet potato and yam.  These are other ways, Nian Gao can be served.  

You can fold it in puff pastry squares and airfry them, as shown in this video.

Or bake them in an oven.

You can also wrap Nian Gao in rice paper or spring roll wrappers to pan fry or deep fry, as shown in this video. 

An interesting way to prepare Salmon

It will be easier to remove the skin of the salmon by attaching it under the pot cover and heating it over water, as shown in this video. 

I wonder if it will work just as well by placing it on a steamer try to steam.  

Also check out the tips for cooking restaurant style salmon shared in a short video by Sonny Hurrell on his "That Dude Can Cook" YouTube channel.  If you have the time, watch this video for the full recipe.

Caramel Pudding made in Airfryer

I came across this Caramel Pudding recipe on Instagram.  I like it because I can make it in my airfryer.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by @world.coooking

Based on this video, you place the following ingredients in a bowl to scramble:

-2 eggs
-1 Tbsp Sugar
-150ml milk

Pour the egg mixture in tinfoil containers to airfry them at 160°C for 10 minutes.  Sprinkle the top with sugar and airfry them for another 5 minutes before serving.

In another video I saw on YouTube, you have the option to add a little white vinegar if you would like to neutralize the fishy smell in eggs.  The amount of ingredients to be scrambled in a bowl differs as follow:

-2 eggs
-100ml milk
-a little sugar
-a little white vinegar

The content is than airfry at 170°C for 12 minutes and an additional 5 minutes after topping the top with sugar.

You can still make this dessert if you do not have an airfryer or oven.  You can make it by steaming the egg mixture in ceramic bowls for 12 minutes on medium high heat, or until the egg custard is set, as shown in this video.

You can find the recipe for Steamed Egg Pudding at Huang Kitchen

Shortcut for Making One Pot Rice

Do you know that leftover rice kept in the fridge can become too dry? 

When I have to heat up a bowl of leftover rice in the microwave oven, I always add a tablespoon of water to it.  If I used leftover sauce, I will heat it up in a pot over the stove. I can add water to the sauce if I think it is not enough for the amount of rice I am heating.  Once the sauce is boiling, I will then add the rice to heat up. Once the rice is fully heated, I will taste it to see if I need to add any other sauce to enhance its flavour.  

Recently, I used the excess sauce from cooking Ginger Soya Sauce Chicken to heat up a bowl of leftover rice and discovered that it tasted just as flavourful as claypot rice.  

These are the ingredients used for making a basic claypot rice.

You can see how the ingredients are prepared and cooked in this video: 

These are the ingredients I used for making my ginger soya sauce chicken.

As my family do not eat food that are too sweet or salty, I am able to double the amount of water for making the sauce.  However, should I found the sauce too bland, I can always add sugar, soya sauce and oyster sauce accordingly.  Once the sauce is boiling, I will pour the excess sauce out into a bowl for storage.  Then I continue to cook the ginger soya sauce chicken till the sauce thickens.

When I use the sauce from my ginger soya sauce chicken, I can also include the additional seasoning sauce and ingredients used for flavouring the clay pot rice which are as follows:

-Sesame Oil

-Shaoxing Wine

-Chinese Sausage 

-Fried Shallot Oil

-Tsp Sesame Oil

-Spring Onion 

-Fried Shallot

If I want Chinese sausage in the rice, I sliced one thinly to pan fry in a little oil.  Once it is ready, I add the sausage and a little of its lard to the rice.  It should taste good enough even without the spring onion and fried shallots added.