Recipe: Bacon Wrapped Chicken

Since we bought a lot of chicken, we are experimenting with chicken recipes and ended up with this Fried Bacon Wrapped Chicken which is usually roasted or cooked in an oven.

Ingredients:

• Bacon Slice
• Sugar
• Salt & Pepper
• 6 pcs of medium Chicken Breasts cut
• 2 tbsp Soy Sauce
• 1 tbsp Vinegar
• Oil
• 2 pcs of Calamansi,
• 2 gloves Garlic
• water
• mozzarella cheese (optional)
• toothpick

Procedure:

• Bacon

1. Place bacon slices in a bowl, as many as you'd like or at least 2 bacon slices per chicken breast. So amount depends on how large the chicken slices are.
2. Add some salt and pepper and sugar, and mixed them well.

• Chicken

1. Place the chicken breast in a bowl. 
2. Add the soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, and calamansi juice. 
3. Mix all the ingredients.
4. Blanche the chicken.(Boil a cup of water in the pan. Once it starts bubbling, add the chicken along with the marinade. Wait for the chicken to turn white.)
5. Remove the chicken from the boiling water. Let it cool.
6. Slice the chicken in the middle, if you are adding (mozzarella) cheese.

• Bacon wrapped Chicken

1. Wrap the chicken in bacon slices, you can heat or fry the bacon beforehand but make sure that it is not cooked or already crispy.
2. Once the chicken is covered in bacon, stick a toothpick in the endpoints of bacon to held it in place.
3. Heat some oil in a pan. Fry the bacon-wrapped chicken in the oil. 
4. Make sure that all sides are well-cooked to thoroughly cook the chicken and bacon.
5. Place cooked chicken on top of a plate with table napkins to remove excess oil.
6. Place on a serving plate and pour syrup over the cooked chicken and serve.

• Syrup

1. I used Pulot (molasses) for the syrup actually. Or you can use brown sugar.
2. Place some sugar (pulot) in a pot, add some water. Wait for the sugar (pulot) to boil, then pour over the chicken.

Happy eating!!!

This was actually a recipe made during the cooking. There were some on-the-spot decisions that made everything OK like the cheese and the syrup. It was actually tasty, though the chicken was not as cooked as I would like, still the hubby loved it. So I am OK with that.

To avoid raw chicken meat, blanche thoroughly or longer so that meat near the bones will be well-cooked as well.

It was touch and go, and it turned out OK. After all, one could never go wrong with BACON!!!

Daghang salamat sa pagbasa!!!

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Food Review: Siomai

Last weekend turned out to be Food Weekend. Haha, Not sure what to make of it but stuff just happened, so here's a food or two consumed by yours truly just because.

First off, Siomai. 

I don't really eat siomai. I don't really have a reason to. My friends can attest to the fact that I really avoid eating it if I can help it. Saturday proved to be an exception to the rule. A friend brought siomai for taste-test and I enjoyed eating it, even the chili sauce.

There were two types of Siomai for the taking,

First is the Japanese Siomai which my friends always eat. It tasted great, much better when we squeezed calamansi over it and dip it in the accompanying chili sauce. I always thought that siomai tasted like the wonton people put in pancit molo, but nah they don't quite taste the same. The siomai tasted finer, haha.

The second one is Shark's Fin Siomai. This one tasted like the steamed shark's fin you eat in Chinese Restos or the fried ones you eat from the Fishball Stalls at the mall. It was chewy and tasted like meat. I wouldn't mind eating this one again.

So I liked the second one better. Not that the first one was bad, it was just something you see everyday everywhere.

Anyhow, my friend is selling Siomai and Siopao and 45-day free range chicken. So if you are in the vicinity of Iloilo City, you can order some.  Let me know in the comments and I'll put in a word for you.

Daghang salamat sa pagbasa!!!