Sunday, February 14, 2010

Black Pepper Chicken & Award

Hello, everyone! I hope everyone had an amazing Valentine's day. Ours was great - we didn't do much this year because we all have been sick lately and just didn't really feel like doing anything really special. Don't worry. We still love each other, I promise. :) We've also been busy watching the Olympic games. I am a crazy fan of the Olympics events. I am Korean so my heart goes out to all the Korean athletes and I do cheer for Koreans before I cheer for Americans (I'm sorry!). But I do love all the American athletes except for a couple of them, maybe. But I'm such a big fan of Shaun White. He is amazing!! I can't wait to see his snowboarding games. Anyway, this blog isn't really about sports so I will stop here. :)

This weekend was also Chinese New Year (I call it Korean New Year) so I got to call my family and wish them lots of good luck this year. Did any of you celebrate the new year with delicious food? I think I want to, maybe next year, with different traditional Korean food. That'd be fun....

I am sure many of you enjoyed lots of great sweets over the weekend due to the Valentine's celebration. I made some cookies, too. I bet you all crave some flavorful homemade food. I do! :) Let me introduce you to this great dish that I tried a couple of days ago. I got the recipe over at Blog Chef - he has some of the greatest Americanized or authentic Chinese dishes on his blog. His black pepper chicken is easy and simple to make. The recipe doesn't call for unfamiliar ingredients which is nice. I didn't have any oyster sauce, though, so I used tiny bit of fish sauce instead. Although the fish sauce was a great addition, I'd buy some oyster sauce next time because it's got a different texture and flavor than fish sauce. I used coarse black pepper instead of fine so the taste of this was just excellent!


Black Pepper Chicken
For Bobby's original recipe, click HERE

Sook's Version:

Ingredients:

2 large chicken breasts, cut into bite sizes
4 tablespoons cornstarch (for dusting)
1 cup frozen peas
1 carrot, diced
oil (for frying) *I used about 2 tablespoons canola oil
1 green onion, chopped

Sauce:
1/2 teaspoon fish sauce
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon coarse freshly ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
1 teaspoon sake or rice wine

Directions:

Mix all the sauce ingredients together in a medium sized bowl and set aside.

Dust the chicken bites in cornstarch until fully coated.

Fry the chicken in oil until golden brown and cooked through. Drain on paper towels.

Heat about 1 tablespoon oil in a wok or a large pan, and stir fry peas and carrots for about 2 minutes. Add the sauce mixture to the pan and heat until bubbling. Add the cooked chicken and stir until the chicken is coated in the sauce. Sprinkle green onions on top and serve with rice.

Changes I made: I used about 4 tablespoons of cornstarch instead of 6. I used about 1/2 teaspoon fish sauce instead of oyster sauce. Although fish sauce was a great substitute, I would definitely try the oyster sauce the next time I make this dish. I also used freshly ground coarse black pepper instead of fine one.



I'd like to thank Corine for this lovely award. This award is given to those who love blogging and making friend through blogging. I love all my regular readers and they all deserve this lovely award. Thank you for this award, Corine.

56 comments:

  1. I just love your recipes. The ingredients are simple and they sound delicious!

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  2. An excellent dish, I can't wait to make it! Hope you had a wonderful weekend!

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  3. Looks so delicious. I love Chinese food.

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  4. I adore the peppery chicken! Yours look absolutely fantastic.

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  5. This is so delicious,love the pic and presenation of it...and congraz on ur award sook...

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  6. Yum!! simple but yet a delicious, tempting and colourful pepper chicken.;thanks for sharing..

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  7. hey Sook,have got 3 awards lined for u my sweet happy pal,do stop by and pic 'em up coz they are topped with loads of love,yeah valemtines=love@365......

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  8. And this pepper chicken truly looks fantastic......

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  9. a simple and lovely sweet looking dish Sook! beautiful~ ^^

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  10. Happy Korean New Year! Delicious Dish!

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  11. That recipe looks so good that i am trying it this week. The Olympics are so exciting and yesterday watching the Korean speed skater; they did great! I am cheering for our Canadians of course. Love your signature.
    Rita

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  12. Hi Sook,
    Take care! I believe good rests do help, my running nose is getting much much better after having a good sleep.
    Happy Chinese / Korean New Year to you too : ).

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  13. Hehee, Happy Korean New Year! The chicken looks simple but tasty.

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  14. What a great photo! It looks very delicious of course!

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  15. wow! beautiful presentation! looks delicious! congrats on the award!

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  16. Great photos.very colorful. Congrats on the award!

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  17. Happy Korean New Year Sook! I love chicken and your dish is so nicely presented.

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  18. oh your sweet love the Olympics as well, yummy chicken

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  19. I also love watching the Olympics! This chicken looks gorgeous. I bet my husband would love it. Congrats on the award.

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  20. Wow..mouthwatering chicken bowl...thanx for sharing,too good

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  21. Looks yummy.....I need to try this dish!

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  22. This looks delicious, I am definitely going to have to try it! It seems fairly simple, too and thanks for the complement..

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  23. I love watching the Olympics as well--such a great thing to see all countries gathered for something!

    Ooh this dish looks great--anything with chicken is good, but my favorite is chicken parmesan!

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  24. The dish looks fantastic. I love the bright vibrant colors, its a bowl full of happiness :)

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  25. Looks good and pretty healthy too. Yum!

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  26. I love the flavor of black pepper, so this dish is right up my alley! I tend to go for black pepper steak, but chicken is probably healthier :-P

    Hope you feel better soon! I'm feeling a little under the weather too - maybe something is going around.

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  27. I hope you're feeling better! Being sick is no fun!

    Ben loves Asian cuisine....I'll have to try this!

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  28. Oh man, that looks wicked good. I've never had it before, but I need to.

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  29. It looks lovely........chicken and veggies. Simple but stunning!

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  30. Oooh, I have never tried this before but I would love to give it a go. The flavors sound amazing. Happy Chinese (Korean) New Year!

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  31. This chicken looks great with steamed rice, I bet. Congrats on the award..

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  32. Happy New Year! This looks so good - I will definitely be trying it soon!

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  33. You always have great food here :) The picture is fantastic!!!That looks wonderful!

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  34. Give me mine with a bowl of white rice please :)

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  35. A yummy and healthy dish! :)

    Happy Valentine's Day.

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  36. Oh! I love this dish, and lots of black pepper sauce...thanks for the recipe, I usually by the sauce ready made :-)

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  37. Happy New Year! We did it right (the Korean way) with dduk gook :-) This chicken looks awesome -- and easy!

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  38. Oh, this looks so savory and delicious! I'd love to make this - I have both fish and oyster sauce, and it sounds like you would suggest the latter. 8-)

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  39. This is also a perfect homemade dish. I like it that you added a lot of vegetables to it.

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  40. You had me at Black Pepper! If there is one thing I can not ever have enough of, it's Black Pepper.

    Fabulous sounding dish! Gorgeous photos..simply beautiful!

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  41. I can have this dish any time with rice. Love the colour and it looks simple & delicious.

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  42. I am so unimaginative whenit comes to chicken. Thanks for an inspired (and easy) recipe!

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  43. Great recipe, looks fresh and delicious. Lovely photography too, I think I shall be returning to this newly discovered blog :) (thanks for visiting mine!)

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  44. This looks like a great, flavorful dish. I have never bought fish sauce or oyster sauce since I'm strange and don't like seafood. Do they taste like fish or oysters? I've probably eaten dishes at restaurants that had them and I just didn't know it.

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  45. Happy Korean New Year! The recipe looks yummy!

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  46. Grats on the award Sook! You deserve it!

    As long as we win the speed skating events and Yuna kills it for figure skating I'm happy if we lose the rest :P

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  47. wow!!! wow!!! Girly that looks awesome...such a mouthwatering chciken ...ooh i m drooling

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  48. Congrats on your award. Lovely recipe for chicken and vegetables.
    mimi

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  49. Happy New Year to you!

    Your recipe looks tempting; beautiful photograph.

    Congratulations on your award. Your blog is beautiful. Well deserved.

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  50. This looks absolutely gorgeous. Congrats on your award, it is obviously well deserved.

    I always support the British competitors ahead of Americans, not that we ever do terribly well. :-)

    I hope you and your family are over your illness, and enjoyed the Korean New Year.

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  51. Congrats on your beautiful award. I love watching the Olympics too!! Sometimes I will cheer for the Chinese over the Americans like in the pair figure skating. I think I pretty much cheer for everyone most of the time hahaha I am just amazed at what these athletes can do, because hell if I ever went out there what a shit show that would be! Anyways beautiful dish, I love the beautiful colors and man those plump pieces of chicken look so juicy and deeeeelicious. Sook you're killing me here, yum yum!

    OH happy korean new year btw :) May you have a prosperous new year!

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