Air-Fried Lemongrass Flavored Chicken Wings

These fried chicken wings were cooked in air-fryer. It is oil-free, and it’s fragrantly infused with lemongrass flavor. To increase the crispiness, potato starch was used to coat the chicken before frying.

Air-fried Lemongrass Flavored Chicken Wings (Air-Fryer Recipe)

Ingredients:
10 chicken wings, rinsed and excess fat discarded
potato starch

Marinades (blended):
2 stalk of lemongrass (just the white portion)
1 onion, peeled and diced
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 ½ tbsp of honey
dashes of white pepper powder

Steps:
1. Marinate the chicken wings for overnight in air-tight container.
2. Preheat the air-fryer for 3 minutes at 180 deg C.
3. Coat the chicken wings with potato starch and arrange in the air-fryer. Note: the air-fryer can fry 4 chicken wings at one time.
4. Fry the chicken wings for 15 minutes at 180 deg C. Overturn the chicken wings and fry for another 10 minutes or till golden brown.
5. Dish out.

Purple Sweet Potato Muffins 紫番薯玛芬

I bought some purple sweet potato from the store. Realized that I have not baked for ages, hence I decided to bake some muffins with it. Not bad at all. We were so satisfied to have some home made fluffy muffins for our Sunday breakfast. Life is simple.

Purple Sweet Potato Muffins 紫番薯玛芬

Yields for 11 muffins

Ingredients:
300g self-raising flour
170g caster sugar ( I used 160g instead as the sweet potato is very sweet)
3 eggs
125g unsalted butter, melted
125ml milk
100g purple sweet potato, steamed, peeled and mashed
additional milk (to mix up with mashed sweet potato)

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 180 deg C.

2. Mix up the mashed sweet potato with the additional milk prepared. Add milk a little at a time, repeat the step until you get the thickness like mashed banana.

3. Sift self raising flour into a large mixing bowl. Add the sugar, eggs, butter and milk. Add the mashed sweet potato and milk mixture. Mix until just combined. 

4. Scoop the batter into muffin trays/ muffin cups. Bake for 25 minutes.

5. Take out the muffins and leave it cool before serving.

Bowles Mint Jelly

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This jelly is something either you like it or you dislike it. You’ll like it if you like the smell of Bowles mint, or vice verse. Hubby requested some jelly as water soluble fiber to his diet. Here comes the new flavor for him since I have lots of home grown Bowles mint leaves harvested. Hubby did not comment much, but he finished up the jelly in few days time. 

Bowles Mint Jelly

Ingredients:

5 tbsp of agar-agar powder
1600ml water
20 Bowles mint leaves, rinsed under running water
brown sugar to taste

Steps:

1. Boil 1600ml water in a pot. Add Bowles mint leaves when boiling.
2. Leave it simmers for 5 minutes.
3. Mix in the agar-agar powder. Add brown sugar to taste. Leave it simmers for 3 minutes.
4. Remove the Bowles mint leaves. Off the fire, and leave the agar-agar mixture to cool for few minutes in the pot.
5. Pour it into jelly moulds. Cool it to room temperature.
6. Chilled for 2 hours before serving.

Baby Food - Kiwifruit Brown Rice Cereal

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Daddy fed baby kiwifruit while he was having it. Baby kept on approaching her daddy asking for more after tasting it. This is the body language to express her liking to one food. Hence, this weekend, kiwi fruit is added to her diet. It is rich in Vitamin A, Vitamin C, fiber, potassium and folate. It is also contains dietary fiber and antioxidants.

Kiwifruit Brown Rice Cereal

Ingredients: 

5 tbsp of brown rice cereal
hot water (add accordingly)
half of kiwifruit flesh, mashed

Steps:
1. Mixed up brown rice cereal with hot water.
2. Leave it cool for a while.
3. Top up the cereal with kiwifruit.
4. Serve warm.

Spinach and Meat Porridge

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A good way to add iron to baby’s diet is by feeding her spinach. The iron content in this green leafy vegetable is the richest among the others. From the info I got from a program, a newborn baby is having iron in her body through her mother. The iron will be used up for red blood cell production by the time the baby is 6M. So, it’s necessary to add this element to baby’s diet after you start feeding baby solid food since the source of iron in infant formula is no longer able to fulfill her needs. 

Spinach and Meat Porridge 

Ingredients: 

1 tbsp of white rice, rinsed
1 tbsp of millet, rinsed
5 pieces of soft lean pork (you can substitute it with another type of red meat or white meat)
spinach, chopped
200ml hot boiling water

Steps: 

1. Put all the ingredients into a small slow cooker, except the spinach and meat.
2. Add the meat when the porridge starts boiling.
3. 15 minutes before the porridge is ready, add spinach. Stir to mix up all the ingredients. Continue the cooking.
4. Off the power and leave it cool for a while.
5. You can either remove the meat from the porridge before feeding, or retain 1 or 2 pieces of the meat and puree the porridge before feeding.