Chulet’s Hungarian Chicken Paprikash risotto

13 Friday Jan 2012

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A good friend dropped by from Singapore and since he has never been to Genting, we decided to take a trip there for lunch. (yummm… I can still remember the delicious food we had. Will blog about it when I have the motivation. Hehee). Anyway, I manage to get my hands on some really fresh and beautiful capsicum / paprika / bell peppers (mom calls it tanglung / lantern chilli) in the strawberry / mushroom  farm which was just 5 minutes away from the main shop in Gohtong (half way up Genting) 

With so much fresh paprika, I decided to cook Hungarian Chicken Paprikash and invite our friend Mr.F over for dinner with us.  

Ingredients I used

  • 4          Drumsticks
  • 4          Paprikas ( I used 2 red and 2 yellow – thinly sliced)
  • 1          Carrot (thinly sliced)
  • 1          Onions (thinly sliced)
  • 2          fresh Tomato diced
  • 1 tbsp  finely chopped garlic
  • 1 tbsp  Tomato paste
  • 1 tbsp Hungarian sweet paprika (you can grab them from any dry herbs rack)
  • 3 cups Chicken Stock Water (I just throw in one chicken stock cube in hot water)
  • 100gm Crème fraîche
  • 2 cups  Risotto rice
  • 2pcs     Bay Leaves

Melt some duck fat (which I had left over from my duck confit), and sauté my drumsticks till they are golden brown. Next, in goes my onions until soft, then, the garlic.

Throw in the tomato paste and hungarian sweet paprika. Fry till fragrant. Once this is done, I add my drumsticks, chicken stock water, carrots and paprikas. Tuck in the 2 bay leaves. Bring all these to boil and Cover the pan and allow the whole thing to simmer in low heat for about 20-25 minutes. Lid up, add salt and pepper to taste. (Being Chinese, I can resist adding a touch of Soya sauce and oyster sauce) 

Next, in another pan, I sauté some risotto rice with butter and olive oil. Once each grain is well coated with fats, I slowly transfer the paprikas stock ladle by ladle and cook till the rice soaked all these flavours. Transfer the drumsticks and all the vegetable over to the risotto.   

Sprinkle tomatoes over the top. Stir in the crème fraîche and watch the viscosity thickens. Yummm…. Absolutely delicious.

sorry – I was so hungry by then I didn’t take a picture of the finish product. aih….  ;p

My cat giving me the evil eye… bleh

11 Wednesday Jan 2012

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I caught Rabbit happily enjoying himself on his favourite chair. So, I decided to take a few pictures of him with my new samsung note. (testing out the camera)

When I took the first snap, he was shocked. You can see how his eyes got big and wide staring at me.

Ignoring him,

I continue to snap away testing the camera’s functions, zoom and auto focus abilities. (I was quite impressed with the Samsung Note’s camera). After finish playing around, I checked on the pictures and to my surprise, I found Rabbit giving me the ‘beh-song’ (not happy) face. Sort of a cross between irritated and angry. hehehehe… poor thing. He must have been irritated because I disturbed his peaceful rest. ;p

Fukuharu Zen Lunch (Terrace at Hock Choon)

06 Friday Jan 2012

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Hubby loves jap food. So for his birthday celebration with the family, he decided to try Fukuharu. 

** Fukuharu won the Best Japanese Restaurant category of the Time Out KL Food Awards in 2010 ** This was partly the reason why he chooses this restaurant. 

Fukuharu is located inside Terrace @ Hock Choon. Once you are inside, the restaurant gives off a peaceful vibe. We were shown to our table and immediately placed our orders as we were very hungry. They recommended we try their Fukuharu Zen lunch special which was priced at RM 38++.

We were quite attracted to the Zen set. So, we ended up ordering 3 out of the 5 variety they had. (Chicken Teriyaki /Saba Shioyaki and Beef Teppanyaki). The set comes with a mini kaiseki appetizer platter, Salad, Chawan mushi, rice and dessert.

I love the kaiseki they offer. It is nothing spectacular. But, each ingredient is fresh and the variety served was more than I had expected. Mom especially loves the slice of smoke duck. The Kaiseki is the same for all the sets. Follow by a salad, Chawan Mushi and then your main set.

Personally, I like the beef set the most. Chicken was quite so-so. The Saba set was ok but I feel that the serving was a little on the small side.

On top of that, we ordered the Edamame, Mentai Sushi, Erringi Yaki and Avocado Tempura.

The Mentai Sushi was basically Tamago sushi (egg) with a layer of grilled creamy mentaiko (fish roe) on top. It was really yummy. I love the taste of the still warm mentaiko together with the creamy sauce. It was definitely an interesting combination. Next, we had the avocado tempura. It was not really impressive. Unfortunately, I forgotten all about snapping picture by then. So, I can’t show you what the 2 dishes looks like. GOMEN !!!

I did however manage to get the Erringi Yaki after hub remind me about it. Hehehe.. This was done really well. I love what they did with the Erringi (a type of mushroom – mom called it chicken drumstick mushroom, hehehee… not sure if she made it up or it’s true). It was sliced in nice ‘chips’ size and grilled lightly with very minimal oil.  

 

We end the meal with Vanilla ice-cream draped with black sesame sauce. I definitely prefer this to a pure black sesame ice cream. I always find that a bit too over powering. This is just nice; simple and flavorful. Love it when I end a meal with good dessert. 

 Address:

Terrace@Hock Choon, 241-B Lorong Nibong, off Jalan Ampang, KL.

Tel: 017 209 8477

Opening times: Open daily, 12noon-2.30pm, 6pm-10.30pm