Uni Food: Recipe #2 (Roast chicken and broccoli rice)

Uni Food: Roast Chicken and Broccoli Rice

This recipe is probably the first thing I actually cooked in my dorm room kitchen. This recipe is a lot harder than the pan pizza. It tastes delicious however you might want to check if your oven is strong enough/hot enough to cook the chicken as I found that ours was a little undercooked on the inside. This recipe can make 4 servings! So you can share them with a flatmate or friend :) I made this recipe with a friend and we managed to have some leftovers for the next day. Keep in mind that this recipe takes quite a while this is good for the weekends, if you want a hearty meal!

Recipe: 
1 whole chicken
Chicken seaoning: ginger
                              garlic
                             pepper & salt
                            mixed herbs
                            olive oil
Roasting pot
2 cups of rice (there will be left overs)
water
chicken stock (1 cube)
1x Broccolli

Method:
1. Pre-heat your oven to 200 degrees.
2. For the Chicken: wash your chicken under the tap making sure the insides are clean
3. Remove the chicken feet using a knife. Only the Feet!
4. Make a marinade for the roast chicken using garlic, ginger, pepper, salt, herbs and olive oil. Rub this on the chicken and leave the chicken out for 5 mins while you cut up your broccoli.
5. For the Broccoli: Cut up your broccoli and place into a pan with oil. Cook until the broccoli is a little soft. Add a little bit of chicken stock into the broccoli and cook until the broccoli is soft.
6. Place the chicken in the oven and cook until the meat on the inner thighs are cooked. Poke your fork into the meat. If blood is coming out instead of a clear liquid put back into the oven or if the meat is still pink.
7. For the Rice: Rinse the rice and place into the rice-cooker/pot. Add water about 1 cup of water or more. Cook the rice in a rice-cooker or a pot until rice have fully absorbed the water.
6. Place the broccoli into the rice and stir.
7. When the chicken is done take it out and slice the meat off the bones removing the wings and the thighs first.
8. Serve with rice and store in a box (leftovers) if you are serving only 2 people.

x Hong Kong Girl

Uni Food: Recipe #1 ( Pan-cooked Pizza)

Pan-cooked Pizza 

Ok this might sound strange as it is a well known fact that pizza is baked in an oven. However, the oven in the kitchen refused to work when I made it and with the dough I made I had to adapt.

Tastes just like a regular pizza except crispier!

The Dough: 
2 1/2 cups of flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1tsp salt
1tbsp oil
3/4 water

Method: 
1. Mix Dry ingredients in a bag/bowl.
2. add water and oil. If the dough is too stiff add more water.
3. Kneed for 3 minutes.
4. Put flour onto counter and Roll into a circle.
5. place in a hot pan (medium heat) with just a little bit of oil.
6. put the rolled pizza dough into it. Cover the pan with a lid or aluminium foil. Cook until the bottom and top is crispy (around 4-6 mins).Take out or it might burn!
7. Add your toppings and place into the pan again to heat/until cheese has melted (around 5-10 mins).

x Hong Kong Girl

13th October 2013- Walking down the Uni Life road...

13th October 2013- Walking down the Uni Life road...

Been debating what to write for the past few weeks... and haven't felt like writing in a while which is uncharacteristic of me. I always love to write whether it is fantasising about a future book I would like to write or writing in my diary. Yes you must be rolling your eyes by now after hearing that I love writing yet I haven't written in about a month -_-. Not proving my point haha! But for those of you who are reading this blog let me tell you about what I have been up to :) 

First day of "Introduction lectures" was nerve wracking was wracking my brains trying to find the names of buildings and following the long line of students going to class. For me it is as 20 min walk to get to the University even though they say that my accommodation is "on campus"... ok I digress. I was late to class so I panicked and practically ran to class. Ok I admit I might have misjudged the time it took to get to the University but whatever. The class was quiet and everyone made friends really easily. Not me I wanted to sit alone. I must admit the first few weeks at uni I felt horrible. I thought about going home every second I wasn't busy. My flatmates were friendly however I somehow felt that I connected with no one here. It was truly a big culture shock when I went to the supermarkets, you have to bag your own stuff, I got yelled at a couple times because I didn't know how to work their self check out machines! Yes I said it "self checkout!" Ok Taikoo has them but it is rare in HK that you have self checkout. Everyone here is so independent! 

Checked out the area but mainly stayed in my room the rest of the week avoiding anyone and everyone. However, I tried to warm up to people and attended a gathering with my flatmates. However, they all drank ALOT! However they were welcoming and we played the ring of fire with me and another flat mate drinking lemonade instead of beer or wine or vodka. The game was fun but I felt that this was out of my element and I felt left out. 

                                                          (Bluewater Shopping mall!!) 

Going to class was the only thing I looked forward to doing. I really wanted to just make myself busy... Oh god this is getting depressing... haha! Anyways this reminds me of Bella in New moon (Twilight series) god the book was painful. Hope this isn't too painful! Fast forwarding it I have made some friends and regularly skype or video chat home to keep me in the loop (and keep me sane). It really helped with my homesickness so a big thumbs up to video chatting! 

OH and the great thing about the UK.... wait for it.... chocolate! The chocolate selection is amazing! Rows upon rows of chocolate! I have even bought stuff to bring back home for the holiday season! 

x Hong Kong girl 

p.s. I will be posing a Quick recipes for university soon! And DIY pencil jars and an update soon on my part time job! Stay tuned!