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Thai Curry Vegetables with Belly Pork – 8th Teban Gardens Community Breakfast on 18Mar2016

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this morning i made a thai curry vegetables with belly pork.

this my 8th friday breakfast community meal at teban gardens community service centre (CSC).

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

it was though a very rushed last minute thai curry veg with belly pork.

(too rushed for any photos)

wasn’t too bad in the end the folks still liked it & mostly finished.

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woke up late so a in a dead rush. my belly pork was not properly prepared.

so i had to improvise last minute & boiled/simmered the belly pork in water for 20mins while i cooked the curry veg. that was easy enough since i was just using the “dancing chef” thai curry paste premix.

when the belly pork texture was ok, i cooled them in running water & cut them in thin slices.

i did not have time though to fry the belly pork slices separately coating them in curry sauce, so it would be less tasty than if i did that.

in the end just added the sliced pork to the curry veg, tasted the curry & then transferred the dish in the usual aluminium tray & transported to teban gardens.

c.h.e.f andy

 

Nonya Curry Chicken – 7th Teban Gardens Community Breakfast on 4Mar2016

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this morning i made nonya curry chicken. ^^

this my 7th friday breakfast community meal at teban gardens community service centre (CSC).

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

i used my usual nonya curry chicken recipe here.

for this recipe, i don’t use curry powder but make the curry paste from scratch.

so last evening, i made the paste, deboned 2×1.5kg chicken, & boiled the bones of 1 chicken with 1 cut carrot, 1/2 cut radish in crockpot to make stock for this morning.

this morning i fried the cinnamon bark, star anise, clove & curry leaves in 2 tbsp oil, added the curry paste & fried till fragrant, then added the deboned chicken & coated them. then added 2 cups of chicken stock & covered, lowered fire & boiled for 10mins (20mins if not deboned). then i removed the chicken & boiled the cut taupok & potatoes for 15mins, till taupok was soft & soaked with curry but not falling apart, & potatoes broke in 2 when pressed with a fork – just right & not overcooked.

it was a wonderful tasting dish, incredible aroma & taste.

yum yum!

taupok

taupok

love the taupok too, and the potatoes also very tasty, just don’t take much for the carbs la…

of course the potatoes & taupok need not be cooked separately, but 2 chicken in a pot was quite a lot to manage & i wanted to make sure the chicken were tender & not overcooked, and likewise the taupok & potatoes, so easier to manage them separately la…

c.h.e.f andy