Malaysian turmeric and honey wings

Source: Rasa Malaysia

1. Marinate 500g chicken wings (mid joints) with ginger juice (from pounded 2" ginger), 1 tbs honey, 1 tbs light soy sauce, 1/8 tsp salt, 1/8 tsp turmeric powder, 1/8 tsp chilli powder, for 1-2 hours.
2. Bake at 375 deg F for 20-25 minutes.

Tip: Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven. Hold wing with tong and grill over stove at medium heat. I did it over my glass-top stove and the wings were grilled beautifully.

Verdict: Everyone loved this. I didn't taste this but reckon it probably tastes like ayam percik, my favourite style of barbecued chicken. Gotta try cooking ayam percik one day.

Ayam Masak Merah (Red chilli chicken)

Inspired by CookingismyPassion

1. Season chicken with turmeric powder, salt and corn flour for at least 30 minutes.
2. Fry and set aside.
3. Use part of remaining oil to fry lemongrass, 3 cloves, half a cinnamon stick and 1 large tomato (or more if desired). Add oil if required as tomato turns to puree.
4. Add chilli paste (I used the chilli paste from this recipe). Stir.
5. Add fried chicken and simmer. Add water if required.
6. Add ketchup, salt and sugar to taste.

Verdict: Even though I didn't use the recipe given, cos I already had my own prepared chilli paste, this dish turned out great. A change from the usual chicken dishes I cook, which I'm really tired of now.

Chicken Teriyaki

Adapted from Wokking Mum

1. Marinate breast meat or drums (deboned) with 1 tbs sugar, 1 tbs mirin, 1 tbs cooking wine, 2 tbs light soy sauce, 1 tsp dark soy sauce, 1 tsp sesame oil for at least half an hour.
2. Dust chicken with corn flour and saute till lightly burnt (Use little oil, or no oil if drums still have skin on them; I used some sesame oil).
3. Pour remaining marinade over chicken and cook till sauce thickens.
4. Cut into pieces (optional) and serve hot with steamed rice.

Kung Po Chicken

Adapted from Wokking Mum

1. Marinate diced chicken meat (breast or drums) with 1 tbs cooking wine (I use hua tiow chiew), 1 tbs light soy sauce and 2 tbs corn flour for an hour or more.
2. Stir fry chicken till golden brown. Set aside.
3. Fry 1 big onion (quartered) or some shallots, and garlic and ginger till fragrant. Add 20 dried chillies (soaked for a few hours and cut in halves) and fry for another minute or so.
4. Add 2 tbs black vinegar (or balsamic vinegar), 2 tbs sugar, 2 tbs water.
5. When mixture boils, stir in chicken and ensure it's well-coated. Then add, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and cooking wine, bit of salt, to taste.
6. Add corn flour mixture (from the marinade) if you like your sauce thick.
7. Boil, add water if you like more sauce and black vinegar if not sour enough.
8. Serve with steamed rice.

optional: Cashew nuts can be added.

Barbecue BBQ wings (Difficulty: 2)

Source: Mrs Jones from M4M
1. Pound 4 cloves garlic and 2 slices ginger.
2. Marinate 1kg chicken wings with pounded garlic and ginger, 4 tbs oyster sauce, 4 tbs kicap manis, 3 tbs tomato ketchup, for at least 4 hours.
3. Bake at 190C for 20 min. Leave some marinade for basting. After 20 min, turn over, baste with marinade, bake 20 min on 180C, turn over, baste and bake another 10 min, longer if you like it drier or slightly burnt.

Braised chicken with onion (Difficulty: 2)

1. Heat 2 tbs oil, fry 1 tsp minced garlic and a few slices of ginger till fragrant. Stir in sliced large yellow onion and fry till slightly soft.
2. Add chicken and fry well.
3. Add 1 tbs oyster sauce, 1 tsp dark soy sauce, a big of rock sugar, 1 tsp hua tiow chiew and 1/2 cup water.
4. Braise over medium heat for 10 mins.
5. Lower heat and simmer for 20 mins (covered). Add salt and pepper to taste.
6. Add spring onions as garnishing if desired. Add 1 tsp sesame oil before serving.

Esther's fried chicken wings

Source: Esther Heng

Ingredients:
Chicken wings
Oyster Sauce
Finely chopped garlic
Pepper
Bit of baking soda
Flour
Cold water

Instructions:

1. Marinade chicken wings with oyster sauce, garlic and pepper.
2. Before frying, add cold water, baking soda and flour.
3. Deep fry.

When cooked: Long time ago, in Frankfurt
Which meal: Lunch
Missing ingredients: Nil
Exchanged ingredients: Nil
Difficulty Level: 3
Others: Nil.

Verdict: Very popular in the Leong household. But too messy for me, the amount of oil needed for deep-frying always puts me off making this dish. It's really delicious though.

Dawn's baked chicken wings

Source: Dawn Wu

Ingredients:

8 chicken wings
4 Tbsp light soy sauce
2 Tbsp wine
1 Tbsp honey
Spring Onion
1 tbsp sugar (optional)

Instructions:
1. Marinate wings with all ingredients, bake at 200 degrees.

Missing ingredients: Nil
Exchanged ingredients: Nil
Difficulty Level: 2
Others: Dawn cooked this for CNY eve dinner 2005 in Frankfurt, it was superb.

Verdict: I love this dish. Have forgotten how easy it was to cook this till I started looking back at my recipes. Everyone in the family likes it.

Karen's baked chicken wings

Source: Karen Tan

Ingredients:
6 chicken wings
Pepper
Salt
2 Tbsp curry powder
1 tsp coriander powder
2 Tbsp tomato sauce
Oil

Instructions:
1. Marinade chicken with pepper, salt, curry powder, coriander powder, tomato sauce.
2. Rub oil on chicken before baking at 200 degrees.

REVIEW:

When cooked: Long time ago, in Frankfurt
Which meal: Dinner
Missing ingredients: Nil
Exchanged ingredients: Nil
Difficulty Level: 2
Others: Karen cooks this better than I do.

Verdict: I love this dish. Very spicy, got kick. Sean obviously can't eat this. Brian's okay with it. Eddie doesn't like it.

Mum's steamed chicken wings

Source: Mum

Ingredients:

Sesame Oil
Ginger

Instructions:

1. Place chicken wings on top of ginger.
2. Add sesame oil
3. Steam for 30 minutes.

Note: Other parts of chicken can be used as well.

Mum's baked chicken

Source: Mum

Ingredients:

Pepper
Chinese Wine
Sesame Oil
Light Soy sauce
Oyster sauce (optional)
Ginger
Black Soy sauce
Honey
Slice of big onion

Instructions:

1. Marinade chicken with pepper, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, Chinese wine, Sesame oil and ginger for 2 hours.
2. When ready to cook, rub black soy sauce and honey on chicken.
3. Place chicken on top of sliced big onion.
4. Over 200 degrees skin up, turn occasionally. 15 min each side.

Others: Can be fried too. Use either wings or thighs.