Chicken Wings & Burdocks - (ref. Collagen February 9th)

Another easy to make recipe which has lots of collagen (chicken wings) and fibres (burdocks), especially good for women.   Burdocks actually is a good source of Iron and minerals - sometimes hardworking women lack these, so i make sure i cook burdocks for my own health at least once a week.

Serve 2 persons (at 336 kcal, salt of 3gram - excluding skin of chicken wings)

Ingredients:

6 chicken wings

100 gram of burdocks

1/2 onions (100 gram)

1/2 welsh onions (spring onions) 

30 gram of ginger (sliced thin)

350 ml of water 

2 tspb of salad oil

Sauce:

2 tbsp of miso

soy sauce, sugar, mirin, sake (1 tbsp each)

How to make:

1. Break chicken wings to separate it into 2 parts

2. Cut burdocks into 4-5 cm slices and dip them in clean water to get rid of bitterness

3. Cut welsh onions into 4-5 cm slices and also slice ginger acccordingly

4. Prepare the sauce mixture by putting all the ingredients into small bowl

5. Heat the frying pan, put into the pan 2 tsp of salad oil and start frying chicken wings first

6. Boil 350ml water in the pot then put into the boiling water, burdocks, ginger, onions and welsh onions then the fried chicken wings.   

7. Cook for 5 minutes, then pour in the sauce mixture.  Cook with the sauce for 10 minutes at medium fire.  You do not need to cover the pot with lids.   When the chicken wings change colors and sauce mixture runs out, turn of the fire.

Recommendation:

8. Turn over chicken wings to get an even color from the sauce.

Chicken Wings & Yam (ref. Collagen - February 9th 2009)

Serve 3 persons

Ingredients:

6 chicken wings

800 taro roots*

salt to wash taro roots 1 tbsp

1/2 tbsp of salad oil

3 tbsp of sake

For soup mixture:

400 ml of soup stock (chicken or fish stock)

1 tbsp of sugar

2 tbsp of mirin

3 tbsp of soy sauce

For measurement of tbsp & tsp, please check Important Measurement

For those with sensitive skin, please wash you hands after touching/peeling taro roots*, as the slimy substance can cause minor skin rash/itchiness.

How to make:

1. Prepare soup mixture in a separate pot and put it aside.  

2. Peel the taro roots* and wash it with salt in order to get rid of slimy substance attached.

3. Put oil in the frying pan and get it ready to fry the chicken wings

4. Pour chicken wings and clean taro roots* into the soup mixture in the pot

5. Cook with medium fire until it boils for a few minutes, then continue cooking with low fire for another 20 -25 minutes.

Check to make sure that the taro roots* is soft enough and when the liquid runs out, you need to turn off the fire.   

I hope you enjoy another variation of chicken wings recipe - happy cooking is healthy cooking!

*Thanks for the inputs!

Chicken Wings and Potatoes (ref. Collagen - February 9th 2009)

Ingredients:

10 Chicken wings (alternatively chicken feet*)

5 Potatoes 

2 tbsp of soy sauce

1 tbsp of sugar

1 tbsp of mirin (check out local chinese/japanese shop)*

150 cc of Water

*alternatively make your own substitute for mirin (=sake+sugar)

**if possible use a ceramic/glass cooking pot with heavy lid 

How to make:

1. Peel potatoes and cut them into cubes (edible size)

2. Put potatoes and chicken feet in a pot** (alternatively use ordinary stainless pot, but cook at lower fire - i.e. cook slowly for better taste)

3. Pour all the ingredients necessary and boil until all the sauce is absorbed in the meat and potatoes.   Use medium fire in the beginning then adjust to low fire towards the end.

Enjoy!

Easy & Cheap Ways To Health & Beauty

Most of us already know that health and beauty go hand in hand, 

however we sometimes forget to practice a healthy lifestyle or some 

of us find it hard to continue healthy lifestlye because we have no 

time or simply it just takes so much effort and such a hassle.

Yes. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle seem to involve a lot of work, 

cost money and not easy. Such as doing a regular exercise, eat well 

balanced diet, take enough nutritions, sleep enough, no stress ...  

the list can go on.  

If there is a way to maintain health and beauty in an easier way, 

the natural way, cheap and proven to work (well, it works among 

women here), would you like to try?

First, here are the keywords to remember:  

*Collagen, *Black and White Sesame, *Royal jelly

Collagen

Most of us know that it keeps our skin & bones healthy. We also 

know that as we get older collagen level drops, therefore we need

to take special care to maintain collagen in the body to maintain 

skin health and prevent ageing (wrinkles).

Here is an easy to get and cheap food that contains lots of 

collagen: chicken wings, minced pork,　lever (pork), spare 

ribs, prawns and the less commonly available at supermarket 

and may be slightly offensive to some of us, chicken  feet, pork

hand/pettitoes (!) and sharkfin.

Black & White Sesame

Sesame, which contains a lot of vitamin E, is more widely known as a health supple ment than beauty supplement. Also, most people are more familiar with sesame oil 

than sesame powder. There is a limitation intake when it comes to sesame oil because most people are concerned with calories intake. However, in Japan black and white sesame are widely used in various dishes, especially 

Japanese sweets. Check out: "Breakfast With Black Sesame"

Royal Jelly

The common royal jelly you will find are available in tablets and often expensive. The best and reasonable

substitute of royal jelly is actually pure honey.  Honey also contains the benefits similar to that of royal jelly.

Do you know that the use of honey for beauty treatment

was known from long time ago, even during Cleopatra 

era?

Easy to make recipes containing collagen, using black/white sesame

and honey are coming soon.

Potatoes For Skin & Anti Ageing

Potatoes contain lots of vitamin C which is very effective in 

helping the skin to produce collagen and strengthening blood 

vessels and nervous system.  

Vitamin C is widely used in skin products to prevent spots/

freckles and anti-ageing supplement.  

Some "easy to get" vegetables/fruits that contain lots of vitamin 

C are (in brackets is amount of vitamin C per 100 gram intake):

Lemon (100mg), Persimmon (70mg), Kiwi Fruit (69mg)

Red pepper (170mg), Broussel sprouts (160mg), Parsely (120)

Potatoes (35mg), Sweet potatoes (15mg)

Easy To Make Potato Recipe - Curry Potato Fry (low calorie)

Ingredients:

Potato 2 (about 300g = 105mg of vitamin C)

Salad oil 1/2 tbsp

Curry powder 1/2 tsp　(1tbsp if you like stronger curry taste)

Minced meat (you can use beef or pork or both) 50 gr

Salt adjust according to taste

Parsely to decorate

How to Make:

1. Peel potatoes and wash them clean.  Cut potatoes into thin slices and put these slices into a bowl of water for 7-8 minutes

Then take the slices of potatoes out and put them on a clean towel to dry

2. Fry the minced meat and sprinkle salt and pepper lightly. After being well fried, move it to a separate bowl.

3. Put salad oil in frying pan and fry the sliced potatoes until they change color.

4. Pour the curry powder, fried minced meat and continue to fry, then adjust taste by adding salt if necessary