Fairly recently two of my favorite bloggers each posted one of these recipes, Birin from Roti and Rice made a wonderful 5 spice whole roasted chicken and Ann from Anncoo Hobby made a Jade fried rice. This inspired me to combine the two and what a great pairing it was.
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
marinade for chicken
- 1/2 teaspoon 5 spice powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger/garlic paste
- one tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoon soy sauce
- dash of sesame oil
for the rice:
- one cup of cooked rice
- one cup of spinach
- 2 cloves of chopped garlic
- 2 eggs whisked a little with a pinch of salt and pepper
- dash of soy sauce
- 1/4 an onion chopped
Method:
- combine the ingredients for the chicken marinade and marinate the chicken in it for a couple of hours, I cooked a couple of chicken quarters
- roast in oven with a lid at 350 for 20 minutes and then another 15- 20 minutes with the lid of
- for the Jade fried rice, I sauteed the garlic with the spinach until it cooked down then blended it
- I then stir fried the onion in a wok on high added the rice, spinach and egg and stirred like crazy to cook the egg :-)
What recipe have you cooked recently inspired by a food blog?
