This is one of the easiest dishes I’ve ever made. I don’t want to call this a recipe because it really isn’t. ALL I did was fry up some processed frozen chicken wings and coat with ready-made Korean sauce.

You could of course marinate and fry your own chicken wings, which is what I usually do anyway. But sometimes you just want an easy way out. I tried these spiced and battered fried chicken wings from CP Food once at a house warming gathering and fell in love instantly.

I asked the host how she marinated the chicken how she made the batter so light and crispy. And she introduced me to this:

Quite amazing these wings. I buy them once in a while from the minimart near my block for $10.50. I don’t think I have seen them around in NTUC, Giant or Cold Storage, but you could buy them online. I ‘koped’ the pic from http://halalmarket.sg/product/fried-chicken-wings-frozen-by-cp-food-service so I should give them a mention. Thank you Halalmarket!

If you can’t find them in stores and don’t want to order online, it’s not the end of the world. Buy other brands or make your own crispy wings la. To make your own, marinate mid joint wings with some soy sauce, garlic powder, sugar, salt, paprika, chicken powder and corn starch overnight. Just before deep/air frying, coat with a mixture of self-raising flour and potato starch (2:1 ratio).

And then there’s the sauce. I don’t like to do what the packaging tells me so no way am I gonna cook a chicken chop with it. My rebellious streak obviously goes way beyond my teenage years. I heated Lee Kum Kee’s Korean Marinade in a small saucepan along with two tablespoons of water, then when it’s all sticky, I switch off the flame and coat the chicken wings in them.

Although the chicken is already flavourful on its own, it really goes well with the sticky sauce. The wings stay reallyyyy crispy. I like it!

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Mondays are those days that you don’t feel like cooking. This is especially the case for me since I am now working full time and still fix dinners most days. I am lucky that I knock off earlier than the rest of the population.. I really can’t imagine if I am a working mom who knocks off at 6 or 6.30, have to battle the peak-period crowd to get home, AND still have to come up with dinner for the whole family WITHOUT a helper. My respect goes to all of you working moms. You really have to tell me how you do it.

If you’re like me.. someone who usually mixes her own sauces but actually loves to cheat, you’ll love this recipe. Lee Kum Kee sent me some of their packet sauces last week. I have tried most of them before and really quite like them. I use their pork bone hotpot stock when we eat steamboat. Today, I chose to use their sauce for Tomato Garlic Prawns…..

….. to cook shabu shabu pork with bell peppers. Who say cannot? When cooking pork, I prefer to braise them til really tender, like in this Teochew Braised Pork Belly recipe. I also like to use shabu shabu pork, not just in steamboat, but in many different ways. Try my Japanese Ginger Pork recipe. I think you’ll like it too. I am not exactly good friends with pork loin because they’re very stubborn, and you know Scorpios, if you don’t want a relationship with us, then we don’t want one with you. We’re really quite easy to understand. Contact me for a tutorial.

So, back to the dish. I just bought 3 bell peppers from Giant over the weekend, and used up all of them in this dish. I also got 2 trays of 250g shabu shabu pork for $9.90, which is a very good deal, considering they’re pretty good quality and not dead frozen. The entire preparation + cooking process took me ten minutes? Five minutes to wash and slice the bell peppers an another five minutes to cook. It doesn’t really get any easier than this. AND the best part? The sauce is actually really yummy and delicious with rice. I know some of you underwent resistance training before and are very old school.. everything have to mix yourself if not the dish feels tainted with convenience. What I gotta say is, I can’t change your principles and don’t intend to, but in ten minutes I get my dinner.

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