Salted Egg Chicken

Yesterday I was on leave for my baby boy's birthday day out.

Was feeling extra hardworking so I cooked salted egg chicken for sahur. Got up earlier to prepare and I'm glad I did! Later that morning I made bombay briyani for buka. Baby girl was at my mum's for the day so we can give full attention to the birthday boy.

Salted Egg Chicken

These take less than an hour to make, fast and easy peasy and totally yummy! I don't have to buy outside anymore! This is husband-approved!

2 chicken breasts (the big one, not the small pieces)
1 egg white
Cornstarch + 1/2 tsp salt

2 tbsp butter
5 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 inch ginger, finely chopped
3 salted egg yolks, mashed
Evaporated milk, about 7-10 tbsp, depending on how thick you want the gravy to be
20 curry leaves, the more the merrier
2 cili padi (I didn't have this so I used 2 green chilies)

Cut the chicken into bite sized cubes.
Coat them with egg white, then in the cornstarch dip, then deep fry until golden.
In another pan, heat butter until melted and hot.
Fry the mashed egg yolks until they mix well with the butter and is bubbling.
Fry in the ginger, garlic, chili and curry leaves.
Add in the evaporated milk and stir well. You may want to add some water.
Add the fried chicken and coat well.

No home-made birthday cake for the boy this year, cos we have lots of leftover cake from Sunday's celebration, and there's gonna be more cake for this Sunday's celebration too! So I made ice cream cake, i.e. mould chocolate ice cream in a cake pan ahahhaha. Plus he likes ice cream and not cake.

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