Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Airfry: Bacon wrapped asparagus & enoki mushroom

Warning: irresistible delight ahead! Suggest to make in batches and keep secret stash before main meal begins.. Else it might be gone before your guests arrive!

Ingredients:
Streaky bacon (I bought mine from cold storage, vacuum sealed bacon - abt 20 slices inside)
Asparagus (I bought organic asparagus coz the regular ones looked thick and brown. Could not find baby asparagus that day)
Enoki mushroom

Preparation:
1) rinse asparagus and half them
2) rinse enoki and set aside
3) lay a slice of bacon on your working area (I did this on my chopping board) 
4) take 4pcs of asparagus (2 "heads" and 2 "bottom") and a small sprig of enoki and lay them on bacon
5) roll bacon slightly diagonal so that most of the asparagus/mushroom is wrapped.


Instructions:
1) preheat air fryer 180oC for 5min
2) lay assembled rolls in air fryer basket (I initially put them in an aluminum tray but the fats collected was quite horrifying and I didn't want my rolls to be soaked in them! Hence I opted to wash the air fryer basket and base rather than disposables)
3) air fry at 180oC for 8-10min (I did mine at 10min and was satisfied with results so I stopped here)

(Additional optional step)
4) open and turn rolls
5) air fry another 3-5min at same temp. 



And this is what the husband says "the airfryer is a good buy... Just for this!" As he takes yet another one and pops it into his mouth...;) 

Monday, April 27, 2015

Banana Nutella Oreo ice-cream!


Ingredients:
(Adjust accordingly: more Nutella = more chocolatey, more Oreo = more crunch)
5 bananas
2 tablespoon Nutella
5 crushed Oreos

Instructions:
1) peels bananas, slice them to abt 1-2cm pieces. Freeze for at least 2hours.
2) Break Oreos (any flavor you like) into small pieces

2 hrs or so later:
3) use blender to pulse and blend banana until you get a creamy texture (first minute or so might be clumpy but it should get creamier and easier to blend after a while). 
4) add Nutella and blend till about even throughout 
5) add Oreo pieces and pulse till about evenly spread throughout 
6) pour into container and return to freezer until ready to serve. 
(If serve less Frozen will taste like soft serve ice cream; if freeze longer will taste like traditional ice cream.)

Enjoy!!!

Airfry: Frozen seaweed wrapped chicken

Ingredients:
Frozen seaweed wrapped chicken

Directions:
1) preheat airfryer for 5min, 180oC. 
2) while preheating, take out Frozen seaweed wrapped chicken from freezer to slightly thaw. 
3) pour desired amt of chicken into airfryer basket
4) air fry for 10min at 180oC. 
5) serve hot. :)


Airfry: open face breakfast sandwich

Ingredients:
Frozen sausage (slightly thawed)
2 slices of bread
1 egg (room temp)
Butter

Instructions:
1) Pre heat air fryer 5min, 180oC

While pre heating:
(Lay an aluminum sheet on work bench and do the following)
2) Slice sausage to about 0.5cm slices.
3) Spread butter on bread slice 1 and 2
4) Use a cookie cutter to cut out the middle of bread slice 2
5) stack bread slice 2 butter side up on top of bread slice 1. 
6) line sausage slices in the middle
7) crack egg over sausages
8) (optional) add shredded cheese
9) lift aluminum sheet with sandwich into air fryer basket
10) line remaining sausages around the sandwich if you wish
11) air fry for 8-10min at 180oC
12) serve hot :)