Peppered Chicken Tomato

I was the one who concocted this recipe since I don’t find any online recipe that will match what I have in the fridge. Since I wanted it simple and the cooking time and preparation was quick, I have come up with this simple but very tasty recipe.

Peppered Chicken Tomato for Dinner


For those whose tongue was not meant for chilly types of recipe, this one may challenge you. Although if you don’t want it to be too hot, you can control on putting the amount of chili powder on the chicken and then try not to put ground black pepper.

The secret for this recipe is to marinate it first with ginger and garlic paste. Wash the chicken first and then rub salt into it and wash it off again. Marinate with ginger and garlic paste and put salt and ground black pepper. Leave it for 30 minutes before cooking it in hot oil.

While you marinate your chicken, cut some fresh 2 medium sized tomatoes, 2 cloves of garlic, 2 medium size onions and 1 inch size of peeled and chopped ginger. The next step will be putting the marinated chicken into the pan. Do not put oil into your chicken, just juice up the chicken first and when it is dry, that is the time you can now put your oil. You may use vegetable oil or olive oil for frying your chicken. What I just used was a regular vegetable oil.

Make sure the chicken is golden brown in color and keep it on the side of the pan as you put the next ingredient to sauté like garlic, ginger and onions. Make sure that the garlic is light brown in color before you put the onions. You may add salt while you sauté your garlic and onions. After this, you can now add the ginger.

Smells so good because of the ginger garlic paste


Stir the sautéed garlic, ginger and onions into your chicken and put one tbsp. of chili powder into it. Make sure the flame was put to medium so that it won’t stick at the bottom of the pan. You may also add two tablespoon of water so that the chili powder won’t get a burnt taste.

After this, you need to put the chopped fresh tomatoes and let it be mushy before you add more ground black pepper into your chicken and some salt to taste. Stir well and leave for another 3 to 4 minutes. Your tomatoes should not be mushy but this time it should be drier and sticking to the chicken which will infuse its flavor. You may also try to add chili paste and oil if you want extra hot and chili flavor into your chicken. You may use canned tomatoes if you want but fresh tomatoes are still a better option for this recipe.

Macaroni Soup w/ Green Peas &Tomato

You want a super easy preparation for a macaroni soup? Well this one fits my purpose since I don’t have any carrot in the fridge and I ran out of milk too and there was nothing else to grab than these remaining ingredients in the fridge. Sadly, I need to wait out for some more days to buy and restock foods. Although this recipe may not be grade A on your list, I would still want to share it since I have fun cooking. Here are the ingredients for making your Macaroni soup with green peas and tomato
Ingredients:
Elbow macaroni
Spring onion
Garlic – 4 cloves
Salt
Pepper
Tomato – medium size
Green peas- fresh or in can
Vegetable oil
Water

Preparation / Methods for cooking:

Just heat the pan and put the oil. Saute garlic and onion and put salt into it. Once the onion spring is done, put in the green peas and stir as you pour water. The volume of water depends on the amount of elbow macaroni that you wanted to cook plus the balance of green peas you will put in this dish. As for me, since I will be serving it for two, I have mounted a very small portion of water so that my macaroni and peas would not be overdone.
Once your peas are half cooked, you can now put the elbow macaroni. Simmer for quite some time till you get your macaroni soft and ready but not over cooked. Sprinkle some more salt and pepper according to your taste. Lastly, put the tomatoes in and just turn the flame off. It is better for the tomatoes to be there in your soup fresh and not over cooked and mashed. It looks a lot like carrots when you try to take a snap out of the food you make.
Easy to prepare macaroni Soup with green peas and tomato


The tomato blends well with the macaroni because I put it last. I didn’t want to get the peas hard by putting it first. I also don’t want my tomatoes mashed so I ended placing it last for garnishing only. Anyway, I was already happy with the simple taste and presentation. But if you wanted to experiment more, you can add more veggies into it like cabbage and cheese just in case you don’t have evaporated milk like I used to put in my macaroni.

Macaroni soup which is not Milky but just Murky looking


This time my soup was kinda murky but not milky. You can even put chicken bouillon cubes into it. I just skip on putting it since I do have to take care of my skin allergy at the moment, not because of the food but due to some facial cream I put on my face. Okay, going back to the recipe Macaroni soup with green peas and tomato, you can add fresh peas or the peas that is canned as long as it was not that hard.
I do hope you like this simple recipe. I will keep you posted for some more if I have time and opportunity to create another delicious recipe.