Kungpao Chicken, Fish Florentine And Mushroom Soup by Chef Zakir

Ingredients for Kungpao Chicken:

• Chicken boneless 1/2 kg
• Salt to taste
• Ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp
• corn flour 1/2 cup
• Sugar 1 tsp
• Chinese salt 1 tsp
• White pepper 1/4 tsp
  
• Egg 1
• Onion 1
• Carrot 1
• Capsicum  1
• Dry red chilies  4-5
• Red pepper  1 tbsp
• Chili garlic sauce  2-3 tbsp
• Soya sauce  2-3 tbsp
• Worcester sauce  2 tbsp
• Oyster sauce  2 tbsp
• Walnut  1/4 cup
• Chicken stock  1/4 cup
• Oil  for fry

Method:

1. First cut the chicken into cubes, add corn flour, salt, egg marinate it and deep fry it in hot oil, when chicken turns to golden color then take it out and keep it on a side.
2. Now pour oil in a pan, add dry red chili, let it cook for 1 to 2 minutes.
3. Then add ginger garlic paste and let it cook on 1 to 2 minutes.
4. Now add chopped onions, carrot, capsicum, fried chicken and let it cook for 1 to 2 minutes.
5. Then add walnuts, sugar, chopped white pepper, salt, chicken stock.
6. When it starts to cook then add corn flour in water and keep it on a side.
7. When the gravy is cooked well then add Chinese salt, soya sauce, worcester sauce, chili garlic sauce, oyster sauce, chopped red chili and let it cook for 1 to 2 minutes.
8. In the end add corn flour and make the gravy thick, then serve.

Ingredients for Fish Florentine:

• Fish fillet  1/2 kg
• Spinach  1 kg
• Salt  to taste
• Black pepper  1/2 tsp
• Lemon juice  2-3 tbsp
• Fresh cream  200 ml
• Flour  1/2 cup
• Milk  300 ml
• Cheddar cheese  100 gm
• Parsley chopped  as required
• Mozzarella cheese  100 gm
• Oil  3-4 tbsp

Method:

1. First wash the fish pieces.
2. Now add salt, black pepper, lemon juice for marination, coat it with flour, shallow fry it in hot oil and keep it on a side.
3. Now pour oil in a pan, roast it with flour.
4. When the flour is roasted well then pour milk.
5. When the milk starts to thick then add salt, black pepper, and keep it on a side.
6. Now add chopped spinach and boil it in a pan, saute it with some oil. When the spinach is sauted well then add fresh cream, then turn off the stove.
7. Now make the layer of white sauce in a mirror oven proof dish. Then make the layer of spinach.
8. Then spread the fish on its top, put some spinach on its top.
9. In the end sprinkle cheddar cheese, mozzarella cheese, chopped parsley bake it on 180 degree C for 10 to 12 minutes.
10. When it becomes golden, then serve it.

Ingredients for Mushroom Soup:

• Mushroom  1/2 cup
• Chicken stock 2 glasses
• Onion chopped  1
• Salt  to taste
• Black pepper  1/2 tsp
• Flour roasted  2 tbsp
• Sugar  1 tsp
• Parsley chopped  1/4 bunch
• Fresh cream  100 gm
• Butter 2 tbsp
• Chicken breast  1

Method:

1. First pour oil add chopped butter, onion, chicken breast fry it for 1 to 2 minutes.
2. When it becomes soft, then add chicken stock.
3. Then add chopped mushroom cook it for 1 to 2 minutes.
4. Now pour oil, add chopped black pepper, sugar, chopped parsley, fresh cream
5. Now it starts to roast, then make it thick with roasted flour, take it out and serve it hot.