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Vietnamese Style Caramelized Chicken with Glass Noodles and Stir-Fry

Vietnamese Style Caramelized Chicken with Glass Noodles recipe
 
(Yes we have hidden Sprouts – it's Christmas after all!)
 
Vietnamese Style Caramelized Chicken with Glass Noodles recipeFor the Chicken marinade
 
Ingredients:-
 
6 tbsp Soy Sauce
4 tbsp Fish Sauce
1 tbsp grated Ginger
1 ½ Lemons juiced
175g soft brown Sugar
2 red Chillies finely chopped
 
Method:-
 
(1) Add all the ingredients to a saucepan.
(2) Heat gently stirring well to prevent the sugar burning.
(3) Simmer until you have a syrup.
(4) Set aside.
 
Roasting ingredients:-
 
1 small Chicken
6 dried Bullet Chillies
Cracked Black Pepper
A dash of Oil
½ Lemon
3 cloves of Garlic
 
Method:-
 
(1) Place the ½ lemon and Garlic cloves in the cavity of the Chicken.
(2) Pour a small amount of oil over the Chicken and season with the cracked Black Pepper.
(3) Pierce the skin of the Chicken three times through each breast and insert the dried Chillies. If you cut the stem end of the Chillies and squeeze gently the seeds will fall into the meat.
(4) Spread half of the marinade over the skin of the Chicken. Keeping the remainder on one side.
(5) Heat the oven to 180c and roast for about an hour or until the juices run clear if you spike the thickest part of the thigh. Don't over cook as you want the meat to hold together in the stir-fry.
(6) Set aside.
 
Stir-Fry:-
 
You can choose your own combination but as this was our Christmas meal we added de-constructed Sprouts for a bit of fun!
 
Ingredients:-
 
4 outer leaves of a Savoy Cabbage
8 Sprouts. Strip the leaves and break up the centres (Yes Sue is a little insane!)
3 small Carrots
2 medium Onions
 
Method:-
 
(1) Drain the cooking juices from the Chicken.
(2) Cut as much meat from the Chicken as you require into medium sized chunks. Not too small or it will break down when you fry it. You can remove the skin if you wish.
(3) Finely chop all the vegetable ingredients. Set aside 2 leaves of the Savoy. You are going to deep fry these.
(4) Heat a large frying pan or Wok.
(5) Depending on whether you are serving with rice or noodles add them to boiling salted water and boil until ready. Drain and cover.
(6) Heat your deep fat fryer.
(7) Add the vegetables to the Chicken cooking juices when the frying pan / Wok is smoking hot and fry until tender.
(8) Add the Chicken at the end and turn everything so the Chicken is heated and coated in the frying broth.
(9) Fry the 2 remaining sliced Savoy leaves until crispy and drain.
 
To serve place your noodles or rice on the plates. Add the stir-fry and dress with the deep fried Savoy leaves and a sprinkling of Coriander if you wish. We have also found by experiment that Glass Noodles behave like Prawn Crackers if you break them up and deep fry them. Warm the remainder of the syrup and put it in a bowl. This can be drizzled over the plated dish and also used as a dip.
 

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Food Banks, I mean who needs a Food Bank? EAt well on universal credit

Food Banks, I mean who needs a Food Bank?

Quite a lot of folk, it would seem.

It has been speculated that the The Trussell Trust provide somewhere in the region of 31% of the emergency food provision in the UK. These are their suggested figures and honestly I’d guess that they are inflated. But lets go with it. A but of maths results in the following:-

Provision at 31% = 3 Million


Household provision by other Charities and unofficial Food Banks at 69% (Say) 6 Million

(Under Estimated) Possible number of people needing basic support to feed themselves and / or their families 9 Million

Estimated number of Households in the UK (2021  estimate) = 19.3 Million

Percentage of households potentially using basic food assistance = (9 / 19.3 X 100)  46.6%

Over 46% of our population potentially can’t actually afford to feed themselves? Perhaps I need to check the maths here? No that seems to be correct and is most probably an underestimation. It doesn’t account for family helping out, friends lending a bit of money at the end of the month, people deciding which bills have to be paid so they can put food on the table and worry about the others a following month.

I can only realistically and honestly speak about our local area in York, although I know of other Charities in both Selby and Doncaster who are working in this field. In York we have, to my knowledge 12 independent providers who offer Food Bank services, run Street Kitchens, or offer discreet Free Food Delivery services. I volunteer for one of them and share with several others. There will be many more who I don’t know of.

So to me it seems that as supposedly the 5th most wealth nation we seem to have a bit of a problem? It would seem to me that the figures about our ranking as a supposedly wealthy nation are somewhat biased. There is a small percentage of the population who are incredibly rich, for whom it is beneficial to ensure that those in the greatest need are persistently suppressed and forced into ever greater poverty.  

Perhaps that is the basic cause of the problem which we as a society should address without further delay? Just a thought.

References:-

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/26/uk-food-bank-charity-reports-record-take-up-amid-cost-of-living-crisis

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/families

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_wealth




 

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