Foods No Borders -- Potato Curry Chicken Rice + Iced Syrup of plum

 

Nobody can refuse the aroma of curry! Tired of eating the same home-cooked food, try some curry to improve the taste of life. Especially when the appetite is poor, potato curry chicken rice is the king of the meal, and it is also a dish that foodies must try. In the cold winter, the warm golden color, the ebullient taste, the fragrant and rich curry sauce mixed with soft and glutinous white rice, you will be shot dead by taking just a bite.   

 

If you ask what to drink while eating the potato curry chicken rice, I recommend iced syrup of plum! You might not be so familiar with it, but once you try, you cannot forget it. It is a traditional Chinese beverage. The main ingredients are smoked plums, hawthorn, etc. The smoked plum has a unique flavor with a sour taste that the soup tastes sour and sweet, refreshing with a clear aroma. It has better taste and flavor after iced. Paired with potato curry chicken rice, the iced refreshing soup blends with a strong and domineering taste stimulates. This is a song of ice and fire.  

 

Curry is not only delicious but also good for health. According to some studies, curcumin, which is the most important ingredient in curry, has the effect of protecting the heart and preventing heart failure. Curcumin is a phenolic antioxidant that helps control blood lipids and promotes calories that has a certain preventive effect on cardiovascular disease. Curry also has the functions of warming the body, strengthening the spleen, warming the stomach, and stimulating appetite. It can also help reduce the insulin response after meals, promote energy metabolism, consume more calories, promote fat oxidation, thus help prevent obesity.   

 

On the other hand, smoked plum and hawthorn, the main ingredients of the syrup of plum, have the function of eliminating greasiness, appetizing, and strengthening the spleen, so the syrup of plum helps the spleen and stomach digest and nourish the liver. It is also a natural throat moisturizer that can gently moisturize the throat’s inflamed part and relieve pain. The syrup of plum is very rich in organic acids, such as citric acid and malic acid. Among them, there is a special kind of citric acid that can effectively inhibit lactic acid and drive out harmful substances that make blood vessels aging. When you are tired, drinking a cup of syrup of plum can play a good refreshing effect and restore vitality to muscles and blood vessels. Besides, so many acidic substances help promote the secretion of salivary glands and gastric glands, producing body fluids and quenching thirst.

 

For a novice in the kitchen, curry is a savior of cooking incompetence in terms of preparation. Just by buying the ingredients and releasing the ingredients according to the steps, everyone can make a fragrant and delicious curry food that rivals the restaurant. One dish is enough to make you feel proud among your friends. Syrup of plum is not difficult to make as long as the raw materials are ready. In fact, everything can be found on Amazon. The main raw materials are smoked plums, hawthorn, tangerine peel, Osmanthus, licorice, rock sugar. After the smoked plum is soaked, add the other ingredients, and simmer together. After the final taste comes out, add rock sugar to adjust the taste. After being chilled, it becomes syrup of plum.

 

Pouring syrup of plum in a tall glass, adding ice and some Osmanthus flower, the transparent dark brown juice shows coolness and mystery fragrance. Paired with the golden potato curry chicken rice, it’s a perfect visual enjoyment. The two complement each other. The more you eat, the healthier you are.

 

This is a simple lunch on a tiring weekend, simple, nutritious, and delicious. The unique foreign taste and traditional Chinese flavor are ingeniously and perfectly matched. The world is really wonderful, and the food knows no borders.

 

P.S.

Smoked plum: is also called Wumei in Mandarin, Ubai in Japanese.

 

1, Recipe of potato curry chicken rice (two services)

Prepare ingredients;

Chicken thighs: 4

Potato: 2

Onion: 1/3

Curry: 1 (Japanese curry),

Rice, carrot, seasoner

 Steps:

Cut potatoes, onions, and carrots into pieces, mince shallots and garlic;

Marinate the chicken thighs in light soy sauce for a while, poke the chicken skin with a toothpick, and taste;

Cut the chicken into pieces, add garlic, ginger, and shallot to marinate;

Add chicken thighs and stir fry until the surface is crispy;

Add potatoes, carrots, and onions and stir fry;

Add the water that has been touched with the ingredients and cook until the potatoes are rotten with chopsticks;

Add green peppers and curry cubes;

Collect the juice and add seasonings that suit the taste.

 

Tips

1. When the juice is collected, there is 3/1 soup left, mixed with rice is delicious;

2. Curry is a seasoning with a pungent odor. Students who have a bad stomach must pay attention to it; besides, the rice should not be too watery or hard.

 

2, Recipe of syrup of plum (time-consuming but simple) 

Ingredients list:

Smoked plum: 100 g

Licorice: 100 g

Hawthorn: 400 grams

Osmanthus, crystal sugar 

Steps:

1, Wash the hawthorn and ebony plum and soak indirect drinking water for 5 or 6 hours. I like to soak for longer, so the cooking time can be shortened

2, After 6 hours of soaking, the hawthorn and smoked plum "faded," and the water became reddish-brown.

3, Add cleaned licorice, sweet-scented osmanthus, and about 1500 ml of direct drinking water.

4, Bring to a boil. After simmering on low heat for 1 hour, about 2/3 of the original water is left. Pour out the sour plum soup, add 1000 ml of water and cook for 1 hour to get a second pot of sour plum soup 800 ml.

5, When it's half hot and half cold, add sugar, and you can also add about 10 grams of salt to taste for a richer taste.

6, Keep in the refrigerator

 

Tips

When making sour plum soup, it’s best to use a casserole or glass pot