Grilled Chicken plus Sides.

Today's the 5th Ramadhan. Mom heard about my grilled chicken + steamed broccoli lunch combo from Tony Roma's and wanted a similar kind of berbuka dinner for the family. So I googled for some inspiration and came up with my own version.

What do you think? :)

Grilled chicken + steamed broccoli + mashed potato + garlic bread + mushroom soup + vanilla ice cream soda... All made from scratch...NO KIDDING! :)

Easy-peasy Recipes, Yayyy!

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1) GRILLED CHICKEN:

8 pieces of chicken thigh
1 1/2 cup of sour cream
some salt to taste
some black pepper to taste (i used 1 teaspoon of freshly crushed black peppers)
1 teaspoon of seasoning of your choice (i used a local vegetable based seasoning named Sudee)

1. Mix all ingredient in a zip-lock bag or a tupperware and put in the fridge. Preferably in the morning if you want to make this for dinner.
2. Grill the chicken on non-stick grilling pan. (Mine is Tefal's Thermo-Spot Grill Pan and highly recommended!)
3. Keep it on its side until cooked before turning the other side, best not to keep moving them.
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2) Steamed Broccoli:

as much broccoli as you want
water for steaming

1. Well, this is easy! Clean and cut broccoli and steam em!
2. If you don't have a steamer, boiling is okay too...But it can get too soggy.

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3) MASHED POTATO

4 fairly medium sized potatoes (any kind, but i used the russet ones which is not as smooth)
water for boiling
1 cup of whipping cream
2 tablespoon of butter
some salt to taste
some seasoning/herbs to taste (optional) (i didn't use any this time)

1. Boil potatoes to perfection (until your fork pierced through smoothly). Drain.
2. Warm butter and cream in the microwave (or on a double boiler).
3. Mash potatoes in the butter+cream mixture (and seasonings if you want) and mix mix mix until smooth.
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4) GARLIC BREAD

1 loaf of bread (i got mine from TESCO and its only RM1! no joking! see picture)
some butter (depends on how buttery you want the bread)
some garlic (depends on how garlicky you want the bread)

1. Grate garlic and set aside.
2. Slice the bread according to your preferences.
3. Spread butter on them.
4. Spread grated garlic over the butter.
5. Toast em in the oven (or like me, grill them on a grilling pan)
6. Eat. uhhhh...i mean, set aside in a airtight container until lunch/dinner time...
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5. MUSHROOM SOUP

2 1/2 cups of button mushrooms sliced (about 8 to 10)
4 cups water
1 1/2 chicken stock cubes
1/2 large onion - diced
1/2 whipping cream
1 teaspoon freshly crushed black peppers
2 tablespoon unsalted butter
2-3 tablespoon flour

1. Boil water with mushroom, onions and chicken cubes. After the mushrooms are cooked (telltale is the mushroom is now darker and soggy.
2. Let the soup cool a little, take out a few (2-3) and roughly chop them and blend the rest to bits in a blender machine. (Note: Make sure you cool them out a little 1st or you'll risk the hot vapor bursting)
3. In a nonstick pan with low heat, melt butter and mix in flour. (Use wooden spatula)
4. Pour in the blended mushrooms and mix well. Mix in black peppers and whipping cream and keep stirring until combined.
5. Salt to taste. Add in chopped mushrooms, stir and you're done!
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6. Vanilla Ice Cream Soda

cream soda (F&N all the way baby)
vanilla ice cream (trust me, Wall's is way creamier than Nestle's)

1. In a tall glass, put a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
2. Pour in the yummy cream soda.
3. DRINK IT!

THAT'S IT FOLK! A very "Western-lah-sangat" Dinner. Crazy-easy right? :)