marinade: yoghurt, paprika spice, mixed herb, finely chopped ginger and garlic
have to try that modify the cooking method for this type of marinade, didn't turn out too well.. especially when the yoghurt gets in the way of frying the chicken most of the time.
anyway, there was an iron chef competition on that night. secret ingredient: cheese. we were to make dessert using the ingredients provided and incorporating cheese into our dish. the cheese that the ISD committee provided were those square slices that you add to your sandwich. other ingredients provided include yoghurt, fruits, biscuits, jellybeans, some nuts, just to name a few. they weren't the best around to make a dessert and to make it look pleasant at the same time.
so, i partnered net and we came up with the idea of making cheesecake. we crushed the biscuits and mixed it with the cheese we had to make the base of the cheesecake. i lined the base with strawberry slices like how i did for eli's cake, and the 'cake' was the yoghurt. i worked mainly on the decor part of the dish... didn't manage to do it properly given the time constraint (only 20 minutes), and the fruits provided were either oddly shaped or too small. i cut the straberries and put a slice of kiwi on it. also, i tried sprinkling some 'cadbury drinking chocolate' powder on the slices of orange, using a spoon to cover some parts to make the pattern.
wasn't too happy with what decoration, but we still tried our best. only after the 20 minutes that we realised that we could've just made cheese sandwich - use the cheese slices as the bread, and the fruits as the filling of the sandwich.
anyway, we called our dish "trinity", because it was cheese-biscuit-yoghurt, cheese-strawberry-kiwi, and cheese-orange-chocolate. judges thought ours actually tasted a lil' like cheesecake!
it was done all in the name of fun, but in the end, surprisingly, we won!
here's 'Trinity', the dish that earned me my 2nd Iron chef success!
