Salted Chilli Chicken Fake away!

One of my favourite takeaways is Salted Chilli Chicken with egg fried rice and curry sauce. But even though it’s convenient, it’s sometimes a bit pricey when you’re a pensioner ha.

So, the missus and me have a half decent ‘fakeaway’ recipe for when we have the time and want this dish.

Cut up 2 chicken breasts into bite size pieces. Coat in flour, salt, chilli powder and cornflour. Slam in the oven on medium (180c) for about 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, chop a full decent sized onion into small pieces, a green pepper same size and 2 red chillies. Sweat off the onions in oil for a few minutes then add the peppers and the chillies.

Now, we usually have a Tupperware dish of already cooked brown rice in the fridge, so I crack 2 eggs into a Wok, mash up then add the rice with dark soy sauce. This doesn’t need a lot of cooking off.

Then after about 20 minutes, shake the chicken and whack the heat up full for a few minutes.

Take the chicken out and add to the pan with the onions, peppers and chilli. Cook it all together and the chicken should crisp up and brown further.

Put kettle on and mix up some Bisto ‘Chip Shop Curry Powder’.

Put on a plate in a pretty pattern and eat.

At this point I would like to point out, I like my food well seasoned and apart from a few shakes of Soy sauce, nothing salty went in. So I would also add sea salt into the rice when cooking, but don’t tell the missus!😉

Retired!

The other day I retired from the Police Force which means my 30^th year of serving Queen and Country.

I spent my whole police career pounding the streets of the small pit villages on the coast of County Durham.  A lot of people would think it would be boring staying in the same area for so long but I can guarantee that was not the case.  Throughout the years I’ve been stabbed, bitten by dogs, bitten by humans, fell through rooves, knocked over, threatened with guns, knives, needles, weights, spat at by Hep carriers in the mouth, punched, slapped, scratched and God knows what else.  I’ve seen my share of violent deaths and a lot of hangings.

I must say it has been eventful.  I have enjoyed 99% of my time and the only low moments were few and far between.

I must admit I did go slightly early on the advice of various medical professionals and after nearly 30 years of running towards danger whilst others ran the other way, I thought I’d have a break from being constantly on edge and fearing for my life.

I will state that my time in both the Army and the Police are the cause of my of PTSD which was diagnosed in October 2014, however after finding out what PTSD actually was (I’m a bit thick, ha!) I can pin point the cause to be an incident I witnessed whilst I was about 11 years old, and any incident involving extreme violence to a human head since has not processed properly causing nightmares and very annoying flash backs.

Anyway, onward and upwards and start of a new chapter in my life!