Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Kung Po Paddy Field Frogs (Thin Kai, Chui Kay) Recipe

If you remember the five frogs that I bought from the wet market and fried the legs with flour (aka KFF Frog Recipe), I cooked Kung Po with the rest of the parts. Some restaurant deep fried the frogs before cooking it with Kung Po sauce and I found that they always over fried them resulting in the meat turning tough. I did not deep fry the frogs but you can if you want to but don’t fry them too long. You can vary the dried chillies amount according to the level of spiciness you prefer.

Ingredients
Frogs, 5, cut into bite sizes
Ginger, 5 slices
Garlic, 5 pips, smashed
Onions, 1 pc, cut into four
Dried Chillies, 5 pcs, soak in water to remove seeds
Dark Soya Sauce, 1 teaspoon
Oyster Sauce, 1 tablespoon
Salt to taste
Sugar to taste
Spring Onions
Cashew nuts, ½ cup, (optional)
Corn flour and water mixture

Heat up wok and pour in around 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Sauté ginger, garlic, onions and dried chillies until fragrant. Add in the frogs and fry until they are cooked thoroughly. Add a little water. Put in the dark soya sauce, oyster sauce, cashew nuts, salt and sugar to taste. Pour a little corn flour water mixture into the wok. Garnish with spring onions and serve.

14 comments:

Angie's Recipes said...

Delicious! Haven't had them for ages..

manglish said...

yayyyyyyyyyy finally..but how u know they are from paddy field leh...maybe from the longkang behind ur house hahahahhahaahahha

Christine said...

love how you didn't waste any of the frogs, lol. The recipe sounds delicious and the photo doesn't look like frog...eww.

Love2cook Malaysia said...

Frog Kung Pao??? No, no..I want Chicken Kung Pao only. Hehehe :p

Reanaclaire said...

I love it!now the problem is where to buy the croaks only...

Somewhere in Singapore said...

Have not eat frog leg for a long time...

Unknown said...

Never knew tin kai is called field frogs in english,, thank you for telling me,,,,

take care now bro

xin said...

the last time i ate frogs was when i was in sg few months ago. now can we go your house makan? *drool*

Caroline said...

T.T still not sure if i will give it a try. LOL but this one look nice!

suituapui said...

Eyew...no, thank you. This one, I'll pass! LOL!!!

Mummy Moon said...

I like kong pou thin kai, like the gingers a lot!

Claudia Sibert said...

I will definitely want to catch me some frogs and fry em dry!! hahaha hope they dont start hopping out of the wok :D

tuti said...

will pass too, like suituapui, hahaha.

[SK] said...

huh?? frogs again?? did you just kill the frogs again?? :p