Sweet and Sour Chicken with Ginger Noodles

Recently, I have been making a lot of Asian food. I think the "Foreign Exotic Imports Market" is my favorite shop in Budapest. This recipe came about late one night when a craving for cheap Chinese food hit, and after the many Kínai Gyors Büfé proved their inability to satisfy such needs.

3 Chicken breasts (cut into bite size pieces)
1 cup flour
2 eggs (beaten)
Water
1 cup breadcrumbs
Salt
Pepper
Sesame seeds
Ginger
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 cup Rice vinegar
2 Tablespoons brown sugar
1 Tablespoon white sugar
5 Tablespoons honey
2 Tablespoons soy sauce
1 Tablespoons tomato paste
1 can baby corn
1 box noodles
Vegetable oil
Sesame oil

For chicken:
Start by preparing 3 bowls. The first contains flour, salt, pepper, sesame seeds, and baking soda. The second contains eggs, water, salt, and pepper. And the third contains breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, and sesame seeds. Dredge the chicken in flour, then coat them with egg, and then cover in breadcrumb mix. When all chicken pieces are sufficiently breaded, heat some vegetable oil over high heat and fry the pieces for about 3 minutes each or until the outside begins to brown and they are cooked through.

For sauce:
Combine vinegar, brown & white sugars, honey, soy sauce, tomato paste, and salt. Mix well.

For noodles:
Heat sesame oil in wok. Add cooked noodles and stir fry to coat noodles in oil. Add baby corn. Add a splash of soy sauce to the wok. Generously grate fresh ginger over noodles and continue stir frying until everything is hot.

Pour sweet and sour sauce over chicken pieces, or use as a dipping sauce. Serve with noodles and enjoy!

Cold Sesame Peanut Noodles

This is the very first recipe I learned to make all by myself, and, for a while, it was the only recipe I made regularly and with confidence. I still make it all the time, even though it can be a challenge to track down peanut butter in Hungary.

1 box cappellini (or spaghetti) pasta
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup water
4 tablespoons soy sauce
4 tablespoons sugar
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 teaspoons cider vinegar
1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
Cayenne pepper
Salt
Sesame seeds

First heat the water, then whisk it with the peanut butter until they are completely combined. Add soy sauce, sugar, garlic, vinegar,and sesame oil, mix well. Add salt and cayenne to taste.

Set salted and oiled water to boil. Cook pasta in boiling water until done. Drain and rinse in cold water until all the noodles are cold. Pour sauce onto noodles. Mix well. Sprinkle white sesame seeds on top.