Sweet Sour Pork

Ingredients:
1 1/2 pounds boneless pork loin,
(sliced into small piece of a inch thick)
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1/4 glass of lemon
2 tbsp soya sauce
1 tbsp of ketchup
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp cornstarch
2 tbsp of honey

Methods

1) Cut pork slices into strips about 3 inches long and 1/2 to 1 inch wide.
2) To the bowl of pork slices, add the 1tbsp of cornstarch and soya sauce. Mix well with a spoon or use your hand to massage in.
3) Left it to rest for 10 - 15mins.
4) Sauté pork strips in hot oil over high to medium heat until lightly browned; drain.
5) Add the 3/4 cup water, lemon juice, honey, ketchup, 1 tbsp of cornstarch and salt. Mix well.
6) To a clean dry wok, heat up the sauces.
7) Transfer all the pork in step 4 into the wok of sauces under high heat until cooked.
8) Next, add the seasame seeds for garnishing.
9) Serve with rice when it is hot.

Serve sizing: 4 - 6 people.

Hope you will like my recommendation for today.

Enjoy and have a pleasant weekend!

Yummy Stirred fried-steam cabbage rice

This is a dish which my mum will cook when she is lazy or too tired for the day to cook. It is simple and well-balanced Cabbage Rice, commonly known as Kiam Chye Png.
It is famous among the Hokkien dialet group.

Nice and yummy ....

Here is the recipes:

Ingredients: (For 4 - 5 person)

3 tbsp Olive Oil
4 Garlic, finely chopped
4 Shallots,finely chopped
1 handful of Dried Shrimps
200g pork, diced
1 Cabbage, shredded
6 dried mushroooms, cut into pieces
2 cup of rice
2 tbsp of Soya Sauce
1 tsp of salt
1 pc of chinese sausage, sliced thinly

Methods:

1) Heat wok with high heat.
2) Add the olive oil.
3) Stir fry garlic and shallots till fragrant.
4) Then add shredded Hae Bee (dried shrimps) with diced pork, shredded chinese mushrooms and chinese sausage.
5) After ingredients are fragrant, add in chinese cabbage (Koh Lei Cai). Make sure the leaves are chopped till big pieces. Continue to stir fry till cabbage are slightly soft.
6) Add in the washed rice and soya sauce.
7) Stir-fried evenly for 3 min.
8) Transfer the whole wok of rice into a rice cooker until cooked.

For those try it, please share your comments and let me how we improve on the recipes.

Steam Tofu with prawns

Here is another yummy, healthy and simple dish for all of you...Hope you will like my recommendation for today.

Steam Tofu with prawns

Ingredients - (for 12 pieces)
(Shrimp Mixture)
1/2 lb medium shrimp, peeled
1Tbsp Chinese rice wine
1 tsp olive oil
a pinch of sugar
salt and pepper
1/2 Tbsp potato starch
1 ea. egg white

2 Cube of silken tofu
potato starch
lettuce _ for plate lining


(Sauce)
2Tbsp Scallion, minced
1 small piece ginger, peeled and grated
1 clove garlic, grated
2 Tbsps sesame oil
1 Tbsp Chinese rice wine
2 Tbsps soy sauce
a pinch of sugar

Methods:
1)Dry shrimp with a piece of clean cloth.
This is to get rid extra water clinging to it.
2)Mince into a coarse shrimp paste. Transfer it into a bowl.
3)Add the chinese rice wine,sugar, olive oil, small pinch of salt and pepper,potato starch and egg white into a bowl and mix well.
4) Cover the bowl and put it inside the fridge.
5) Cut the tofu equally into 12 pieces.
6) Remove the shrimp paste from the fridge and scoop 1 tbsp of the paste onto the each cube of the tofu.
7) Put the tray of Tofu with shrimp into a steamer.
8) Steam for 10 - 15mins until it is done.

Sauce

Method
1) While the Tofu shrimp is steaming, make the sauce.
2) Heat sesame oil in a small pan until it starts smoking.
3) Pour the hot oil immediately over the scallion, ginger and garlic mixture in a small bowl.
4) Pour the chinese rice wine into the hot pan.
5) Next transfer the rice wine into bowl with scallion ginger mixture.
6) Add 1tbsp of soya sauce and a pinch of sugar to the bowl and mix well.

By the time, tofu is ready.

Serve the steam tofu shrimp with the sauce.

Enjoy your meal...

Healthy Steam Eggs

This is a simple and speedy dish which I believe everyone can do it without much hassle. For those don't cook, you can start off with this.

Ingredients

2 eggs
200 ml water
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp of soya sauce
a dash of white pepper
a tsp of sesame oil
Spring onions for garnishing
Fried Shallots

Methods

1) Add 2 bowls of water into a wok and bring it to boil.
2. Beat eggs, water, soya sauce,and salt with a fork or a pair of chopsticks until it is well-mixed. Sieve it to remove the bubbles.
3) Transfer the mixture into a bowl or a deep inch tray and put it to steam for 10 - 15 mins. A small wire rack is used to raise the dish above the boiling water.
4) Cover the wok during steaming.
5) For garnishing, sprinkle some spring onions and fried shallots.
6) Serve when it is hot.

Nonya Snack - Rempah Udang

Today, my recommended recipe is somewhat an unhealthy however it is definitely a yummy, mouth watery dish. It is a nonya kueh (snack), called Rempah Udang,a Peranakan snack which combines Chinese, Malay and other influences into a unique blend.

Rempah Udang is a Straits-born Chinese Wedding Speciality and it is a dumpling filled with spicy dried prawns. I am very sure you will fall in love with this traditional yet delicious kueh once after you tried it. Wait no more...



Ingredients A

Glutinous rice : 500g (washed, Soak for 4 hrs and drained)

Ingredients B

Coconut Milk : 375g
Salt : ½ tsp
Pandan Leaf : 4 pcs

* 1 piece banana leaf to line tray

* a little blue colouring or some bunga telang colouring (optional)

Method:

1) Place glutinous rice into a 22cm steaming tray pre-lined with banana leaf, mix well with Ingredients B
2) Steam with high heat for 15 min, fluff the rice with a pair of
chopstick, steam for another 15 min. till it’s cooked, remove
3) Stir mix a little blue coloring to get mixed white ang blue glutinous rice

Fillings

Ingredients A

Oil : 100g

Ingredients B (Blended)
Dried Chilli : 10 pcs (wash, soak with hot water to soften, drained)
Shallot : 150g
Garlic : 50g
Buah keras : 6 pcs
Lemon Grass : 3 stalk (use only about ½ inch from root portion )
Tumeric : 1 small pc
Balachan :1 small pc

Ingredients C

Dried Shrimp : 100g (wash, soak for 5 min, drain, grinded)

Ingredients D

Shredded coconut : 100g

* Banana leaf 6"x 6" → about 20 pc (wash, scour to soften)

Method:

1) Heat up oil over medium flame，sauté Ingredients B till aromatic
2) Add grinded dried shrimp and fry till cooked
3) Add shredded coconut and mix well
4) Add pinch of salt and sugar to taste, dish up
5) Put 1½ tbsp of glutinous rice on a pc of banana leaf, flatten
(pic 1)
6) Put 1 tbsp of fillings in the center(pic 2)
7) Roll up to form cylinder shape, staple both ends, trim off excess
banana leaf
8) Put wrapped rice in 220°C pre-heated oven to grill using upper
heat for 10 min.

Bamboo Shoot Rice

Recipe for today ... bamboo shoot rice. Why?
Because bamboo shoots are low in fat and high in protein. Not only that, it contains high vitamins and minerals. When cooked with brown rice, it is definitely a great health staple suitable for all of us.

Here is the reciepes:

Ingredients:

3-4 fresh bamboo shoots
4 cups of brown rice
6 cups of water
1 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tbsp sweet Japanese rice wine (mirin)
1 pieces of seaweed - shredded for garnish
Fresh Coriander leaves for garnish

Method:

1) Wash each whole bamboo shoot well. Peel off the tough outer leaves until the tender creamy white shoot remains
2) Place the washed and clean shoot in a pot of salted water. Bring to boil and cook for 5mins.
3) Drain and slice the shoots thinly and set aside.
4) Wash the rice and place it into rice cooker.
5) Add water and bamboo shoots.
6) Season with soya sauce and mirin.
7) Stir well to mix and cook the rice till done.
8) When done, leave the rice to set for 10mins.
9) Scoop the rice into individual bowl and garnish with aburaage strips, shredded nori. Garnish with coriander and seaweed.

Enjoy the simple yet healthy and fragant rice!