Sunday, June 26, 2011

Seafood Soup


Ingredient:
- Prawns
- Sliced Fish
- Toufu
- Cai Xin
- Carrot

How to cook:
1. Boil water, add in chicken bones and carrot
2. Cook for 45 mins, then turn up the heat and add in sliced fish and prawns
3. Add in sliced toufu to cook
4. Lastly, add in cai xin and cook for 2 mins
5. Add 1 tsp of soya sauce for flavouring

Old Cucumber Carrot Soup

Ingredient:
- Old Cucumber
- Carrot
- Pork Ribs

How to cook:
1. Bring water to boil
2. Add in pork ribs to cook, followed by sliced carrots
3. After 30 mins, add in sliced old cucumber
4. Let the soup cook over medium flame for another 20 mins, add 1 tsp of soya sauce for flavouring

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Fragrant Oven Grilled Roast Pork with Green Apple Sauce



Ingredient:
- 3 layer pork
- Carrot
- Onion
- 5 spice powder
- Green Apple
- Star Anise (Ba Jiao)
- Cinnamon Bark (Rou Gui Pi)
- Black Sugar

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Flip the 3 layer pork over, add oyster sauce, minced garlic and 5 spice powder
2. On the other face, cut thin slices on the top skin, marinate the top with salt
3. Put in fridge overnight
4. Cut carrot, onion into slices
5. On a oven bowl, add slices carrot, onion, garlic, 1 Ba Jiao, 1 Cinnamon Bark, garlic 
6. Add some oil on top of pork skin, add salt and spread evenly
7. Pour water onto the bowl without the water touching the skin, covering 60% of the meat (to prevent it from drying up)
8. Remove skin of green apples and cut into slices

How to cook:
1. Heat oven to 180 degree or 200 degree, heat for 90 mins.
2. To prepare complimentary side dish with pork, add some butter in pan, add in black sugar, stir continuously and add some water
3. Stir until the gravy is uniform and thicken, add in apple slices and continue to stir for 15 mins, add some cayenne pepper, stir until gravy is thick

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Butter Pork Chop



Ingredient:
- Pork Head Meat
- Peanut Butter
- Kailan
- Pumpkin

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Use a meatmallet to tenderise the pork head meat evenly
2. Wash with water and dry the pork chop
3. Mix pepper, salt, corn flour, peanut butter, minced garlic, minced ginger and a little chicken stock, add in the pork chop to marinate for 1 hour
4. Dissolve and cook some butter with curry leaves and powder
5. Once fully aromatised, blend it with pumkpin paste and turn it into a cream sauce

How to cook:
1. Pan fry the pork chops until both sides are golden brown and take them out
2. Heat up the cream sauce and coat the pork chop evenly

3. Transfer pork chop on top of some boiled kailan and mushroom as complement

Bacon Pork Roll with Mustard



Ingredient:
- Bacon
- Pork Head Meat
- Mustard (yellow mustard and french mustard seed sauce)
- Yogurt
- Salad
- Honey

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Marinate pork head meat with yogurt, mustard, black pepper and salt
2. Lay bacon stripes over pork head meat and wrap it up like a dress
3. To prepare sauce, mix mustard and honey together

How to cook:
1. Grill pork head with bacon stripes for 30 mins
2. Cut the grill bacon pork roll into thin slices
3. Add some salad to complement the dish
4. Pour sauce over the sliced bacon roll

Stir Fried Pork (Head) Shreds



Ingredient:
- Pork Head Meat

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Cut pork head meat into thin shreds
2. Marinate thin stripes with cornflour, dark soya sauce, sesame oil, pepper and sugar, leave aside for 15mins

How to cook:
1. Heat up oil, add in sliced ginger to stir fry
2. Add in chopped garlic to stir fry
3. Add in shredded pork to stir fry
4. Add in some corn starch solution to thicken the gravy

* Add in french beans or mushroom to complement the dish

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Baked Clams with Minced Meat



Ingredient:
- Clam
- Chicken Floss
- Minced chicken/ pork
- Onion
- Tomato

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Steam Clam and retain the clam sauce
2. Extract the clam meat from the shell
3. Mix clam meat with minced meat, pork floss, chopped tomatoes, chopped onion, chopped garlic
4. Add in some salt, sesame oil, cornflour and pepper to marinate
5. Fill the clam shell with the mixture
6. Mix clam sauce with garlic, salt, sugar, pepper and oyster sauce

How to cook:
1. Bake clam with minced meat for 5 mins until golden brown
2. Boil the sauce mixture and thicken with starch
3. Pour gravy on top of baked clam with mince meat

Stir Fried Luffa with Shimeji Mushroom


Ingredient:
- Shimeiji Mushroom
- Luffa (Si Gua)

How to cook:
1. Heat up oil and garnish garlic
2. Add in Shimeiji mushroom to stir fry
3. Add in sliced Luffa to stir fry
4. Add some sugar, salt and starch solution

Stir Fried King Prawns in Dark Sauce



Ingredient:
- King Prawns
- Chilli
- Garlic

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Marinate prawns in 1 big tsp of sugar, abit salt, sesame oil, soya sauce and pepper for 15 mins.
2. Cut garlic and chilli into fine bits

How to cook:
1. Heat up oil and then add in garlic and chilli to stir fry until golden brown
2. Turn up the fire, add in king prawns (peeled/ unpeeled) to stir fry until cooked.
3. Add in starch solution to thicken the sauce.
4. Add some hua tiao wine to briefly stir fry before serving.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Bee Hoon Meatball Soup



Ingredient:
- Chicken Meatball
- Bee Hoon
- Egg
- Cabbage

How to cook:
1. Boil water, add in sliced cabbage to cook for 15 mins
2. Turn up the fire and cook chicken meatballs
3. Add in Bee Hoon to cook and add egg when almost done
4. Add in 1 tsp of soya sauce for flavouring

Scrambled Eggs with Bitter Gourd & Ham



Ingredient:
- Eggs
- Bitter Gourd
- Ham
- Tomato

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Crack Eggs, beat them up, add in some salt and pepper
2. Cut Bitter Gourd, Ham and Tomatoes into small pieces

How to cook:
1. Heat up oil in wok, stir fry Bitter Gourd, followed by Ham, scoop out ingredient first
2. Heat up oil in wok, pour in beaten eggs and start to stir when eggs start to solidify to make scrambled eggs.
3. While stirring, add in stir fried ingredient and tomatoes