Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Stir Fried Broccoli with Fish Balls


Ingredient:
- Fish Balls
- Broccoli
- Carrot

How to cook:
1. Cook fish balls in boiling water
2. Parboil some broccoli and sliced carrot
3. Pour some chicken stock into hot wok, add some salt and broccoli in to stir fry, coat it with corn starch
4. Fry some spring onion and ginger, add in chicken stock and then fish balls, add in sliced carrot, pour some corn starch and fragrant oil
5. Place fish balls on top of brocoli

Stir Fry Pea Shoots with Dried Scallop


Ingredient:
- Pea Shoots (Tou Miao)
- Dried Scallops

How to cook:
1. Heat up oil, stir fry garlic, follow by shredded dried scallops
2. Add in tou miao to stir fry
3. Add some water and corn starch solution

Stewed Herbal Cod Fish





Ingredient:
- Cod Fish (boneless)
- Black Fungus
- Wolfberry
- Dang Shen
- Dried Longan
- Needle Mushroom
- Sea Cucumber (Optional)

How to cook:
1. Pan fry boneless cod fish briefly to 40% cooked, leave aside
2. In a claypot, heat up oil and pan fry ginger slices, follow by chopped garlic
3. Add in black fungus, dang shen, wolfberry, dried longan follow by water and chicken stock and leave it to stew for 10 mins
4. Add 1 tsp of light soy sauce
5. Add in the pan fried cod fish and immense in the claypot mixture
6. Add in needle mushroom on top
7. Let it stew for 15 mins

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Stir Fry Pork Slices with Sichuan Vegetable


Ingredient:
- Lean Pork
- Sichuan Vegetables

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Cut sichuan vege into thin slices and soak in water to remove the saltiness
2. Cut lean pork meat into thin slices and marinate with light soy sauce, cornflour, pepper, 1 tsp of sugar and sesame oil.

How to cook:
1. Heat up oil and garnish some garlic bits
2. Add in sichuan vegetable to stir fry
3. Add in pork slices to cook
4. Add some water or stock followed by cornstarch solution

Pork wrapped Needle Mushroom


Ingredient:
- Pork Lion Lean
- Needle Mushroom
- Onion

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Cut pork lion lean meat into thin slices
2. Season it with black pepper and salt

How to cook:
1. Stir fry some onion
2. Add in neeedle mushrooms, stock, oyster sauce and some sugar to continue to stir fry, then put aside to cool down
3. Use pork slices to roll the mixture up, add some cornflour at the end to better stick the roll together
4. Pan fry the pork rolls
5. To prepare the sauce, add butter in heated wok, fry some minced garlic and onion, add black pepper, oyster sauce, add some water and finally cornstarch solution.
6. Pour sauce over pork rolls

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Sardine Fish in Tomato Sauce



Ingredient:
- Canned Sardine Fish
- Red Onion
- Red Chilli
- Lime

How to cook:
1. Stir fry chopped red onion and red chilli
2. Pour in canned sardine fish
3. Squeeze in some lime juice
4. Add some tomato sauce if gravy not thick enough
5. Add 1 tsp of sugar

Chicken Curry


Ingredient:
- Chicken Wings/ Pork Ribs
- Potatoes
- Carnation Full Cream Milk
- Red Onion
- Curry Powder

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Chop Red Onion into fine bits
2. Add some water to curry powder to prepare the gravy
3. Marinate chicken/ pork with curry powder
4. Peel skin of potatoes and cook them over boiling water

How to cook:
1. Stir fry chopped red onion until brown
2. Add in curry powder mixture to stir fry
3. Add in chicken wings/ pork ribs in to cook
4. Add some water if gravy is too thick
5. Add in carnation milk, followed by some water and let the mixture stew for another 20mins
6. Add in potatoes to continue to stew for 10 mins

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Creamy Pumpkin Soup



Ingredient:
- Pumpkin
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Onion

How to cook:
1. Pour olive oil over sliced pumpkin and cherry tomatoes, add some salt and pepper, add rosemary and fresh sweet basil on top, bake for 35 mins at 180 degree
2. Heat up pot, put in butter to melt and stir fry some onion, add in chicken stock to boil
3. Add in the baked pumpkin to continue to cook for 5 mins
4. Pour the whole soup into blender to blend, add in double cream to continue to blend
5. Pour the mixture on a bowl and lay cherry tomatoes on top

Scallop Banana Wanton in Creamy Sauce

Ingredient:
- Scallop
- Banana
- Spring Roll Skin
- Milk
- Flour

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Cut banana into small pieces, thickness same as scallop

How to cook:
1. To prepare the sauce, heat up pan, add in butter to melt, follow by flour to pan fry with the butter, follow by milk and stir the mixture, add in salt egg york and continue to stir until mixture becomes creamy
2. Pan fry the scallop with butter
3. On a piece of squarish spring roll paper, add in 1 slices of banana, follow by 1 scallop and wrap it up
4. Heat up oil and deep fry the scallop wanton

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Asparagus Mousse



Ingredient:
- Asparagus
- Garlic Sprout
- Eggs
- Milk

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Cut asparagus into thin slices, parboil over hot water

How to cook:
1. Pan fry garlic sprout with butter and put aside2. Pan fry for about 2-3 mins to bring out the fragrance, then add in the garlic sprout prepared earlier
3. To prepare the sauce, heat up pan, add in butter to melt, follow by freshly squeezed lemon juice, add in 2 tsp of sugar, 1 tsp of salt, 1 tsp of flour solution, sift the sauce if it is lumpy
4. Put the pan fried asparagus and garlic sprout in a big bowl, pour in milk, and transfer the whole mixture into blender to blend
5. Add in 4 eggs and continue to blend
6. Coat mousse container with butter first, then pour in the blended mixture
7. Heat oven to 160 degree and bake for 45 mins
8. Coat with lemon and butter jam prepared earlier

Creamy Watercress Soup



Ingredient:
- Chicken Stock
- Potatoes
- Watercress
- Milk

How to cook:
1. Prepare chicken stock and put in unpeeled potatoes to cook until soft
2. Add in milk follow by watercress and cook for 5 mins
3. Pour the whole soup into blender to blend
4. Add in almond and continue to blend

Fried Prawns Ball



Ingredient:
- Big Prawn
- Lean Meat
- Water Chestnut

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Remove head and shell the prawns, remove the veins and open up the prawn, lying flat on the plate
2. Mince some chopped water chestnut, lean pork, prawn meat
3. Season the mixture with pepper, sugar, salt and corn starch and blend everything together and lay it on the prawns
4. Stick sliced almonds into it to form 3 neat rows

How to cook:
1. Cook the prawns in oil over medium heat

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Steam Scallop in Beancurd Skin



Ingredient:
- Minced chicken
- Prawn paste
- Mushroom
- Water chestnut
- Scallop
- Beancurd skin
- Black Fungus
- Asparagus
- Fish Roe

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Mix minced chicken, prawn paste, sliced mushroom, water chestut, then add salt, sugar, cornflour and slam the mixture until pasty.
2. Parboil beancurd skin to tenderise it
3. Stuff the mixture into beancurd skin solidly so that it won't sag
4. Then, parboil the scallop over hot water
5. Coat the scallop with corn flour and lay on top of the beancurd skin mixture

How to cook:
1. Steam the scallop dish for 10 mins
2. Use chicken stock blend with chopped black fungus, add sugar, salt, dark soy sauce and corn starch solution to make the gravy
3. Pour the gravy over the steam scallop in beancurd skin and decorate with asparagus slices and fish roe

Golden Scallop Balls



Ingredient:
- Scallop
- Prawn
- Pumpkin
- Winter Mushroom
- Turnip
- Spring onion

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Coat scallop with corn flour and flatten them
2. Mince prawn meat and season with salt, pepper, sesame oil, cornflour.
3. Add in chopped winter mushroom, turnip and spring onion and mix well
4. Add the paste on top of the flattened scallop and roll into a scallop ball

How to cook:
1. Steam for 10 mins
2. Use pumpkin paste with salt, sugar, chicken stock and starch solution to make the gravy to pour over the scallop balls

Pan Fried Scallop in Berry Sauce


Ingredient:
- Scallop
- Strawberry
- Blueberry

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Cut strawberry into smaller pieces
2. Marinate scallop with some pepper

How to cook:
1. Add some water in pan to boil, add in chopped strawberries and blueberries, add in 2 big tsp of sugar, cook the berries dissolve into fresh mixed fruit jam.
2. Add olive oil to heated pan, add in scallop to pan fry, pan fry until both side golden brown, then add in some butter to melt to coat the scallops.
3. Transfer scallop onto a plate and pour fruit jam over the scallops.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Seafood Rice



Ingredient:
- Sotong
- Bacon
- Flower Crab
- Prawn
- Onion
- Dried Shrimplet
- Silver Fish
- White Wine
- Olive Oil

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Cut away head of prawns and make a slice on the prawn's back
2. Cut Bacon into thin slices
3. Cut Sotong into thin slices
4. Chop onion into small cubes

How to cook:
1. Heat up wok, add in butter, followed by olive oil
2. Add in bacon, dried shrimplet, silver fish to stir fry
3. Add in garlic and chopped onion to continue stir fry
4. Add in rice to stir fry
5. Add in 1 glass of white wine
6. Lay Flower Crab, Sotong, Prawn on top of the dish
7. Add in 1 bowl of water
8. Cover wok and let it cook for half an hour over medium flame