Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Sweet and Sour Chicken with Mango


Ingredient:
- Chicken Thigh Meat
- Mango
- Oyster Mushroom

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Cut mango into smaller dices
2. Cut chicken thigh and oyster mushroom into thin slices

How to cook:
1. Heat up oil in wok, add in garlic bits
2. Add in chicken thigh meat to stir fry until cooked
3. Add in oyster mushroom and mango to stir fry, follow by 1 tsp of soya sauce and pepper
4. Add in 3 tsp of sweet and sour sauce and continue to stir fry

Lotus Root with Corn Soup


Ingredient:
- Lotus Root
- Sweet Corn
- Pork Ribs

How to cook:
1. Boil water, add in pork ribs and sweet corn and lotus roots and let it cook over medium fire for 1 hour.
2. Add 1 tsp of soya sauce for seasoning

Ham and Fish Roll


Ingredient:
- Ham
- Sliced Fish

How to cook:
1. Wrap sliced fish inside Ham roll and pan fry with butter.
2. Heat up some butter, add in mixture of sour plum sauce and oyster sauce to stir fry and create the gravy to pour over the dish

Mash Potato with Mushroom Sauce

Ingredient:
- Potato
- Mushroom
- Chicken Sausage

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Cut sausage and mushroom into smaller bits
2. Cut potatoes into cubes

How to cook:
1. Add potato cubes into boiling water, add salt and let it cook over medium flame for 20 mins until soft
2. Drain all the water and mash the soften potatoes in the pot over medium fire
3. Once potatoes are mashed, add in butter, cheeze and milk to continue mashing
4. To prepare mushroom sauce, heat up butter in pan, and add in chopped mushroom and sausage to stir fry
5. Add some oyster sauce, black pepper and chicken stock, followed by cornstarch solution to thicken the gravy
6. Pour gravy over mash potatoes

Friday, February 24, 2012

Yam Paste with Ginkgo Nut



Ingredient:
- Yam
- Pumpkin
- Ginkgo Nut
- Coconut Milk
- Water Chestnut
- Sweet Potato Flour
- Shallot Oil/ Olive Oil/ Vegetable Oil
- Pandan Leaves

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Cut yam and pumpkin into smaller pieces
2. Cut water chestnut into small dices

How to cook:
1. Steam pumpkin for 15 mins, mash and add sugar to preferred sweetness
2. Steam yam for 30 mins and mash up, adding sugar and shallot oil to blend in the paste, add hot water if paste is too sticky, add paste into blender to make the paste finer
3. Add in diced water chestnut into yam paste
4. Cook Gingko nut in boiling water with pandan leaves
5. Heat up coconut milk, add in sugar to preferred sweetness, followed by sweet potato starch solution to thicken the gravy
6. Add some ginkgo nut and pumpkin paste on top of yam paste and pour coconut gravy over the whole dish.

Tau Suan



Ingredient:
- Mung Beans
- You Tiao
- Sugar
- Pandan Leaf
- Sweet Potato Flour

How to cook:
1. In boiling water, add in pandan leaf for the fragrance
2. Fry mung beans with sugar to get a caramel coating on the mung beans
3. Add fried mung beans to boiling water with rock sugar and cook until mung beans are soft, add additional sugar if not tau suan is not sweet enough
4. Add in appropriate amount of sweet potato cornstarch solution to thicken the gravy
5. Add you tiao to compliment the tau suan

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Pan Fried Butter Prawns

Ingredient:
- Glass Prawns
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Butter

How to cook:
1. Melt butter in pan/ wok, add in garlic bits to cook till fragrant
2. Turn up the flame and add in peeled prawns to stir fry until prawns are cooked, add in cherry tomatoes, followed by another spoon of butter
3. Add 1 tsp of sugar and fry sugar evenly

Monday, February 13, 2012

Dumpling Soup

Ingredient:
- Minced Pork
- Pork Bones
- Leek
- Soya Bean
- Ikan Bilis
- Dried Cuttlefish
- Water Chestnut
- Prawns

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Mix minced pork with diced water chestnut and prawns, marinate with soya sauce, seasame oil, pepper, oyster sauce
2. Wrap with dumpling skin

How to cook:
1. Add pork bones, soya bean, ikan bilis, dried cuttlefish to boiling water and cook for 1.5 hours.
2. Cook dumpling in soup and serve with vegetables

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Mushroom Soup



Ingredient:
- King Oyster Mushroom
- Brown Mushroom

- White Mushroom
- Pork Bones
- Chicken Breast
- Celery
- Carrot
- Sweet Corn
- Lotus Root

Prepare the ingredient:
1. Cut carrot, mushrooms, sweet corn into smaller pieces
2. Briefly rinse pork bones in boiling water

How to cook:
1. Bring water to boil, add in pork bones, chicken breast, carrot and sweet corn, follow by rest of ingredients
2. Cook over medium flame for 1.5 hour, add in 1 tsp of soya sauce and seasame oil for seasoning