Friday, February 24, 2012
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
- 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
- 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
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Fried Egg with French Beans and Prawns with Cheeze Toppings
Ingredient:
- Eggs
- Eggs
- French Beans
- Prawns
- Cheeze
Prepare the ingredient:
1. Beat up eggs, add in 1 tsp of sugar, soya sauce and pepper
2. Cut French Bean into smaller bits and mix with beaten eggs and prawns
How to cook:
1. Pan fry eggs until prawn and french beans are cooked, add in some cheeze on top of hot eggs and wait for it to melt
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Steamed Toufu with Minced Meat & Capsicum
Ingredient:
- Toufu
- Toufu
- Minced Meat
- Capsicum (Red & Yellow)
Prepare the ingredient:
1. Mash Toufu and lay on base of the plate
2. Cut Capsicum into smaller cubes and mix with marinated minced meat
3. Roll into balls and lay on top of mash toufu
How to cook:
1. Steam for 15 mins
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Stir Fried Pork Shreds in Green & Red Pepper
Ingredient:
- Lean Pork/ Chicken Thigh Meat
- Red Pepper
- Green Pepper
- Orange
Prepare the ingredient:
1. Cut lean pork meat into thin slices and marinate with light soy sauce, orange juice, cornflour, pepper, 1 tsp of sugar and sesame oil.
2. Use the remaining of the marinate sauce, add 1 tsp of sour plum, 2 tsp of oyster sauce and black pepper.
3. Cut green and red pepper into half and remove seeds
How to cook:
1. Steam green and red pepper for 5 mins
2. Add some butter to work, stir fry some garlic
3. Add in shredded pork to stir fry, follow by gravy
4. Add some water/ stock to the mixture and add in some cornstarch solution to thicken the gravy
- Lean Pork/ Chicken Thigh Meat
- Red Pepper
- Green Pepper
- Orange
Prepare the ingredient:
1. Cut lean pork meat into thin slices and marinate with light soy sauce, orange juice, cornflour, pepper, 1 tsp of sugar and sesame oil.
2. Use the remaining of the marinate sauce, add 1 tsp of sour plum, 2 tsp of oyster sauce and black pepper.
3. Cut green and red pepper into half and remove seeds
How to cook:
1. Steam green and red pepper for 5 mins
2. Add some butter to work, stir fry some garlic
3. Add in shredded pork to stir fry, follow by gravy
4. Add some water/ stock to the mixture and add in some cornstarch solution to thicken the gravy
Friday, September 2, 2011
Steam Fish in Lemon Garlic Sauce
Ingredient:
- Fresh Fish/ Fish Head
Prepare the ingredient:
1. Use vinegar or salt to season the fish for 10 mins to remove fishiness
2. Make slices on the fish if fish is too thick
3. Cut garlic, chilli and spring onions into small bits
How to cook:
1. Add in spring onion underneath the fish head and ginger above it and steam* the fish for 15 mins
2. Blend lemon juice, fish sauce, plum sauce together, add in raw garlic, chopped chilli and chopped spring onion to make a sauce
3. Pour the sauce over the steam fish
*Use 2 chopsticks beneath fish head while steaming allows heat to circulate thoroughly and steam the fish evenly
Deep Fried Winter Melon in Butter Sauce
Ingredient:
- Winter Melon
- Prawns
- Eggs
- Crispy Flour
- Custard Milk
Prepare the ingredient:
1. Cut winter melon (soft pulp) into small cubes, extra can be used to cook soup
2. Coat the diced winter melon with salt to flavour it and purge the fluid inside
3. Blend crispy flour with water and edible oil for deep frying later
4. Coat the winter melon cubes with starch to make the batter stick
5. Shell prawns and cut into small cubes
How to cook:
1. Control oil temp and make sure it is not too hot, deep fry the winter melon cubes coated with batter, put aside the fried winter melon.
2. Heat up oil, fry some green onion and garlic, then melt some butter
3. Pour in chicken stock, shelled shrimps and custard milk
4. Mix in some sugar and salt, follow by starch solution
5. Once sauced reached desired thickness, pour in beaten eggs slowly to create a cloud-like appearance
6. Pour the sauce over the deep-fried winter melon
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
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