Posted on 1 June 2008 | 2 Comments
This simple yet tasty dish was cooked by my lovely hubby.
Ingredients:
Prawns (medium size)
Butter
Seasonings:
Sugar
Salt
Cornflour
Methods:
1. Peel and devein the prawns. Reserve the tails. Pat dry.
2. Slide them down the back without cutting through, then open the prawn out.
3. Marinate the prawns with salt, sugar and cornflour.
4. Chill the prawns in the fridge for at least 30mins to make them firmer and...
Posted on 31 May 2008 | 2 Comments
Ingredients:2 corn-on-the-cob sweetcorns1 large carrot1 white onionHandful of mushroom stems (I had collected these stems from my previous cooking and stored them in the freezer) – optionalFish bones2 slices ginger15 red dates (removed seeds)1200ml water
Seasonings:Salt and pepper to taste
Methods:1. Wash fish bones. Blanch in hot water.2. Defrost mushroom stems, wash and set aside.2. Cut sweetcorns,...
Posted on 29 May 2008 | 2 Comments
This is another variation from the mushroom rice.
Ingredients:
Cooked rice
Chicken fillet (cube) – marinate with light soya sauce, sugar & corn flour
Frozen mixed vegetables
Assorted fresh mushroom
Garlic – diced
Butter
Seasonings:
Teriyaki sauce
Shaoxing cooking rice wine
Dash of sugar and pepper
Methods:
1. Use some butter to stir-fry the chicken until brown and set aside
2. Melt the remaining...
Posted on 28 May 2008 | No Comments
The recipe was adapted from Special quick & delicious vegetable cookbook with its dish called “stir-fried asparagus with chicken”.
Ingredients:
2 tbsp oil
1 onion (peeled & diced)
1 chicken whole leg (deboned & diced)
1 red chilli (diced)
150g asparagus (peeled & diced)
Seasoning:
1 tbsp oyster sauce
½ tbsp light soya sauce
¼ tsp salt
½ sugar
Dash of sesame oil and pepper
1 tsp...
Posted on 28 May 2008 | 28 Comments
My mum taught me how to cook this one-dish meal.
Ingredients:
1 red onion
2 chicken thighs (with or without bone) – marinate with light soya sauce, sugar and cornflour
2 potatoes
1 large carrot
Seasonings:
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tsp light soya sauce
Dash of dark soya sauce
1 tsp concentrated chicken stock (optional) – mixed with 150 ml water
Dash of sugar and pepper
1 bay leaf (my personal add-on)
Corn...
Posted on 27 May 2008 | 4 Comments
Ingredients:
Group A:
20g 玉竹 (yu zhu)
20g 干百合 (dried lily bulb)
20g 芡实 (fox nuts)
20g 淮山 (huai shan)
20g 湘莲 (lotus seeds)
10 红枣 (red dates) – removed seeds
250g 瘦肉 (lean meat)
1 liter water
Group B:
20g 圆肉 (dried longan)
2 tbsp 杞子(qi zi)
Methods:
1. Rinse lean pork. Cut into large pieces. Scald
2. Rinse all the ingredients.Bring water to boil.
3. Add in Group A and...
Posted on 27 May 2008 | No Comments
Pumpkin is always my son’s favourite regardless of my cooking methods (stir-frying, making soup, making porridge etc).
Ingredients:
Pumpkin (cut into cube)
Black sesame seeds
White sesame seeds
Seasonings:
Light soya sauce
Fried garlic oil/ salad oil
Methods:
Steam the pumpkin until cooked. Toss with seasonings and both types of sesame seeds. Serve.
Posted on 26 May 2008 | 12 Comments
Ingredients:
120g chicken breast (minced)
3 waterchessnut (chopped)
30g carrot (chopped)
1 Japanese beancurd (mashed) – also known as egg tofu (玉子豆腐, 蛋豆腐, 日本豆腐)
Small handful of frozen green peas
Seasonings:
1½ tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp light soya sauce
½ tsp sugar (optional)
Dash of sesame oil and pepper
Cornflour
Methods:
1. Combine all ingredients with seasonings in a mixing...
Posted on 25 May 2008 | 4 Comments
Ingredients:
2 eggs (lightly beaten)
200g fish paste
Handful of spring onion (chopped)
Seasonings:
Pinch of salt (depending the type of fish paste)
Dash of pepper and sesame oil
2 tsp cornflour
Methods:
1. Stir in spring onions and seasonings into the fish paste. Stir in 1 direction.
2. Add in some chicken stock granules, light soya sauce and pepper into the eggs and beat lightly.
3. Heat up oil, pour half...
Posted on 23 May 2008 | No Comments
Ingredients:
2 red apples (medium size)
25g white fungus
300g lean pork
30g sweet and bitter almond (南北杏) – also known as sweet and bitter apricot seeds or kernels – please refer to note below
4 candied dates (big)
1000 ml water
Seasonings:
Salt to taste (optional)
Methods:
Peel and core the apples, then rinse and chop them into 8 pieces. Set aside.
Rinse lean pork and cut into 3 pieces,...