Dinner on 21/08/2010

Prima taste Hainanese chicken rice premix

With this premix cooking Hainanese chicken rice is so easy.

Just wash the rice, mix in the paste & add enough water to cook the rice. Very easy.
When the rice was cooking in the rice-cooker, you can already smell the fragrance in the entire house. After the rice is cook leave it in the rice cooking for another 20 mins before serve.

Baked Teriyaki Chicken Thighs

Marinade for a few hours (best overnight)

Ingredient
4 Chicken Thighs
6 tbsp light soya sauce
6 tbsp mirin
2 tbsp sugar

Method

1) Preheat oven to 160C.
2) Put chicken thighs on a baking tray with skin face down.
3) Bake for 20 minutes. Brush additional marinade in between baking.
4) Turn the thighs over bake the other side of the chicken. Brush on additional marinade as well.
5) Bake for another 15-20 minutes.

Dinner on 10/08/2010

Cai Xin Soup

Stir fried Hairy Gourd with Dried Shrimps

Ingredients (Serve 2)

1 small hairy gourd, sliced into strips
10g of dried shrimps, soaked till softened
1 small carrot, sliced thinly (i dun hv this so didn't put)
1 bundle of tanghoon, soaked till softened (i dun hv this as well)
1 piece of sweetened dried beancurd skin, cut into strips (i omit this)
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
2 cups of water
1 tsp salt
1 tsp light soya sauce
1 tsp fish sauce
1 tsp oil

Method

1) Heat up some cooking oil in a wok. Add in the garlic and dried shrimps till fragrant.
2) Add in the hairy gourd.
3) Slowly pour in the water and simmer till the vegetables softened.
4) Stir in the salt, light soya sauce & fish sauce.


Omelette

Dinner on 27/07/2010

Luo Han Zai

Braised Tofu

Steam Fish

Dark Soya Sauce Pork

Today Dinner 01/07/2010

Sambal Kangkong

Sweet & Sour Fish

Sambal Squid

14/05/2010 Dinner

Omelette

stir fry bean sprouts

minced pork with tofu

3 layer meat

19/04/2010 Dinner

Ingredients:
1 Can Baked bean
few hotdogs (cut)
5 tbsp water

Method:
1) Pour baked bean into pot
2) Put hotdogs together with water bring it to boil
3) Ready to serve

Isn't it simple? Try it!



Ingredients:
1kg prawns (removed head and shell and deveined)
2 fresh tomato (cut into quarters) (i didn't put this)
4 tbsp tomato sauce (i put 6 tbsp)
1 tbsp vinegar
sugar and salt to taste
Minced garlic (i put about 5 tbsp)
8 tbsp water (if it's too dry u can add more water)

Method
1) Heat wok, sautee garlic till fragrant.
2) Add in prawns and cook till they turned pink.
3) Add in tomato sauce, vinegar, and water.
4) Seasoned with sugar and salt.
5) Add in tomatoe and stir for a few sec.

ps: if you want it more simple to prepare this dish, buy those ready mix paste from supermart. (Garlic prawn)



Sambal kangkong

Ingredients:
1 lb kangkong
1 oz dried shrimps, chopped
2 shallots, minced
3 cloves garlic, minced
3 tablespoons of sambal belacan
3 tablespoons of water
2 tablespoons oil

Sambal belacan
5-6 fresh red serrano chilies, sliced and do not de-seed completely
2-inch piece of belacan, toasted until fragrant
4 teaspoons of lime juice
peel of ½ a lime, sliced thinly

(ps: if you are lazy to prepare the sambal belacan u can buy those off the shelve)

Method:
1. Pound all the ingredients of the sambal belacan but not too finely.
2. Put 2 tablespoons of oil in a wok over medium high heat. Fry the shallots until they are caramelized - about 3-4 minutes. Add the dried shrimps and the garlic. Stir-fry for 1 minute then add the sambal belacan and continue frying for 1 minute. Put in the kangkong. Mix it well with the rempah or spice paste already in the wok. Add the water. Cook until the kangkong leaves are wilted.

14/04/2010 Dinner

Lotus Root Soup

Ingredients :-

1) Lotus Root
2) Red Dates
3) Dried squid
4) Raw Peanuts
5) Honey Dates
6) Pork ribs and chicken ribs

Method -

1) 1. Blanch pork ribs in boiling water for about 5 minutes, to remove the scum so that you have clear soup later.

2) Preparation of soup is the easiest. Aft you have blanch the ribs Throw everything in the pot of water and let it boil. Simple right?!! For best results, let the water come to a boil for 20 mins and then only lower the fire (simmer) and boil for another 2 hours.



Fried Ginger with pork

Ingredients
4 Ginger, sliced thinly
2 cloves Garlic, finely chopped
150g Pork (preferred tenderloin), thinly sliced
4 Spring onions cut to 2-inch lengths)
2 tbsp Oyster sauce
4 tbsp of water
1 tbsp Chinese cooking wine (Shaoxing)(optional)
1 tbsp of corn starch to mix with water
pepper

Method
1. Mix oyster sauce and water together and leave it aside
1. Fry the ginger, then garlic and pork until the pork is browned.
2. Add in the mixture sauce, pepper and fry for a couple of minutes. (not too long)
3. Add in spring onion.
4. Mix in the corn starch to make the sauce thick (do not make it too thick)



Steam Fish

Ingredients:
1 Ginger sliced thinly
1/2 rice bowl of Soya Sauce
1 rice bowl of water
2 tbsp of sugar
2 tbsp cooking oil
2 cod fish

Method:
1) Mix soya sauce, water, sugar together and bring it to boil(taste to make sure that is not too salty, if too salty add some more sugar)
2) Stir fry ginger with 2 tbsp of cooking oil till the ginger turn brown (not burn)
3) Steam cod fish
4) When the fish is cook pour the mixture onto the fish and put the ginger on top together with the oil.
5) Serve it while hot!