Sunday, February 19, 2012

Below is a recipe I adapted from one of the recipe book I bought some time ago~ But I change some of the ingredient and ways to cook this dish~

Minced meat with lettuce fried rice(serves two)


Ingredients:
cooked rice (about 1 1/2 cup of uncooked rice)
5 - 6 pieces of lettuce(cut into thin strips)
2 eggs(beaten)
3 stalk of spring onion(chopped)
Some Minced meat
A dash of pepper
2 tablespoon of soya sauce
1 teaspoon of sesame oil

Marinade seasoning:
2 teaspoon of soya sauce
1 teaspoon of sugar
1 teaspoon of rice wine
1 teaspoon of cornflour
60ml of water

Method:

  1. Mix well all the Marinade seasoning together with the minced meat. Set it for 10 minutes.
  2. Heat 1 tablespoon of oil and fry the minced meat till slightly light brown. Remove from the wok and pour in half of the beaten egg.
  3. Use a spatula to break up the egg into small pieces. Fry till golden brown
  4. Add in rice, soya sauce, minced beat, lettuce and remaining beaten egg(note this step of adding remaining beaten egg ensure that the rice will be mix well of all the seasoning with ease and the rice will not burnt easily) Mix well.
  5. Switch off the stove fire. Add in sesame oil & pepper and mix well.
  6. Serve hot with chopped spring onion.
Previously I was searching for some ideas of how to cook pumpkin.. So here I am to present my simple pumpkin soup recipe here..

Simple Pumpkin soup~


Ingredients:
1 sweet corn (cut into 5 chunks)
1/2 carrot(cut into quartered)
1/4 of medium pumpkin
3 pork rib(scalded)

Seasoning:
2 teaspoon of salf

Method:
  1. Put in the pork rib and pumpkin. Cook for about 10 minutes.
  2. Add in the rest of the ingredients and salt.
  3. Cook for about 50 minutes and serve hot


Sunday, February 12, 2012

Potato soup~(serves 2 person)


Ingredients:
3 Potatoes(peeled and cut into quarters)
3 Pork ribs
1 carrot(peeled and cut into quarters)
2 onions(skinned and cut into quarters)

Method:
  1. Use boiled water to scald the pork rib.
  2. Pour away the water and boil some water in the pot.
  3. Once water is boiled, add in the pork rib for an hour than add in onion and potato.
  4. Cooked till the potato is half soften and add in carrot.
  5. Cook till the carrot is soften and add in a pinch of salt to taste.
Simple sushi~(serves two 2 pax)


Ingredients:




1 packet of powered sushi mix(as shown above, PS: I got it from ntuc)
Cooked rice(2 pax serving)
1 hotdog(bolied)
3 crabstick(bolied)
1/3 of japanese cucumber(cut into strips)
1/3 of carrot(cut into strips)
3 teaspoon of mayonise(for making crab mayo)
Some canned mayonise tuna

Tools you might need:
Nigiri Sushi Mold(as shown above, I got it at daiso; ps outlet)
Bamboo Sushi mat(for making california type of sushi)
Bamboo Spoon

Method:
  1. Pour the powered sushi mix into the rice. (the packet serve 3 serving, so i only use up 2/3 of the mixture)
  2. Use Bamboo spoon and mix well.
Crabstick Mayo
  1. Chopped up 2 pcs of crabstick and mix well with three teaspoon of mayonise.

California Sushi
  1. Cut the seaweed into half.
  2. Spread the rice evenly in the centre. 
  3. Add in filling such as hot dog, crabstick, tuna etc.
  4. Use bamboo sushi mat and roll up.
  5. Cut the sushi into three.
Nigiri Sushi
  1. Cut the seaweed with the width of 2cm.
  2. Put rice evenly into the Nigiri Sushi Mold.
  3. Place the press lid on top and press down evenly and strongly.
  4. Remove the press lid and overturn the container. Remove the nigiri sushi by pressing the centre part of the bottom of the container.
  5. Wrap the sushi with the seaweed.
  6. You can add the topping with tuna, cucumber & carrot, or crabstick mayo