Sunday, August 26, 2012

Stir Fried Chinese Greens(serves 2 - 3)

I chanced upon my recipe book under hong kong style recipes and hey this dish also goes very well with ginger too!  I feel that this dish is very simple, less hassle to prepare and easy to cook dish.

Ingredients:-
Some Nai bai cai(奶白菜) - bottom trimmed
1 1/2 tablespoon of ready to use fried garlic
1 teaspoon of minced ginger

Seasoning:-
1 teaspoon of sesame oil
1/2 teaspoon of salt

Method:-

  1. Heat about 1 tablespoon of oil in happy call pan.
  2. Add ginger and fried garlic till fragant.
  3. Add in vegetables and salt and stir well. Lock the pan to cook for about 1 1/2 minutes. You may wish to turn over the pan to make side the vegetables is throughly well cooked.
  4. Turn over pan again and switch off the stove. Add in sesame oil and stir well before serving.

Black Soy fish steak(serves 2-3)

My 1st time prepare fried and I am so gald that I have done this dish so well. I will definately cook it again. By the way, I follow the recipe book about asian seafood recipe and change the portion of the seasoning. I am gald the taste was so awesome delicious too~


Ingredients:-
2 Threadfin steak
1 medium onion - sliced
2 red finger chillies - sliced
1/2 cup of water

Seasoning:-
1 teaspoon of salt
1/2 tablespoon dark soya sauce
Dash of pepper to taste
1/2 teaspoon of sugar

Method:-

  1. Rub the salt into the fish and set aside for 15 minutes.
  2. Heat about 3 tablespoon of oil in the happy call pan.
  3. Fry the fish till golden brown on both side and set aside.
  4. Use the remaining oil to fry onion and chillies. Fry the onion till soft.
  5. Add in dark soya sauce to lightly caramelise. 
  6. Add in water, sugar and pepper. Mix well with the caramelised soya sauce and cook till it boiled.
  7. Add in the fish and simmer for 3 minutes or till the fish is cooked.
  8. You may wish to serve hot with plain rice or porridge. 


Omettle Fried Rice(serves 1)

Had do this dish mainly because I have the urge and craving for this dish.. lol I used the left over ingredients I have to cook this dish.


Ingredients:-
3 eggs -beaten
1/2 onion - diced
1 hotdog - sliced thinly
1/2 Mixed vegetables
1 bowl of cooked rice

Seasoning: -
2 tablespooon of oyster sauce
1 tablespoon of soya sauce
1 teaspoon of sesame oik
Dash of pepper to taste

Method:-

  1. Stir fried the mixed vegetables in the pan till no moisture and set aside.
  2. Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in the pan and add in the onions. Fried till lightly brown.
  3. Add in hotdog and fried till slightly brown and add in the mixed vegetables and rice.
  4. Add in about 1 tablespoon of egg mixture and seasoning and mix well.
  5. Set aside the fried rice and add in about 2 tablespoon of oil.
  6. Once the oil is heated, add in the egg mixture. Cook till bottom is slightly brown and can be removed with spatula.
  7. Put the egg mixture on top of the rice(make sure the slightly brown side face up). Use a spoon to tuck in the bottom of fried rice.
  8. Use a knife to mark out a X and open the cut edges as shown above. You may wish to serve with some tomato sauce (;

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Spicy Ddukbokkie (Spicy Rice cakes) - home cooked & less spicy style cum - Serves 2

Below recipe I adapted from my buddy Mae Lu.. Hehe easy to cook and prepare your own sauce for this dish~ This recipe is also recommend to those non spicy lover too!! (;


Ingredients:-
Rice Cakes(I used about half a packet)*
2 pcs of Korea Fish cakes*
1/4 of cabbage - Sliced thinly
2 onions - sliced
2 garlic - minced

Seasoning:-
1/2 tablespoon of Gochujang (Hot pepper paste, normal type)*
1 ikan bilis soup stock cube
3 tablespoon of ketchup sauce

(ingredients marked with a * means I bought these ingredients from solmart, they have outlets at Novena sq 2, Bukit Batok West Mal & Tampines 1)

Method:

1.  Add in water in the happy call pan till the water level is about 0.5 cm as per below picture.

2. Once the water has boiled, add in the ikan bilis soup stock cube. Disolve well and add in the minced garlic.
3. Boil about 1 min and add in fish cakes and lock the pan to cook for 3 mins.
4. Take the fish cakes out and let it cool.
5. Add in ketchup sauce and gochujang and dissolve well in the water.
6.Next, add in rice cake and lock pan again to cook till soften. At the same time, you can cut your fish cakes into rectangle shape like below: 


7. Once the rice cakes is soften, add in onions and cabbage.  Stir well with the sauce and lock pan to cook for about 5 mins or till the sauce thicken.
8. Switch off the stock and add in fish cakes. Stir well and is ready to be serve hot.

P.S : you can the fish cake to minced meat as well to create another verison.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Tradditional style of Dumpling Wanton noodles(serves 2)

Aha, previously I had blog about this same recipe but without chestnut inside the dumpling. So here is more traddtional style of doing it..

Ingredients:-
Dumpling:-
12 dumpling skins
Some minced meat(according to your prefered serving)
2 chestnut - diced into smaller cubes
6 medium size prawn - shelled; removed vein; cut into halves
Seasoning:
2 tablespoon of light soya sauce
1 teaspoon of sesame oil
Dash of pepper to taste

Noodle soup:-
1 cha siew(cut into slices)
12 stalk of cai xin
2 serving of uncooked wanton noodles
1 chicken soup stock
3 stalk of spring onion - garnishing(chopped)

Method:-
A: Making of dumplings

  1. Mix minced meat with the seasoning listed above.(for best result, you can chose to marinate the meat overnite).
  2. Place the prawn into the centre of the dumpling.
  3. Add in about 2-3 chestnut cudes.
  4. Add 1 tablespoon of minced meat and seal the end of the dumpling skin with some water.
B: Noodle soup(pls follow the direction of my previous recipe here)