Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Chicken Chop (serving 2)

Ingredients:

a. 2 boneless chicken drumstick
b. Broccoli, carrot (to garnish)cut and boiled
c. 5 tbs of oyster sauce
d. 2 tbs of light soy sauce
e. 1 tbs of sesame oil.
f. a sauce plate of Chinese wine (any type)
g. some honey
h. a pinch of 5 spices powder

Method:

Mix all the ingredients except b,c,e and g. Dilute ingredients c & g in 10 tbs of water and pour it in the mixing and mix well, finally add in the sesame oil to lock the taste in the drumstick. Make sure the drumstick have holes. To make the holes, use a fork. Let it marinate it for a day, keep refrigerated.

Heat 3 tbs of cooking oil/butter/sesame oil in a pan with low fire. Put in the boneless drumstick with the skin facing down and let it grill for few minutes. After the chicken skin turn to brown color pour in the remaining sauce in the pan and let it cook for few minutes and flip the drumstick. Garnish the plate with broccoli and carrot and serve the drumstick.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Noodle Soup with Enorki Mushroom & Beef




Ingredients:

1. Dried Laksa Noodle (soak for 3-4hrs and boil it in hot water for 5-10mins)
2. A packet of Enorki Mushroom (clean and drained)
3. 280g Beef
4. Vegetable (any type)

Ingredients to marinate the beef)

a. 5 tbs light soy sauce
b. 2 tsp ground pepper
c. 3 tsp wine (any type, can be Chinese wine or liquor)
d. egg
f. sesame oil.

Method:

Mix beef with ingredients a-f in a mixing bowl or plate and let it marinate for few hours to 24hrs, keep refrigerated. Heat up a frying pan with 2 tbs of oil and pour partial of the beef and stir fried till medium rare and set a side.

Soup:

Prepare a pot of boiling water, add a tbs of chicken stock or 1 chicken cube. Add enorki mushroom and let it boil for few minutes. Add vegetable and lastly pour in the remaining beef in the pot.

Scope the noodle in a bowl, add in the stir fried beef in the bowl. Pour the soup in the bowl and serve.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Tom Yam (8-10 Serving)

Ingredients:

1. A packet Laksa noodle (dried or fresh)
NOTE: IF YOU USE DRIED LAKSA NOODLE SOAK IT IN COLD WATER IN 3-4HRS TIME BETTER SOAK IT DAY BEFORE AND BOIL IT IN BOILING WATER FOR 5-10MINS. FOR FRESH NOODLE, JUST NEED TO BOIL IT IN BOILING WATER FOR 2 MINUTES

2. 6 cubes of tom yam
3. 3 tbs tom yam paste
4. 3 sticks of lemon grass (smashed)
5. 6-8 pcs lime leaves (tear it so that the fragrance are out)
6. 2 tomatoes (cut to 4 pcs)
7. 2 stick of carrots (sliced)
8. Seafood (can be any seafood)
9. Broccoli (cut)
10. Shrimp paste
11. 3 litre of water


Method:

Heat up a pot with a tbs of oil and mix ingredients # 2 & 3 and stir it in medium fire for 1 minute. Add ingredients # 4 & 5 and stir again till the leaves turn to dark green and pour in ingredients # 6 & 7. Stir it and add 3 litre of water and let it boil for 2 hours in low fire.

When the tom yam soup is done, add in the seafoods and broccoli in the pot and let it boil for 5mins in low fire. Scope the noodle in a bowl add a tsp of shrimp before serving and pour in the tom yam in the bowl and serve.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Bak Kut Teh (BKT) 4-5 serving




Ingredients:

1. BKT Herbs (2 packet from Hypermarket or Chinese Herbs Shop)
2. Dried Longan
3. 1 rice bowl of light soy sauce
4. A tbs of dark soy sauce (to darken the soup)
5. 3 layer pork (1st layer fat, 2ND layer thin)
6. Pork Intestine (optional)(make sure it clean or else it have some smell in it. (best way buy that it already clean by the seller or u can clean it with lime juice)
7. Pork ribs
8. Mushroom (soaked and remain the soaking water)
9. Garlic

Method:

Boil #5,6,7 in hot water (to clear all the dirty scamps that stick on the meat)for 3 minutes. Remove and put a side, pour away the water. Fill in the water (depends how big is the pot) and the remaining mushroom water in a pot and heat it up. Pour all herbs and the sauces in the boiling water and lastly add the boiled meat in the pot. Let it boil for 2 1/2 hours in low fire. After 2 1/2 hours take out the meat and intestine (to avoid the meat become soft). Poke the meat with fork or chopstick to know whether the meat is cook. If the fork or chopstick can't poke in means it not done yet. Let it boil for another 30-45mins. After that take out and cut it in small pieces and serve it.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Chicken Rice (3-4 serving)


Ingredients:

1. 3 Chicken thigh, cut small pieces (can be replace with any part of the chicken)
NOTE: IF THE CHICKEN HAVE SOME FAT ON IT CUT IT AND REMAIN SOME OF IT (ONE OR TWO WILL DO).
2. 5 dried mushroom (soak and sliced thin and remain the soaking water)
3. Blended ginger ( a sauce plate will do)
4. 1 Chinese sausage (sliced thin, remember to remove the skin before slicing it)
5. Oyster sauce & light soy sauce (estimate on your own taste)
6. 5 tbs Chinese wine (any type)
7. Sesame oil
8. 1 tbs Dark soy sauce
9. A bowl of Rice, normal bowl rice (wash and drain it dry)


Marinate the chicken:

Mix all the above ingredients except rice in a container (so the sauce don't spill out and the fragrance keep in the chicken)and let it marinate for 24hrs. Keep it refrigerated.


Method:

Heat up the rice cooker power and let it heat for a while before adding the chicken fat in it. Stir the chicken fat till the oil come out, pour the rice in the cooker and stir again. Pour the marinated chicken in the cooker and stir again and finally add the soaked mushroom water in the cooker. If the soaked mushroom water are ain't enough, add some water. DO NOT add too much water or else the rice will be extremely soft. If the soaked mushroom water is 250ml, add a soup scope of water will do. Let it cook in the cooker till the rice and chicken are done.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Steak


Ingredients:

1. Beef steak of course (can buy it in hypermarket/supermarket)
2. Potatoes, peeled and cubed ( 2 will do, each have 1)
3. Carrots , peeled and sliced
4. Broccoli , cut
5. Garlic butter (to fry the beef)

Sauces to marinate the beef:

a. ground pepper
b. 4 tbs soya sauce
c. 1 bottle cap of chinese wine (siew heng jiu)
d. 1 tbs sesame oil
f. a pinch of thyme herb (can buy it in hypermarket in bottle)

Method:

Beef
Use a fork to make hole in #1 so that the sauce absorb
Mix a in #1 both side, then insert b,c & d. Mix it well and finally insert f (both side). Let it marinate for 24-48hrs. When marinating the meat put inside a container so that the sauce will absorb. After few hours turn the meat so that the sauce mixed well at both side.

Mashed Potatoes

Boil a pot of water to make the potatoes, carrots and broccoli soft. remove carrots and broccoli keep the potatoes boiling for 15mins. Keep a small bowl the remaining boiling water. Use fork to mash the potatoes. Heat the pot with 3tbs of garlic butter, add remaining boiling water into the pot, later add the potatoes and a pinch of salt to taste. Keep stir it or else bottom will burn. Boil it till the water dry and serve. Use low fire.

Beef

Heat the pan with garlic butter. Do no heat it with high fire the garlic butter will burn. Use low fire. Put the meat to pan fry it till it turned other color. Depends how cooked you want it to be and serve.