Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Recipe 17 : Chicken Bits, Potatoes & Egg Dish


Ingredients :
Potatoes (chopped into small cubes)
Blended Chicken (Ramlee brand)
Eggs
Salt

Steps :
1) Fry the potatoes first until they are soft.
2) Add the blended chicken into the pan.
3) Beat the eggs and add them into the pan.
4) Add salt to taste and fry until everything is cooked.
5) Eat it!!

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Recipe 16 : Sambal Hae Bee (Spicy Dried Shrimp Sambal)

Ingredients:
1 cup hae bee (dried prawns)soaked and finely ground
8 fresh chillies
10 small onions pound together
A knob of belacan
Salt
Sugar

Steps :
1. Heat a tbsp of oil in a fry pan and fry the pounded ingredients for 2 minutes.
2. Add the dried prawns and continue frying till quite dry.
3. Add a little salt and sugar to taste.
4. Eat it!!

Recipe 15 : French Fries


Ingredients :
A pack of fries (just grab from any supermarket)
Oil (for frying)
Thousand Island sauce (for the topping)

Steps :
1) Heat wok with oil.
2) When the wok is hot, just throw in as much fries as you want.
3) Fry until golden brown and crispy.
4) Drain the oil and place the fries on a napkin.
5) Add some thousand island sauce on them as a topping.
6) Eat it!!

Monday, February 7, 2011

Recipe 14 : Kiam Chye Boey (Chinese Irish Stew)


Important Notes :
- This is a NON HALAL dish as it has PORK in it.
- This is not a 15 MINUTE dish. It takes about 2 HOURS to complete.
- This is a dish which is normally served during CHINESE NEW YEAR.
- You can replace PORK with CHICKEN but I'm not sure if the taste is similar.

Ingredients :
500gm Kiam Chye (Salted Vegetables)
250gm Kuah Chye (Fresh Mustard Leaves)
200gm Peh Chye (Chinese Cabbage)
200gm Pau Chye (Round Chinese Cabbage)
1 Plate of Joo Hoo Char (Refer to Recipe No. 13)
30gm Garlic
250gm of Cooked Meat (Pork)
1 Tin Button Mushrooms (Cut into half)
1 Tin Straw Mushrooms (Cut into half)
1 Stick Lemon Grass (Smashed)
1 Nutmeg Seed (Crushed)
5 Pieces Of Dried Chillis
10 Preserved Sour Plums

Steps :
1) Fry garlic until lightly brown, add meat (roasted pork), lemon grass, crushed nutmeg seed and dried chilis.
2) Add salted vegetables and cook until they are soft.
3) Add all other ingredients, including jiu hoo char, and cook until the kuah chye (mustard leaves) softens.
4) Eat it!!

Recipe 13 : Joo Hoo Char (Fried Cuttlefish)


Important Notes :
- This is a NON HALAL dish as it has PORK in it.
- This is not a 15 MINUTE dish. It takes about 1 HOUR or MORE to complete.
- This is a dish which is normally served during CHINESE NEW YEAR.
- This dish is best eaten by wrapping it with LETTUCE.

Ingredients :
100g Joo Hoo See (Shredded Dried Cuttlefish)
250g Pork Belly
1kg Bangkwang (Sweet Turnip)
1 Medium Carrot
6 Dried Chinese Mushrooms
3 Cloves Garlic (Minced)
Cooking Oil
Dash of Sesame Oil
Tau Cheo (Salted Soy Bean)
Sugar
Chinese Celery

Steps :
1) Soak the dried cuttlefish in water for 15 minutes and rinse clean. Dry with kitchen towel if it is still wet.
2) Blanch pork belly briefly in boiling water. Diced it small (discard the skin) and set aside.
3) Shred finely the Bangkwang, Carrot into long strips. Soak the mushroom, wash and cut off the hard stem and slice into strips.
4) Heat oil in a large wok.
5) Saute Garlic briefly.
6) Fry the cuttlefish till it is dry and becomes aromatic.
7) Then fry the diced pork, adding tao cheo and the chinese mushroom. Follow up with turnip, carrot and Chinese celery.
8) It is important to fry until the ingredients are equally mixed. Taste a little before you add the salt, sesame oil and sugar. (Sometimes the tao cheo's saltiness and turnip's natural sweetness is enough that you do not need to put too much seasoning but a dash of them is good).
9) You will need to cook them a little longer till the dish is dried up and has no more gravy left.
10) Eat it!!