Chinese Mushroom Soup 2

After the last 2 days of "sinful" lunch, we going to have some light lunch today. Yes, we cooking Rapunzel's favourite soup, Chinese Mushroom Soup. The soup base is the same, using the ikan bili stock, 2 slice of ginger and 2 cloves of garlic to boiled. Other then the main ingredients, shitake mushroom and king mushroom, Snow White also added fish cake, carrot, cabbage, sweet corn, tofu and wolfberries into the soup.

See the mushroom pot, the ingredients is overflow.

After added the fish sauce and salt to taste, the soup is ready. Garnished with coriander and sprinkle some pepper, viola the steamy hot Chinese Mushroom Soup is served!

Chicken Curry Noodle

Normally we eat the chicken curry with prata or bread, this time we simply blanch the yellow noodle and pour the Chicken Curry over it and tah da, a hot and spicy Chicken Curry Noodle is ready for lunch.

Chicken Curry
Ingredients:
400g chicken meats
1 packet curry paste
1 stalk curry leave
1 stalk lemon grass
3 medium size potatoes (cut chunks)
1 pc fish cake (sliced)
6 pcs tau pok (sliced)
3 cloves garlic, 3 chilies padi, 1 onions (blend)
1 tbsp chili powder
4 bowl chicken stock
1 cup coconut milk

Methods:
1. Deep Fried the potatoes chunks and put aside.
2. Boiled the chicken stock.
3. Heat 3 tbsp of oil in a wok and stir fry the blended garlic, chilies padi and onion.
4. Add in the curry paste, chili powder, lemon grass and curry leaves and stir fry till fragrant.
5. Add in the chicken meats stir fry with the curry paste till cooked.
6. Pour the curry paste and chicken into the boiling chicken stock.
7. Add in fish cakes, tau pok and fried potatoes into the curry soup.
8. Season with salt, sugar and fish sauce to your taste.
9. Lastly add in the coconut milk and let it simmer a while and the curry soup is ready.

Just blanched some bean spouts and yellow noodle and pour the curry soup over it, a fragrant yummy Chicken Curry Noodle is ready to serve.

Pineapple Fried Rice with Salted Egg Crispy Prawn

This Thai Heavenly Pineapple Fried Rice is done by Rapunzel. She did not add in the raisin but it is still as heavenly yummy. If you interested can try out this recipe.

This fried rice is supposed to be a real vegetarian Thai food but we eat with Salted Egg Crispy Prawn so we not having vegetarian lunch after all. This Salted Egg Crispy Prawn goes very well with the fried rice. The recipe can get from fenying's blog.

Apple Pie

Home made apple pie by Snow White. It is simple to cook but longer time to prepare.

Cubed 5 green apples and socked in salted water for 10-15min. drained.

Season the apples with; 1 cup of caster sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tbsp butter and 1 tbsp corn flour for 1 hour.
Toss fry the apples till seasoning is well coated and put aside to cool it

Rolled out the ready made pie to 3mm thick and trimmed the size of the pie you want. Place the apples filling and wrap up.





Bake the pie under pre-heat oven for 50-60min till the crust turn golden brown and the juice bubble through slits in crust.

Apply a layer of egg over the pie when baked to let it have shinny graze. As we are using the toaster oven, the crust tend to burn easily. Overall it is still very success as it has a bitter sweet taste which leave your taste bud craving for more.

Chee Cheong Fun 2

Snow White manage to roll the Chee Cheong Fun this time! The pre-packed Chee Cheong Fun we get from the supermarket is more fresh, so it is easier to rolled out and wrap the shredded fried carrot and turnip.



For receipe, please see here.

Steamed the Chee Cheong Fun, unrolled it to flat sheet and place fried carrot and turnip on the sheet.

Rolled the Chee Cheong Fun back with the fried carrot and turnip. Sprinkle some sesame and pour some sweet sauce and chili over it.

Tah dah! The Chee Cheong Fun is ready to serve.

No Egg Chocolate Cake

This No Egg Chocolate Cake is very easy to prepare in less than 15minutes.

Ingredients A:

1½ cup Self raising flour

3 tbsp Cocoa powder

1 tsp Baking powder

½ tsp Salt

Ingredients B:

1 cup Caster Sugar

5 tbsp Olive Oil

1 tsp Vanilla Essence

1 cup Water

Method:

1. Mixed Ingredients A thoroughly and set aside.

2. Mixed Ingredients B in another mixing bowl till sugar melted.

3. Pour Ingredients B gradually into Ingredients A and mixed evenly.

4. Pre-heat the oven for 10minutes.

5. Pour the mixture into a baking tin & top with some chocolate chips

6. Put into oven and bake for 40minutes.

The cake is crispy outside and moist inside like brownie.

Prawn Mee Rebus

Today menu for our lunch is Prawn Mee Rebus which you can easily get in Singapore and Malaysia, as I can say this is more like Mee rebus Singapore-style. Rapunzel did this without adding sweet potatoes and she just simplified as the ingredients written...anyway no comment from Babe..Snow White not present today but she still have chance to taste on the next day..which we keep balance meal.

The material (4 servings)
• 500 g of yellow mee
• 2 pieces tauhu, cubed and fried
• 3 boiled eggs, halved
• Small Limes
• Bean sprout, tails removed and blanch
• Sliced green chili
• Fried onions and Spring onion
• 250 g prawn(marinate with salt and pepper)
• 3 garlics *
• 6 small red onion seeds *
• 1 inch ginger * (* blend fine)
• 2 tblspn dried shrimp, soaked 10 minutes
• 2 tblspn bean paste, crushed
• 2 tblspn fish curry spices, with a little water
• 1 stalk lemongrass, smashed
• 2 inch galangal, smashed
• 2 tblspn flour, mixed with little water. (for thickened)
• 1 bowl tamarind sauce

Ways
Rinse prawn, peel skin and isolate it. In a pot pour a little oil and fry the prawn skin until pink. Pour 1.5 ltr water and boil for 30 minutes for a prawn stock then remove the prawns skin.

In another pot, pour cooking oil, fried shrimp. Remove and keep aside. Same oil with lemongrass and galangal enter followed blended ingredients ranging and curry,dried shrimp,bean paste. Stir fry until oil rises.

Pour the sautee ingredients to a boiling water shrimp. Add with salt and sugar to taste. Cook until the gravy thick and lastly add the diluted flour.

FOR SERVING:- Put noodle into a bowl, arrange tauhu and bean sprouts pour gravy until 3/4 full. Decorate with boiled eggs, sliced green chili, deep fried shrimp, fried onions, spring onion and the hemisphere kasturi limes... The mee rebus now ready to served.

Coca-Cola Chicken

Snow White using Coca-Cola to cook the chicken. The Coca-Cola give an intense sweet favour to the chicken and it is an easy to cook dish according to Snow White.

Ingredients:
16 pcs chicken wings
3 cloves garlic (minced)
2 cloves onion (minced)
2 slices ginger (finely shredded)
1½ tbsp soya sauce
3 chili padi (finely chopped)
1 cup coca-cola
Seasoning :
2 tbsp soya sauce
1 tsp cooking wine
½ tsp five spices powder
½ tsp salt
Pepper to taste

Method:
1. Marinate the chicken wings with the seasoning for 1 hour.
2. Pre-heat the pan, add a little oil to fry the chicken wings until golden brown. Dish out and set aside.
3. In the same pan, saute the garlic, onion, ginger & chili till fragrant.
4. Add in the fried chicken wings and stir fried till well combined.
5. Pour in the coca-cola. Simmer in medium heat until the sauce dry up.

Serve the chicken with white rice and fried some Chye Sim to go with it.

Indian Fish Curry

First of all I like to thank you to Babe and Snow White for their compliment of my Indian Curry Fish. Although it is spicy, but this succulent fresh fish gently simmered in a spicy coconut curry and served with chappati and prata is a simple yet wonderfully delicious meal.

Ingredients for Indian Fish Curry:
• 4 pcs batang fish
• 3 tblspn Fish Curry Powder
• 1 medium size tomatoes, halved
• 2 brinjal
• 2 green chillies
• ½ cup of thick coconut milk
• Tamarind juice to taste
• 3 cups of water
• 6 tbsp oil
• Salt to taste
Seasoning A:
• 1 onion, chopped
• 6 shallots, blend
• 4 cloves garlic, blend
• 1 tbsp halba seeds
• 2 sprig of curry leaves

Directions for making Indian Fish Curry:
Heat oil in a pan, sauté seasoning “A” till slightly golden brown.
Add fish curry powder and tamarind juice, bring to boil for a few minutes.
Put in brinjals, green chillies, tomatoes, fish, thick coconut milk, water and salt, simmer for 15 minutes and then serve hot.
The curry ready to serve with Chappati or Prata…Njoy your lunch.

3 Colors Butter Cake

This is the first time we bake cake using the oven toaster. It turn out to be very successful.

The butter cake is made using the creaming method, in which the butter(185g) and caster sugar(1cup) are first beaten till light and fluffy to incorporate air into the butter. Eggs(3) are then added gradually creating an emulsion, following by 1 tsp of vanilla essense, 250g self-raising flour and 1/2 cup of milk.

We added some fun into the cake. The batter was divided into 3 bowls; one bowl added in 1 tbsp of coco powder and another bowl added 1 tsp of pandan paste. Spoon each color batter into a greased baking tin alternatively.

Pre-head the toaster oven for 10 minutes then bake the the cake for 45 minutes.

The butter cake is very rich and moist.

Dry Fishball Mee Pok

This is the first time Snow White making her own version of dry fishball mee pok. It is very different from what we usually eat at the hawker center.

Ingredients:
12 fish balls

6 shrimp (shelled and halfed)

1 carrot (sliced)

1 fish cake (sliced)
6 stalks of lecttue

1 cube ikan bili stock

2 slice ginger

2 clove garlic (minced)

salt and pepper to taste

Mee Pok

Sauce Seasoning:

1 tbsp sambal prawn

1 tbsp oyster sauce

1 tbsp light soy sauce

1 tsp dark soy sauce

1 bowl of waters

salt & sugar to taste.

Method:

1. Boiled the Mee Pok , drained over cold water and put aside.

2. In another pot, boiled the soup with ikan bili stock and ginger.

3. When the soup boiled, add in carrot, fishball and fishcake.

4. Add in the shrimp when the carrot soften then add in salt and pepper to taste.

5. Heat oil in a wok, stir fry the garlic till fragrant then add in the sauce seasoning and let it simmer for 10min.

6. Divide the Mee Pok into serving plates, top with the cooked fishball, fishcake and lettuce, pour the cooked sauce over the Mee Pok.

7. Garnished the Mee Pok with fried shallot. Scope a bowl of soup with carrot and sprinkle some corriander into the soup.

Pattaya Fried Rice

Pattaya fried rice, a Thailand cuisine made by covering chicken fried rice in the omelet shaped like pouch. We did not manage to cover the fried rice with the omelet except Rapunzel, so you can guess from above which plate belong to Rapunzel.

Ingredients:
2 cup of rice (cooked)
1 bowl of mixed vegetables(green peas,sweet corns & carrots)
2 pieces chicken fillet (cubed)
1/2 cup yellow capsicum (cubed)
2 small chilies (minced)
2 shallots (minced)
2 cloves garlic (minced)
2 tbsp ketchup
3 tbsp fish sauce
salt and pepper to taste
pinch of dried basil
4 eggs (beaten)-omelet

Method:
1. Heat oil in a wok and stir fried the shallots, garlic and chilies till fragrant.
2. Add in chicken, mixed vegetables and capsicum, stir fried till the chicken is cooked and the vegetable turn soft.
3. Stir in the rice and fried till all ingredients are thoroughly mix. Add in ketchup, fish sauce, salt and pepper to taste.
4. Continue to fry for another 2 minutes and check seasoning.
5. Dish the rice out and pan fried omelet.
6. When the omelet done, put a bowl of the fried rice at the center and wrap up, flip it over a serving plate.

Sprinkle some chicken floss or bacon, spring onion and fried shallots, top with some slices of cucumber and tomato, Pattaya Fried Rice is ready to serve.

Penang Prawn Noodle 2

This is the second attempt of Penang Prawn Noodle. We been keeping prawn heads from last week so that we can brew the soup with a stronger prawn taste. If you want try out this dish, the recipe is here.

麻油姜丝鸡 (Sesame Ginger Chicken)

又是姜丝又是麻油的，像是在坐月子吧。很喜欢这道菜因为好爱姜丝与麻油的香味，冷天吃还可暖身子。

材料：

1. 鸡小腿 16只

2. 腌料：酱清，蚝油，胡椒粉，盐

3. 麻油
4. 姜丝

5. 蒜头 5 瓣 (剁碎)

6. 洋葱 1粒 (切粒)

做法：

1. 把鸡肉和腌料放在盘上混合均匀, 腌约30分钟.

2. 煎香鸡肉至金黄色，放一旁.
3. 用麻油爆香姜丝，放入葱头和蒜头，然后下鸡翻炒大约3分钟.
4.下调味料（黑酱油，酱油还有盐巴，糖少许）
5. 适量的加水，慢慢炒到肉软汁干即可。

上菜时加点青葱和芫茜既可。