Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Creamy Cheese Spaghetti

This Cream Cheese Spaghetti is all time's favourite for family. It another creation of Snow White.

Ingredients :
12 big prawns, shelled
2 squid
1 capsicum, cubed
1 can button mushroom, cubed
1 tomato, cubed
2 slice Cheddar cheese
2 tbsp minced garlic
2 tbsp onion
1 tbsp dry basil
200ml fresh milk
1 tbsp flour
coriander
salt and pepper
1 handful spaghetti

Method:
1. Cook the spaghetti as per instruction and put aside.
2. In a wok, heat some olive oil and stir fried the onion and garlic.
3. Add in the prawn and follow by the squid, fried till fragrant.
4. Add the flour and fried till the prawn and squid well coated with the flour.
5. Add in the mushroom, capsicum and tomato and lightly fried.
6. Pour in the milk and add the cheese when the milk boiled.
7. Let the sauce simmer for a while and add in salt and pepper to taste.
8. Sprinkle the dried basil and the sauce is ready to pour over the spaghetti.

Garnished some coriander and the Creamy Cheese Spaghetti is ready to serve.


Thursday, 5 November 2009

Fried Wonton Noodle

Snow White used the balance of the chicken fillings left from Guo Tie to make fried wonton. Simply wrapped the fillings into the round wonton skin and deep fried till golden brown. Blanch the wonton noodle according to instruction then toss with the dark sauce, light sauce, oyster sauce and sesame oil. Top the noodle with blanch Chye Sim, fried wontons and finally garnished with fried shallot, spring onion and green chili, Fried Wonton Noodle is ready to serve in 30 minutes.


Wednesday, 4 November 2009

Choux with Strawberry Cream


Dessert for the day, Strawberry Choux Puff! It is done by Babe and Rapunzel with reference of the recipe given by Snow White. This time we replace the plain flour with self raising flour and added a tbsp of sugar. The texture is a bit light and moist but it taste just like custard puff. Not so bad after filling up with the Strawberry Cream.

Strawberry Cream
1. Whip 1 can nestle cream till creamy.
2. Gradually add in 5 tbsp sugar and beat till sugar dissolved.
3. Add in Strawberry puree into the cream and whipped till well combined.
4. Mixed 2 tsp of gelatin with half cup water.
5. Pour the gelatin into the Strawberry Cream and chill the cream in the fridge.

Mee Goreng

Rapunzel cooking one of her speciality Mee Goreng in Malay style. It is spicy hot but very yummy! The prawn is fresh and big and the Hong Kong Chye Sim is sweet and crunchy, Babe can't help taking a second serving.^^

The recipe can be find here, just replace the Kway Teow with yellow noodle.

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Pan Fried Dumplings (Guo Tie)

Pan Fried Dumpling (Guo Tie) also known as Gyoza which is a popular dish in China and Japan as well as outside of East Asia. It is a very time consuming but it is fun when all family members share in making the dumpling.

Ingredients
Dough (20-22 pcs):
2 cup flour
¾ cup warm water
Pinch of salt

Fillings:
3 chicken fillets, minced
9 prawns, minced
8 water chestnuts (coarsely chopped)
1 pkt Chives (chopped)
3 glove garlic, minced
2 onion, minced
1 tbsp Tianjin preserved cabbage (冬菜)
1 small pc ginger, minced
2 tbsp light soy sauce
2 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp fish sauce
Salt and pepper to taste

Dipping Sauce:
1 tsp vinegar
2 tbsp light soy sauce
Sugar
2 clove garlic, minced
10 sliced preserved ginger (shredded)


Methods:
1. Mixed the flour with warm water and salt, knead into a dough and put aside covered by a wet cloth.
2. In a big bowl, mixed all filling's ingredient together and seasoned with light soy sauce, sesame oil, fish sauce, salt and pepper to taste.
3. On a lightly flour surface, halved the dough and rolled into 2 sticks. Divide the stick into 10 equal parts and flatten into circle.
4. Wrapped a teaspoon of the filling into the dough skin and pleat it.
5. Heat oil in a shallow wok and pan fried the dumpling.
6. When one side is brown, sprinkler some water on top, cover the wok and let it cook.
7. Once the water dry up, the dumplings should be cooked by now.

Serve the dumplings with the vinegar dipping sauce.

It is really very time consuming especially the wrapping part...got difficulty in getting it pleat like the standard Guo Tie but the taste rather good.


Monday, 2 November 2009

Turmeric Chicken

This is a simple and easy prepared dish. We did this with the reference of the recipe from this blogger but we used turmeric powder instead of fresh turmeric. It turn out quite nice.

Ingredients:
1 kampong chicken
1 tbsp turmeric powder
2 stalk lemon glass
8 medium onion
1 small piece belacan
6 dried chili
salt and oyster sauce

Method:
1. Blend the lemon grass and onion.
2. Stir fried the blended lemongrass and onion with turmeric powder, belacan and chili till fragrant.
3. Add in the chicken and lightly toss with the sauce.
4. Cover with lid and let it stew in low heat till the chicken cooked.
5. Add salt and oyster sauce to taste, let it simmer a while and the chicken is ready to serve.

Garnished with coriander and served with white rice. Snow White also fried celery with dried shrimp as side dish to make the lunch more complete.