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!

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.

Mushrooms Soup with Bread

Rapunzel did some changes in the mushrooms soup that we used to cook. This is much more smoother and with stonger mushroom taste.

Ingredients:

250g fresh shitakes mushrooms, sliced

1 can button mushrooms, diced

30g butter

1 clove garlic, crushed

1 big yellow onion, diced

2 tbsp plain flour

1/2 cup fresh milk

1 ltr chicken stock

salt and pepper to taste

50g Broccoli, cut in small pieces (boiled and drained)

Method:

1. Heat up the butter and fry the garlic and onions till soft.

2. Add in the shitakes mushrooms, stir fried for 4 minutes over high heat.

3. Scope up some mushroom in a plate for later use then stir in the button mushrooms. Stir fried for a minutes and add in flour and mix well till all the mushrooms are well coated.

4. Pour in the chicken stock and bring to boil.

5. Bring the soup to the blender and blend well till smooth.

6. Return the soup to a pot, simmer a while and add in salt and pepper to taste.

7. Stir in the milk when it is boiled.

Garnished the soup with the balance of the mushroom, add in the broccoli and sprinkle some oven grilled shredded chicken. The mushroom soup is ready to serve.

We also bought a french baguette, apply some homemade garlic spread and sent it to oven. They goes perfectly well with the mushroom soup.

Chinese Mushroom Soup

Everyone seemed to be down under the weather so we have chinese mushroom soup today. As usual the ingredients overflowed the soup pots. The ingredients include; dry shitake mushroom, peanut, enoki, carrot, cabbage, tomato, tofu, red dates and wolfberries.

Seafood Soup

This time Snow White used multi-cooker for seafood soup. Must say that the taste is a lot better today as the variety is quite hearty. The prawn, squid, fish, crabstick, egg tofu and lots of vegetable turned-up more tastier .... love this soup!

Yong Tau Fu Thai Laksa Bee Hoon Soup

The name look fancy ya, actually it is simple to cook according to Rapunzel. To Babe cooking is always difficult but to Snow White and Rapunzel it seemed to be a simple task, wonder why? Anyway, Laksa is Babe all timed favorite, so may it be Penang or Nyonya or Thai Laksa, I empty my bowl within 15minutes. It just simply delicious!

Don't believe me, try this recipe yourself.

Ingredients:

• Assorted ready made yong tau fu (as usual, pan fried first)
• Thick Bee Hoon
• 1 tbsp dried prawns
• 1 tbsp Curry powder
• 1 stalk laksa leaf
• 1 tbsp chili paste
• 150ml coconut milk
• 2 Tom Yam cubes
• 2 kaffir lime leaves (finely shredded)
• mint leaves for garnishing

Methods:
1. Bring the Bee Hoon to boil and scope into bowl for later used.
2. Wash and pound dried prawns. Heat oil and saute dried prawns, chilli paste and curry powder until fragrant. Add water, coconut milk, laksa leaf and tom yam cubes.
3. Boil for 15 minutes. Add yong tau fu to soup and cook for 5 minutes or until cooked. Add kaffir leaves and fish sauce to taste.
4. Scope the soup into the Bee Hoon and garnished with mint leaves. Yong Tau Fu Thai Laksa Bee Hoon Soup is ready to serve.

Chicken Bak Kut Teh

Bak Kut Teh is an herbal with peppery taste soup. It is usually used pork rib but since one of us does not take pork we use chicken instead. We used the A1 Bak Kut Teh spices left over from Rapunzel's home. The recipe is simple and easy to follow.

Rinsed and cleaned the chicken. When the water is boiled put in the meat, button mushroom and Bak Kut Teh Spices and cooked for 30minutes or more. We also added garlic, red dates and wolf berries to sweeten the soup. Add in soya sauce, oyster sauce, salt and pepper according to your taste.

Boiled the mee suan (flour vermicelli) in another pot of water and dished out in separate bowl. Place the cooked Xiao Bai Cai on the mee suan and pour the boiling soup over. Garnished with coriander and Bak Kut Teh is ready to serve.

This is Snow White first attempt cooking the mee suan. The soup is nice but the mee suan a bit soggy. Anyone have tips on handling the mee suan?

Tom Yam Yee Mee

Snow White was craving for Tom Yam so we cooked the Tom Yam Yee Mee today with slightly different from the other day.

The soup base is still the same. Snow White boiled the prawn head to make the stock. The ingredients below is then added to the stock.

Meanwhile boiled the Yee Mee till soft and put aside.
Put in the prawn to the stock and scope in a plate when cooked.
When the stock is boiled add in the chicken.

The straw mushroom and the cauliflower is then added. Add in the fish sauce and lime juice according to your taste.

Divide the Yee Mee into the bowl and pour the Tom Yam soup over the bowl and garnished with coriander.

Fish Soup Bee Hoon

After the soup week, Babe did not see any drop in the weight. Luckily there is also no rising in weight. This week, we started off light with Fish soup bee hoon. Fish Soup is Snow White specialty but she have to rush back to attend her little "boss" so Rapunzel and Babe have to do the cooking. We did not put much ingredient this time but it tastes just as good.

Ingredients:
Toman Fish fillet (sliced, seasoned with salt and ginger)
Spinach
Egg Tofu
Bee Hoon
Garlic
Ginger
Onion
Fried silver fish

Method:
1) Boiled water with garlic, ginger and ikan bili stock cube.
2) Pan fried the fish fillet.
3) Add in the stalk of spinach, fish fillet and tofu to the soup.
4) Add in the spinach and seasoned to your taste with fish sauce, salt and evaporated milk.
5) Boiled the Bee Hoon till soft in separate pot.
6) Scope the fish soup into the cooked bee hoon and garnished with coriander, fried onion and silver fish.

A yummy fish soup bee hoon accomplished!

No dessert today since Snow White is away.....

Clear Vegetable Soup

Yeah! Today is the last day of soup diet. More vegetables.....

Babe chance upon this spicy hot vegetable soup recipe from the fatfree.com but as usual we did not follow the recipe exactly.

Ingredients:
3 chillies padi (minced)
5 garlics (minced)
1 onion (minced)
Broccoli
carrot
celery
mushroom
Lentils (1/4 cup)
Barley (1/4 cup)

1) Boiled the chicken stock with barley and lentils.
2) Saute the chili, garlic and onion then add in to the stock.
3) Add in all vegetables and season with salt to your taste.
4) Simmer till vegetables soft.

Garnished the soup with coriander, fried onion and tau pok, the soup is ready to be served.

The soup look bland but actually is quite spicy hot. At least something different from the soup we cook the other days.

Chinese Mushroom Soup

Another soup day! Chinese Mushroom Soup, Rapunzel's favorite soup. Babe love mushroom so no complaint for the soup but the lunch is real light, my stomach sure growl again in less then an hour.....

The main ingredients of the Chinese Mushroom Soup include; Shiitake Mushroom, Enoki, tomato, black eye bean, black fungus and carrot. Rapunzel added some cabbage left over from yesterday.

Guess this soup is much healthier then yesterday as I accidentally threw away the onion oil.

Look, how clear the soup is!

Cabbage & Tofu Soup

Since we started cooking and lunch in almost everyday, our tummy also started to emerge into a ball. This is bad!! Snow White and Rapunzel declared this week will be diet week and we are
going to have soup for lunch for the next 3 days. Poor Babe, wish I can survive after the 3 days.

Here, this the Cabbage & Tofu Soup for the day. Not very bland, Snow White added fried fish cake.

Oh, Rapunzel told me don't expect any dessert for the week too. ....Babe's stomach already start growling now.

Tom Yam Bee Hoon Soup

This Tom Yam Bee Hoon Soup was Babe's first attempt, of course with the help of Rapunzel. I can't take chili hot stuff but love spicy hot soup like Tom Yam, Curry and Laksa. Since Snow White on hot date, I asked Rapunzel to let me tried my hand on the Tom Yam today. Next time when the craving comes, I can cook myself.

The Tom Yam look plain as only little bit of the chili paste (Rapunzel help me to blend the dry chili) is added and without coconut milk. I regret did not heed Rapunzel's advise to used the chicken bone to boil the stock first. The soup taste blends so in the end we added half of the knorr chicken stock to make it more tastier. The Tom Yam Bee Hoon Soup turned out to be quite passable...hmm not very tough after all.

Ingredient:
Tiger Prawn
Straw Mushroom
Fish cake (optional)
Lemon grass (2 stalks, crushed)
Blue ginger
Kaffir leave
Shallot
Chili Padi (2 stalks)
Chill paste (boiled 8 dried chillies till soft then blend)
Coriander leaves
Fish sauce
Lime juice

Method :
1) After the stock boiled, add in lemon grass, blue ginger, kaffir leave & shallot.
2) When fragrant out, add in chili paste and chili padi.
3) When water boiled, added in the straw mushroom, fish cake and prawn.
4) Add fish sauce and lime juice according to taste and lastly sprinkled the coriander leaves.

Tah Dah! Tom Yam soup is ready to serve.

Chicken Mushroom Soup

When feeling under the weather, a hot soup always perk me up. I love hot soup! Chicken Mushroom Soup is one of them. The recipe was from a radio DJ's blog, Fenyingrecipe. Of course Snow White did not follow the recipe exactly as usual. She added a bit of her own zit in the soup.