Wednesday, 19 August 2009

Tom Yam Vermicelli


Snow White cooking Tom Yam with Vermicelli which we have not done before. To make it more interesting, she replace the seafood with sotong ball and Thai fish cake. Ha..not very sure how the Tom Yam would taste without the seafood.

It turned out quite well although there is no sweetness of the seafood. The soup was compensate with the overflow ingredients like sotong ball, Thai fish cake, cauliflower, some left over chicken meat form last week and straw mushroom.

Tuesday, 18 August 2009

Pandan Chicken with Rice and Fried Lady Finger

Rapunzel found this Chicken wrapped in Pandan leaf recipe from the Real Thai Recipes. Due to our limited utensil, Snow White make some changes.


Marinate the chicken with white pepper,garlic,white sugar, light soy sauce, cooking rice wine, sesame oil and coriander roots for an hour.





Fold the pandan wrap :

Start with the non-shiny side up
Fold the bottom-end up and over
Fold the top-end down and through
Pull to make tight




Flip over, and pick up the top-end
Bring through the top-layer and pull tight










Wrapped the chicken into the pandan leaf.







Deep fried the chicken till golden brown.









Unwrapped the leaf and top with the black sauce before served. The lady finger is stir fired with chili balacan. The chicken is juicy and the lady finger is spicy and crunchy, they go will together with the white rice.

Monday, 17 August 2009

Mee Goreng with Fried Popiah

Mee Goreng is an Indian dish which commonly found in most hawker center. It is a spicy fried yellow noodle with onion, chicken or prawn, fried tofu, chili, vegetables, tomatoes and egg.

This is Rapunzel second attempt and she omitted the prawn this time. Hmm, not totally vegetarian as she replace the prawn with fish cake.*wink*There are still some balance of the fried turnip left from last week so just simply rolled the fried turnip in the popiah skin and deep fried it.

Tah dah, we have fried popiah for side dish.





Friday, 14 August 2009

Fried Spaghetti

It is another stock clearing day. Snow White ransack the fridge and find some chicken fillet, chye sim and fish cake left so come out with this dish in less than an hour.

Ingredients :
2 chicken fillets (cubed and season with salt and pepper)
Chye Sim
3 garlic cloves (minced)
1 big onion (sliced)
1/2 bowl fresh basil leaves
2 slice ginger(finely slice)
1 fish cake (slice)
1 handful spaghetti (cooked according the package instruction)
Seasoning : Mixed 2 tsp back pepper, 1 tbs oyster sauce, 2 tps light soy sauce, 1 tps sugar and 1 tbs dark soy sauce in 1/2 cup of water.

Method:
1. Heat wok, add some oil, saute garlic, ginger and onion till fragrant.
2. Add in cube chicken and fish cake; continue to stir fry about 3 minutes.
3. Add in Chye Sim and seasoning, cook till the chicken become tender.
4. Toss in the cooked spaghetti and let it simmered for 3 minutes.
5. Serve immediately and topped with spring onion.


Thursday, 13 August 2009

Mangomisu

Ingredients:

  • 2 bottle yogurt (mango)
  • 1/2 cup mango juice
  • 2 mangoes (ripe-peel&cubed)
  • 10 pcs kuih Balu (cut half)
  • 1/2 tsp gelatine (melt in 1/3 cup of hot water)

Method :

1. Blend 1 mango with yogurt. Stir in melted gelatine until well combined and set aside.

2. Lightly dip 1 pc kuih balu with mango juice. Arrange it to the base of the cup.

3. Spoon a layer of mango yogurt on top and a layer of fresh mango.

4. Repeat step 2 and 3 till the cup filled.

5. Put in the fridge to chill for 2 to 3 hours.

6. Decorate with some mango on top if desire.


Penang Prawn Noodle

Penang Prawn Noodle is different from the tradition Prawn Noodle as the soup base is made of the prawn essence with a zest of spicy chilies.


The ingredients :


Method :
1) De shelled the 12 large tiger prawn and used the head and shell of the prawn to boil the stock with 2 slice of ginger.
2) Blend chili paste with 5 onions and 5 clove of garlic. Stirred fried the chili paste and add in some salt.
3) When the stock is boiled, dished out the shelled and scald the prawn and fish cake.
4) Add in the chili paste to the stock and favor with salt, fish sauce and rock sugar.
5) Stir fried the prawn with the chili paste and put aside.
6) Boiled and drained the kang kong and bean sprout for later used.
7) Drained the yellow noodle over the hot water and scope in a bowl, top with the prawn, fish cake, kang kong and bean spout.
8) When the soup boiled, pours over the noodle and garnished with fried shallots.

Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Bubor Cha Cha



Woo hoo! We have bubor cha cha for dessert today. The yam and potatoes is much softer then the other day as they are boiled longer.