Chicken with Sesame Seed Oil

A beautiful set meal for the family.....voila! There are days, a lazy mum like me trying to juggle my time for the day and still ensuring a good meal for the family. So, here goes a set meal - it's steamed rice with chicken stir-fry with young ginger in sesame seed oil. Wow, it's so aromatic and taste real good. I have add on butter- grilled french beans to make a complete meal.

Sesame seed oil is very aromatic and it has good nutritious value too. It is normally served for chinese ethnic mommies during their post-natal (1 month confinement days)

All you need : * half chicken - chopped into pieces * slices of young ginger * 1 clove chopped garlic * 3 Tbs Sesame seed oil

Simple Process :
1. Heat the wok with the sesame seed oil and saute the chopped garlic and ginger slices till aromatic
2. Add the chicken and stir well till chicken turns white, add 1/2 cup water, salt to taste, to add a little color, add in 1 Tbs light soy sauce
3. Simmer over low heat till chicken is cooked
4. Serve hot with steamed rice

Enjoy a simple delicious set meal!

Pai-Kut n Potato Set Meal

Look at this simple and delicious set meal which I called it Pai-Kut n Potato Set Meal. I love preparing this especially for days when I have a busy schedule. It can be Pai-Kut (pork ribs) or chicken using the same method of cooking. I have lots of gravy to pour over the steamed rice, coupled with some pieces of fresh carrots and green lettuce and the kids love it very much. I just love this simple recipe which I have learned from my grandma n mum. A good blend of ingredients like the garlic, ginger and fermented soy beans are all chopped together and stir fry with the meat, allow it to simmer till meat is tender, sum up with some cooking wine and it's ready to serve. Simple to prepare and great tasty gravy :))

All you need:

• 800gms of pork ribs or 1/2 chicken
• 5 potatoes - cut into half
  
• 1 clove garlic - chopped
• 1 med size young ginger - chopped
• 3 Tbs fermented soy beans - minced
  
• 2 Tbs cooking wine - optional
  
• 1 Tbs dark soy sauce - optional (not use in this presentation)

Simple Process :

• Heat the wok with a little oil and saute the chopped ingredients till aromatic
• Add in the pork ribs (lightly blanched to remove excess fats before cooking)
  
• Stir fry to mix well with the ingredients, add the potatoes and 1 bowl of water and allow it to simmer over low heat for next 40 to 45 minutes or till meat is tender
• When meat is tender and gravy has almost thicken, add in the cooking wine, stir and ready to serve

Have a Happy n Appetizing Meal

Hokkein Rice Tapioca Cake

This is a beautiful authentic dish from the Chinese Hokkein clan. My grandfather used to serve this simple and healthy dish for all of us to enjoy during our visits. These pieces of kueh is very "springy" when bite on and it is very much like eating sea cucumber. It is made of tapioca flour mixed with porridge, form into a dough and steamed it over high heat. Then the cooked rice-tapioca cake aka "moi kueh" is then fried with dried shrimps and chinese celery and spring onions in dark soy sauce....wow, it taste great! It is an "old fashion" home cook dish and cannot be found in any eating outlets. Well, it is a dish that brings back very sweet memories of my childhood days where me and my cousins were busy running around chasing the little ducklings, chicks in my grandfather's backyard little orchard... :))

To make the rice tapioca cake, you need to pre-cooked the porridge. All you need is about 3/4 bowl rice cooked with 1.5 litres of water and turn it into a thick porridge (just like the picture below). Cool the thick porridge first before use.



Next, mixed the thick porridge with 3.1/2 bowl of tapioca flour and knead it into a dough. Flatten it into a greased steaming tray and evenly pat the dough to 1 cm thickness. Next, steam for 20 minutes. Leave it to cool and refrigerate for 2 hours before cutting into slim slices (just like the picture below).

Great....now the Rice Tapioca Cake is ready for frying into a savoury dish. All you need is some chopped garlic, chinese celery, spring onions and dried shrimps, alternatively, you may use prawns too.

Saute the chopped garlic and fry the dried shrimps till aromatic, add in a plate of the rice tapioca cake, 1 Tbs of dark soy sauce, dash of pepper and stir fry to mix evenly. When rice tapioca cake has soften, add in the chinese celery and spring onion. Serve Hot.... Yummy! The balance can be kept in small portion in the freezer and thaw it before use when you want to enjoy this dish.

Here it is, an authentic Hokkein savoury dish

Thank you Grandpa for the authentic recipe :))

Sour Pork Ribs

Wow...hohoho...look at that...here goes a simple and easy to prepare 1 set meal for the family. I had this Sour Pork Ribs cooked and served as 1 simple set meal..the aroma of the garlic and ginger is irresistible, and of course the sour flavour brings thrill to the palate. Anyway, we had a wonderful dinner, it taste so good and yummy, it's totally complete with garlic fried vege and steam rice... Alternatively, I do use this easy to cook recipe for chicken too. As again chicken gets tender very fast, so just reduce the simmering time to get a "just right" tenderness of the meat.

See the beautiful color of the cooked sour pork ribs, complement with garlic fried green baby bok choy. Delicious looking :))


All you need : Serve 4

• 2 pork ribs - chopped into small pieces


• 2 clove garlic - chopped


• 2 thumbsize young ginger - chopped


• 1 Tbs chilly paste - add more if you want it extra spicy


• 2 Tbs tomato sauce


• 1 Tbs tamarind paste


• 1 Tbs cornflour
• salt to taste
  

Simple Process :

1. Boil a pot of water and add in the pork ribs, give it a quick boil and dish out, set aside


2. Heat the wok with some oil, saute the chopped ginger, garlic, chilly paste till fragrant, add in the pork ribs, stir to mix well


3. Add 1 cup of water, 1 Tbs tamarind paste, 2 Tbs tomato sauce and simmer over low heat for the next 40 minutes, stirring occasionally to avoid burnt *


4. When meat has soften and cooked, add the cornflour to thicken the gravy


5. Ready to Serve...

** Tomato sauce is an extra ingredient here

Have a Happy Meal with your family...

Yummy 1 Set Meal

I enjoy preparing a "1 set meal" especially on a busy day or should I say on lazy days...hahaha. I have this delicious meat recipe cooked with straw mushrooms, spring onions, young ginger and a good blend of oyster sauce to go with steamed rice. You can use pork ribs or chicken meat for this simple to prepare dish. The young ginger and spring onions gives a wonderful fragance to this dish. For this meal I have used pork ribs instead.

All you need :

Chicken Breast Meat or Pork Ribs

1 can straw mushroom - slice into half

2 sprig of spring onions - cut into 3 cm length

1 big piece of young ginger - cut into slices

4 pips of garlic - chopped

3 Tbs Oyster sauce

1 Tbs cornflour

Simple Process :

1. Heat a little oil in a wok, saute the chopped garlic and young ginger slices
2. Add the meat, some water and the oyster sauce, stir well and simmer at low heat for next 20 mins * for pork ribs, let it simmer for 40 mins
3. Add in the straw mushrooms and spring onion, stir to mix well, let it simmer for next 5 mins, and to thicken the gravy, just add the cornstarch and bring to boil
4. Ready to Serve with steamed rice
5. Optional : 1 Tbs of rice wine to be added before serving
   
   

A Simple 1 Set Meal for the Family...enjoy your Meal!