Brinjal Softie

** New Photo Added - Sept 1 (brinjal with skin)**

Cool, look at this yummy simple and delicious brinjal dish. This is just another way of preparing this high in potassium fruit - Brinjal or Eggplant. It is simply cooking with fermented soya beans and minced meat and garnish with spring onion. I have removed the beautiful purple skin (as shown below, new photo with skin, post edited on 1 Sept) for easy digestion thus the colour of the dish may not be so appealing, but it just taste so good with steamed rice. Try it.. :))


All you need :

• 2 long brinjal - peel the skin and cut into small strips
• some minced meat
• 2 Tbs fermented soy beans
• 5 pips garlic - chopped
• 1 sprig of spring onion
• 1 Tbs cooking wine
• 1 Tbs oyster sauce

Simple Process :

• Heat the wok with a little oil, saute the garlic and fermented soy beans till aromatic
• Add in the minced meat and stir fry till meat turns white
• Add in the brinjal and a little water and allow it to simmer over low heat
• Stir occasionally till brinjal has soften, add the oyster sauce and cooking wine
• Stir well, add in the spring onion and ready to serve
  

Have a Happy Meal

Butter Chicken

I love this easy to cook tasty recipe for Butter (Vegetarian) Chicken. We love the "buttery" flavor and creamy taste with a beautiful aroma from the curry leaves and dried chilly. This vegetarian chicken is made of soya bean protein powder + its seasoning.

This is the packet of vegetarian chicken which is obtainable from vegetarian grocery stores

All you need : 1 packet of the vegetarian chicken or chicken, 2 Tbs dark soya sauce, 2 Tbs butter, 50 ml evaporated milk, 1 sprig curry leaves, 5 dried chilly and 4 pips of chopped garlic.


Simple Process :

• Heat the pan with a little oil and lightly fried the vegetarian chicken, dish out and drain
  
• Heat the 2 Tbs butter and saute the chopped garlic, curry leaves and dried chilly till aromatic
• Add in the lightly fried vegetarian chicken, evaporated milk and stir well
• Allow it to simmer till gravy is almost absorbed, add in the dark soya sauce
• Ready to Serve with steamed rice
  

Have a Happy n Healthy Meal

Tonic Vegetarian Chicken

Wow...look at this healthy vegetarian dish which I have created and I named it Tonic Vegetarian Chicken. The vegetarian chicken is made from layers of seasoned beancurd and obtainable from any vegetarian grocery. It is a simple dish and has good nutrition especially the gravy extracts from slices of the american gingseng, wolfberries and dried "yuk-chok".

The gravy consist of boiled american ginseng, wolfberries, dried yuk chok and black fungus or woodear mushroom. The american ginseng is able to energise our body and the wolfberries are good supplement for healthy eyes. Black fungus or woodear mushroom are supposedly able to cleanse the fats in our body system, helps to lower cholestrol.

I have boiled all the below over low fire with 1 bowl of water for 20 mins to get a good extract.The vegetarian chicken piece is first steamed for 5 minutes and taken out to be cut into
small pieces. Once the boiled tonic are ready, just add 1 Tbs of cornflour to thicken the gravy, salt to taste and lastly pour the gravy on top.

Voila....the dish is now ready to be served
Delicious Tonic Vegetarian Chicken

Have a Healthy Meal!!

Lemon Turmeric Delight

Share with you this beautiful color and flavorful meat dish which I have created for my family. I called it Lemon Turmeric Delight, well it brings lots of joy when my loved ones tasted mummy's new creation... :)) Alright, Turmeric or Kunyit is extremely good for our health as it has lots of nutritional value in it and I uses it quite constantly in my kitchen as we just love the fresh aroma of it. I enjoy creating and here is to share, a simple to prepare delicious and healthy dish for those who wish to explore.... :))




It is simply marinating the meat with pounded fresh turmeric, galangal (lengkuas), lemon grass(serai), shallots and cooked together with kaffir leaves (daun limau perut) and lemon juice....ohhh, it taste heavenly!

The meat (lean pork or chicken meat) need to be marinated for at least 2-3 hours in order to get a great taste when cooked. When the marinating process is over, just heat the wok with a little oil and stir fry a while, add some water to simmer the meat. Add in the slices of kaffir leaves and a good squeeze of lemon juice (depending on the level of sour flavour you opt), allow it to simmer for next 35 minutes or till meat soften, keep the wok moist at all times.

Beautiful and healthy-licious dish!!

Have fun and enjoy a Happy Meal at home!

Achar Fish

Well another nyonya dish to showcase. I have learnt this dish from my mum, it is called Achar Hu or Achar Fish. It has a beautiful aroma of turmeric, garlic and ginger on fried fish. This dish taste good overnight as the fried fish has been well soaked with the fried ingredients like turmeric, ginger and garlic. To add a little color, chilly has been added. As all of us is aware that turmeric is a healthy stuff and it provide us wonders.

I just love the aroma of fresh turmeric, it is refreshing and gives the dish a beautiful color and flavour. This is a beautiful dish where we only get to eat during nyonya baba wedding luncheon during my childhood days. As for now, we can have it anytime so long as we know how to cook it or frequently we can order it at Nyonya Restaurant...though it can be a little commercialised the way it is cooked.



All you need :

• small fish or fish cutlets
• big piece fresh turmeric
• big piece young ginger
• 1 clove garlic
• 2 pc red chilly
• 2 Tbs rice vinegar
• salt n sugar to taste
  

Simple Process :

• Fry the fish and set aside
• Cut the turmeric, ginger, garlic into thin slices
• Heat 1/2 cup oil and saute the ginger strips till golden brown, set aside
• Using the same oil, saute the garlic till golden brown - set aside
• Using the same oil, saute the turmeric till it is aromatic
• Add the rice vinegar, salt, sugar to taste , allow it to cool
  * for health purposes, I have add a little water to the mixture as I do not use too much oil, the original recipe is without water added
  
• Next pour it over the fried fish and garnish with the fried ginger and garlic, store for a few hours before serving

Have a Happy n Healthy Meal

Oatmeal Butter Shrimp

Look at this aromatic vegetarian shrimp cooked with butter and oatmeal. The aromatic curry leaves produces a wonderful aroma to the dish. This vegetarian shrimp is made from soya bean protein, starch and its spices and can be found in any vegetarian grocery stores. It taste real delicious and be assured the kids would love it very much. Fast and easy to prepare too. It is not spicy at all, the dried chilly is to add extra aroma together with the fried curry leaves.


If you are not in favour of soya bean protein (vegetarian shrimp), then just use the fresh shrimp and cook it with the same recipe.

This is the vegetarian shrimp or some called it vege nuggets
label shows it consist of soya bean protein, starch + spices, salt, sugar

All you need :

• packet of the vegetarian shrimp - defrost before use
  
• 5 pieces of dried chilly - cut into 3cm length
• 3 sprigs of curry leaves
• 3 Tbs of butter
• 3 Tbs of oatmeal

Simple Process :

• Heat the pan with butter over medium heat and saute the dried chilly and curry leaves till aromatic
• Add in the oatmeal and stir well before adding the vege shrimps and give it a good stir to coat it with the ingredients
• Ready within 15 mins of cooking time
  

A real yummy dish...Enjoy your Meal

Mixed Vege Delight

I love this beautiful combination dish of broccoli, baby corn, sweet peas with straw mushroom and taukua (fried beancurd) strips in oyster sauce. Hmmm...Yummy as it is! A simple dish though, but taste great and goes well with steamed rice :)) Yeah, eat healthy!

All you need is to have some of each and stirfry with ginger slices and complete with oyster sauce before dishing it out for serving.

Simple Process :

• Blanch the broccoli in boiling water for 2 mins and set aside
• Heat the wok with a little oil and saute the ginger slices
• Add in the beancurd, mushroom, baby corn and stir fry
  
• Add a little water, simmer to allow the corn to soften a little, add in the broccoli and sweet peas
  
• Lastly add 2 Tbs oyster sauce and stir well to mix
  
• Ready to Serve...

Eat Healthy and Enjoy Your Meal!