Stir Fried Tomyam Spaghetti

Ingredients:
Spaghetti (cooked per packet instruction)
Big Onion
Tuna
Carrot
Green Bell Pepper
Button Mushroom
Tomyam Paste
Salt
Sugar
Water (boiled)
Oil


Method:
1. Heat some oil and stir fry onion till fragrant.
2. Add in tomyam paste and stir fry for 1 while.
3. Add in green bell pepper, carrot and button mushroom. Stir fry for 1 min.
4. Add in tuna and season with salt and sugar.
5. Add a little bit of water if it gets too dry.6. Put in spaghetti and mix well. Stir fry for 1min and it’s done.

Noodles in Chicken Herbal Soup

Ingredients:
Chicken Meat
Wolfberries (gei ji)
Tong Sum
Pak Kei
Yoke Juk
Red Dates
Water
Salt
Soy Noodles (soaked till soft)
Tofu
Iceberg Lettuce


Method:
1. Place chicken, water and all the herbs into a slow cooker.
2. Use high heat and cook for at least 4-5 hours.
3. Season with salt when soup is done.
4. Scoop some soup into another pot, cook till it boils.
5. Add in tofu, noodles and lettuce.
6. Cook for 1min or so and it’s ready to be served.

Fried MiFen with Chicken Meat

Ingredients:
Chicken Meat
Light Soy Sauce
Pepper
Sesame Oil
MiFen (soaked in water till soft-drained)
Garlic
Carrot
Choy Sum
Sugar
Oyster Sauce
Dark Soy Sauce
Oil
Water (boiled)


Method:
1. Marinate chicken meat with light soy sauce, pepper and sesame oil for 30min or so.
2. Heat some oil and sauté garlic till fragrant.
3. Add in carrot and stir fry for 1 min.
4. Add in chicken meat and choy sum. Season with salt, sugar and a little oyster sauce.
5. Stir fry for a while. Add some water and cook till it simmer.
6. Add in mifen and season with dark soy sauce. Mix well.
7. Continue to stir fry until mifen is cooked (if too dry, add a little boiled water).

Braised Soy Sauce Fish

Ingredients:
Fish
Salt
Pepper
Light Soy Sauce
Sugar
Water
Sesame Oil
Oil
Ginger
Shallots


Method:
1. Rub some salt and pepper onto the fish and marinate for 30min or so.
2. Heat a little oil and pan fried fish on both sides. Set fish aside.
3. Heat some sesame oil and sauté shallots and ginger till fragrant.
4. Mix light soy sauce, sugar and water and pour into the wok.
5. Put in the fish and let it cook/simmer over low heat.
6. Turn the fish and cook till fish is cooked.

Sesame Chiffon Cake

Open sesame....unveiling another out of the world flavour for a chiffon cake :)

Ingredients:
(A)
Egg Yolks (6)
Plain Flour (7 tbsp)
Ground Black Sesame (4 tbsp)
Oil (1 tbsp)
Water (5 tbsp)
Sugar (1 tbsp)

(B)
Egg Whites (6)
Sugar (5 ½ tbsp)
Corn Flour (1 tbsp)

White Sesame Seeds

Preheat oven at 180C
(As usual, I reduced temperature to 170C during the last 15min of baking.)

Method:
1. Mix (A) in a bowl and beat till combined.
2. In another bowl, beat egg whites till soft peak forms.
3. Add sugar and beat till shiny and glossy.
4. Add corn flour and beat till it’s almost stiff (turn the bowl upside down and the egg whites should not fall).
5. Fold in 1/3 of egg whites into the (A) mixture.
6. Repeat 2 more times adding 1/3 each time.
7. Pour into a chiffon cake mould and sprinkle some white sesame seeds on top.
8. Bake for 45-50min or till cooked.9. Invert the cake to cool. Un-mould using a thin knife by loosening the sides.

Coffee Chiffon with Chocolate Chips

I am experimenting with different flavours of chiffon cake. Here’s a coffee version bursting with chocolate chips!


Ingredients:

(A)

Egg Yolks (6)

Flour (6 tbsp)

Instant 3-in-1 coffee powder (3 packets mixed with 4 tbsp of water)
Oil (1 tbsp)

(B)

Egg Whites (6)

Sugar (4 ½ tbsp)

Corn Flour (1 tbsp)

(C)Chocolate Chips

Preheat oven at 180C

Note: I reduced the temperature to 170C during the last 15min of baking

Method:

1. Mix (A) in a bowl and beat till combined.

2. In another bowl, beat egg whites till soft peak forms.

3. Add sugar and beat till shiny and glossy.

4. Add corn flour and beat till it’s almost stiff (turn the bowl upside down and the egg whites should not fall).

5. Fold in 1/3 of egg whites into the (A) mixture.

6. Repeat 2 more times adding 1/3 each time.

7. Lastly, gently fold in the chocolate chips.

8. Pour into a chiffon cake mould and bake for 45-50min or till cooked.
9. Invert the cake to cool. Un-mould using a thin knife by loosening the sides.

Pumpkin Rice

If you’ve never had pumpkin before, you should really give it a chance. I don’t recall my mum cooking any pumpkin dish until I was almost 12 or older. In the beginning, I hated it because I thought it’s like eating savoury sweet potato. I don’t really remember how I grew to love it but it was probably the time when I tasted pumpkin rice which my colleague brought into the office for her breakfast. Since then, I’ve decided I should give this squash a second chance and knowing how much nutrient you get from it makes it easier. It’s full of anti-oxidants, beta carotene (which converts to Vitamin A), niacin, vitamin E, calcium and iron!

Well, the next time you’re feeling tired to prepare a 3-4 dishes meal, try this one pot meal. The pumpkin brings subtle sweetness to the rice and blends in really well with dried shrimps and mushrooms (just like yam). In a way, this is like an adaptation from yam rice but I added some carrot as I love to have more vegetables in my meal.


Ingredients:
Rice (I used brown rice)
Pumpkin (cut into cubes)
Carrot
Dried Shrimps (soaked and chopped)
Shallots
Dried Mushroom (soaked and cut into small pieces)
Bean Paste (~1 tbsp)
Dark Soy Sauce
Oyster Sauce
Salt
Sugar
Pepper
Oil
Water


Method:
1. Heat some oil and saute shallots.
2. Add in dried shrimps and stir fry till fragrant.
3. Add in mushroom and carrot. Stir fry for 1 min.
4. Add in pumpkin.
5. Season with bean paste, oyster sauce, sugar, dark soy sauce and pepper.
6. Pour in the rice and mix well. Add in enough water (this really requires some agak-agak skill because you’ll need to add a little extra water than you usually need to cook the rice).
7. Season with a little salt.
8. Transfer everything to the rice cooker and cook rice as usual.