Quick Chicken and Mushroom Rice (One Pot)

I usually do this whenever I feel lazy to cook a full meal which consists of rice, vege, meat and soup. This is fast, easy and tasty. :)

Ingredients:

Chicken

Ginger

Black Fungus (soaked and cut into pieces)

Mushroom (soaked till soft and cut into pieces)

Dark Soy Sauce

Light Soy Sauce

Pepper

Salt

Chinese Cooking Wine

Water

Rice

Oil

Method:

1. Wash rice and set aside.

2. Heat oil in wok and saute ginger till fragrant.

3. Add in mushroom and stir fry till it dries up a little.

4. Add in chicken and stir fry till it looks cooked on the surface.

5. Add salt, pepper, cooking wine, dark and light soy sauce. Mix well.

6. Pour in black fungus and stir fry for another min.

7. Add in rice and mix well. Add more seasoning to taste.

8. Dish up and pour into the rice cooker.

9. Add water and cook rice as usual.

Fried Rice with Chinese Sausages

If you realise, I have been dishing out mostly one dish meal these days. Yeah, time is a constraint since I have a small kitchen and apartment and even the slightest noise will wake the baby, which means I can only start cooking after the little empress wakes up from her nap. The problem is, once she wakes up, she expects some entertainment and I can't leave her alone in her playpen for long. So, that's why we have all these quick to cook one dish meal :)

In case you wonder why the colour of the rice looks a but reddish, that's because I've always use brown + red rice :) If I cook white rice, I think it would be considered an exception ;p


Ingredients:
Rice (cooked and let cool at room temp)
Garlic
Carrot
Broccoli
Chinese Sausage
Egg
Oil
Salt
Light Soy Sauce
Dark Soy Sauce
Pepper
Water (boiled)


Method:
1. Heat some oil and saute garlic.
2. Add in chinese sausages and stir fry till the edges of the sausages start to brown a little.
3. Pour in carrot and broccoli and do a quick stir fry.
4. Add in beaten egg and let it cook before you continue to stir fry.
5. Add a little salt and pepper to taste.
6. Pour in the rice and add some light and dark soy sauce. Mix well.
7. Add a little water if it's too dry.
8. Stir fry for 1/2min and dish up.

Fried Rice with Fresh Corn

Here's another simple meal I cooked recently. It taste really good all because of the fresh corn!!! I don't know what you call that corn with 2 colours; white and yellow kernels but it's the more expensive type. It's not because I wanted to buy this but the seller ran out of the normal type, so I had to take this one. Anyway, it's very juicy and sweet, so no regrets.


Ingredients:
Cooked Rice
Carrot (diced)
Broccoli (cut into small pieces)
Fresh Corn
Dried Shrimps (soaked and chopped)
Garlic (chopped)
Shallots (sliced)
Dark Soy Sauce
Light Soy Sauce
Oil
Water-boiled


Method:
1. Heat oil in wok and saute garlic and shallots till fragrant.
2. Add in dried shrimps and stir fry till fragrant.
3. Add in carrot, broccoli and corn.
4. Season with light soy sauce.
5. Pour in rice and mix well.
6. Add in dark soy sauce and mix well.
7. Stir fry for 3-4min, adding water when it gets too dry.
8. Cook until corn is cooked (try it!) and add more light soy sauce to taste.
9. Serve hot.

Fried Rice with Broccoli and Chinese Sausage

I think I've not been cooking fried rice or noodles for some time and I usually do this when my laziness creeps in ;p Well, I think this one is a balanced meal by itself as I have vege, fish and pork (the sausage) and it's brown rice :)

Ingredients:
Cooked Brown Rice
Garlic
Onion
Fish (marinate with some salt and pepper)
Chinese Sausage
Button Mushroom (would taste better with Chinese Mushroom)
Carrot
Broccoli
Light Soy Sauce
Salt
Oil


Method:
1. Heat some oil and saute garlic and onion until fragrant.
2. Add in chinese sausage and stir fry for 1-2min.
3. Add in mushroom, carrot and broccoli. Stir fry for 1min. Season with a little salt.
4. Add in fish and stir fry for a while.
5. Add rice and mix well.
6. Season with light soy sauce.
7. Stir fry over high heat for about 1min and it's done.

Fishy Fried Rice

Nope...no fish in the fried rice ;p This is today's lunch; fried fish and simple fried rice. I've been eating out for almost the past 2 weeks and I miss simple home cooked food. Today's meal took minimal effort but we had a very satisfying lunch. Fried rice is not oily like those sold outside plus I put in lots of vegetables.


The fried fish is idiot-proof. Just clean the fish, rub a little salt on both sides and leave it for 10min or so. Then, fry it till golden brown on both sides. Use low heat especially if it's a big fish or the meat is thick to ensure it's fully cooked on the inside too.

Fried Fish

Simple Fried Rice

Ingredients:
Rice (cooked and cooled)
Oil
Garlic
Egg (beaten)
Carrot (cut into cubes)
Cabbage
Salt
Light Soy Sauce
Dark Soy Sauce




Method:
1. Heat a little oil in the wok and saute garlic.
2. Pour in the beaten egg and cook for it's set.
3. Use the spatula to break the egg into small pieces.
4. Add in carrot and cabbage. Stir fry for 1min.
5. Season with salt.
6. Add in rice and mix well.
7. Add in light and dark soy sauce. Mix well.
8. Cook for 1min over medium heat. Dish up and serve.

Easy Chicken Rice

This is another one-dish-meal which is really easy to do. There are many variations which we can create from this recipe by using different ingredients and spices. It's all up to your creativity!

Ingredients:

Chicken Meat (cut into medium size)
Ginger (a few slices)
Marinade: light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil and corn flour.
Oil
Carrot (cut into cubes)
Rice
Salt
Dark Soy Sauce
Light Soy Sauce
Water


Method:


1. Pour marinade over chicken and add in ginger. Marinate overnight. (I just put everything into a container and left it in the fridge overnight).
2. Heat some oil in a wok.
3. Pick out the ginger from the marinade and stir fry in the wok until fragrant.
4. Add in carrot and stir fry for 1min.
5. Pour in the chicken and stir fry over medium heat for 1min.
6. Add in rice and mix well.
7. Season with salt, light soy sauce and dark soy sauce.
8. Dish up and transfer into a rice cooker. Add enough water to cook rice as usual.
9. When the rice is cooked, the dish is ready to be served!

Fried Rice with Cabbage and Chicken

Ingredients:
Rice (cooked)
Cabbage
Onion
Chicken Meat
Light Soy Sauce
Sesame Oil
Pepper
Salt
Sugar
Dark Soy Sauce
Oil


Method:
1. Marinate chicken meat with light soy sauce, sesame oil and pepper for 30min.
2. Heat oil and saute onion.
3. Add in chicken meat and stir fry for 1 min.
4. Add in cabbage. Season with salt and sugar.
5. Pour in rice and mix well.
6. Add in dark soy sauce and mix to coat the rice.
7. Stir fry for 1min and dish up.

TomYam Fried Rice

A variety of spicy fried rice…

Ingredients:
Rice (cooked)
Carrot
Onion
Garlic
Chicken Meat
Light Soy Sauce
Pepper
Salt
Sugar
Tomyam Paste
Water (boiled)
Oil


Method:
1. Marinate chicken with light soy sauce and pepper for ~30min. Set aside.
2. Heat some oil in a wok and sauté garlic and onion until fragrant.
3. Add in tomyam paste and stir fry for a while.
4. Add in carrot and stir fry for 1 min.
5. Add in chicken meat. Season with sugar, salt and a little water.
6. Pour in the rice and mix well.
7. Stir fry over medium-high heat for 1min and it’s done.

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.

Steamed Glutinous Rice

Can someone tell me how in the world did those rice bugs come about and managed to get into my packet of glutinous rice that was not even opened yet??? It really puzzled me. Anyway, I had to salvage the packet of rice or it will be such a waste to throw everything away (mum's story of starving kids come to mind). Moreover, you won’t die from eating rice attacked by rice bugs (I don’t know what you call them but I call the monster rice bugs) provided you clean the rice properly.


So, what to do with the glutinous rice? Loh mai kai? Hor yip fun (where to find the hor yip)?? OK la, don’t care. Just cook something out of it and since I am too lazy to arrange pieces of chicken and mushroom in bowls like what you get in loh mai kai, I’ll just do my own version of glutinous rice.

This is so delicious!!!! (Pls wipe off your saliva…) I am really happy it turned out so well since it’s a first attempt. Of course, hubby is delighted to get to eat some unhealthy stuff….hahaha.


Ingredients:
Glutinous Rice (soaked overnight)
Ginger (ground or chopped finely)
Garlic
Shallots
Dried Shrimps (soaked and chopped)
Dried Mushroom (soaked till soft and cut into small pieces)
Chicken Meat (cut into small pieces)
Light Soy Sauce
Dark Soy Sauce
Salt
Sugar
Pepper
Oyster Sauce
Sesame Oil
Cooking Wine
Oil

Method:
1. Marinate chicken with sesame oil, light soy sauce and pepper for at least 30min.
2. Heat some oil in a wok and sauté garlic, ginger and shallots till fragrant.
3. Add in dried shrimps and mushroom. Stir fry for 2-3min.
4. Add in chicken meat and stir fry for 1min.
5. Season with oyster sauce, salt, sugar, cooking wine and pepper.
6. Mix in glutinous rice.
7. Season with dark soy sauce and light soy sauce. You can add other seasoning such as salt, sugar and oyster sauce – just season until you’re satisfied with the taste.
Pls try the taste now or it will be too late when we start to steam the rice.
8. Add some water. Stir and cook till rice soaks up the water. (You may not want to pour in one whole bowl of water if unsure, it’s better to add the water as you cook the rice. Keep on stirring s the rice won’t stick to the wok and use low heat).
9. Scoop the rice mixture into small bowls.
10. Steam it for 40-45min or until the rice is cooked.

It’s yummy with or without chili sauce. :)

Spicy Fried Rice with Winged Beans

Feels like eating winged beans but just want to cook one dish for dinner??? Fried rice is the answer! Here’s our dinner for today. This spicy fried rice is very appetizing and I love the crunchy bite that comes from the winged beans. Nice!


Ingredients:
Rice (cooked and cooled)
Chicken Meat
Winged Beans
Carrot
Onion
Dried Shrimps (soaked and chopped)
Light Soy Sauce
Pepper
Ground chili paste
Salt
Oil


Method:
1. Marinate chicken and light soy sauce and pepper for 30min and leave aside.
2. Heat oil in a wok and sauté the onion for 1min.
3. Add in carrot and stir fry for another min.
4. Put in dried shrimps, winged beans and chili paste. Stir fry for 1 min.
5. Add in chicken meat and stir fry till chicken meat is cooked.
6. Season with salt.
7. Add in rice and stir fry well for 1min. Dinner is ready!

Fried Rice (Version 2)

Another simple dinner…


Ingredients:
Rice (cooked)
Mixed vegetables
Chinese Mushroom (soaked till soft and cut into small pieces)
Broccoli
Shallots
Chicken sausage (cut into small pieces)
Salt
Light soy sauce
Pepper
Cooking wine
Oil
Water

Method:
1. Heat oil and sauté shallots till fragrant.
2. Add in chicken sausages, mushroom and broccoli. Stir fry for 1min.
3. Add in mixed vegetables. Season with salt, pepper and cooking wine.
4. Add in rice and mix well.
5. Add in light soy sauce (if it’s too dry, you can add in a little water) and stir fry on high heat for 1/2min and it’s ready.

Baked Rice (Free Style)

OK, free style means 'cincai' cook one la ;p No recipe....just agak-agak.

I don't remember what gives me the inspiration to cook this but I think the taste is not too bad for a first attempt. The only thing I should improve from this version is make sure the rice is not too wet. Other than that, it's kind of nice and would be even nicer if you can take in a more fattening version by topping it with cheese before baking ;p

The seaweed absolutely enhanced the taste of this dish!

Ingredients:
Rice (cooked)
Corn (steamed)
Carrot (diced)
Garlic (chopped)
Chicken meat (remove bones and cut into small pieces)
Pumpkin (cut into small cubes)
Tomatoes (cut into small pieces)
Seaweed sheets (tear into bite size pieces)
Cooking wine
Light Soy Sauce
Sugar
Salt
Sugar
Pepper
Tomato Sauce
Chili Sauce
Oil
Water

Preheat oven at 180C.


Method:
1. Marinate chicken meat with cooking wine, light soy sauce and sugar. Set aside.
2. Heat a little oil and saute garlic.
3. Add in carrot and pumpkin. Stir fry for 2-3min.
4. Add in chicken meat.
5. Season with salt and pepper.
6. Add water and cook till pumpkin is soft. Mix in tomatoes and dish up.
7. Grease a baking dish with a little oil.
8. Fill the baking dish with rice.
9. Pour mixture in no. 6 into the rice and mix.
10. In another bowl, mix tomato and chili sauce together, then stir the mixture into the rice.
11. Cover the baking dish with an aluminum foil.
12. Bake for 20min.

Fried Rice with Mixed Vegetables

This is one of those quick one dish meals that I do when I am too lazy to cook anything elaborate ;p

Ingredients:
Cooked rice
Mixed vegetables
Button Mushroom (sliced)
Chicken Frankfurters
Garlic (chopped)
Dark Soy Sauce
Light Soy Sauce
Cooking wine
Salt
Pepper
Oil
Water


Method:
1. Heat oil and saute garlic.
2. Add in chicken frankfurters and button mushrooms and stir fry for 1min. Season with a little salt.
3. Add in mixed vegetables and rice.
4. Season with dark and light soy sauce and pepper.
5. Stir fry on medium-high heat for 1min.
6. Add a little water if it’s too dry.
7. Add some cooking wine and finish with a quick stir fry.

Quick & Easy Fried Rice

Ingredients:
Rice (cooked and leave to cool)
Mixed Vegetables (corn, green pea and carrot)
Cooking Wine
Egg (beaten)
Garlic (chopped)
Salt
Light Soy Sauce
Oil
Water


Method:
1. Heat oil and sauté garlic till fragrant.
2. Add in egg and stir fry for 1min.
3. Add in mixed vegetables and season with salt and cooking wine.
4. Mix in rice and stir fry for 3-4min.
5. Season with soy sauce and add a little water if it’s too dry.
6. Stir fry for another 2-3min and dish up.

Fried Rice with Pan Fried Dory Fish in Plum Sauce

Thought the fried rice was rather plain without meat, so added the fish. I think you can make it in any kind of sauce you like e.g. tomato sauce, black pepper, dark soy sauce, etc.

Ingredients:

Fried Rice
Cooked rice
Cauliflower
Dried shrimps (soaked till soft and chopped)
Button mushroom (cut into slices)
Garlic (chopped)
Soy Sauce
Oil
Water

Fish in Plum Sauce
Fish fillet
Pepper
Salt
Plum Sauce
Corn Flour
Water
Oil


Method:
1. To prepare the fish, marinate with salt and pepper for 30min.
2. Pan fry the fish on both sides till golden brown.
3. Add plum sauce and corn flour, then mix with a little water. Pour this mixture in the pan over the fish.
4. Cook till sauce thickens and coats the fish.
5. To prepare the fried rice, heat a little oil and brown garlic.
6. Add in dried shrimps and stir fry for 1-2min.
7. Add in cauliflower and button mushroom. Continue to stir fry for 2-3min.
8. Season with salt.
9. Mix in rice and add in soy sauce.
10. Add a little water if it’s too dry.
11. Stir fry for 2-3min. Serve hot with fish.

Mixed Vegetables Fried Rice

A quick dish for dinner with a few varieties of vegetables added. Whenever I cook a one-dish meal, I try to add in more vegetables to make it a more balanced meal :)

Ingredients:
Brown rice - cooked
Chinese cabbage
Carrot (cut into cubes)
Egg (beaten and added with a dash of pepper)
Onion (cut into cubes)
Mushroom
Preserved Salted vegetables (cut into small pieces)
Yam bean (cut into small pieces)
Soya sauce
Salt
Sugar
Pepper
Water (cooked)


Method:
1. Heat some oil in the wok and sauté the onion for 2-3min.
2. Add in the egg and when it’s cooked, add in carrot, Chinese cabbage, mushroom, salted vegetables and yam bean.
3. Stir fry the vegetables for 2-3min.
4. Season with salt, sugar and pepper.
5. Pour in the rice and mix well.
6. Add a little soya sauce. If it’s too dry, add a little water.
7. Stir fry for another 1-2min and it’s ready to be served.

Pineapple Fried Rice

I must say this is not a very successful experiment but not too bad for 1st attempt gua...
Will put more pineapple next time and spice it up with some chillis!

Ingredients:
Rice (cooked)
Pineapple (cut into small pieces)
Chicken meat (de-boned and marinate with soya sauce and pepper)
Onion (diced)
Carrot (diced)
Cabbage (shredded)
Crab stick (cut into 1cm pieces)
Long beans (cut into small pieces)
Raisins
Egg (beat with some pepper)
Turmeric powder + Curry powder (mix to form paste with some water)
Salt
Pepper
Soya sauce (optional)
Sugar
Water
Oil


Method:
1. Heat oil in wok and sauté the onions.
2. Put in the egg and cook till almost done.
3. Add chicken meat and turmeric & curry paste and mix well. Stir fry for 1-2min.
4. Put in carrot, cabbage, long beans and crab sticks. Stir fry for 1-2min with some salt and sugar.
5. Pour in the rice and mix well. Add some water if it’s too dry.
6. Add in pineapple and stir fry for 1-2min.
7. Season with some pepper and soya sauce/salt (if not salty enough).
8. Lastly, add the raisins and mix well or you can dish up and sprinkle raisins on top of the fried rice.
*I find the crab sticks do not really mix well with the taste, so I would prefer to omit this from the fried rice next time.

Fried Rice

I was back to Taiping again last weekend and because mum went for a local trip with her friends to Ipoh, I figured I'd just cook fried rice for lunch. Hope dad finds it OK!

Ingredients:
Cooked rice
Carrots (diced)
Cabbage (cut into small pieces)
Onions (diced)
Dried Chinese Mushroom (soaked till soft and diced)
Dried Shrimps (soaked)
Eggs (beat till fluffy)
Soya sauce
Dark soya sauce
Salt
Sugar
Pepper
Oil
Water


Method:
1. Heat oil in a wok and sauté onions.
2. Add in dried shrimps and stir fry for 1-2min.
3. Put in the carrots, cabbage and mushrooms. Mix well and cook for 3-4min.
4. Season with soya sauce, salt, sugar and pepper.
5. Stir in the eggs. Let the egg cook for a while before mixing it with the vegetables.
6. Add in the rice. Put in some dark soya sauce and mix well.
7. Add soya sauce and some pepper to the mixture.
8. You can add a little water if it gets too dry.
9. Stir fry for another 1-2min and the meal is ready :)