Tantalizing Salad

Bored with all the green vege salads? Want to try something that could tickle yr taste buds? Here's a salad recipe that has everything in it to tickle your taste buds from, sweet, sour, salty to a nutty taste and a wonderful aroma of sesame. Try it!

Ingredients:

5strips of french beans - boil for 1min & cut into 1cm long

1 cup of Pasta of your choice - boiled

A handful of cashew nuts - toasted in oven till brown

1 big onions - diced

1 big tomato - cut into small cubes, seeds removed

some baby carrots - boiled and cut into 1cm long

1 tbsp sesame seed - toasted

1 tsp dry parsley

2 tbsp Italian dressing

pinch of salt

Method:

Mix all cut ingredients in a salad bowl

Add Italian dressing, salt, dry parsley, sesame seed

Mix through

Chill & Serve

Curry sausage

Ingredients:

4 big sausages - cut into smaller piece

1 carrot - 1/2cm slice - preboil to soften it

1 onions - cut into small cubes

1 pkt of continental curry sausage powder (got this from coles)

~ you can use other type of curry powder

olive oil

dry thyme

hot paprika (ignore this if you don't want it to be too spicy)

11/4 cup water

Method:

Heat up 1tbsp of olive oil

Fry sausages until cooked, remove and put in onions

Stir fry onions until soft and return sausage in to pan

Add in few dash of dry thyme and paprika

Add in carrots

Mix curry sausage powder into water and pour into pan

Mix through, lower heat and simmer for 10mins

Serve hot with rice

Treasure Porridge

You can have porridge on any meal of the day, be it breakfast, lunch or dinner. Its a very light yet full filling meal. Here's a porridge meal that have lots of treasures for you to dig in.

Ingredients:

2-3 chicken drumstick

2 century eggs - cut into smaller piece

1 can of braised peanuts

2 sticks of deep fried 'yau char kway' (chinese fried bread stick) - cut into smaller piece

1 salted duck egg - chop fine

3 cups rice - pre soaked for 30mins

2 litre water

chop spring onions

sesame oil

white pepper powder

soy sauce

Method:

Heat up water to boil chicken drumstick

When drumstick is cooked through, remove it, set aside to cool then shred the meat

Bring to boil chicken stock and place rice in it

Stir occasionally until rice grains are cooked (puffed up)

Put in salted duck egg and reduce heat and let it boil for another 10mins

Switch off heat and let it stand for 10mins

Pour into serving bowls, top up with white pepper powder, sesame oil, shredded chicken,

century egg, yau char kway, spring onions and braised peanuts

Add soy sauce if you want

Serve hot and dig into all the treasures you can find...

All about Tofu

Tofu is good for health as its low in calories, contains a relatively large amount of iron and contains little fat. What I have here is a combination of 3 different types of tofu with vegetables.


Ingredients:
4pcs of fish stuffed tofu
4pcs of seafood tofu, cut half
1tube of Japanese tofu, cut into small round pieces
1 carrot, slice thin, cut into any shape you want
Spring onions
1/2 cauliflower, cut into small pieces
1tablespoon oyster sauce
salt & pepper
2 cups of chicken stock
corn starch
Garlic, chop fine


Method:
Heat up wok with 2 tablespoon olive oil
Add in garlic and stir fry until fragrant
Add in carrots, cauliflower, chicken stock & bring to boil
Add in all 3 types of tofu and simmer it for 5mins
Add salt, pepper & oyster sauce
Finally add in corn starch to thicken chicken stock
Garnish with spring onions before serving.

Smoke Duck Rice

One of my favourite dish during Chinese new year. Smoke ducks are available during Chinese new year month .When cook with rice the smoky salty flavour of the duck makes the rice taste lip smacking good!

Ingredients:

1 smoke duck drumstick, chop into smaller piece

2 cups of rice, washed

Method:

Mix duck piece with rice and cook rice as usual.

When the rice is cook, give a good stir and cover it for another 10mins

to make the rice absorb more flavour from the duck.

Garnish with spring onions and serve.

Bake Herb Lemon Fish

This dish is quick and fast yet maintain the sweetness of the fish.

Ingredients:
1 piece of fish (any type you prefer), I use grouper fish
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 slice on lemon
Salt & Pepper
2 cloves garlic, slice thin
2 slices of ginger, slice thin
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 teaspoon dry Oregano
1 piece of foil paper
2 teaspoon olive oil

Method:

Preheat oven to 160C
Clean foil paper
Put piece on inner side of foil, non shinny part
Season fish with salt & pepper
Pour olive oil over fish
Add fish sauce & lemon juice
Sprinkle garlic & ginger slice all over fish
Sprinkle dry oregano and put a piece of lemon on top
Carefully wrap foil up and bake in oven for 15mins
Serve with hot steam rice

You can garnish with spring onions before serving

Red Turnip Animal Cookies

Ingredients:
150gm butter
100gm icing sugar,sifted
300gm plain flour,sifted
80gm red turnip
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 tablespoon vanilla essence

Method:
Cream butter, icing sugar till light and creamy then add vanilla
Add flour,baking powder, red turnip, mix lightly to form into sticky dough
Dust animal shape moulds and cut them into shape
Arrange them in grease paper, bake them into 160C oven for 20mins

Walnut Cookies

Ingredients:
150gm castor sugar
200gm butter (unsalted)
300gm flour, sifted
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
100gm walnut, finely chop

Method:
Cream butter & sugar till creamy
Mix in flour, walnut into soft dough
Roll into 2cm thick strips, wrap it with grease paper
Place them in fridge till firm
Slice into 1cm thick and bake at 170C for 20mins



Voila...you have a bunch of crispy cookies for tea

Chinese Pancakes

What do you serve when you have unexpected guess at your door step? You can serve this quick Chinese pancakes recipe.

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

1/2 cup warm water

1 spring onions, finely chopped

Bunch of dry prawns, washed, finely chopped

3-4 cloves garlic, finely chopped

Olive oil

Salt


Method:

Step 1: Mix flour with warm water until it form into firm dough

Add more flour if you find it too sticky

Let dough rest for 15mins before dividing them into smaller portion

Step 2: Flatten dough, rub olive oil on surface and add spring onions, dry prawns, garlic

Sprinkle some salt over

Step 3: Roll it up from the bottom

Step 4: Curl it up into a shape like a ball.

Then flatten it from the top into very thin pancake

Step 5: Pan fry it on a non-stick pan until both sides are golden brown

I dont use oil as I dont like my pancakes to be oily.

Cut into smaller size and serve hot.

Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner

First of all, sorry folks for the long absence, I'm still on Cloud9 with the news I got from Down Under. Wishing all Chinese Gong Hei Fatt Choi, may this year of the Golden Tiger come roaring at your door with abundance of wealth and prosperity. Reunion dinner is a must for all family on the eve of Chinese New Year. Most family would have Steamboat reunion dinner.



Steamboat
















From right to left:
Garupa fish fillet, sea cucumber, prawns, fish balls
Middle:
Carrots, broccoli, quail eggs


















Various types of fish balls, dumplings, fish cakes, crab rolls

Lettuce

All of the above ingredients are put into below steamboat pot of boiling pork/chicken stock soup.

Wait for it to boil and everyone feast in...

I bet everyone would be sweating after having steamboat...

Gong Xi Fa Cai ...