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...