There are many ways of cooking chicken. One of our favorite recipes of course is poaching or steaming the chicken as the meat is not overly cooked. Not so oily in the case of deep frying and stir frying. Simple and straight forward if you have some garlic, fresh chillies, ginger, soy sauce, sesame oil…
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Stir Fry Mixed Vegetables
We often called this dish ‘chap chye’ meaning mixture of vegetables. It can be more colorful when adding cabbage, brocoli, mushrooms and beancurd sticks as well. Accompanied by steam rice but preferably plain porridge. Ingredients (serves 2) 100gm cauliflower 1 cup glass noodle(soaked) 1/2 carrot, sliced 1 cup black fungus( reconstitute ) Seasoning 1 tbsp…
My Kind Of Nasi Lemak(Fragrant Coconut Rice)
Everyone in my family loves Nasi Lemak. It’s just like having chicken rice every day. The main ingredient is the fragrant coconut rice and chilli Sambal which would make great difference to the dish if it s right on taste. Accompaniment usually fried anchovies, cucumber slices, fried peanuts and hard boiled eggs or omelette. As…
Quick Laksa With Fish cakes
Laksa is also considered a delicacy you can find mainly in Singapore and Malaysia. There are many variations cooking this dish. All I need are some fish balls, cuttlefish cakes and with some yellow noodles to cook up this dish. A few fresh ingredients essentials for a good stock. Ingredients ( serves 2 ) 200gm…
Fish head In Black Bean Sauce
I bought a baby cod fish just the other day and got the fishmonger to remove the scales and guts thoroughly. This dish I am going to cook is simply fish head with black bean sauce in a claypot. We can prepare fish head dishes with other ingredients too, like curry, braised fish head with…
My Favorite Mee Siam
Mee Siam is often remembers by many as one of our nation dish. Ingredients dominating this recipe is the tamarind sauce, dried shrimps and tau cheo( yellow fermented beans ). The Chinese and the Malays has their own versions. The recipe I tried is the intense one. Ingredients ( Serves 4 ) 1 tbsp chilli…
Yummy Claypot Rice
Using a Claypot to cook this dish is a traditional way the Malaysians do wonderfully. With the above ingredients I can easily prepare this dish immediately using simple sauces like oyster sauce, black sauce, sesame oil, chinese rice wine and sugar. Accommpanied by freshly sliced red chillies with sweet sauce condiment. Ingredients ( Serves 4…
My Mom’s Special Popiah(Spring Roll)
My mom’s a very special cook with many wonderful recipes learnt from my grandmother in her younger days. I remember how she used to bake all her cakes using steam. She had many orders then and they just loved her fruit cakes. Those days ovens are unheard and not so accessible. Amongst her many delights…
Baked Fish N’ Vegs Parcel
Often I have my fish baked with simple marinades together with any vegetables available for just a meal. It is also my nutritious way as the fish and vegs are not overcooked. Ingredients ( serves 1 ) 200g basa fillet( I piece or any white fillet ) some french beans( blanch with carrots a few…
Stuffed Mushroom W’ Chicken
I always wanted to try cooking stuffed vegetables like mushroom,capsicum,tomato, egg plant etc with savory fillings as they really look pretty, colorful and captivating.They seem simple to prepare. For the first time, I am trying on some chinese ingredients for marinade. Ingredients (serves 4) 4 large field mushrooms(remove stems,chopped finely) 250g minced chicken 1 tsp…
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