Thursday, September 10, 2009

Mixed Vegetable (Chopsuey)

















Ingredients:
  • 200 g chicken thigh fillet (cut into strips)
  • 3 large shitake mushrooms (sliced)
  • 1 carrot (thinly sliced)
  • 2 servings of lettuce (cleansed and chopped into edible size)
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • thickener (2 tbsp corn flour + 3 tbsp water)
  • 2 tbsp cooking oil
Sauce:
  • ½ cup chicken stock
  • 1½ cup water
  • 2 tbsp oyster sauce
  • ½ tbsp light soy sauce
  • ½ tbsp Thai fish sauce
  • ½ tsp sugar
  • a dash of white ground pepper
  • a pinch of salt
How to:
  • heat your oil in a frying-pan for 1 minute. Add in the chicken and stir-fry till the outer layer is not pinkish anymore
  • add in the garlic and stir-fry till fragrant
  • add in the sauce and bring it to boil. Add in carrot and mushrooms. Simmer for 3 minutes
  • add in the lettuce and thickener. Mix well
  • serve for 2

Indonesian Fried Fish Ball

















Ingredients:
  • 100 g Dory fish fillet
  • 100 g prawn (devein and deshell)
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 2 eggs
  • 6-8 tbsp tapioca starch
  • ½ tsp white ground pepper
  • 2 tbsp Thai fish sauce
  • 1 tbsp light soy sauce
  • ½ tsp sugar
  • oil for deep frying
How to:
  • put all the ingredients except the oil into a food processor and mince well - Adjust the amount of tapioca starch as you mince at such you can scoop the paste and mold it into a ball
  • heat your oil (~1 inch deep) for 1 minute
  • oil your palms. Take a spoonful and mold the paste into a ball. Deep fry under small fire for ~15 minutes - under high heat the fish balls are easy to be charred and frying less than 15 minutes the fish balls are likely to get flatten after a while
  • serve for 2 with your favorite sauce

Thai Style Roasted Pork


















Ingredients:
  • 200 g pork belly
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp Chinese five spice powder
  • 1 tsp basil flakes
  • 6 fresh lime leaves
  • 1 red chili-pepper (deseed, devein and chopped)
  • 2 shallots (thinly sliced)
  • 1 tbsp minced garlic
Sauce:
  • 2 tbsp Thai fish sauce
  • 1 tbsp Indonesian sweet soy sauce
  • a dash of white ground pepper
How to:
  • pierce the pork-belly skin with knife thoroughly
  • rub the pork-belly with salt and five spice powder
  • set your oven to 180 degree celcius and grill the pork-belly for 30 minutes
  • warm your frying pan for 1 minute. Pan-fry the pork belly with skin below (without any additional oil) to make the skin crispier for about 3 minutes
  • cut the pork-belly into bites. Return them to the frying pan. Add in the remaining ingredients and stir-fry till fragrant
  • add in the sauce and mix well
  • serve for 2