Yam Rice

Preparation and cooking time: 30 mins

Serving for 2 – 3 persons

Ingredients

2 cups of rice

3 shallots

1 clove of garlic

100 g dried shrimp

100 g prawns

200 g lean pork (optional)

1 yam about 200 g (taste excellent if u could get it imported from Thailand)

50 g dried shitake mushroom

10 g fried peanuts (optional)

1 dried scallop

1 tsp salt

Cooking oil

2 tsp sesame oil

1 tsp 5 spice powder

1 Tbsp dark soy sauce

1 tsp light soy sauce

Method

1. Cut the yam in cubes and marinate the yam with the 5 spice powder for 10 minutes. Deep fried the yam.

2. Wash the rice and cook it in a rice cooker. Once cooked, transfer the rice in a container to let it cool.

3. Fry the shallots with the garlic till brown. Remove the fried shallot and garlic for garnishing later. Leave the oil in the wok to fry the dried shrimp, mushroom and scallop.

4. Add the lean pork and prawn and fry about 5 minutes. Add light soy sauce in the mixture. Remove the dried shrimp, mushroom, scallop, lean pork and prawn.

5. Add the rice in the wok and if required add a little oil to fry the rice.

6. Add salt and dark soy sauce on the rice and fry for about 10 minutes.

7. Add the yam with the mixture of dried shrimp, mushroom, scallop, lean pork and prawn.

8. Fry till there is a nice aroma, add sesame oil to enhance the fragrance.

9. Add the fried shallot and garlic to garnish.

10. It is ready to serve, optional to add some fried peanuts if you like.

Cabbage with Tomatoes… My Favourite

This may be something really simple but it is my favourite…..

30 minutes of preparation and cooking time

3 – 4 servings

Ingredients

Half a Cabbage or one small Cabbage (Use Beijing Cabbage…the best)
2 tomatoes
2 cloves of garlic
a dash Pepper
2 tsp Sesame oil
2 Tbsp of cooking oil
1 tsp light soy sauce
half a cup of water or chicken stock

Method

1. Shred the cabbage and soak in water to cleanse the vegetable.
2. Cut your tomatoes.
3. Chop the garlic.
4. Heat up the wok and stir fry the garlic together with the cabbage.
5. Add the light soy sauce and fry the cabbage for about 5 minutes.
6. Add tomatoes and water or chicken stock.
7. Cover the wok with a lid and let it simmer for another 10 minutes.
8. Add pepper to taste and sesame oil before serving.

Orange Peel & Red Bean Soup

An hour preparation and cooking but worth doing…

Serving for 2 – 3 persons

Ingredients

2 cups of red beans

5 cups of boiling water

2 pieces of dried orange peel

5 Tbsp of sugar (sweetness to personal taste)

1 cup of lotus seed

Method

1. Boil red beans and lotus seed for about 40 minutes till cooked.

2. Add sugar and orange peel and continue to cook for another 20 minutes.

This is a simple dessert to cook but the yummy part of it is the orange peel adds a special flavour to it.

Pork Chop

Pork Chop…

Preparation Time: 10 mins

Cooking Time: 20 mins

Serving for 3

Ingredients

200g Lean Pork

1 Tbsp Light Soy Sauce

2 tsps cornflour

1 small egg

2 tbsp pepper

1 Tbsp sesame oil

6 pieces of cream crackers

Method

1. Cut the pork into slices of about 0.5 cm thick.

2. Marinate the pork with soy sauce, pepper, cornflour, egg. Add sesame oil last to seal the marinating.

3. Marinate it for about 1 – 2 hours depending on the size of your pork slices.

4. Pound the cream crackers into semi fine.

5. Coat the pork with the pounded crackers.

6. Heat up the wok and add cooking oil to deep fry the coated pork.

7. Serve when hot with dip of chilli and tomato sauce.

Optional

You may like to cook it with a tangy sauce with potatoes, tomatoes and onions.

Optional Ingredients

2 medium size potatoes

2 tomatoes

1 onion

Preparation of sauce

Mix 1 Tbsp Chilli sauce, 1 Tbsp Tomato sauce, 1/2 Tbsp A1 Sauce, 1 tsp cornflour, a dash of pepper and 1/2 tsp sesame oil.

Method

1. Peel the potatoes skin and cut then in strip of about 0.5 cm thickness.

2. Cut tomatoes and onion into cubes.

3. Heat the wok and add 2 Tbsp of cooking oil and fry the potatoes till light brown. Remove the potatoes and add the onion cubes and stir fry till it is soft.

4. Add tomatoes cube and potatoes and stir fry for about another 2 mins.

5. Add the cooked Pork Chop (cut them in slices) and the sauce. Stir fry them for another 3 mins.