Cabbage Soup

This is another traditional soup which my mum would cook during festive season

Preparation Time: 20 mins

Cooking Time: 1 hour

Ingredients

1 Beijing Cabbage

2 cloves of garlic

300g pork ribs

1 bowl of chicken stock

4 bowls of water

Method

1. Wash and peel off the cabbage.

2. Wash ribs with salt to clean. Boil 4 bowls of water and add the ribs. Cook for 1 hour.

3. Add chicken stock.

4. Heat wok, add oil and garlic. Add cabbage and stir fry for 1o mins.

5. Add into soup base and cook for another 1 hour.

Radish Soup…

This is a traditional soup which my Grandfather would cook every Chinese New Year

Preparation Time: 30 mins

Cooking Time: 8 hours

Serving for 5 – 10

Ingredients

500g pork ribs

250g dried soy beans (soak overnight)

5g pepper seeds

400g radish

100g dried scallop (optional)

Method

1. Wash and clean ribs with salt.

2. Shave the skin, wash and cut the radish.

3. Boil 6 bowls of water, add the soy beans with the pork ribs, cook for 2 hours and let it simmer.

4. Add the radish after the soup base has simmer for another 4 hours.

5. Cook for another 1 hour and lower heat to simmer for another 1 hour.

Teochew Steam Promfet

Preparation Time: 15 mins

Cooking Time: 10 mins

Serving for 4

Ingredients

200 – 300g promfet fish

10g pork fats

1 leaf salted vegetable

4 slices ginger

pepper

1 sour plum

1 Tbsp water

1 dash of light soy sauce

2 medium size dried shitake mushroom

Method:

1. Clean the fish and cut an “X” on the fish. (This is to enable easier cooking)

2. Lay the salted vegetable on the bottom of the steam plate. Put the fish on top of it.

3. Squashed the sour plum and spread over the fish.

4. Slice the pork fat into strips of about 2 – 3 cm by 0.5 cm by 0.5 cm (Length X Breadth X Thickness). Spread them over the fish.

5. Soak dried mushroom with hot water till soft. Cut the mushroom in slice of 2 mm thick. Spread them on the fish.

6. Mix soy sauce, pepper and water. Pour over the fish.

7. Put in a steamer or wok to steam it for 10 mins.

Sushi Rice … how to prepare it

Ingredients

5 bowl cooked sushi rice

1½ bowl sushi vinegar

Preparation of Rice

1. Wash thoroughly 5 cups of sushi white rice.

Preparation of Vinegar

Ingredients

375 g sugar

600 g vinegar

18 g salt

Method

Mix the vinegar, salt and sugar in a pot and bring to boil till sugar and salt melted.

Leave the vinegar to cool before using.

Preparation of Sushi Rice

1. Put 5 bowls of cooked rice in a large bowl and 1½ bowl of vinegar.

2. Mix well with a ladle and fan it till cool.

Fruit Cake

Let’s start the New Year with this awesome recipe…..

Ingredients

8 oz soft flour

8 0z butter

4 eggs

1 tsp baking powder

1 Tbsp honey

1 Tbsp condensed milk

2 oz chopped almond

1 tsp mix spice (apple)

half orange and lemon juice, about 2 oz

half orange and lemon zest or rind

5 oz sugar

8 oz currants

8 oz raisins

8 oz sultanas

Preparation of fruits

Soak the currants, raisins and sultanas with brandy for at least 2 weeks. Preferably 1 month with ¼ to ½ a bottle of brandy.

Method

1. Whisk the eggs and sugar till fluffy.

2. Cream the butter till light and fluffy.

3. Add condensed milk, honey, orange and lemon juice into the butter.

4. Add the egg mixture slowly to the cream butter mixture.

5. Sieve the flour, baking powder and mix spice together.

6. Add ½ flour to butter mixture to ½ mixed fruit and slowly add the rest of the flour and mixed fruit.

7. Bake in moderate heat at 150 degrees for 1 hour.

8. Bake in lower heat at 100 degrees for 30 mins.