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Pork

Char Siew Pork

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1. Cut pork collar into strips. Or you can just choose striped pork collar.

2. Put pork in a big bowl. Add in 2 tbs Hoisin sauce, 2 tbs honey, 2 tbs light soy sauce, 2 tbs sugar, 1 tbs dark soy sauce, 1 tbs sesame oil, 1 tbs hua diao wine, 1/2 tbs white pepper powder, and 1/2 cup water. Mix pork with sauce well.

3. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and put into fridge for overnight.

4. Preheat oven to 230 degree C. Put pork into a pot along with marinade. Bring to boil.

5. Turn to low heat and simmer for 30 mins. Flip over occasionally while simmering. Sauce will become thickened.

6. Put pork into baking pan. Into oven for 10 mins.

7. Flip over and bake for another 10 mins.

8. Cool down and cut into slices.

My husband loves them very very very much.

Ribs, Soup

Pork Ribs & Chinese Yam Soup

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Chinese Yam is called 山药 （shan yao), which is considered to be very good for health.

1. Rinse pork ribs in water. Change water several times till water is clear with no more blood.

2. Put ribs in a deep pot. Add in water that covers all ribs.

3. Turn to high heat and bring water to boil. Skim the foam if any. Turn to medium-low heat.

4. Add in Yam chunks, red dates and wolf berries. Cover the pot and simmer for 40 mins. Ribs will become very soft and easily fall off. Soup will become a bit sweet during to red dates and Yam.

5. Season with a little salt and serve hot.

Chinese, egg, spinach

Gold & Silver Egg Spinach

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This dish requires two kinds of egg: salted duck egg （咸鸭蛋）and preserved duck egg （松花蛋/皮蛋）.

Preserved duck egg is very controversial, since many people just can’t accept the taste & texture of it. When I was very little, I didn’t understand why there would be such black egg on the table. They looked like poisonous and why adults liked them. I couldn’t remember when I first tried it and found it’s not as bad as I thought. And it’s not poisonous, of course. I gradually like it, especially the egg yolk. So yummy. Well, if you have never tried preserved duck egg, you may at least tried it like I did. If you still don’t like, that’s all right. There are so many kinds of eggs out there. You don’t have to like a particular type.

1. Prepare two salty duck eggs and two preserved duck eggs. Separate egg white and yolk for both of them. Then chop the egg white and yolk a bit.

2. Wash the spinach in water. Remove the roots. Can cut into smaller pieces.

3. Heat a pot. Pour in 250 ml stock. If you have your own chicken stock, that will be good. If you don’t have, Swanson is a good choice. Also add in 1/2 cup water and 2 ginger slices. Bring to boil. Then set aside.

4. Heat a pan. Add in 1 tablespoon oil. Fry 5-6 garlic cloves. It needs a bit patience cos you have to fry garlic till golden brown. And don’t burn them. Then take the garlic out.

5. Same pan, same oil. Add in drained spinach. Stir fry a bit. Pour in half of the stock. Cover the pan with lid. Simmer for 30 seconds. Then stir a bit. Lid on for another 30 mins. And take the spinach out into a plate.

6. Wash the pan. Heat on stove. Add in 1 tsp oil. Add in fried garlic, yolk of salty duck eggs and preserved duck egg’s white. Stir fry for 1 mins.

7. Pour in the rest stock. Bring to boil. Pour in salty duck egg’s white. Wait till egg white solidifies. At last add in preserved duck egg’s yolk. Simmer for 1 min.

8. Spinach at the bottom. Pour the egg stock on the top.

Yum!

Pork, Ribs

Pork Ribs King

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1. Clean pork ribs in water. And dry them with kitchen towel paper. I used spare ribs.

2. Prepare marinade:

1 egg, 1/2 tsp white pepper, 2 tablespoon oyster sauce, 1 tablespoon rice wine, 2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp baking soda and 2 tablespoon starch.

Mix well.

Marinate ribs for 1 hour.

3. Deep fry ribs till golden brown.

4. In a bowl, add in 2 tablespoon brown sugar, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tbsp vinegar, 1/2 cup water, 2 tablespoon tomato sauce, 1 tablespoon HP sauce, 1/2 tablespoon chili sauce, 1 tablespoon plum sauce and corn starch water. Stir to mix well.

5. Heat a pan on stove. Pour the sauce mixture in. Simmer to reduce sauce.

6. Add fried pork ribs into the sauce. Stir to let them be coated with sauce evenly.

Yummy!

Chicken, Potato

Curry Chicken

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1. Prepare 1 whole chicken ( I used around 3/4 of a whole chicken). Cut it into chunks.

2. Chop 6-8 cloves of garlic, 30 g ginger, 1 big onion , 3 red chili. Chop them into very tiny pieces.

3. Heat 2 tablespoon oil in the pan. Put in all the garlic, ginger, onion and chili. Stir fry till aromatic.

4. Add in 4-5 tablespoon curry powder. Stir to mix evenly.

5. Put in a handful fresh curry leaves. Fry a bit.

6. Put chicken into pan. Stir fry to let chicken be coated with spice paste.

7. Pour in 1/2 2 cups water. Bring to boil. Add in chunks of 2 big potatoes.

8. Turn to medium heat and simmer for around 25 mins.

9. Add in 1 small pack of coconut milk (200ml). Stir to mix. Then simmer for another 20 mins.

10. Add in 1 tablespoon sugar, which will make the curry taste a bit sweet and mild. Season with salt.

Serve hot. Perfect to go with rice.

My husband loves it very very. He said my curry chicken almost tastes same as the one sold in foodcourt.

Fish, Quick recipe, Uncategorized

Seared Seer Fish

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This is a very simple dish.

Prepare marinade:

In a small bowl, mix 2 tsp chili powder, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp ground ginger, 2 tsp minced garlic, 1 tsp paprika powder, and a little water. To make it into paste.

Brush marinade onto two sides of seer fish steak. Let the fish be marinated for 1 hour.

Heat oil in the pan. A little more than usual. Fry the fish till both sides turn golden brown.

Chicken, Chinese, Uncategorized

Soy Sauce Chicken

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Normally, a whole chicken is used in this dish. But I only cooked a half one.

1. Put chicken in a big bowl. Add in 1 tablespoon minced ginger, 1 tablespoon minced garlic, 1 tsp salt, 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce. Rub chicken a bit. And let it rest for a little while.

2. Heat a pan, add in 1 tablespoon oil. Sauté ginger slices. When aromatic, put the chicken in. Fry each side till golden brown.

3. Add in 2 tablespoon light soy sauce, 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce, 2 cups water, 2 tablespoon sugar. Turn to high heat and bring to boil.

4. Turn to low-medium heat. Cover the lid, simmer for 5 mins. Flip over, and simmer for another 5 mins. Repeat for 5-6 times.

5. Dish the chicken out. Cool down and cut into smaller pieces. Garnish with chopped spring onion.

Breakfast, Pancake

Min Chiang Kueh 面煎粿

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This is like a Singapore style pancake. Original recipe requires peanuts as filling. Because my husband doesn’t like peanuts, so I used chopped walnuts instead.

Ingredients:

Flour 1 cup

Baking soda 1/2 tsp

Yeast 1/2 tsp

Sugar 2 tablespoon

Egg 1

Water 3/4 cup

Mix all the above ingredients in a bowl. Then cover with plastic wrap and let it rest for 20-30 mins.

For the filling:

Pan-toasted white sesame 1/4 cup

Pan-toasted chopped walnuts 1/2 cup

Sugar 20g

Mix them well in another bowl.

Heat a pan on stove. Grease it with oil. Scoop batter into the pan. Keep low heat. Cover the lid for 3-4 mins.

Sprinkle walnut & sesame filling in it.

Cover the lid for another 2-3 mins.

Use a spatula to fold the pancake from one side to the other and press lightly.

Serve hot.

Pork, pumpkin, Uncategorized

Pork Chop with Boiled Pumpkin

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1. Place pork chop in a big bowl. Add in 1 tsp chili powder (if you want it to be more spicy, you can add more), 2 tsp paprika powder, 1 tsp chopped garlic, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp black pepper, and 2 tsp olive oil. Mix well. And let it rest for a little while.

2. Preheat oven to 200 degree C.

3. Heat a pan on stove, add in a little olive oil.

4. Fry pork chop till golden brown.

5. Into the oven and bake for 10 mins.

Serve with boiled pumpkin. For pumpkins recipe, please refer to:

Easy Boiled Pumpkin