This is a healthy and quick dish.
1. Prepare shrimps and vegetables. (I chose frozen ones, which are really convenient)
2. Marinate shrimps with 1 tsp light sauce, 1 tsp cooking wine, 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp starch.
3. Frozen vegetables in boiled water for 2 minutes.
4. Heat the oil in pan, and stir fry shrimps till the color becomes reddish. And remove the shrimps out.
5. Stir fry vegetables for 1-2 minutes.
6. Add in the shrimps and a little salt. Stir fry evenly.
Ready to serve.
When my husband feels sick, I cook him chicken soup. Actually, every time I make chicken soup, it’s possibly to leave some over. So I keep the left soup in a jar and stored in fridge. Stored chicken soup can be used to cook. And the easiest one is to cook noodles.
This is the fresh soup not the stored one.
It’s easy to make chicken soup.
Put chicken in a deep pot. Add in enough water and several ginger slices. Turn to high heat at first. When the soup boiled, turn to low height. If you want really good chicken soup, you’d better cook it for at least one hour. The soup will taste really great. I cooked it for about one hour and a half. And add some salt to it, or it will be plain. I also added several shiitake, because I really like it.
You can cook noodle when chicken soup is almost done. Just cook noodle with water. When noodle is cooked. Take it out and drain. After drained, put noodle in a bowl.
Scoop some chicken soup and add to noodle in the bowl. If you like, you can add some green vegetables and chopped spring onion.
My husband are it all, even he’s sick. It’s very nutritious.
It’s ideal for people who has sore throat or coughing. My husband felt sick today. So I steamed a pear for him.
1. Remove the peel of pear. Cut the top off. Use a spoon to remove the seed in the middle.
2. Add several sugar cubes in the middle hole.
3. Put the top back.
4. Put pear in a bowl. And put the pear in boiling water in a pot. Water should be lower than the bowl. Then cover the pot with lid. Steam for 30 mins with low heat.
Pear will be soft. Sugar cubes will be melted.
My husband loves eggs, and I love vegetables. Black fungus is said that can help clean waste in Hunan body. So I think it’s a healthy dish and also a dish makes both of us happy.
1. Make scrambled egg. And take them out.
2. Heat a little oil in the pan. Add in cucumber slices and stir fry till they get a little done.
3. Add in black fungus. Stir fry for another 1 minute or two.
4. Add scrambled egg into the pan with a little salt. Quick Stir fry evenly.
Chicken breast is ideal for diet. This dish is easy to make. And it goes well with pasta, fusilli or penne.
Ingredients:
Chicken breast ( marinated with a little salt and black pepper, and cut into smaller pieces)
Tomato ( chopped into small pieces)
Salt
Black pepper
Herbs you like
1. Heat a little oil in the pan. Put chicken breast in the pan. Fry both side till a golden brown and take them out.
2. Put tomato pieces into the pan. Fry till they turn softened. Then put chicken breast in tomato. Turn to low heat and cook for around 20 mins.
3. Tomato will become sauce. Add in a little salt, black pepper and herbs you like.
Chicken leg and several red dates in a pot. Pour in enough water that higher than ingredients. Turn to medium heat and cook for around 1 hour and a half. The soup will become a little white in color. Before turn off the stove, add a little salt. If you like, you can also add some wolf berries.
In Chinese medicine, red date is good for skin and health. So it’s ideal for women to have.
Purple sweet potato needs to be peeled off and cut into small pieces.
Purple sweet potato, millet and water in the pot. Water should be higher than all ingredients. Turn to low heat. Cover the pot with lid. Cook till purple sweet potato turns softened. When it’s almost done, the porridge will become very condensed. Keep stirring in case it gets burnt.
The porridge tastes sweet even no sugar is added.
It’s a very healthy porridge.
Ribs can be stir fried, braised, steamed and also used to make soup.
Ribs, carrot and corn soup.
This is my husband’s favorite.
1. Ribs in the pot with cold water. Turn to medium heat. When the water boiled, remove the foam on the surface.
2. Put in corn. Cook for 30 minutes with low heat.
3. Add in carrot, and cook till carrot gets softened.
4. At last add some salt.
Carrot and corn will make the soup a little sweet. It’s really a healthy soup.
Ribs and water cress soup.
First step is same as above.
After water gets boiled and foam removed, turn to low heat. Put in some wolf berries and cook for at least 20 minutes.
Then put in water cress. I used half a pack.
When water cress is done, the soup is done.
Wolf berries are good for eyes. Recently, there is haze in Singapore, this soup is a good choice in such situation.
Ribs and lotus root soup.
First step also as same as above.
After foam removed, put in chopped clean lotus root pieces. Cover the pot with lid. Turn to low heat. Cook till lotus root is done. Last, sprinkle some chopped spring onion.
Lotus root will help to clean waste in human bodies, so it’s also a good choice in haze days.
Lotus root is a very healthy vegetable. And there are many ways to cook it. Sweet & sour lotus root is an easy dish and it can bring you good appetite.
1. Chop lotus root into pieces. And put them into boiling water for around 3 minutes. Then drain them.
2. Heat a little oil in the pan. Put the drained lotus root pieces in the pan. Stir fry a little.
3. Add in 1 tsp dark soy sauce, 2 tsp vinegar, 3 tsp sugar, 1 tsp salt, 2 or 3 tsp water. Stir fry evenly for 2 minutes or so.
4. After each lotus piece coated with sauce, add in a little starchy water. Quick stir fry a little. You can sprinkle some chopped green onion if you like.
Some people like the sweet and sour taste, but some don’t. I think it’s also a good appetizer.
This is an easy and quick dish made of vegetables.
1. Chop pumpkin, garlic, celery, and carrot into small pieces.
2. Heat the oil in the pan. Put garlic in first.
3. Then the carrot and celery. Stir fry a little.
4. Pumpkin at last. Stir fry for around 2 minutes.
5. Then add in enough water that covers all the vegetables. Cover the pan with lid.
6. When the vegetables soften, use blender to smash them.
7. Put the smashed mixture of vegetables back into the pan. Heat it again. Because the smashed mixture is very condensed, you can add in some water.
8. Then add a little milk and salt. Keep stirring. It will be done once boiled again. After milk added in, the color will become a little lighter.
You can add a little herbs or spices you like.
And you can also make a little decoration for it. Just spread several milk drops onto the surface, and use a toothpick draw on it. Yeah, I’m not good at it. The white part I drew is not that beautiful.
The soup tastes great. The pumpkin I used is kind of sweet. Carrot and celery make it healthier.
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