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Vegetables

Sweet & Sour Eggplant

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Eggplant is one of my favorite vegetables. Yet, it’s hard to cook eggplant well without frying. This dish also needs frying which means a lot of oil is used.I have to admit that it’s not very healthy, but it’s very delicious.

1. Cut eggplant into cubes. Place them in a big bowl. Add in 2-3 tablespoon flour. Mix eggplant with flour to let them be coated with a little flour.

2. Deep fry eggplant till golden brown. Set aside on kitchen towel tissue to absorb oil.

3. Heat a pan. Add in 1 tsp oil. Sauté 2-3 cloves chopped garlic and 1 chopped red chili till aromatic.

4. Add in 1/2 1 tablespoon vinegar, 1/2 2 tablespoon sugar and 1 tablespoon light soy sauce. Stir well.

5. Put in all the fried eggplant. Stir fry to mix eggplant with sauce till sauce thickened.

Serve hot.

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Sweet & Sour Fish

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1. Cut fish into slices or small chunks. Beat one egg in a bowl and prepare 1/2 cup corn starch in another bowl.

2. Dip fish in egg first and then in starch. Let them be coated with starch evenly.

3. Deep fry fish slices till golden brown. Set aside.

4. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in the pan. Add in chopped 1/2 onion, chopped 1 tomato, red capsicum, and yellow capsicum. Stir fry for 2 mins.

5. Add in 2 tablespoon tomato sauce, 1 tablespoon chili sauce, 2 tsp sugar and 1/2 cup water. Bring the sauce to boil.

6. Add in starch water to thicken the sauce.

7. Put in fried fish slices. Stir fry to let fish be coated with sauce.

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Sweet & Spicy Pork

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1. Cut pork into one-bite size. Put pork cubes in a bowl. Add in 1 tablespoon light soy sauce, 1 tablespoon sweet cooking wine, 2 tsp sugar, 2 tsp oyster sauce. Mix them well and let them marinate for 30 mins.

2. Coat marinated pork with corn starch. Don’t discard the marinade.

3. Fry pork cubes till golden brown and the shell becomes very hard.

4. Heat a little oil in the pan. Sauté chopped garlic and ginger till aromatic.

5. Add in 2 tablespoon sweet chili sauce, 1 tablespoon marinade and 1/4 cup water.

6. Bring to boil. Then add in the fried pork and simmer for a while till sauce reduces.

7. Add in onion, red pepper and asparagus. Stir fry for 3 mins and let the sauce becomes very condensed.

Serve hot.

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Sweet & Sour Pineapple Pork

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Ingredients:

Pork ( cut into small cubes or slices)

Corn starch

Egg 1

Pineapple cubes 1/2 cup drained

Onion 1

Spring onion

Tomato sauce 3 tablespoon

Sugar 1 tablespoon

Water

Salt

1. Put pork slices in a bowl. Add in a little salt and 1 tablespoon corn starch. Mix with hand. Let them rest for 10-15 mins.

2. Beat one egg into the bowl. Mix well. Then add in 3-4 tablespoon corn starch. Mix well with hand again.

3. Deep fry pork slices in oil. Take them out when turns a golden brown.

4. Heat the oil and fry the pork for the second time to make the Shell hard and crispy.

5. Heat a little oil in the pan. Add in chopped onion. Sauté till aromatic.

6. Add in pineapple cubes, 3 tablespoon tomato sauce, 1 tablespoon sugar ( if you don’t want it to be very sweet, you can reduce sugar). Dissolve 1 tsp corn starch in 2 tsp water. Also pour starch water into pan.

7. Keep stirring the sauce. When the sauce reduces to condensed. Put the fried pork back into the pan. Stir to let each pork be coated with sweet & Sour Sauce.

8. Garnish with chopped spring onion. And serve hot.

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Sweet & Sour Sauce Prawns

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1. Clean the Prawns. Cut off the whisker. Poke in the second last segment with a toothpick and pull out the intestine.

2. Heat some oil in the pan. Put all the Prawns in. Stir fry till each side turns red.

3. Pull Prawns to the side of the pan. Add in chopped garlic & ginger. Sauté till aromatic.

4. Add in 2 tablespoon tomato sauce. Stir fry with Prawns.

5. Add in 1 tsp cooking wine, 1 tsp light soy sauce and 1 1/2 tsp sugar. Quick stir to mix them well.

6. Pour in 4 tablespoon hot water. Cover the pan with lid. And simmer for 2-3 mins.

7. Remove lid. Turn to high heat. Reduce the sauce.

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Hot & Sweet Pork

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First, cut pork into thin slices. You can put it in fridge to freeze for a while. Then it will become hard and easy to cut.

Sauce:

Korean hot & sweet chili sauce 1 1/2 tsp

Minced garlic  4 cloves

Sugar 1 tsp

Cooking wine 1 tsp

Honey 1 tsp

Black pepper powder  1/2 tsp

Mix all the sauce ingredients well in a bowl. Blend pork slices in it and marinate for around 15 – 20 mins.

Heat a skillet on stove and add in oil.

Put marinated pork slices in. Stir fry till pork almost done.

Add in another 1 tsp hot & sweet chili sauce, 1 tsp sugar and 1 tsp water. 

Keep stir frying till sauce becomes very condensed. Add in some green onion shreds and sprinkle some white sesame. Quickly stir fry for 1 min or two.

Chicken, Uncategorized

Sweet & Sour Chicken Meatball

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Chicken meatball was bought from supermarket.

1. Melt some butter in the pan. Put in chicken meatball. Pan fry them till the surface becomes a bit golden brown.

2. Add in 3 or 4 tsp tomato sauce and 2 tsp sugar. Stir them well to let meatball be coated with sauce.

3. Pour in water reaches half height of meatball.

4. Turn to medium low heat. Cover the pan with lid. Simmer for around 30 mins or till sauce becomes condensed. Flip them several times while simmering.

5. Once sauce becomes condensed, they are ready to serve.

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Korean Style Fried Chicken

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I used chicken wing sticks, because they are small and easy to fry.

1. Marinate chicken wing sticks with a little salt and black pepper. Massage them a bit.

2. Coat them with corn starch.

3. Add enough oil in the pan. Actually, I didn’t deep fry them. I just used oil half height of the chicken wing sticks.

4. When the oil is heated, put in chicken wing sticks. Fry till golden brown. I fried around 20 mins. If you deep fry, it will be around 10 mins.

5. Take fried chicken wing stick out. Heat the oil again. Fry them for another 5 mins. 


6. Leave a little oil in the pan. Put in chopped garlic and stir fry a bit.

7. Add in 1 tsp light soy sauce, 2 tsp Korean sweet & hot chili sauce, 3 tsp honey, and 1/2 tsp water. Stir evenly. 

8. Put fried chicken in the pan when the sauce boils. Stir fry evenly till chicken coated with sauce evenly.

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Purple Sweet Potato & Millet Porridge

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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.

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Sweet & Sour Lotus Root

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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.