Stir-fry Mixed Mushroom with Tempura Sauce

Stir-fry Mixed Mushroom with Tempura Sauce

Ingredients

1. 200g of Fresh Giant Oyster Mushroom (Remove the roots and Cut into small slices)
2. 160g of Fresh Shimeji Mushroom (Remove the roots and cut into individual stalks)
3. 1 tablespoon of Chopped Garlic
4. 3 tablespoon of Tempura Sauce
5. 1/2 teaspoon of Coarse Black Pepper
6. 1/2 tablespoon of Light Soya Sauce
7. 1 tablespoon of Cooking Oil

 

Steps

1. Add Oil into hot pan
2. Add Garlic and stir-fry until fragrant (approx 1 minutes)
3. Add all mushroom and stir-fry (approx 2 minutes)
4. Sprinkle Black Pepper and stir-fry for 1 minute
5. Add Tempura Sauce and st-fry to mix well. (approx 2 minutes)
6. Turn to medium heat and cover pan to simmer for approx 3 minutes

Serve while Hot!

Good to go with a bowl of rice, 2 to 3 more Chinese Dishes with a bowl of Soup.

Grilled Quail Egg Wrapped in Bacon

Grilled Quail Egg Wrapped in Bacon

This is a recipe that I will never think of until I dine in Ichiban (A Japanese Restaurant in Singapore).

That day was my secondary school friend's birthday and we went to Ichiban for dinner. One of my friends ordered this and I am surprised of the combination; Quail Egg and Bacon? After giving it a try, I decided that I will make this one day.

I love bacon as the flavoured taste of bacon minimise the need to add in more seasoning to the ingredients.

This dish look exquisite but yet, it is so simple to cook.

It will definitely look great for a party, in a intimate event or just as an appetizer before the main course.

Ingredients

1. 6 Quail Eggs
2. 6 Bacon (Cut into 3/4 or enough to roll the quail egg)

Preparation

1. Boil Quail Eggs for approx 10 minutes
2. Deshell Quail Eggs

Steps

1. Spread Bacon on hot pan without oil. Flip after approx 1 minutes, before the side turn brown. Remove it from the pan.
2. Wrap Bacon around Quail Egg and secure it using a Satay Stick
3. Place them into Preheat Oven, Grilled Function for approx 15 minutes

Serve while hot!

Good as a finger food in a party or as a side or starter before the main course.

Tips and Comments:

• Pan-fry bacon before grilled to "force" out the bacon's taste and the bacon texture will be crispier than direct grilling.
• Do not add Oil on hot pan when pan-frying bacon as bacon contained fats strip

Chinese Watercrest (Xi Yang Cai) Soup

Chinese Watercrest (Xi Yang Cai) Soup

Sharing a cooling soup that is really good for your body if you are feeling heaty.

Ingredients (Serve 3 to 4 pax)

1. 6 pieces of Pork Ribs
2. Watercrest (Xi Yang Cai)

Steps

1. Boil Pork Ribs with 2 cups of water for a few minutes and drain it
2. Add Pork Ribs and Watercrest into a pot with approx 4 Cups of water
3. Boils it for 30 minutes and turn to slow heat for at least another 15 minutes.

And you are good to serve!

Good to go with Rice and two to three Chinese Dishes.

Stir-fry Sambal Prawns with Onions and Tomatoes

Stir-fry Sambal Prawns with Onions and Tomatoes

This is a spicy dish for chilli lovers.

Ready-made Sambal Chilli can be conveniently purchase from any supermarket, hence it made the recipe for dish reduces at least half of its steps. But I have to say that I took a long time to choose the bottle of sambal chilli as there are many varieties. Some of them taste more sour than the rest, and from my experience, they look lighter or "orangish" in the color of the sambal chilli sauce. My preferred taste for this dish is spicy but yet it comes with a "little sweetness". Finally, I decided to go with A1 brand as it looks deep dark red, without the chilli seed visible. I tried cooking, and yeah... this is the taste that I wanted. =)

Ingredients

1. 10 Medium Tiger Prawns (Deshell and Devein)
2. 10 Cherry Tomatoes (Cut into two)
3. 1 Big Yellow Onion cut into thin slices
4. 1/2 Tablespoons of Chopped Garlic
5. 1 1/2 Tablespoons of Sambal Chilli (eg. Brand A1)
6. 1 tablespoon of Olive Oil or Any Cooking Oil

Steps

1. Add Olive Oil into hot pan
2. Add Onion and stir-fry until translucent or fragrant
3. Add Garlic into pan and stir-fry until fragrant before it turned brown
4. Add Tomatoes and stir-fry for approx 1 minutes
5. Add Prawns into pan and stir-fry until 90% cooked, approx 3 minutes
6. Add Sambal Chilli into pan and stir-fry to mix well with prawns
7. Add a little hot water if you prefer the gravy to be slightly watery
8. When prawns are cooked, you are done

Serve while Hot!

Good to go with Rice, a bowl of Chinese Soup and 2 more Chinese Dishes.

Grilled Steak, Scallops and White Button Mushroom with Mixed Herbs

Grilled Steak, Scallops and White Button Mushroom with Mixed Herbs

Ingredients

1. Steak
2. 3 Big Scallops
3. White Button Mushroom (Cut into Slices)
4. Mixed Herbs (eg. Brand Masterfood)
5. Salt
6. Coarse Black Pepper

Preparations

1. Spread Mushroom on to a Baking tray
2. Place Steak and Scallops onto the upper layer of the Grill
3. Sprinkle some Salt, Pepper, Mixed Herbs onto Steak, Mushroom and Scallops

Steps

1. Preheat Oven
2. Slot Steak and Scallop on to the upper grill
3. Slot Mushroom onto the lower grill
4. Set Oven to approx 15 minutes
5. At 10 minutes, check if Steak is cooked to the tendency that you like and adjust timing accordingly.

Serve while Hot!

Good to be serve as a Main Course in an intimate event.