Stir-fry Ginger Onion Beef with Oyster Sauce

Stir-fry Ginger Onion Beef with Oyster Sauce

A bottle of oyster sauce is one of the ingredients that can't be missed out in our kitchen as it go very well with a lot of stir-fry dishes.

Ingredients

1. 130g of Beef (Cut to thin slices)
2. 1 Big Yellow Onion (Cut into slices) (Note:I use red onion as I am running out of yellow onion)
3. 3 stalks of Green Onion (Cut into approx 5 cm in length)
4. 6 thin slices of Peeled Ginger
5. 2 tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
6. 1 tablespoon of Light Soya Sauce
7. 2 tablespoon of Olive Oil

Steps

1. Add Olive Oil in hot pan
2. Add Ginger and fry until fragrant (approx 1 minute)
3. Add Onion and fry until translucent (approx 2 minute)
4. Add Beef and fry for approx 2 minutes
5. Add Oyster Sauce and Light Soya Sauce and stir-fry to mix well
6. Add Green Onions and fry for approx 2 minutes

Serve while Hot!

Good to go with Rice and a bowl of Chinese Soup and 2 to 3 more Chinese dishes.

Stir-fry Pasta Linguine with Sausage, Eggs and Prawns

Stir-fry Pasta Linguine with Sausage, Eggs and Prawns

In the pan

Sharing a different cooking style of pasta.

Ingredients (Serve 2 Pax)

1. 2 Serving of Linguine
2. Olive Oil (quantity as suggested below)
3. Chopped Garlic (quantity as suggested below)
4. 3 stalks of Green Onion (Cut into approx 5cm in length)
5. 2 Sausage (Cut into thin slices)
6. Half Carrot (Cut into thin strips)
7. 10 Medium /Large Prawns (Deveined and deshelled)
8. 1 1/2 tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
9. Light Soya Sauce (quantity as suggested below)
10. Sea Salt

Preparation - Prawns

1. Sprinkle Salts onto Prawns and marinate for approx 5 minutes

Preparation - Eggs

1. Lightly Beat Eggs into a mixing bowl with 1 tablespoon of Light Soya Sauce

Steps - Pasta

1. Boil Pasta in boiling Water with 2 tablespoon of Olive Oil and Salt (approx 7 to 11 minutes for al-dente, follow the instruction on package)
2. Drain the pasta and rinse with cold water to stop the cooking process

Steps - Eggs

1. Add 2 tablespoon of Olive Oil in hot pan
2. Add Eggs into pan
3. Flip the eggs when one side is cooked (approx 2 to 3 minutes)
4. Repeat 3 until both side is cooked.
5. Gently place eggs onto cutting board and once it has cooled down, Cut it into thin strips.

Steps - Prawns

1. Add 1 tablespoon of Olive Oil in hot pan
2. Add 1/2 tablespoon of Garlic and fry until fragrant (approx 1 minute)
3. Add Prawns and stir-fry until 90% cooked (approx 3 minutes)
4. Scoop out Prawns on plate for later use.

Steps - Main

1. Add 3 tablespoons of Olive Oil in hot pan
2. Add 3 tablespoon of Garlic and fry until fragrant (before it turns brown, approx 2 minutes)
3. Add Carrot and stir-fry for approx 1 minutes
4. Add Pasta and stir to mix well with Garlic and Olive Oil (approx 2 minutes)
5. Add Sausage and Prawns and stir-fry to mix well
6. Add Oyster Sauce and stir-fry to mix well
7. Add Green onions and stir to mix well for approx 1 minutes
8. Taste if it is of the right taste, if it is too bland, sprinkle salts

Serve while Hot!

Good as a Main Course with a bowl of Chinese Soup and 2 to 3 more Chinese dishes.

Stir-fry Prawns and Swiss Brown Mushroom with Oyster Sauce

Stir-fry Prawns and Swiss Brown Mushroom with Oyster Sauce

A bottle of oyster sauce is one of the ingredients that can't be missed out in our kitchen as it go very well with a lot of stir-fry dishes.

Introducing and sharing a dish that goes very well with rice. If you like prawns, I am quite sure that you will like this.

Ingredients

1. 10 Medium Tiger Prawns (Deshell and Devein)
2. 10 Swiss Brown Mushroom (Cut into slices)
3. 1 tablespoon of Minced Garlic
4. 2 tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
5. 1 tablespoon of Light Soya Sauce
6. 1/2 teaspoon of Black Pepper
7. 2 tablespoon of Olive Oil

Steps

1. Add Olive Oil in hot pan
2. Add Garlic and fry until fragrant
3. Add Prawns and fry for approx 3 minutes
4. Add Mushroom and stir-fry for approx 2 minutes
5. Add Oyster Sauce and stir-fry to mix well
6. Add 2 tablespoon of hot water and stir to mix well
7. Sprinkle Black Pepper on prawns and stir-fry for 1 minutes
8. Sir-fry until prawns and mushroom is cooked approx 2 to 3 minutes

Serve while Hot!

Good to go with Rice and a bowl of Chinese Soup and 2 to 3 more Chinese dishes.

Stir-fry Chicken and Shitake Mushroom with Oyster Sauce



I attended my new company team bonding. It is a bbq session. As usual, there are some leftover food, and I took back an unopened packet of Shitake Mushroom.

My boyfriend use the Shitake Mushroom and cooked it with Chicken and Oyster Sauce. This is a common stir-fry dish that goes very well with rice.

Ingredients

1. 1/4 Chicken (Cut into small pieces)
2. 4 Shitake Mushroom (Cut into slices)
3. 1 teaspoon of Chopped Garlic
4. 2 teaspoon of Light Soya Sauce
5. 1 tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
6. 1/4 teaspoon of Sugar
7. Fine Light Pepper
8. 1 tablespoon of Cooking Oil
9. 3 tablespoon of Water

Preparations

1. Marinate Chicken with 2 teaspoon of Light Soya Sauce and dash of Pepper for 15 minutes

Steps

1. Add Cooking Oil into hot pan
2. Add Garlic and stir-fry until fragrant (before garlic turns brown)
3. Add Chicken and stir-fry to mix well for approx 3 minutes
4. Add Mushroom and stir-fry to mix well
5. Add Oyster Sauce and stir-fry to mix well
6. Add Sugar and Water and stir-fry to mix well
7. Simmer with low heat until chicken and mushroom are cooked

Serve while Hot!

Good to go with Rice and a few Chinese Dishes with a bowl of Chinese Soup.



Coca Cola Coke Chicken Wings using HappyCallPan



Coke Chicken Wings using HappyCallPan

Marinating Chicken Mid-joints

Pan-fry Chicken Mid-joints



Add Coke into Chicken Mid-joints



Chicken Mid-joints with Coke

Sharing a simple recipe for sweet tooth. I am using mid-joint as the meat is more tender, however, you can choose to use other chicken parts too.

Ingredients

1. 14 pieces of Chicken Mid-joints
2. 250ml of Coca Cola (Coke)
3. 1 teaspoon of Light Soya Sauce
4. 2 teaspoon of Dark Soya Sauce
5. 1 1/2 tablespoons of Cooking Oil

Preparation

1. Marinate Chicken mid-joints with Light Soya Sauce and Dark Soya Sauce for 15 minutes. 

Steps

1. Add Cooking Oil into happycallpan
2. Add Chicken mid-joints and pan-fry each side until slightly brown approx 2 minutes each side.
3. Add Coca Cola and close the lid. Turn to low heat for approx 5 minutes or until there is steam coming out from the pan.
4. Open the lid and flip the chicken mid-joint to the other side. (I didnt turn the pan as there is still a fair amount of coke in the pan)
5. Repeat step no. 4 until the coke is almost dry up.

Serve while Hot!

Good to go with Rice and a bowl of Chinese Soup and 2 to 3 more Chinese dishes.

Scrambled Eggs with Prawns

Scrambled Eggs with Prawns

Sharing another simple eggs recipe. Great for professionals with busy schedule.

This recipe can be serve as another dish on the dining table.

Ingredients

1. 4 Medium Eggs
2. 8 Medium Prawns (Deshelled and Deveined)
3. 1/2 tablespoon of Chopped Garlic
4. 1 1/2 tablespoon of cooking oil
5. 1/3 teaspoon of Salts
6. Coarse Black Pepper

Steps

1. Add Cooking Oil on hot pan
2. Add Garlic and stir-fry until fragrant (before it turns brown)
3. Add Prawns and stir-fry for approx 2 minutes
4. Crack and add eggs. Stir-fry eggs and mix well with Prawns for approx 2 minutes
5. Sprinkle Salts and Pepper and stir to mix well until eggs and prawns are full cooked

Serve with Rice with a few more Chinese Dishes.

Sambal Chilli Crayfish/ Slipper Lobster cooked using Happycallpan



Sambal Chilli Crayfish/ Slipper Lobster
 

Crayfish in HappyCallPan

Crayfish in HappyCallPan - Closer shot

Crayfish with Sambal Chilli in HappyCallPan - Closer shot

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. 6 or 900g Crayfish/ Slipper Lobster (Use a kitchen scissor to cut into two)
2. 2 Big Red Onion cut into thin slices
3. 6 to 8 Tablespoons of Sambal Chilli (eg. Brand A1, quantity based on individual liking on spicyness)
4. 2 tablespoon of Olive Oil or Any Cooking Oil

Steps

1. Add Olive Oil into happycallpan
2. Add half of the total Onion and stir-fry until translucent or fragrant
3. Spread Crayfish onto happycallpan and close the lid
4. When there is steam, turn the pan. Open the lid and spread the remaining onion on the other side of the crayfish and close the lid.
5. After approx 2 minutes, add Sambal Chilli onto Crayfish and close the lid for approx 3 minutes or until the crayfish is cooked.

Serve while Hot!

Good to go with Rice and a bowl of Chinese Soup and 2 to 3 more Chinese dishes.
 

Stir-fry Asparagus with Prawns

Stir-fry Asparagus with Prawns

Ingredients

1. 5 to 6 stalks of Large Asparagus (Cut off approx 4cm from the bottom of the stalk, and use a peeler to peel of the stem. Cut into small pieces as per photo above.)
2. 12 Medium/Large Prawns (Peeled and Deveined)
3. 1 tablespoon of Chopped Garlic
4. 1 1/2 tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
5. 2 tablespoon of Olive Oil
6. 2 to 3 tablespoon of Hot Water

Steps

1. Add Olive Oil into hot pan
2. Add Garlic and stir-fry until garlic is fragrant. (before Garlic turns brown)
3. Add Asparagus and stir-fry for approx 3 minutes
4. Add Prawns and stir-fry for approx 3 minutes
5. Add Oyster Sauce and Hot Water, stir to mix well and until prawns are cooked.

Serve while Hot!

Good to go with Rice with a few other chinese dishes.

Stir-fry Chicken and Button Mushroom with Oyster Sauce

Stir-fry Chicken and Button Mushroom with Oyster Sauce

Ingredients

1. 1/4 Chicken (Cut into small pieces)
2. 7 to 10 Button Mushroom (Cut into 2 to 3 parts per mushroom)
3. 1 tablespoon of Chopped Garlic
4. 1 tablespoon of Chopped Shallot
5. 1 1/2 tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
6. 1/2 tablespoon of Dark Soya Sauce
7. 3 tablespoon of hot water
8. Olive Oil

Steps

1. Add 2 tablespoon of Olive Oil in hot pan
2. Add Shallot and stir-fry until fragrant (when it turns translucent)
3. Add Garlic and stir-fry until fragrant (before it turns brown)
4. Add Chicken and stir-fry for approx 3 minutes
5. Add Mushroom and stir-fry for approx 2 minutes
6. Add Oyster Sauce and Dark Soya Sauce and stir-fry to mix well
7. Add hot water and stir to mix well until chicken is cooked (Taste and add more /less water accordingly)

Serve while Hot!

Good to go with Rice and a bowl of Chinese Soup and 2 to 3 more Chinese dishes.

Stir-fry Garlic Prawns in Oyster Sauce

Stir-fry Garlic Prawns in Oyster Sauce

This dish is very similar with a recipe that I have shared earlier, Stir-fry Prawns in Oyster Sauce and Black Pepper. This time, I have cooked this dish without black pepper and it tastes "sweeter" with lesser taste of spice. This dish goes very well with rice too! Seafood lovers, you will like this.

Ingredients

1. 8 Large Tiger Prawns (Devein, keeping the prawns shell)
2. 4 Slices of Ginger (Peeled)
3. 1 tablespoon of Chopped Garlic
4. 1 1/2 Tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
5. 3 tablespoon of hot water
6. Olive Oil

Steps

1. Add 2 tablespoon of Olive Oil in hot pan
2. Add Prawns and Stir-fry until both side of the prawns are 80% cooked
3. Leave Prawns aside in a plate
4. Add 1 tablespoon of Olive Oil in hot pan 
5. Add Ginger and fry until fragrant
6. Add Garlic and fry until fragrant
7. Add Prawns and fry for 1 to 2 minutes
8. Add Oyster Sauce and stir-fry until prawns is cooked approx 2 minutes
9. Add hot water and stir to mix well for approx 2 minutes

Serve while Hot!

Good to go with Rice and a bowl of Chinese Soup and 2 to 3 more Chinese dishes.

Tips and Comments:

• The easiest way to devein a prawns while keeping the shell is by using a kitchen scissor. Cut the back of the shell starting from the head end to the tail. Then use a small knife to devein.
• Fry prawns 1st to force out the sweetness of the prawns. Do not discard the oil after frying, as it will make a good gravy. Hence, is recommended to use Olive Oil for healthier reason.

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.

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.

Stir-fry Asparagus with Abalone Locos and Scallops with Osyter Sauce

Stir-fry Asparagus with Abalone Locos and Scallops with Osyter Sauce

This dish is very suitable to be one of your Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner dishes. You can use big Scallops and Abalone instead.

Ingredients

1. 8 to 10 stalks of Asparagus (Cut off approx 4cm from the bottom of the stalk, and use a peeler to peel of the stem.)
2. 8 to 10 Small frozen Scallops (Thaw)
3. 2 Abalone Locos (eg. Brand Fortune or Golden Chef. Cut into Slices)
4. 1 tablespoon of Chopped Garlic
5. 2 tablespoon of Chinese Rice Wine (Hua Diao Jiu)
6. 1 1/2 tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
7. 1 teaspoon of Corn Flour (Mixed with 1 tablespoon of water)
8. 2 tablespoon of Olive Oil

Preparation

1. Boil Asparagus for approx 6 minutes. At around 3 minutes, add Scallops and boil until cooked. (approx 3 to 4 minutes).
2. Place on the plate.
3. Mix Rice Wine with Garlic.

Steps

1. Add Olive Oil into hot pan
2. Once Oil is hot, turn off the heat
3. Add Prep No. 3 (Garlic with Rice Wine) and stir-fry until garlic is fragrant. (before Garlic turns brown)
4. Add Oyster Sauce and stir to mix well
5. Turn to low heat
6. Add Scallops and Abalone Locus and stir to mix well for approx 2 minutes
7. Add Corn Flour mixture slowly while stiring
8. Add another 2 tablespoon of hot water if sauce is too salty
9. Pour it onto Asparagus

Serve while Hot!

Good to go with Rice with a few other chinese dishes.

Note that Abalone Locos from Can is already cooked, hence just a heat up will be sufficient.

Stir-fry Teriyaki Chicken with Onions

Stir-fry Teriyaki Chicken with Onions

Ingredients

1. 1/4 Chicken (Cut into small pieces)
2. 1 tablespoon of Chopped Garlic
3. 2 Red Onion (Peeled and Cut into small slices)
4. 5 tablespoon of Teriyaki Sauce
5. 2 tablespoon of Olive Oil

Preparation

1. Marinate Chicken with Teriyaki Sauce for 15 minutes.

Steps

1. Add Olive Oil into hot pan
2. Add Onion and stir-fry until translucent
3. Add Garlic and stir-fry until fragrant
4. Add Chicken and stir-fry until chicken is cooked. Approx 5 minutes.

Serve while Hot!

Good to go with Rice with a few other chinese dishes.

Stir-fry Sliced Beef with Green Pepper

Stir-fry Sliced Beef with Green Pepper

Ingredients

1. 120g of Beef Fillet (Cut into thin slices)
2. Half Green Lantern Pepper (Remove seeds and cut into slices)
3. 1 Big Yellow Onion (Peeled and cut into slices)
4. 1/2 teaspoon of Coarse Black Pepper
5. 1 tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
6. 1 tablespoon of Cooking Oil

Steps

1. Add Cooking Oil into hot pan
2. Add Onion and stir-fry until translucent
3. Add Green Pepper and stir-fry for approx 2 minutes
4. Add Beef and stir-fry for approx 2 minutes
5. Add Oyster Sauce and Black Pepper. Stir-fry until Beef is cooked approx 2 minutes

Serve while Hot!

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

Stir-fry Snow Peas Beans with Chinese Mushroom

Stir-fry Snow Peas Beans with Chinese Mushroom

Ingredients (Serve 2 to 3 pax)

1. 1 pkt of Snow Peas Beans
2. 3 Chinese Mushroom (Cut into slices)
3. 1/2 tablespoon of Garlic
4. 1 tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
5. 1 teaspoon of Light Soya Sauce
6. 1 tablespoon of Cooking Oil
7. 4 tablespoon of Hot Water

Steps

1. Add Cooking Oil into hot pan
2. Add Garlic and stir-fry until fragrant (before garlic turn brown)
3. Add Snow Peas Beans and stir-fry for approx 2 minutes
4. Add Light Soya Sauce and stir to mix well for approx 1 minutes
5. Add Oyster Sauce and stir-fry for approx 1 minutes
6. Add Mushroom and stir-fry for approx 2 minutes
7. Add Hot Water and stir-fry for approx 4 minutes
8. Once Snow Peas is cooked to the crunchiness that you prefer, turn off the heat and serve

Serve while Hot!

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

Stir-fry Dou Miao with Garlic and Oyster Sauce

Stir-fry Dou Miao with Garlic and Oyster Sauce

Another simple stir-fry vegetable for sharing

Ingredients

1. 1 Pkt of Dou Miao (Washed)
2. 1 Tablespoon of Chopped Garlic
3. 1 Tablespoon of Light Soya Sauce
4. 1/2 Tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
5. 1 Tablespoon of Water
6. 2 Tablespoon of Cooking Oil

Steps

1. Add Oil on hot pan
2. Add Garlic and stir-fry until fragrant (before it turned brown)
3. Add Dou Mai and stir-fry until 70% cooked
4. Add Oyster Sauce, Light Soya Sauce and Water and stir-fry until Dou Miao is cooked and mixed well with sauce

Serve while Hot!

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

Tips and Comments:

• Stir-fry vegetables on high heat so that it will cook fast and the nutrients will not reduce too much.

Pan-fry Coke Pork Ribs

Pan-fry Coke Pork Ribs

It had been long since I have plenty of time to think and prepare for a good dinner. Having pork ribs in my fridge, but without any ingredients to cook a bowl of soup, I decided that I should try something new today.

Coke is an essential item in my house, hence, having a can of coke is easy. With coke and all others ingredients ready in my kitchen, I tried to cook Pan-fry Coke Pork Ribs.

This is my first try and it really taste delicious! =)

Ingredients

1. 5 Pieces / 250g Pork Ribs
2. 1/4 tablespoon of Honey
3. 1/4 tablespoon of Dark Soya Sauce
4. 1/4 tablespoon of Sesame Oil
5. 1/3 Coarse Black Pepper
6. 1/2 tablespoon of Light Soya Sauce
7. 1/2 tablespoon of Rice Wine (Hua Diao Jiu)
8. 1/4 Can of Coke

Preparation

1. Marinate Ingredients no. 1 to 7 for at least 30 minutes

Steps

1. Heat up pan
2. Add Pork Ribs into hot pan
3. Pan-fry each sides for 1 minute each
4. Add Marinating sauce from Preparation
5. Add Coke and stir to mix well
6. Simmer for 30 minutes until sauce dried up

Stir-fry Rendang Chicken with Onions

Stir-fry Rendang Chicken with Onions

Rendang Chicken is no longer hard to achieve at home as ready-made Rendang Paste can be easily purchase in the supermarket.

This recipe is great for spice lovers. Do give it a try!

Ingredients

1. 1/4 Medium Chicken (Cut into small pieces)
2. 1/3 Tablespoon of Minced Garlic
3. 1 Big Red Onions (Sliced)
4. Rendang Paste (Ready-made, follow the instruction on the package for the quantity of the paste)
5. 1 tablespoon of Cooking Oil

Steps

1. Add Cooking Oil into hotpan
2. Add Onions and stir-fry until fragrant (turn translucent)
3. Add Garlic and stir-fry until fragrant (before it turns brown)
4. Add Chicken and stir-fry until 80% cooked
5. Add Rendang Paste and stir-fry to mix well and until chicken is cooked

Serve while Hot!

Good to go with Rice, 2 to 3 more Chinese Dishes.