Stir Fry Pork With Capsicums

Ingredients:

250g lean pork (cut into strips. Marinated with 1 tbsp light soy sauce, 1 tbsp dark soy sauce and 1/2 tsp sesame oil)
1/2 orange capsicum (cut into strips)
1/2 yellow capsicum (cut into strips)
2 stalks spring onions (snapped into 5cm length)
3 thin slices ginger (cut into strips)
3 cloves garlic (minced)
1 tsp oyster sauce
Water (optional)
1 tbsp cooking oil

Methods:

1. Heat the oil in the pan. Saute the ginger and garlic.

2. Add the pork and stir fry until almost cooked.

3. Add the capsicums and continue to stir fry. Drizzle some water and add the oyster sauce.  Continue to cook until the sauce is almost dry up. Add the spring onions and stir quickly. Turn the heat off.

Serve with rice.

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French Beans Chai Po Omelette

             

Ingredients: 

1 packet French Beans (ends trimed and strings pulled. Cut slant)
2 tbsp Chai Po (less salty type)
3 cloves chilli padi (deseeded and chopped)
4 eggs (beaten and add a tbsp light soy sauce. Mix well)
1 tbsp light soy sauce
2 tbsp cooking oil

Methods: 

1. Heat 1 tbsp cooking oil in a pan. Saute the garlic and chilli.

2. Toss in the French beans and stir fry for a minute. Drizzle the light soy sauce. Drizzle some water too if it's getting too dry. Add the Chai Po and continue to stir fry until the French Beans turn bright green. Remove the vegtables and let it cool.

4. Mix the vegetables with the eggs. Heat a tbsp cooking oil on a non stick pan.

5. Pour the egg mixture onto the pan and let it cook. Stir after few seconds to make sure it wasn't burnt below.  Cook until the egg mixture is totally dry.

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Pumpkin Chicken Soup (using crock pot)

                                 

Ingredients:

Pumpkin (skin removed, chopped into about 10 chunk sizes)
1 chicken breast with bone (chopped into 4 parts and blanched)
2 Dang Shen (cut into halves and washed)
1 handful Yuzhu (washed)
1 handful wolfberries (washed)
10 seedless red dates (washed)
1.8 litres hot water
Salt


Methods:

1. Put the chicken into the pot. Next, place the pumpkin on top of the chicken. Add the rest of the ingredients. Pour the hot water into the pot.

2. Turn the temperature to high and cook for 4 hours. Turn to low temperature until ready to serve. Add salt as desired.

Stir Fry Minced Chicken With Potatoes And Capsicums

Ingredients:

200g minced chicken (marinate with 1 tbsp light soy sauce and 1 tbsp dark soy sauce)
1/2 yellow capsicum (cut into cubes)
1/2 orange capsicum (cut into cubes)
2 small potatoes (cubed)
1 onion (chopped)
2 cloves garlic (minced)
2 tbsp cooking oil
1 tbsp light soy sauce
2 tbsp dark soy sauce


Methods:


1. Heat a tbsp cooking oil in a non stick pan and cook the potatoes. Remove and set aside.

2. Heat the oil in the non stick pan. Sauté the onion and garlic.

3. Add the minced meat and cook for few minutes.

4. Add the capsicums and potatoes.

5. Drizzle the light and dark soy sauce. Cook until the sauce starts to dry up.

Serve with rice.

Easy Steamed Sliced Fish

Ingredients:

Sliced fish
1 knob ginger (sliced thinly)
2 chilli padi (deseeded and chopped)
2 stalks spring onion (snapped into 5cm length)
1 tbsp light soy sauce
2 drops cooking oil


Methods:

1. Place some ginger on the plate. Arrange the sliced fish on top of the ginger. Put the remaining ginger on top of the fish. Place the spring onions and chilli on the fish. Drizzle the light soy sauce and oil.

2. Steam with high heat for 3-5 minutes.

Garnish with spring onions, fried garlic, fried ginger or coriander.

Stir Fry Greens With Shiitake Mushrooms

Ingredients: 

1 packet Baby Bak Choy (washed)
1 packet Shiitake mushrooms (washed and sliced)
2 cloves garlic (lightly crushed)
1 tbsp cooking wine
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp cooking oil
Water (optional)

 

Methods:

1. Heat the oil in a non stick pan. Saute the garlic.

 
2. Toss in the mushrooms and stir fry quickly. Add some water and cook for 1 minute.

3. Add the vegetables and stir fry quickly. Drizzle the soy sauce, oyster sauce and cooking wine. Add some Water if it's getting too dry. Turn the heat off. Serve with rice.

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Si Shen Soup (四神汤)

Ingredients: 

1 packet Si Shen herbs (bought from any Chinese medical halls or supermarkets)
1 chicken breast with bone (chopped into 4 parts and blanched)
10  seedless red dates (washed)
1 handful of wolfberries (washed)
2 litres water
Salt

Methods:

1. Boil the water in the big pot. 

2. Once the water starts to boil rapidly, add the chicken. Cook for 10 minutes.

3. Wash and rinse the herbs. Put the remaining ingredients into the pot and cook for 10 minutes. Reduce the heat and simmer for 2 hours. Add salt as desired.

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Stir Fry Szechuan Vegetables With Pork

Ingredients: 

1 round Szechuan vegetables (washed and soaked for 30 mins. Slice thinly) 
100g pork belly (sliced thinly)
4 cloves garlic (minced finely)
2 chilli padi (deseeded and chopped finely)
2 tbsp thick dark soy sauce
1 tbsp cooking oil 
Sugar
Water (optional)

Methods:

1. Heat the cooking oil in the non stick pan. Saute the garlic and chilli padi.

2. Add the pork belly and stir fry until the meat is slightly brown.

3. Add the szechuan vegetables and stir fry. Drizzle the thick dark soy sauce and continue to stir well. Sprinkle some sugar and stir fry for another minute. Turn the heat off.

Best serve with porridge.

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Steamed Preserved Vegetables with Pork Belly (梅菜扣肉)

Mainly adapted from Noobcook (http://www.noobcook.com/mei-cai-kou-rou/)

                            

Ingredients:

300g salty preserved vegetables (Mei Cai)
100g sweet preserved vegetables
4 cloves garlic
350-400g pork belly (cut into chunks and marinate with 1 tbsp of thick dark soy sauce)
1 tbsp cooking oil


Sauce:
1 tbsp thick dark soy sauce
1/2 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp cooking wine
400ml water


Preparation to wash the vegetables:

1. Rinse the salty vegetables. Using a big pot, soak for 30 min and rinse the vegetables few times until the water is clear. Squeeze dry and set aside.

2. Do the same for the sweet vegetable except that no need to soak for long time.

3. Using a big pot, boil some water. Once the water starts to boil rapidly, put in the vegetables and cook for 5 minutes. Remove the vegetables and let them cool.

By doing the steps, the vegetables should be thoroughly cleansed off all the sand particles. After the vegetables have cooled, cut into 1cm length.


Methods:

1. Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a non stick pan. Pan fry the pork belly. Set aside.

2. Using the same pan, sauté the garlic. Add the vegetables and stir fry for a minute.

3. Add the sauce and stir well. Cook for 10 minutes and the sauce have reduced by now. Turn he heat off.

4. Place the pork belly on the steam bowl. Then add the vegetables and the sauce to cover the pork. Steamed for 2 hours.

After steaming for 2 hours, I continue to cook the dish with crock pot for another 2 hours. The pork belly would be very very tender and flavorful by then.

                       

Snow Pear with White Fungus Soup

                                   

Serve 6

Ingredients:

1 chicken breast with bone (chopped into 4 chunks. Blanch with hot water)
3 snow pears (cored and quartered)
3 white fungus (soaked till soften. Cut away the harden parts. Cut the rest into bite pieces.)
14 seedless red dates
$1 of Chinese almonds (2/3 sweet almonds, 1/3 bitter almonds)
1 handful wolfberries
Water
Sea salt


Methods:

1. Boil a big pot of water. Once the water starts to boil rapidly, put all the ingredients except white fungus into the pot. Cook for 10 minutes then reduce to low heat and simmer for 1.5hr.

2. Add the white fungus and continue to simmer for 30 mins. Add the sea salt and stir well.

Steamed Papaya With White Fungus Sweet Soup

Serve 2

Ingredients:

1 slice of papaya (cut into 6 pieces)
1 white fungus (soaked till soften. Cut into bite sizes)
4 seedless red dates
2 tsp wolfberries
8 dried longans
Hot water


Methods:

1. Using 2 small double boil pots, divide the ingredients equally into the pots.

2. Pour hot water just enough to cover the ingredients. Cover the pots.

3. Steam for an hour. The soup should be sweet enough. Add rock sugar if you want it to be sweeter.