Shark's Fin Melon Soup

Ingredients:

1/2 shark's fin melon (skin and seeds removed. Chop into chunks)

1 carrot (chop into chunks)

4 dried scallops (washed and soaked with warm water)

4 dried oysters

1 chicken breast with bone (chopped into 4 parts)

12 seedless red dates

3 litres water

Salt

Methods:

1. Boil the water with a big pot.

2. Once the water starts to boil rapidly, put all the ingredients except salt into the pot and cook for 10 minutes. Reduce the heat and simmer for 3 hours.

3. Add salt as desired.

Vegetables Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

6 stalks celery (sliced)

1 carrot (sliced)

2 potatoes (cubed)

2 large tomatoes (quartered and cook with hot water for 4 minutes. Remove the skin and set aside)

2 onions (quartered)

100g kernel corns

1 chicken breast with bone (chopped into 4 parts and blanched with hot water)

1 muslin bag

1.5-2 litres water

1 tbsp chopped Italian Parsley

Sea Salt

Coarse black pepper

Methods:

1. Boil the water in a pot. Once the water starts to boil rapidly, put the chicken into the muslin bag and cook for few minutes.

2. Add the celery, carrots, tomatoes, onions and corns into the pot. Cook for 10 minutes. Reduce the heat and simmer for 1 hour. Add the potatoes and continue to cook for another 30 minutes. Remove the muslin bag. Sprinkle the chopped italian parsley and add the salt as desired. Sprinkle some coarse black pepper.

Pumpkin, Sweetcorn & Carrot Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

300g pumpkin (sliced off the green hard outer layer and chopped into chunks)

2 sweetcorn (chopped into chunks)

1 carrot (peeled and chopped into chunks)

1 large tomato (quartered)

14 seedless red dates

1 chicken breast with bone (chopped into 4 parts and blanched with hot water. Remove and set aside)

3 litres water

salt

Methods:

1. Boil the water in the big pot. Once the water starts to boil rapidly, put the chicken and cook for 5 mins.

2. Put the sweetcorn, carrot, tomato and red dates into the pot and cook for 10 minutes. Reduce the heat and simmer for 2 hours. Put the pumpkin in and simmer for another hour. The soup should be very sweet now. Add salt as desired.

Five Treasure Soup

Recipe mainly adapted from Cuisine Paradise.

Slight changes in the ingredients.

500g lotus root (washed, peeled and chopped into chunks)
2 sweetcorn (chopped into chunks)
1 chicken breast with bone (chopped into 4 parts)
6 dried scallops (rinsed and soaked with warm water)
4 small dried mushrooms (soaked in hot water till soften)
14 seedless red dates
3 litres water

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Lotus Root Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

500g Lotus Root (Washed and peeled. Then slice into chunks)

1 chicken breast with bone (chopped into 4 parts and blanched with hot water)

10 dried oysters (washed)

1/2 dried cuttlefish (washed)

14 seedless red dates

3 litres water

Salt

Methods:

1. Boil the water in a big pot.

2. Once the water starts to boil rapidly, put in all the ingredients and cook for 10 minutes.

3. Reduce the heat and simmer for 3 hours. Add the salt as desired.

Braised Chicken Wings With Mushrooms, Carrots and Potatoes

Ingredients:

14 mid joint wings
14 dried mushrooms (soaked till soften. Remove the stems)
3 small potatoes (peeled and cut into pieces)
1 carrot (peeled and cut into pieces)
4 garlic (slightly crushed)
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp cooking oil
Water

Marinate the chicken wings:

1 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce

Methods:

1. Marinate the chicken wings for at least 30 minutes.

2. Heat the oil in the pot. Saute the garlic.

3. Add the chicken wings and stir fry for a minute. 

4. Toss in the mushrooms and continue to stir fry. Add the carrots and potatoes to cook.

5. Drizzle the dark soy sauce and oyster sauce. Add enough water to cover everything.

6. Turn the heat down and simmer for 30 minutes with lid covered.

7. Turn the heat off and serve with rice.

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Braised Chicken Wings With Potatoes And Carrots

Ingredients:

8 chicken mid joint wings
2 potatoes (peeled and chopped into bite sizes)
2 carrots (peeled and chopped into bite sizes) 4 cloves garlic (lightly crushed)
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tsp light soy sauce
1 tsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp cooking oil
Water

Marinate the wings with:

1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1/2 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp cooking wine

Methods:

1. Marinate the wings at least 30 minutes.

2. Heat the cooking oil and saute the garlic.

3. Add the chicken wings and pan fry both sides. 

4. Add the water, dark soy sauce, light soy sauce and oyster sauce. Stir well.

5. Add the potatoes and carrots. Summer for 20-30 minutes.  Add more water if prefer more gravy.

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Coca-Cola Chicken Wings

Recipe from Noobcook.

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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.

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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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.

Snow Pears and Apples Chicken Soup

Serve 6

Ingredients:

3 snow pears (cored and cut into quartered)
2 Fuji apples (cored and cut into quartered)
1 whole chicken breast with bones. (Washed, cut into 4 pieces and blanched with boiling water)
$1 worth of mixed Chinese bitter and sweet almonds
2 carrots (peeled and chopped into chunks)
10 seedless red dates
Water
Sea salt


Methods:

1. Boil a big pot of water.

2. Once the water starts to boil rapidly, put in the chicken breast. Cook for 10 minutes.

3. Add the pears, carrots, Chinese almonds and red dates. Cook with high heat for 10 minutes before reducing the heat and simmer for 1 hour.

4. Add the apples and continue to simmer for another 1-2 hours.

5. Add some sea salt as desired.


Do not peel the fruit so that they will stay intact during the simmering. May add snow fungus too.

Honey Baked Wings

Ingredients:

16 mid joint wings
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
2 tbsp honey
1 tbsp garlic powder
2 tbsp ginger juice


Methods:

1. Marinate the chicken wings with all the ingredients for at least 1 hour. Best marinate overnight.

2. Pre heat the oven at 200 degree celsius. Bake the chicken wings for 20 minutes. Turn to 220 degree Celsius and bake for another 5 minutes. This will make the wings looks nicely browned.

Chicken Bolognese Spaghetti

Serve 6

Ingredients:

300g spaghetti
1 big tomato (diced)
1 onion (minced finely)
300g minced chicken
500g pasta sauce (store bought)
2 tbsp olive oil
Water for cooking spaghetti
200ml water
4 tbsp water for cooking the spaghetti
Sea salt
Coarse black pepper
Chopped Fresh Italian parsley (optional)


Methods:

1. Heat the oil in a non stick pot.

2. Sauté the onion for few minutes. Add the minced chicken.

3. Cook the minced chicken for few minutes. Toss in the diced tomatoes. Add the pasta sauce and 200ml of water. Cook for few minutes before turning the heat down and let it simmer for 30 minutes.

4. Boil a pot of water with a tsp of salt. Cook the spaghetti for 10-15 minutes. Drain and set aside. Remember to keep some pasta water.

5. Add 4 tbsp of pasta water into the pasta sauce. Stir well. Season with some sea salt. Stir well and turn the heat off.

6. Place some spaghetti on a plate and ladle some minced chicken pasta sauce on the top. Sprinkle some coarse black pepper.


Easy side dish: Sautéed assorted mushrooms with garlic and soy sauce

Ingredients:

10 Shiitake mushrooms (sliced)
2 packets enoki mushrooms (ends trimmed)
1 packet fresh Yanagi Matsutake mushrooms (ends trimmed)
2 cloves garlic (minced finely)
1 tbsp olive oil
2-3 tbsp soy sauce
Coarse black pepper


Methods:

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

2. Add the shiitake and Yanagi Matsutake mushrooms. Drizzle 1 tbsp of soy sauce. Stir fry quickly.

3. Add the enoki mushrooms and drizzle the remaining soy sauce. Stir fry. Cook till the sauce has dry up and sprinkle some coarse black pepper. Stir well.

Chicken Stew

Ingredients:

10 mid joint wings
10 fresh shiitake mushrooms (halved)
2 potatoes (peeled and chopped into bite pieces)
2 carrots (peeled and chopped into bite pieces)
4 stalks celery (sliced thickly)
1 big tomato (quartered)
20 shallots
20 cloves garlic
20g Italian parsley (chopped finely)
Chicken stock
Sea salt
Coarse black pepper
3 tbsp cooking oil


Methods:

1. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a non stick pan. Pan fry the wings on both sides till golden brown. Set aside.

2. Heat the oil in a pot. Sauté the chopped parsley, garlic and shallots till fragrant.

3. Add the mushrooms,potatoes, carrots, and celery. Stir fry for a minute.

4. Add the chicken stock (about 800ml) and bring to boil. Once boiling rapidly, add the tomatoes and chicken wings. Cook for a minute.

5. Turn the heat down and simmer for an hour. Remember to stir sometimes. The sauce should thicken now.

6. Add some sea salt and coarse black pepper.

Serve with some rice or pasta.

Old Cucumber With Dried Scallops Soup (老黄瓜干贝汤)

Ingredients:

2 small old cucumber (scrubbed and washed. Cut into big pieces and deseeded)
1 chicken breast with bones (quartered and blanched)
8 dried scallops (soaked in warm water)
12 seedless red dates
1 carrot (cut into big pieces)
3 litres water
Salt

Methods:

1. Boil the water in a big pot.

2. Once the water starts to boil rapidly,  add chicken and the rest of the ingredients into the pot.

3. Boil for 20 minutes.  Reduce the heat and leave the pot covered. Simmer for 2 hours.

4. Turn the heat high and add the salt.  Cool for another 10 minutes before turning off the fire.

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Black Beans Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

200g black beans (washed and drained)
1 chicken breast with bone (quartered and blanched)
12 seedless red dates
1/2 dried cuttlefish (washed)
4 dried oysters (washed)
Salt
About 3 litres water

Methods:

1. Boil the water in a big pot.

2. Once the water starts to boil rapidly,  put in the chicken and the rest of the ingredients.  Boil for 20 minutes

3. Reduce the heat and left the pot covered.  Simmer for 90 minutes.

4. Turn the heat high and add the salt.  Boil for 5-10 minutes.  Turn off the heat

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Snow Fungus With Dried Scallops Soup

Ingredients:

2 snow fungus (soaked till soften. Cut away the yellow hard parts)
1 chicken breast with bones (quartered and scalded with hot water)
8 dried scallops (soaked)
12 seedless red dates
1 handful Yuzhu
3 litres water
Salt

Methods:

1. Boil the water in the big pot.

2. Once the water starts to boil rapidly, put in the chicken and red dates.

3. Add the dried scallops and Yuzhu. Boil for 30 minutes.

4. After 30 minutes, turn the heat down. Simmer for 2 hours.

5. Add the snow fungus and continue to simmer for 30 minutes.

6. Add the salt and stir well.

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Steamed Chicken With Mushrooms And Black Fungus

Ingredients:

8 mid joint wings
4 dried mushrooms (soaked till soften, sliced)
1 black fungus (soaked till soften and expand, sliced)
4 red dates (halved)
1 tbsp wolfberries
4 slices ginger (julienned)
2 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp cooking wine
1 tbsp sesame oil
4 tbsp water

Methods:

1. Put the chicken, mushrooms, black fungus, ginger into a bowl.

2. Add the light soy sauce, oyster sauce, cooking wine and sesame oil into the bowl. Mix well. Marinate for at least 30 minutes.

3. Add 4 tbsp of water into the marinated chicken. Mix well.

4. Place the chicken wings on a steam plate. Place the remaining ingredients on the top of the chicken wings. Sprinkle the red dates and wolfberries.

5. Steam the chicken for about 20 - 30 minutes.

Garnish with some spring onions or coriander.