Homey Instant Noodles

It's instant noodles night today... Usually we eat out during weekdays because by the time I reach home from work, it's pretty late. We always have a few brands of instant noodles at home. One of them is Myojo Abalone Chicken Instant Noodles. Most of the time I will include eggs, vegetables or mushrooms into the noodles. I hate having instant noodles only... Taste a bit funny! I will raid my fridge for leftover ingredients and toss them into the noodles. I love the sweetness of the soup seeping from the vegetables.

Ingredients:

1 pack of Myojo abalone chicken Instant noodles.
1 handful of broccoli
1 handful of cauliflower
12 sliced carrots
1 tomato (quartered)
1 chili padi (deseeded and chopped)
Few drops of sesame oil
Water
Dash of black pepper

Methods:

1. Put water to boil in the pot.

2. Toss in the tomatoes, cauliflower, chili and carrots. Cook for 2 minutes.

3. Add in the Myojo seasoning and noodles. Cook for 2 minutes.

4. Add the broccoli and cook for another 1 minute.

5. Add the sesame oil and turn off the fire.

6. Sprinkle with black pepper.

Yong Tau Foo Soup

Quick and simple Yong Tau Foo soup and stir fry vegetables to serve with rice for dinner today.

Ingredients:

Assorted Yong Tau Foo
10 Fish balls
10 slices ginger
2 litres water
4 tbsp ikan bilis powder
Salt
1 tbsp cooking oil

Methods:

1. Heat the oil in a pot. Sauté the ginger until fragrant.

2. Add the water into the pot and let it boil.

3. Once the water boils, sprinkle the ikan bilis powder. Cook for 10 minutes.

4. Put in the Yong Tau Foo and fish balls into the soup. Cook for few minutes.

5. Add some salt and stir. Turn off the heat.

May add some leafy vegetables too.

Muah Chee

This is my second time making Muah Chee. I simply can't believe how easy to do so! There is HappyCall Pan craze and I read a post online about using the pan to make Muah Chee. I don't know if Muah Chee is a dessert or snack.

The first time I made with HappyCall Pan. Today i used Tefal non stick pan. I guess as long as using non stick pans, the result should be the same. Actually the original recipe required shallot oil. But both time I only used cooking oil instead because ran out of shallots. But it was still yummy!

Mainly adapted from Cuisine Paradise.

Ingredients for the dough:

1 rice bowl of glutinous rice flour
3/4 rice bowl of water
1/2 tsp of sugar
(add the sugar into the flour. Slowly add the water into the flour and stir slowly until smooth texture)
1 tbsp of cooking or shallot oil
Peanuts powder with sugar added
(Xinglong brand)

Methods:
(using Happycall pan or any non stick pan)

1. Heat the oil in the pan. Reduce the heat.

2. Pour in the flour mixture and stir slowly.

3. When the mixture starts to turn into a dough, cook it for another 1 or 2 minutes. Then flip to another side till become transparent. Make sure the inside are cooked as well. Remove the dough and place it on an oiled plate (this is to prevent the dough to stick and leave clumps on the plate).

4. Use the kitchen towel to remove the oil in the pan. Then toast the peanut powder with small fire for a minute. Off the fire.

5. Toss the dough with the peanut powder. Then cut them into bite sizes. After cutting, toss the dough with the grounded peanuts again making sure all are evenly coated.

Spaghetti With Onions, Mushrooms And Chicken

Today, I made this Spaghetti for dinner. I didn't go to the wet market this morning and I was thinking just make a simple dinner.

I need to send my son to his tuition lessons on every Saturday afternoon. So preparing dinner is always a challenge to me on Saturday. Need something quick and easy! For the pasta sauce, i used store bought. Hehe... Oh yes, I serve the spaghetti with Italian Salad. I bought a bag of Italian Salad at Tanglin Market Place while waiting for my son to finish his class. Hmmm... The salad was very fresh and nice. I love the balsamic vinaigrette dressing! I boiled 2 eggs to add on the salad. A satisfying dinner! Burps!

Serve 5

Ingredients:

250g Spaghetti
1 onion (diced)
2 cloves garlic (sliced)
1/2 green bell pepper (diced)
1/2 yellow bell pepper (diced)
200g chicken fillet
10 button mushrooms (sliced)
400g pasta sauce (store bought)
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 coarse black pepper
2 tbsp olive oil
Water for cooking the spaghetti
200ml or more water

Methods:

1. Boil a pot of water. Add a little salt and olive oil. Once the water starts to boil rapidly, put the spaghetti in. Cook for about 15 minutes. Drain the spaghetti once it's ready. Set aside.

2. Sprinkle the sea salt and coarse black pepper on the chicken fillets.

3. Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a non stick pan. Pan fry the chicken fillets until nicely golden brown. Set aside. Slice them into bite sizes.

4. Using the same non stick pan, heat 1 tbsp olive oil. Sauté the onions and garlic.

5. Toss in the bell peppers and mushrooms. Cook for a minute.

6. Add the pasta sauce. Mix evenly with the vegetables.

7. Add about 200ml of water and cook for 1 minute.

8. Add the spaghetti and chicken. Toss evenly. Turn off the heat.

You may grill the chicken fillets instead of pan frying.

Sticky Rice With Mango

My all time fave dessert would be this Sticky Rice with Mango! I must say the best Sticky Rice with Mango I have eaten was in Thailand.

With minimum of ingredients, it is very easy to make this dessert at home.

Serve 1 or 2

Ingredients:

1/2 cup of glutinous rice (I use rice cup)
1 pack of coconut milk
1 tsp salt
3 tbsp sugar
1 mango (cubed)

Methods:

1. Soak the glutinous rice with water overnight.

2. Steam the glutinous rice for about 30 minutes.

3. In the meanwhile, heat the coconut milk with low heat. Stir slowly. DO NOT BOIL THE MILK.

4. Add the salt and sugar. Keep stirring.

5. Taste the coconut milk if it is sweet enough for you. It's ok to be sweeter because it will taste less sweet with the sticky rice. Turn off the heat and set aside.

6. When the glutinous rice is ready, add 3 ~ 4 tbsp of coconut milk into the rice and mix well. Cover and leave it for 10 minutes.

7. Place the mango and sticky rice of the plate. Drizzle some coconut milk on the rice (and mangoes if prefer).

May add some pandan leaves in the coconut milk during the heating process.