Assam Rebus

After days of heavy indulgence of festive dishes, the taste bud is crying for something simple. So this morning, I cooked Assam Rebus with Corn. A healthy dish - no oil is used in its preparation, simply throw all the vegetables in a pot and let it boil. Very finger-licking good if you are one who loves simple kampung dishes. Additionally, I boiled salted egg to go with this dish and you can even shallow fry salted fish to give that extra umpph! The soup is tangy cos it has a well-balanced taste of sourish & sweetness. Yummm..

Ingredients (no estimation)
onion, blended
garlic, blended
dried chillies, blended
3 pcs of assam keping
ikan bilis, lightly pounded
salt
sugar
small amount of shrimp paste (belacan), mix with water
water
choices of greens (i used green beans, cabbage & corns)


Method
Heat water, add in blended onion, garlic and dried chilli paste. Stir. Throw in the assam keping, belacan mixture, vegetables and the pounded ikan bilis. Let is boil. Lastly, add salt, seasonings & sugar to your likings.

Of Kylie Kwong's...

Tried Kylie's version of Hokkien Mee for Iftar last night. Very simple, very delicious. Just alright for a busy working mum like me :) (that's why the lack of updates, even though pictures are all line up in my external hard disk :( )

Recipe (with slight modification)

4 tbsp of light soya sauce

2 tsp sugar

2 tbsp diced garlic

A bowl of chicken breast or prawns or fishballs (as per your likings)

1 bunch of choy sum

2 tbsp ginger (blend/diced)

2 tbsp oyster sauce (more if u like)

1 red pepper bell (sliced thinly)

A bowl of shitake mushrooms, sliced

500gm hokkien noodles

1/2 cup water

salt to taste

Method

1. Mix soya sauce, sugar and garlic in a bowl.

2. Add chicken or prawns and marinate for 30 mins.

3. Heat oil, fry ginger and the chicken / prawns mixture till cook.

4. Add in the bell pepper, shitake mushroom, fishballs, choy sum and stir.

5. After 5 mins, add water & oyster sauce. A dash of seasonings to taste.

6. Finally add noodles and stir thoroughly. If you like it hot, throw some sliced birds' eye chillies for a kick.

What a Sumptuous Spread...

...we had last Saturday.

Siblings came visiting so I whipped these spread for them. Days before, I had surfed the web to search for the recipes but eventually didnt use them all as I'd decided to rely on mum's recipes. Mum only mentioned verbally the ingredients for each dish and the way they were cooked. So I was frantically jotting notes to get all in order & correct.

Phewww...after slogging for nearly 2 hours in my lil'kitchen, I'm satisfied with my siblings' feedback :D No pain, no gain...

Breakfast @ Tiffany's...

...naaahhh.

Just a simple breakfast for a cheerful Saturday morning at my humble abode...

:)

Chap Chye with Beancurd

Just have to clear the stocks in my fridge that I whipped this simple Chap Chye recipe for dinner. I added Egg Tofu to this dish - yess, no more unused tofu in my fridge!

Ingredients

A handful of mixed veges of your choice

Some oil for frying

1 tspn garlic

1 tspn chicken stock (I used Maggie Chicken Stock)

2 tspn cornflour, mix with water

Egg Tofu (i shallow-fried them first)

Some prawns (deshelled)

Some water (abt 100 ml)

Salt to taste

Dashes of white pepper (I ran out of it, so I substituted it with black pepper)

Method

Heat oil and saute garlic. Stir and be careful not to burn it. Add in the mixed veges, prawns and chicken stock. Stir-fry them. Add in the corn flour mixture, salt & pepper to taste. Stir and lower heat. Before serving, add in the fried tofu and mix well.

Salam Taj Mahal...

...of poori, okra, potato masala, kheema but unfortunately no Indian ice-cream or desserts over the weekend.

I saw my ex-schoolmate, Rai, did poori for her family and I thought I'd wanted to give the hubby a surprise. Her recipe used was simple, that was one of the reason I dared to try :P My mum was extra excited when she saw my flat bread ballooned up when I fried them. She would have never thought her this lazy daughter could whip something liddat!

So, since my siblings cameby to visit the Queen (my mum), they had a chance to try out the maid's Indian delicacies...



Poori (Recipe from here, thanks Rai for sharing!)
1 Cup wheat flour2 tbspns oil
Oil for for deep frying
1/2 tspn salt
Warm water to knead the dough

Method : Mix flour,oil & salt, by hand. Knead well by adding water to make a hard dough. Cover it with a wet cloth. Heat oil for Deep Frying. Divide the roll into lime sized balls. With the help of rolling pin, roll each to disc/circular shape. Deep fry poori in hot oil for a minute, turn side & fry till puffed & golden in color.

Potato Masala's recipe from here, but with a little twist :)

Stir-fired Okra's recipe from here.

Kheema
500g mince meat
2 onions, diced
2 tomatoes, diced
2 potato, diced
2 tsp ginger & garlic paste
150g green peas
2 tbsp meat curry powder
1 tbsp chilli powder
1 tspn tumeric powder
1/2 cup coriander leave
1/2 cup oil
Salt to taste
Some water

Method : Heat oil and saute diced onions till caramelised. Add the ginger & garlic paste and tomato and stir well. Add in chilli powder, meat curry powder and tumeric powder. Stir fry for about 10 mins. Then, add in the mince meat and salt to taste. Add in the diced potato & some water and cook for 10-15 mins more. Lastly, add in the green peas and coriander leaves and off the heat. For a nicer aroma, add in the coriander leaves roots into the dish.

Fried Macaroni...

for a cheerful Sunday morning... :)

Ingredients

1 packet of your preferred macaroni (boiled & strained)

Carrot, diced

4-5 chili padi, sliced

400g mince meat

A handful of chinese celery & spring onion

Some fried onions

1 tbsp ketchup / tomato paste

Some oil for frying

Salt for seasoning

To blend :

10-15 dried chillies, deseed

2 cloves garlic

1 red onion

Method

1. Heat oil and saute all the blended ingredients till fragrant.

2. Once cooked, add in the minced meat. Stir slowly.

3. Once tender, add in the diced carrots, ketchup or tomato paste and stir.

4. Add seasonings to your likings. Put in the boiled pasta and stir slowly.

5. To serve, garnish with boiled egg, sprinkle of chili padi, chinese celery, spring onion and lotsa of fried onions.