Deep Fried Oat Prawns

I loved this recipe and so did hubby. A first time cooking this dish and I could tell hubby loved it because he was just eating and eating the prawns.

Ingredients:-

- 500g prawns
- 5 tbsps fried oats
- 6 chilli padi (chopped)
- 3 sprigs curry leaves
- 2 tbsps margarine
- 100g tapioca flour

Seasonings:-

- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2/3 tsp sugar


1. Trim prawns' antennas and tails. Add in tapioca starch and mix evenly.
2. Heat up a pot of oil, deep-fry prawns till golden prawn, Remove and set aside.
3. Heat up margarine in pot, fry chilli padi and curry leaves till fragrant. Add in prawns and Seasonings and lastly add in fired oats and stir evenly. Serve.

Another really simple recipe!!!

Bean Curd in Thick Soup

CNY Reunion Dinner is nothing like a dinner without soup. So, instead of the regular Shark Fin's Soup, I made something similar but without the shark fin.

Ingredients:-

- 1 square bean curd (cut into thin strips)

- 100g shredded chicken

- 100g crab meat

- 50g Chinese mushroom (soak and shredded, remove the stumps)

- 50g black fungus

- 4 pieces water chestnuts (peeled and shredded)

- 50g carrots (shredded)

- 1 stalk spring onion (shredded)

- 4-5 bowls stock

Seasonings:-

- 4 tbsps Huadiao wine

- 1 tsp salt

- 1 tsp sugar

- 2 tsps light soy sauce

- adequate pepper

- adequate sesame oil

1. Scald shredded chicken and mushroom in boiling water. Remove and drain.

2. Heat up 1 tbsp of oil, sizzle in Huadiao wine. Pour in stock and bring to boil. Put in remaining Ingredients and Seasonings, bring to boil. Thicken the gravy with starch solution. Serve.

A yummy recipe which my father inlaw absolutely loved and took numerous helpings. Caitlin was busy slurping hers, too. Hahahahahhahaha................ 

Fish Slices with Salted Egg

I cooked reunion dinner and made 6 dishes. One I had previously cooked a few CNY ago and the other 5 are totally new recipes and thank goodness all turned out pretty well.

This would be an awesome recipe for any occasion.

Ingredients:

- 300-500g red snapper (or any other fish fillet that you would prefer)
- 150g tapioca flour

Seasonings:

- 3 salted egg yolk
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp sugar


1. Cut fish meat into 2x6cm rectangular thick shapes. Coat evenly with tapioca flour and place on plate.
2. Heat up some oil in pot, deep-fry fish meat over high heat until yellowish. Dish out.

3. Rinse salted egg yolks. Place in steamer and steam for 10 minutes. Remove and press finely with tablespoon.

4. Heat up 1 1/2 tbsp of oil over low heat, add salted egg yolk, salt and sugar, stir-fry until fragrant and bubbles appear. Put in fried fish meat and stir evenly. Serve.

An easy recipe with minimal ingredients to produce a yummy dish.

Creamy Chicken Rice

It's been a few weeks since I've whipped up something new in the kitchen. So, I went through some websites and came across this simple recipe. Didn't even take me more than 15 minutes to cook it.

So, if you're the type who loves creamy stuffs....you should give this recipe a shot.

Ingredients:-

• 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cut into bite size pieces
• 1/2 onion, chopped
• 1 green bell pepper, chopped
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon garlic salt
• seasoning salt to taste
• 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
• 1/2 cup water
• steamed mix vegetables
• butter rice

1. Melt butter/margarine in a medium skillet over low heat. Add chicken, onion and green bell pepper and saute all over low heat for 4 to 6 minutes, stirring occasionally and turning chicken pieces. Season with paprika, garlic salt and seasoned salt to taste.


2. Cover skillet and let cook until chicken is done and juices run clear, about 15 minutes. When chicken is cooked through add soup and water and let simmer, stirring. When liquid has reached the consistency of a sauce, the dish is done.

Baked Dijon Chicken

Oh my....love this simple recipe. Another easy recipe for you busy people out there. It doesn't matter if you are single or a busy mummy or daddy or you're not the type to spend hours in the kitchen...then, this recipe is an easy one.

All you will need is either some butter rice and steam vegetables of your kind or you may have a  bake potato with some vegetables. It's entirely up to you.


Ingredients:-

1/4 cup Dijon mustard
1/4 cup Evaporated Milk
1/4 cup plain, dry bread crumbs
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
4 (4 ounce) boneless, skinless chicken breast halves


1.PREHEAT oven to 246 degrees C. Spray 13 x 9-inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.


2.COMBINE mustard and evaporated milk in shallow bowl. Combine bread crumbs and cheese in separate shallow bowl. Dip chicken into mustard mixture, coating both sides, then into bread crumb mixture. Place in prepared dish.

3.BAKE for 15 to 20 minutes or until chicken is golden brown and no longer pink in center.


Not very difficult, is it??? Hubby loved it...Caitlin loved it....Yuli loved it....

Chicken & Apple Curry

I came across this recipe and who would have thought???? Chicken & Apple Curry??? Damn! Using apples??? Well, it sure piqued my curiosity and gave it a shot today for dinner. Yummy!!! Absolutely yummy! Just have some hot rice and vegetables and you're good to go.....

Ingredients:-

• 3 tablespoons butter
• 2 small onion, chopped
• 2 apples - peeled, cored and finely chopped
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon curry powder
• 8 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
• 1 cup hot chicken broth
• 1 cup milk
• salt and pepper to taste

1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).


2.Saute apple and onion in butter or margarine until tender. Add curry powder and saute 1 minute more. Add flour and continue to cook 1 minute longer. Add stock or broth and milk; stir well.

3.Salt and pepper chicken breasts to taste and lay in a single layer in a 9x13 inch (or larger) baking dish. Pour sauce mixture over chicken breasts and bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes. Turn the chicken and bake for another 10 minutes.

So, give this easy recipe a shot! It's easy and it's worth it!

Pulut Inti

I had made this 'kuih' some time back but at that time it was just a 'touch and go' and was still new into cooking. Surprisingly even then, I seemed to have the knack to cook pretty well even though it was a first attempt.

So, I decided to make this traditional dessert for my sister in-law's Open House and it was a HIT!!! A big hit! Finished within seconds. :)

So, here's the recipe.

Ingredient A:-

• 300g glutinous rice
• 300ml water
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3 pandan leaves
• 80ml thick coconut milk
• banana leaves

Ingredient B:-

• 160g palm sugar (gula melaka)
• 3-4 tbsps water
• 3 pandan leaves
• 200g white grated coconut
• 1 tbsp plain flour

1. From Ingredient A, rinse glutinous rice and drain. Mix glutinous rice and salt. Soak for 30 mins.
2. Add pandan leaves to rice mixture and steam for 15 mins or until the rice is half cooked.
3. Add the coconut milk into the rice mixture and mix well and continue to steam until rice is cooked through.
4. Leave rice to cool.
5. Meanwhile, using Ingredient B, mix the water with palm sugar and  pandan leaves and heat through until palm sugar well mixed.
6. Add grated coconut and plain flour and stir well until mixture becomes thick. Stir during cooking.
7. Put 1 portion of glutinous rice in the centre of each banana leaf and top with coconut mixture.
8. Fold up bothe the ends of banana leaf and serve.

This recipe makes approximately 20 'Pulut Inti', depending on how big each portion is. This is the batch I made.

A really traditionally yummy recipe.

Chocolate Cornflakes Biscuits

It's been a while since I've baked some biscuits or cookies and came across this easy recipe so, I decided to give it a shot. Caitlin helped, too! And it turned out fantastic!!! Crunchy on the outside and soft like cake on the inside.

Ingredients: -

• 125g butter, chopped
• 1/2 cup castor sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence/extract
• 1 cup self-raising flour
• 1 cup cornflakes; 1 1/2 cups extra for coating (crushed)
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup sultanas (raisins)
• 1/2 cup chopped glaced cherries (I used a mixture of red and green for more colour)

1. Preheat oven at 180 degrees C'. Lightly grease 2 or 3 oven trays or you may opt for baking paper.
2. In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla.
3. Fold flour in. Add 1 cup of cornflakes, sultanas, chocolate chips and cherries.
4. On another separate bowl, put the crushed cornflakes.
5. Roll teaspoons of mixture into balls and then toss in the crushed cornflakes. Placed onto prepared trays with about 3cm in distance as the biscuits will expand.
6. Bake for about 10-15 mins or until golden.
7. Cool in trays for 5 mins before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.

Ta da!!!! Easy...easy...recipe. Gonna make these for festive seasons next time.

Coney Dog

Who doesn't like Coney Dogs. Messy but it's always fun to eat. Hahahahahha....so, I decided to make Coney Dogs for dinner tonight.

Using the same beef recipe which I used to make Sloppy Joes; all I did was get some hot dog buns and fried some sausages and poured the beef sauce onto the sausages and voila!!!!! You can always sprinkle some cheese and just put into the microwave for about 10 seconds for the cheese to melt.

Coney Dog!!!! And yummilicious!

Sloppy Joes

This is an absolutely fantastic and easy recipe. I loved it!!! Everyone loved it.....at the rate I'm cooking, I have to double or maybe triple my exercise regime but trust me, it's all worth it! Using the same recipe, you can also make it like a Coney Dog....just get some sausages and hot dog buns and pour some of this yummy meat over the sausages.....

Ingredients:-

• 455g lean ground beef
• 1/4 cup chopped onion
• 1/4 cup chopped green bell pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon prepared yellow mustard
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 1/4 BBQ sauce
• 3 teaspoons brown sugar
• salt to taste
• ground black pepper to taste

1. In a medium skillet over medium heat, brown the ground beef, onion, and green pepper; drain off liquids.

2. Stir in the garlic powder, mustard, ketchup, BBQ sauce and brown sugar; mix thoroughly. Reduce heat, and simmer for 30 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

So, what are you waiting for??? Got make some Sloppy Joes!!!