Friday, September 26, 2008

Chow Mein 炒麵

I think every chinese household has a different version of chow mein. This kyliekwong 's version (as seen on Tv Paprika) uses ginger, which I've never included in my version before this. Also, her soy base sauce was much more straight forward to prepare than mine. Anyway, here's how I tweaked her recipe based on what is available in my kitchen .

Chow Mein 炒麵

Serves : 1

Ingredients :-

One serving of spaghetti pasta (kw's recipe uses flat rice noodles)
few slices of ginger
2 cloves of garlic
half of red onion
cabbage (kw's uses chinese cabbage)
spring onions
white pepper to taste
thick soya sauce
light soya sauce
oil for stir-frying

* sesame seeds omitted (totally forgotten about it!)
* bean sprout was omitted (not available in my kitchen)
* You may also add any kind of meat / seafood of your choice.
Preparation :-

1) Cook spaghatti pasta according to your brand's instruction.

2) In the mean time, prepare sliced ginger, chopped onion , garlic, spring onions.

3) Heat oil in a wok, sauté ginger, onion and garlic until fragrant. Next in the same wok, put the dark soya sauce (enough to cover the pasta) , simmer it for a bit. Then toss-in the cooked pasta and stir-fry until soya sauce colour pasta fully. Next , toss-in cabbage, spring onion and neam sprout and continue to stir-fry for a bit. Add light soya sauce and white pepper to taste. Stir-fry for a about 3 minutes and it's ready.

4) Serve with toasted sesame seeds.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Rice noodle roll 猪腸粉



I finally did it! I'm mostly happy with the taste despite that the recipe was actually for making Vietnamese version of rice noodle roll, Bánh cuốn .

As you can see, the texture wasn't smooth at all .. in fact it was disastrous :p I'll need to improve on the tecnique and I'm looking forward to practice making it again :)

Thanks Lily'sWaiSekHong for posting the Step-by-step tutorial in her fabulous blog !

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Monday, September 08, 2008

Mango and apple salad

This salad was adapted from salt n tumeric 's recipe with couple of substitutes. The combination of aroma of lime , spiciness of Erős Pista , sweet and soury apple and mango make this a great dish as an apetiser.

Mango and apple salad :-

1 mango , roughly grated or julienned
1 apple , roughly grated or julienned
1 red onion, chopped
1 juice of lime
sugar , to taste
fish sauce , few dashes
Erős Pista (Hungarian sambal oelek ?) , to taste - substitute for Thai chilli
Peanuts , roughly ground

Prepare all ingredients and toss them together. Voila!



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Friday, September 26, 2008

Chow Mein 炒麵

I think every chinese household has a different version of chow mein. This kyliekwong 's version (as seen on Tv Paprika) uses ginger, which I've never included in my version before this. Also, her soy base sauce was much more straight forward to prepare than mine. Anyway, here's how I tweaked her recipe based on what is available in my kitchen .

Chow Mein 炒麵

Serves : 1

Ingredients :-

One serving of spaghetti pasta (kw's recipe uses flat rice noodles)
few slices of ginger
2 cloves of garlic
half of red onion
cabbage (kw's uses chinese cabbage)
spring onions
white pepper to taste
thick soya sauce
light soya sauce
oil for stir-frying

* sesame seeds omitted (totally forgotten about it!)
* bean sprout was omitted (not available in my kitchen)
* You may also add any kind of meat / seafood of your choice.
Preparation :-

1) Cook spaghatti pasta according to your brand's instruction.

2) In the mean time, prepare sliced ginger, chopped onion , garlic, spring onions.

3) Heat oil in a wok, sauté ginger, onion and garlic until fragrant. Next in the same wok, put the dark soya sauce (enough to cover the pasta) , simmer it for a bit. Then toss-in the cooked pasta and stir-fry until soya sauce colour pasta fully. Next , toss-in cabbage, spring onion and neam sprout and continue to stir-fry for a bit. Add light soya sauce and white pepper to taste. Stir-fry for a about 3 minutes and it's ready.

4) Serve with toasted sesame seeds.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Rice noodle roll 猪腸粉



I finally did it! I'm mostly happy with the taste despite that the recipe was actually for making Vietnamese version of rice noodle roll, Bánh cuốn .

As you can see, the texture wasn't smooth at all .. in fact it was disastrous :p I'll need to improve on the tecnique and I'm looking forward to practice making it again :)

Thanks Lily'sWaiSekHong for posting the Step-by-step tutorial in her fabulous blog !

Read more about Rice noodle roll

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Monday, September 08, 2008

Mango and apple salad

This salad was adapted from salt n tumeric 's recipe with couple of substitutes. The combination of aroma of lime , spiciness of Erős Pista , sweet and soury apple and mango make this a great dish as an apetiser.

Mango and apple salad :-

1 mango , roughly grated or julienned
1 apple , roughly grated or julienned
1 red onion, chopped
1 juice of lime
sugar , to taste
fish sauce , few dashes
Erős Pista (Hungarian sambal oelek ?) , to taste - substitute for Thai chilli
Peanuts , roughly ground

Prepare all ingredients and toss them together. Voila!



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