Plain Porridge

Plain Porridge

粥

Ratio
1 cup of rice : 7-8 cups of water

1. Wash rice and add into pressure cooker.
2. Add in water and set to porridge function.
3. Once done cooking, let the valve goes down itself.
4. Open and set to let it boil.
5. Keep stirring till the porridge mashed till desired state.
6. Off heat and serve.

- May serve with salted egg, salted fish, fried egg with salted vege, salted vege, ginger, spring onion.
- Seasoning : soy sauce, sesame oil, pepper.

Chinese Spinach Soup

Chinese Spinach Soup

苋菜上汤

1 Bundle of Heng Cai (Chinese Spinach)
1 Salted Egg 
1 Century Egg
1 handful of tiny anchovies
Wolfberries
4 cloves of garlic
1 tsp Chicken Essence Powder
1 tsp Soy sauce
Dash of Pepper

1. Cook salted egg & century egg.
2. Remove egg shell, mince into small pieces and set aside.
3. Heat wok and fry garlic till fragrant.
4. Add in anchovies till crispy.
5. Add in water and bring to boil.
6. Add chicken essence powder, soy sauce & pepper to taste.
7. Add in wolfberries & spinach and boil.
8. Add in eggs and serve.

Steamed Eggplants with Chilli Garlic

Steamed Eggplants with Chilli Garlic

凉拌蒸茄子

1 pc Eggplant
7-8 cloves garlic
Soy Sauce (Appropriate)
Lao Gan Ma Sauce (Appropriate)
Chili Oil (Appropriate)
Salt (Appropriate)
Vinegar (Appropriate)
Spring Onion

1. Clean eggplant, cut into small pieces.
2. Cut few cuts on each eggplants so that eggplants easy to get soft and cooked.
3. Place all in steamed plate, steam for 15mins (depending on size).
4. Remove excessive water and set aside.
5. Mix all sauce and taste.
6. Pour onto eggplants and sprinkle with spring onions.


Soure : https://www.xiachufang.com/recipe/1045900/

Seafood Aglio Olio

Seafood Aglio Olio

Spaghetti
Olive oil
Butter
10-12 prawns
2 squids
10 cloves garlic (peeled & chopped)
2 chili padi (sliced)
Parsley (chopped)
Sea salt
Freshly grounded black pepper

1. Cook spaghetti & set aside.
2. Remove prawns shells.
3. Add in the shells into a pot with 150ml water & boil for 3-5mins to make prawn stocks.
4. Heat some butter in sauce pan & cook prawn on both sides & set aside.
5. Cook squids (like prawn) & set aside.
6. Add in olive oil, cook garlic & chili padi until garlic turn brown & turn off stove.
7. Add in spaghetti, 2tbsp of prawn stock, parsley & butter into the garlic & chili padi.
8. Stir evenly & serve.

Assam Pork Curry

Assam Pork Curry


150gm sliced pork
50ml coconut milk
50ml water
1/2tbsp assam paste, mix with 50ml water & squeeze out juice

B:
2tbsp chopped shallot
1 stalk lemongrass, bruised
1tsbp curry leave
1/2tbsp curry powder
1.5tbsp chilli paste
1.5pcs assam keping

Seasoning:
1/2tsp salt
1/4tbsp sugar
1//2tbsp soy sauce

1. Heat up 2tbsp oil & fry ingredient B until fragrance.
2. Add in pork & stir well.
3. Add in coconut milk, assam juice, water & seasoning. Boil it.
4. Cook until meat is tender & dish up.

Minced Meat with Water Chestnut Patty

Minced Meat with Water Chestnut Patty

桂花肉饼

200gm minced meat
1tbsp chopped garlic
1.5tbsp chopped water chestnut
1.5tbsp carrot
1/2tbsp chopped dried squid
1tbsp chopped coriander
1/2 egg

Seasoning:
1/2tsp salt
1/4tsp white pepper powder
Sesame oil

Sauce:
1tbsp light soy sauce
1.5tbsp water
1/2tbsp fried garlic oil
1/4tsp sugar

1. Combine all ingredients & seasoning into a bowl.
2. Stir in one direction until patty become sticky.
3. Place & shape the patty into round flat shape in a steaming plate.
4. Steam in high heat for 15mins.
5. Heat 1tbsp of oil & pan fry steamed patty until both side turrns golden brown.
6. Boil sauce and pour onto the patty.


Source : https://www.openrice.com/zh/recipe/%E6%A1%82%E8%8A%B1%E8%82%89%E9%A4%85/638

Black Pepper Spare Ribs

Black Pepper Spare Ribs

黑椒排骨

300gm spare ribs
1/2tbsp chopped garlic
3 slices ginger
1/2tbsp grounded black pepper
1/4tbsp fermented black bean

Seasoning:
1/2tbsp oyster sauce
1/2tbsp light soy sauce
1/2tsp sugar
dash of sesane oil

500ml water

1/2tsp cornflour

1. Fry garlic & ginger until fragrance.
2. Add in grounded black pepper & fermented black bean & fry until aromatic.
3. Add in spare ribs & seasoning.
4. Add in water & boil under low heat for 40mins.
5. Add in cornflour solutions to thicken the sauce.

Assam Prawn

Assam Prawn

Tamarind paste
1/2kg prawn (to remove head - optional)
1tsp salt
1tsp sugar
1tsp dark soy sauce
1/2tsp white pepper powder

1. Marinate all for 2 hours.
2. Heat pan, medium heat, cook prawn till crispy, caramelised & aromatic.

Hakka Deep Fried Pork

Hakka Deep Fried Pork

客家炸肉

MARINATE (Overnight) :
1/2kg pork belly (with skin - cut into strips 1.5-2")
1.5pcs Red Fermented Beancurd + sauce
1/2tsp salt
1/2tsp sesame oil
1tbsp chopped garlic
1/4 tsp dark soy sauce
1 egg
1/4tsp white pepper powder
1/2tbsp sugar
1/4tsp five spice powder
1tsp Chinese cooking wine

FLOUR:
1tbsp plain flour
1/2tbsp rice flour
1/2tbsp corn flour


1. Heat up oil, coat pork with flour & deep fry.
2. Remove and deep fry again for 1min under high heat for more crispiness.

Cola Chicken

可乐鸡

1 can of Coke
12 mid joint chicken
2 cloves garlic



For spicy version, fry chicken & put aside.
Fry dried chillies & garlic till fragrance. Add in coke till boiling and add in chicken.

Carbonara

奶油培根意大利面

1. Cut bacon into stripes.
2. Add salt & olive oil into boiling water and add in spaghetti. Cook as usual, remove & set aside.
3. Heat up wok/pan, add in bacon and fry (without adding oil) till fragrance.
4. Add in onions & mushroom. + water from spaghetti.
5. +black pepper
6. + spaghetti, butter, whipping cream, cheese & off heat.
7. + egg yolk, stir to mix evenly & serve.
8. Garnish with parsley.

Source:

Sizzling Tofu with Minced Meat

Sizzling Tofu with Minced Meat

铁板豆腐

2 japanese tofu
100gm minced meat
2 Shiitake mushroom (soaked, shredded)
1 tbsp salted bean paste
1 tsp chopped garlic
100ml water
Cornflour (mix with water for thickening)
40gm salted fish (diced  deep fry)
1 tbsp spring onions
1 tbsp Shaoxing wine

1 egg (beaten)

1. Cut tofu into pieces, deep-fry and remove.
2. Heat up 1 tbsp oil in hot wok, saute chopped garlic until fragrant.
3. Add in salted bean paste, minced meat, mushroom & stir well.
4. Add in water and seasoning, bring to boil & simmer for a while.
5. Thicken with cornflour solutions.
6. Preheat sizzling plate/pot with 1tbsp of oil and add in beaten egg.
7. Spoon in minced meat, sauce & tofu onto egg & sprinkle with fried salted fish.
8. Splash Shaoxing wine & serve.


Source: Recipe Book - 馆子菜单精选

Steamed Chicken with Cooking Wine

Steamed Chicken with Cooking Wine

花雕酒蒸鸡

Ingredient A:
300gm chicken (cut into pieces)
3 red dates (shredded)
2 pcs dang gui (angelica root - shredded)
1 tbsp wolfberries (goji - soaked)
1 pcs black earwood (soaked, shredded)
1 tbsp ginger shreds

Seasoning:
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp Chinese cooking wine
1 tsp cornflour

1. Arrange chicken on plate.
2. Add in seasoning and mix well. Add in remaining ingredient A.
3. Steam over high heat for 15mins.
3. Garnish with coriander leaves.



Source: Recipe Book - 我家男人爱煮菜

Stir-fried Pork Slices with Zha Cai

Stir-fried Pork Slices with Zha Cai

榨菜炒肉片

Ingredients:
150gm lean meat(shredded and marinade)
300gm zha cai (rinsed & shredded)
1 tbsp minced garlic

Marinade:
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tbsp soy sauce
1/2 tbsp cornflour
1/2 tbsp water

Seasoning:
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1/8 tsp MSG

1. Soak zha cai for 1 hour to remove saltiness. Drain.
2. Heat wok with one spoon of oil. Saute garlic & add in meat, fry well.
3. Add in zha cai and fry till aromatic.
4. Add in seasoning, fry well and serve.



Source: Recipe Book - 我家男人爱煮菜

Pork Trotter Vinegar

Pork Trotter Vinegar

猪脚醋

Ingredients:

1/2 Pork trotter
1 small bottle of black vinegar
1 piece of ginger
Sesame oil
Hard-boiled egg

Method:
1. Blanch pork trotter in boiling water. Drain.
2. Smash ginger and pan fry (without oil) to remove excess water in ginger.
3. Add in sesame oil and fry ginger untill fragrance.
4. Add in pork trotter and fry for few minutes.
5. Add in whole bottle of black vinegar plus water to cover the pork.
6. Add in egg & cook for at least one hour / Cook in slow cooker for 3hours or until meat soften.
7. Serve.


* If vinegar is sweet & sour type, no need to add in sugar.
   If vinegar is sour type, can add in some rock sugar.

Radish with Pork Ribs Soup

Radish with Pork Ribs Soup

白萝卜排骨汤

300gm Pork Ribs
1 Radish
1 tbsp White Peppercorn (Crushed)
Dried Squid Head
4 Red Dates

1. Blanch pork ribs in boiling water. Drain.
2. Remove radish skin and cut into pieces.
3. In slow cooker, add in all ingredients and cook for 3-4hours.

Steamed Enoki Mushroom with Garlic

Steamed Enoki Mushroom with Garlic

蒜蓉蒸金针菇

2 packs of Enoki Mushroom
Garlics
Salt
Sugar
Soy sauce


1. Remove end of enoki mushroom, clean and soak for 1 hour.
2. Drain & arrange nicely on plate/
3. Chop garlic (not too small so that it can remain it's taste)
4. Heat up pan with oil till 70% hot and off the fire.
5. Add in chopped garlic and stir till garlic turns brown.
6. Add little salt, sugar & soy sauce & mix well.
7. Pour onto enoki mushroom & steam for 2-3 mins.
8. Sprinkle with spring onions.


Source : http://www.goody25.com/mind6213395

Char Choy Tofu Soup

Char Choy Tofu Soup

榨菜豆腐汤

1 ball char choy (rinsed, sliced & soaked in water for 30mins, drained)
2 chicken bone
1 tomato (quartered)
1 carrot (cut into pieces)
1500ml water

1 block soft tofu (cut into 2 x 2cm)


1. Heat a pot of water. Scald chicken bone, drain well.
2. Place all ingredient (except tofu) into pot. Bring water to boil.
3. Turn heat to low, simmer for one hour.
4. Add in tofu & turn off heat


Source : 我家3男人爱煮菜