Showing posts with label Choy Sum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Choy Sum. Show all posts

Thursday, 11 February 2016

A Fiery CNY Eve Lunch!

A very Happy Fiery Monkey Chinese New Year to all my Chinese fellow bloggers and readers.

Here was what we had for our reunion meal.

Steamed fish.
Thermomix stir-fried choy sum with carrots and prawns.

Steamed beancurd with minced pork (Yong Tau Foo).

Curry potato and pork.

Steamed okra with minced pork (Yong Tau Foo).

Steamed bittergourd with minced pork (Yong Tau Foo).

Double boiled bone broth with lotus root.

Steamed chicken.

And brownies for dessert! 

Sunday, 22 March 2015

Chicken BeeHoon Soup with Salmon

Ingredients:

1. 1 whole free-range antibiotic-free chicken (cut into 4 parts and skin removed)
2. Washed and cut choy sum vegetable (1 packet)
3. 5 cups of filtered water
4. Sea-salt
5. Poached Egg(s)
6. 1 slice of salmon (baked)
7. 500gm of brown rice beehoon

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1. Put the chicken into a large pot and fill it with the 5 cups of water.

2. Add approximately 1 teaspoon of sea-salt.

3. Bring it to a boil on high-heat and then allow to simmer on low-heat for 2 hours.

4. In the meantime while waiting for the soup to be done, soak the beehoon until it is soft. Drain the water away and set aside.

5. Debone the salmon and break into small pieces.

6. As the soup is almost done, take the choy sum and blanched it in the soup for a few minutes until soft.

7. Take a medium sized serving bowl and place some beehoon in it. Add the choy sum and a poached egg and fill the bowl with the piping hot soup. Add some salmon pieces on top. You can also garnish with some fried garlic.

8. Allow to soak for about 5 minutes before eating.

Bon appétit!


Monday, 23 December 2013

Dinner in a Mug!

Dish 1 - Salted Garlic + Butter Rice

Click on LINK for recipe.

Dish 2 - Claypot Potato & Chicken Stew

Click on LINK for recipe.

Dish 3 - Stir Fried Choy Sum with Garlic



Monday, 11 November 2013

Chicken Balls Noodle Soup

Dish 1 - Chicken Balls
For recipe, click on LINK

Dish 2 - Chicken Soup
For recipe, click on LINK

Add brown rice noodles, some choy sum veggie, add the chicken balls and pour hot soup over noodles. You can also have it with a poached or microwaved egg together with this dish.

Bon appétit!

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Home-Made Chicken Noodle Soup

A. Soup

Ingredients:

1. 1 whole free-range skinless chicken (cut into 4 equal parts)
2. 3 large old potatoes (skin peeled and cut into 4 equal parts)
3. 2 medium sized carrots (skin peeled and cut into 4 equal parts)
4. Filtered water
5. Sea-salt

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1. Put all ingredients above in a large pot (about 5L) . Make sure the chicken is submerged in the water.

2. Add about 1 teaspoon of sea-salt.

3. Boil for 2 hours.

B. The Noodles

Ingredients:

1. 200gm of organic brown rice noodles

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1. Soak the noodles in a bowl of filtered water (room temperature).

2. Once the noodles have softened, pour away the water, divide it into half and set it aside.

C. The Vegetable

Ingredients:

1. 200gm of organic choy sum leafy vegetable

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1. Wash the vegetable and slice into 3cm in length.

2. Once the soup has boiled, soak the vegetables in the soup for about 5 minutes.

3. Scoop up the vegetables.

D. The Dish

1. Take half of the noodles, a fistful of choy sum vegetables and place in a bowl.

2. Tear some of the chicken meat, scoop some potatoes and carrots into the bowl.

3. Lastly, fill the bowl up with the soup.

4. Garnish with some fried garlic/shallots.

Bon appétit!

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Evelyn's Home-Made 'Mee Mamak Goreng'

Back in the days when I could eat all sorts of food from all sorts of places, my family and I would many times eat at this famous Mamak shop, called Dawood (operated and owned by Indian-Muslims). Malaysia being a country with diverse race and religion, has all sorts of eateries. And the Mamak eateries are one of them.

To read more about the Mamak eateries culture in Malaysia, clink on LINK.

We used to order the briyani rice with mutton and beef curry which was rich in spices! (I am salivating now, reminiscing all of the wonderful food!) We also had the mee mamak goreng which is fried yellow noodles with potatoes, bean curd, seafood, a variety of sauces and of course spices!

Gone are the days when I can gorge on spices. I can't even smell them now. Thus, I've made many amendments to the 'mee mamak goreng' so that I am still able to satisfy the cravings which come and torment my mind (and tummy)!

Ingredients:

1. 500gm of spaghetti (Boiled till at a 'just soften state'. If it is too soft, the fried noodles dish will result in a horrible mess. It will be like eating slush.)
2. 3 large, old potatoes (skinned and cut into cubes)
3. 200gm of minced chicken (seasoned with sea-salt)
4. 200gm of prawns (seasoned with sea-salt and soft brown sugar)
5. A bunch of choy sum leafy vegetable (washed and cut into strips of about 3cm long)
6. 4 shallots (cut into thin strips)
7. 1/2 a clove of garlic (cut into think strips)
8. Sea-salt
9. Soft brown sugar
10. Sunflower oil

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1. Heat a wok. Once it is hot, pour about 4 tablespoons of sunflower oil.

2. Add the sliced shallots and garlic. Stir fry until fragrant and slightly browned.

3. Add the potatoes and cover with lid and turn the heat to medium low. Once the potatoes have softened, add the minced chicken.

4. Once the minced chicken is cooked, break the minced chicken into small pieces.

5. Add the prawns and vegetables. Stir fry until prawns are cooked and the vegetable is softened. Stir the whole dish together.

6. Add the spaghetti and mix the whole dish thoroughly. Stir fry for about 5 minutes.

7. Once it is done, scoop up onto serving plate.

8. Serve warm.

Bon appétit!




Monday, 6 August 2012

Container Garden - An Update

More cherry tomatoes and okras!
Another juicy looking corn!
Once the corn plants all bore fruits, I chopped and cut the leaves and stems into smaller pieces to speed up the process of composting. 
My 1 1/2 year old lemon tree
Even MORE cherry tomatoes! This is the second tray. 
Red Spinach!
Look at the aphids sucking the life out of this corn plant. This plant did not fruit at all. 
Corn!
Corn!

Siu Pak Choy!
Sunflower! 
Another tomato tree!
Fruit rot! :(
Kitchen waste will be turned into compost! 
Choy Sum!
The Zinnia drying up. 

Today's harvest of Choy Sum, Red Spinach, Okras and Cherry Tomatoes!



Thursday, 26 July 2012

Container Garden - An Update

The corn in pots!

Radish!

The garden!

The cherry tomato tree!
A harvest of red okras, cherry tomatoes, red spinach and radishes!

Siu Pak Choy, Choy Sum & Nai Pak harvest!
Corn!
Kangkung!
Another corn growing!
Pumpkin!
1st time growing Zinnia from seeds!
1st corn harvested!
This beautiful butterfly dropped by for some nectar!
It noticed me and stared at the camera!
Soil-less gardening in the kitchen! Garlic chives!
Yummy cherry tomatoes!
Cherry tomatoes and okras!