Monday, April 9, 2012

Home-cooked: Chinese cabbage with pork

What you need:

  • Chinese cabbage, sliced
  • pork, sliced thinly
  • garlic, minced
  • shallots, minced
  • chilli, sliced
  • a dash of Chinese cooking rice wine
  1. Marinate pork with oyster sauce, light soya sauce and a little corn flour for at least 2 hours
  2. Heat up some oil in wok
  3. Fragrant minced garlic, shallots and chilli
  4. Add in marinated pork and stir-fry for a few mins
  5. Add in Chinese cabbage and stir-fry for another min
  6. Pour some water for gravy
  7. Cover wok with hood and simmer on low fire for about 2 mins
  8. Remove hood and cook for another min or so
  9. Add a dash of Chinese cooking rice wine before serving

Home-cooked: char choy with tofu soup

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What you need:

  • char choy, cut into chunks
  • tofu, cubed
  • chicken bones
  • salt to taste
  1. Soak char choy for a while to get rid of the salt, in case too salty. Once done, cut it into chunks. Set aside.
  2. Boil a pot of water
  3. Once boiling, add in chicken bones, cubed tofu and char choy chunks
  4. Not forgetting, salt to taste and cover with hood to let it boil again
  5. Once boiling, lower the heat and let it simmer for about an hour before serving

Home-cooked: stir-fried pork with ngaku

What you need:

  • pork, sliced thinly
  • ngaku (arrowroot), sliced
  • garlic, minced
  • shallot, minced
  1. Marinate sliced pork with oyster sauce, light soya sauce and a little corn flour for about 2 hours at least
  2. Once ready, heat up some oil in wok
  3. Add in minced garlic and shallot, stir-fry until fragrant
  4. Add in marinated pork and stir-fry for a few minutes
  5. Add in sliced ngaku
  6. After cooking for a few minutes, add in some water for gravy
  7. Cover with hood and let it simmer in low heat for about 2 minutes
  8. Remove hood after continue stir-fry for about a minute before serving

Home-cooked: stir-fried angle beans with sambal belacan

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What you need:

  • angle beans, cut into 1 cm length at 45 degrees angle
  • garlic, minced
  • shallot, minced
  • ready made sambal belacan
  1. Heat up some oil in wok
  2. Add in minced garlic and shallot, cook until fragrant
  3. Add in sambal belacan and stir until fragrant
  4. Add angle beans and a little water for gravy, stir-fry for a min or so
  5. Cover with hood and let it simmer on low fire
  6. Remove hood and continue stirring for another few mins before serving

Home-cooked: stir-fried snake beans with tofu in cincalok sauce

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What you need:

  • snake bean, cut into 1” strips
  • tofu, cut into smaller cubes
  • cincalok
  • garlic, minced
  1. Heat up some oil in wok.
  2. Add in minced garlic, cook until fragrant.
  3. Pour some cincalok, according to your liking, stir a little.
  4. Add in snake beans, continue stirring and add some water for gravy.
  5. Cover with hood, let it simmer in low heat.
  6. Once snake beans soften, add in tofu. Stir-fry until cook and ready to be serve.
  7. Season according to taste as cincalok itself is very salty.