Hokkien Mee

Hokkien Mee

Ingredient
Shell Lala - 200g
Pork - 30g
prawn - 6 pc
Squid
Minced garlic
Yellow flat noodles
Vegetable

Seasoning
Black soya sauce
Oyster sauce
Fish sauce
Water / Stock - 2 cups




Method
1) Heat up the wok with oil, add in garlic, pork and stir fry for 1 min
2) Add in prawn, then add in 2 cups of water / stock. Bring it to boil.
3) Once boiled, add in prawn and squid, cooked for 1 min
4) Add in lala and vegetable
5) Once the Lala has started to open up, add in the noodles.
6) Season it with oyster sauce, black soya sauce & fish sauce to taste.
7) Cooked abt 5 - 8 mins and dish it out and serve.

Note: I am not using the Singapore Yellow noodles for this dishes as I really dun like the "gi" taste at all. So happen that I got a packet of Fuzhou noodles from Yong Peng during a one day makan trip tour. I used it to cook the Hokkien mee instead. This noodles is really good, it doesnt turn soggy easily and very chewy. Best of all that it doesnt have the "gi" taste at all.

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CNY planning

I have the intention to make some CNY goodies for the coming new year to welcome the Tiger Year. I have a few receipe books to look into and I need a quick experimental period to try out the goodies before I roll up my sleeves and start making in large batch.

Will short list the goodies I wanna make for the coming years soon.......

I have shortlisted this CNY goodies as my 2010 CNY project.

1. Kueh Bangkit
2. Coated Syrup Walnuts with Sesame
3. Golden Rose Biscuit / Honey Bee Hive
4. Baked Spicy Soy Bean
5. Love Letter
6. Coconut Candy
7. New Year Cake

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Wanton

Wanton

Ingredient
Minced pork - $2
1 egg
Wanton Skin

Option
Waterchest nut
Black Fungus.

Seasoning
Soya Sauce
Sugar
Sesame oil

Method
1) Marinate minced pork with the sesaoning & egg for 1hr or more
2) Wrap the meat in the wanton skin.
3) Cook the wanton in boiling water till the wanton floated. Dish out and serve..

Note:
I got my wanton skin from Yong Peng, a Fuzhou noodle making factory. The wanton skin is very thin yet very strong and wun break easily. It doesnt have the "Gee" smell or taste at all.

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Marmite Chicken

Marmite Chicken

Ingredient
250ml oil
2 Chix thighs, abt 500g cut into cube

Marinade
1 tsp light soya sauce
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1 tbsp corn flour

Sauce
2 tbsp Marnite yeast extract
1 tbsp maltose, 1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp light soya sauce
dash of pepper and chix stock granules
100 ml of water

Method
1) Mix chicken with marinade and marinate for 1 hour. Deep-fry in hot oil for 2 minutes or unitl cooked. Dish and drain.
2) Leave 1 tbsp oil in wok, pour in sauce and cook at medium heat unitl thick. Put in fried chix and mix well. Dish up and serve.

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KUEH KERIA (Sweet Potatoes Donut)

KUEH KERIA
4 (agak agak) sweet potatoes
130 g glutinous rice flour, more if necessary
pinch of salt

Coating1 rice bowl sugar
50mm water
3 pandan leaves

skin and boil sweet potatoes till soft. Then mash and mix with sifted flour. Add the flour in small batches. Adjust if necessary until you get a soft but pliable dough. Add salt and shape into rings the size of doughnuts. Set one side.
Boil sugar in water and add pandan leaves.
In a kuali, heat up oil for deep frying. Deep fry the kueh until nice and brown. When all the kueh has been fried, remove the oil, but don't clean the kuali. Add in the sugar syrup and stir until it it thick.
Switch off the heat and put in all the kueh and coat all them of them with the syrup. Shake the kuali around until the sugar coating looks powdery.

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Pizza Dough

Pizza Dough



Ingredient

150gm plain flour

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp instant yeast

1/2tsp salt

110ml water

1 tbsp olive oil

Method

1. Mix dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Add in oil and water, knead into a pliable dough. Continue to knead until very smooth. Cover with damp kitchen towel and leave to rise until it doubles in volume for about 60mins.

2. Punch down dough and shape it into a ball and rest for 10 mins.

3. Roll dough into a round shape - the size of your pizza pan; or divide dough into 2 portions for super thin crusts and shape to round. Use fork to prick holes onto the dough. Rest dough for 20 mins.

4. Half-bake the pizza dough at preheated oven 200 deg cel for 10 mins., remove from oven.

5. Spread tomato paste onto the pizza dough. Spread some cheese over follow by toppings. Lastly top with balance cheese.

6. Bake at 200C for about 12 mins. or till cheese turns golden brown. Serve hot.

After punching the dough.




The amt yield 372g of dough.

Shaping the dough into big round flat base.

Laying on the pizza pan.

Close up of the base. I add flaxseed into the flour to make it healthier.

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Cake fondant ultra-chocolaté

Cake fondant ultra-chocolaté

makes two loafs

for the cake
200g plain flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
50g cocoa powder
275g caster sugar
175g butter
2 eggs
1 tblsp natural vanilla extract
175g chocolate, melted
80g double cream
125g boiling water

for the syrup
1 tsp cocoa powder
125g water
100g caster sugar

for the topping
25g milk chocolate

Method
1) Preheat the oven to 170°C. Grease and line two loaf tins (21 x 11cm and 7.5cm deep) with baking paper, making sure you cut it well above the rim so you’ll have handles to later get the cake out from its tin.
2) Put the flour, baking soda, cocoa, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla extract, melted chocolate and double cream into a bowl, and mix with a wooden spoon until smooth. Slowly incoporate the boiling water and divide the batter between the twi loaf tins.
3) Bake for an hour, or until firm to the touch.
As soon as the cake is baked, remove from its tin using the baking paper, and place on a cooling rack, leaving the baking paper in place.
4) Put the syrup ingredients of cocoa, water and sugar into a small saucepan, and boil for approximately five minutes, until thickened.
5) When the syrup is ready, pierce the cake a few times using a skewer or a long match, and pour the syrup as evenly as possible over the cake. Let the cake become completely cold, remove the paper, and place it on your serving plate.
6) Get your chocolate, and slice thin slivers off the block with a heavy knife, until you’ve got enough to cover the top of the cake.

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