Sunday, December 29, 2013

Sweet Mustard Grilled Salmon

Ingredients:
Salmon fillet
1 tbs honey mustard
2 tbs brown sugar
Garlic salt and pepper
 
 
Method:
  1. Marinade salmon fillet with garlic salt and pepper for 10mins.
  2. Spread over honey mustard and sugar on the salmon fillet.
  3. Broiled it for 15mins.


Saturday, December 28, 2013

Confinement Food

DOM/ BRANDY CHICKEN SOUP
 
 Ingredients:
1/2 black chicken (skin removed)
Red dates (with seed)
2tbs Wolf berries
Dang Sheng (党参)
3tbs DOM
3tbs ginger juice
1bowl water
 
  1. Boil water till boiling.
  2. Add in all ingredients into the slow cooker.
  3. Double boiled for 3-4 hours.
  4. Add light soy sauce to taste (optional).                                                                                      
 
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STEAMED COD FISH
 
Ingredients:
2tbs good light soy sauce (I use khw)
1.5tbs sesame oil
1 knot ginger thinly sliced
1 piece cod fish
 
  1. Place the cod fish to steam after water boiled, 8mins.
  2. Fried the ginger with sesame oil till golden brown.
  3. When fish is cooked, pour over the light soy sauce and sesame oil mixture.
 
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DOUBLE BOILED HERBAL CHICKEN
 

Ingredients:
1big chicken breast
2 pc Bei Qi (北芪)
2pc Dang Sheng (党参)
2tbs wolf berries
10 red dates
 
  1. Boil water.
  2. Add in all ingredients in slow cooker and double boiled for 3-4 hrs.
  3. Add light soy sauce to taste (optional).

 
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RED DATES TEA
 
Ingredients:
15-17 red dates (with seed)
2tbs wolfberries
2 black longan
2pc Dang Sheng (党参)
 
 
  1. Boiled all ingredients for 15-20mins.
  2. Pour into thermal bottle.

 
 
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FRIED GINGER RICE
 
Ingredients:
2-3tbs shredded ginger
2-3tbs sesame oil
1 bowl rice
1-2 eggs
 
  1. Heat up wok.
  2. Pour in sesame oil.
  3. Add in ginger and fried till golden brown.
  4. Add in rice, then stir in eggs.
  5. Light soy sauce and pepper to taste.

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CLAYPOT PIG LIVER


Ingredients:
200g pig liver sliced
2-3 stalks spring onions
1 tbs Chinese Hua Diao Wine
1 tbs light soy sauce
1/2 tsp dark soy sauce
50ml water
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp corn flour
6-8 piece sliced ginger
2 tbs sesame oil
 
 
Method:
  1. Marinate liver with light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, corn flour.
  2. Heat up claypot, add in sesame oil.
  3. Add in ginger, fried till golden brown.
  4. Add in liver, water, sugar.
  5. About 3mins, add in Chinese wine, spring onions.
  6. Cook for another 2mins and turn off fire.
 


Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Liege Waffles

Make 9 waffles
 
Ingredients:
1 packet active yeast
1/2 cup milk
2 cup bread flour
2 egg
1 tbs sugar
3/4 tsp salt
113g butter
2 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup pearl sugar
 
Method:
  1. Heat up waffles maker.
  2. Mix yeast, milk and rest for 15mins.
  3. Add in bread flour, salt, sugar, eggs, butter, vanilla extract, mix and rest for 4 hours.
  4. The mixture will double in size, add in pearl sugar.
  5. Make 9 balls out from the mixture, it will be slightly wet.
  6. Place the dough in the middle of the waffle maker.


Lemon Tart


18cm tart (serve 6-7)
 
Pastry ingredients:
120g plain flour
80g butter
30g icing sugar
1 egg yolk
 
 
Method:
  1. Mix all ingredients together and knead quickly.
  2. If mixture is too dry, add half tsp cold water and mix together.
  3. Place the dough on a cling wrap, flatten with roller pin and cover with cling wrap.
  4. Place inside fridge for 20-30mins.
  5. Place pastry onto the tart tray.
  6. Preheat oven at 190 degree.
  7. Poke some holes on the pastry using fork.
  8. Place a parchment paper on top of the pastry and put coins/ pie weight on the parchment paper.
  9. Bake for 10mins.
  10. Remove the weight and bake for another 10-15mins. 

Fillings ingredients:
2.5 lemon juice and zests
2.5 medium eggs
95g sugar
150 whipped cream (38% fat)

Method:
  1. Mix all ingredients in a mixing bowl.
  2. Pour the mixture in to the pie tart and bake for 30mins at 120 degree.