Making of rice wine

2 weeks later

 1 big 1 small bottle

Ingredients:
1kg glutinous rice

Water (just enough to cook rice)

2 jiu bing （酒饼）

Tips of preparing of jiu bing:

1. Sun the jiu bing for 1-2hr OR

2. Oven bake 120degree for 10mins.

3. Pound the jiu bing to powder.

Method:

1. Wash rice 2-3 time till clean.

2. Soak rice overnight or 8hrs.

3. Drain the water.

4. Add water to rice, steam rice or cook rice in rice cooker.

5. Use glass container or claypot.

6. Sprinkle some jiu bing powder inside the container.

7. Layer the rice into container, sprinkle jiu bing again and repeat.

8. Top layer sprinkle jiu bing powder.

9. Cover the lid with towel if using claypot.

10. Keep it for 7 days.

11. Rice wine is ready, filter out and keep into glass container.

*** The longer it ferment, the taste will be more robust, can allow to ferment to 1 month. 

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.