Pig Stomach Soup (猪肚汤）

Ingredients:

300-400g pork ribs

1 big handful ikan bilis

2 tbs barley

1-2 carrot, chopped to big pcs

8 chicken feet

1 pig stomach, washed

1 tbs white pepper seed

4 garlic clove with skin, washed

1 sweet intestine (optional)

4 bowl water

Method:

1. Blanched the pork ribs and chicken feet (when water boiled, put all inside for 3mins and turn off fire). 
2. Boiled water, add in pork ribs and chicken feet.
3. After 10mins, add in the rest except sweet intestine.
4. Boil for another 10mins, add in sweet intestine and turn off fire.
5. Transfer the pot to thermal and leave it for 6-7 hours.
6. Salt or light soy sauce to taste when ready.

If using fire, after boiled turn to low fire and simmer for 2 hrs.

Add in sweet intestine in the last 20-30mins.

Tip for washing pig stomach

Trim off the white fats, turn over the stomach inside out. Apply 1 tbs oil + 2 tbs corn flour on the stomach, rub all over it. Wash it off.

Then apply 1 tbs salt + juice from 4 limes or 1 lemon, rub all over the stomach. Wash it off.

Blanch it with hot water and done!

Homemade chicken stock

Ingredients:

2 carrots, chopped

2 onion, halved

5 celery, halved

4 chicken carcass

2 bay leaves

Method:

1. Bake at 180degree for 1 hr.
2. Put it in to a pot and add water just above the vegetables.
3. Add in bay leaves.
4. Simmer with slow heat for 1hr.

*** Slow heat, very important.

Modify recipe from here.

Homemade Chicken stock

Ingredients:

3 carrots

7-8 celery

4-5 sliced raddish (optional)

4 chicken carcasses

1 big onions

3 bay leaves

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree.
2. Chopped all vegetables in big pieces, need not peeled and lay it over the baking tray.
3. Put chicken carcasses on top of the veg.
4. Baked for 1hr.
5. Transfer it to a pressure pot, fill it with water till 3/4 full and boil it for another 25mins.
6. Store it in container for later use.

Recipe adapt from here.

Tom Yum

Sweet chili sauce

Ingredients (Serve 1):

1 tbs Galangal, sliced

1 tbs Lemongrass, angle sliced

2 pcs Abalone mushroom, sliced into half

2 pcs Kaffir lime leaf, removed stem and tear

1 Shallot, cut to half

1 pcs coriander root, smashed

5 pcs prawns, peeled and deveined

1 cup Water or chicken stock

Seasoning:

1 tbs Thai fish sauce (Tiparos)

1 tbs lime juice

2-3 pcs chili padi

1 tsp sweet chilli paste

1 tbs tamarind juice

3 tbs evaporated milk or fresh milk

Method:

1. Heat a pot with water till boiling (high heat).
2. Add in lemongrass, galangal, shallot, corriander root and lime leaves.
3. After few mins, add in prawns when there is smell of herbs.
4. Add in the seasoning except the lime juice.
5. Add in milk, and turn off fire.
6. Lastly add in lime juice.

* All ingredients can be bought in the Thai supermarket in Golden Mile Complex.

Recipe from Red Chili Cooking School

Fish Meat Bee Hoon Soup

Ingredients (serve 1):

2-3 tbs evaporated milk

1 tbs Chinese wine (hua diao)

1-2 stalk Chye Sim (cut into 4cm long)

Fish fillet (grouper, red snapper) cut into big cubes and marinate with little salt for 10mins.

1 small Shallot (sliced), place in cup, covered by oil, microwave high for 2m30s

2 cup Chicken broth 

1 portion of Laksa noodle

1 small piece of sole fish (microwave high for 30sec)

fish sauce to taste

 

 

Method:

1. Heat up wok and fill with oil, turn to big flame.
2. When oil is hot, fry the fish fillet till golden brown.
3. Boil chicken broth.
4. Add in chye sim, sole fish, evaporated milk.
5. Add in laksa noodle, fish sauce.
6. Add in Chinese wine, fish fillet, let it boil for 2 mins.
7. When done, top with shallots, ikan billis (optional).



Prawn soup

Soup ingredients:

0.5kg prawns (just need the prawn head)

100g ikan bilis

1tbs dried shrimps

5- 6 cups water

0.5tsp sugar

1tsp fish sauce/ light soy sauce

 

 

(can use been hoon/ kway teow or any noodles)

 

Fish cake sliced

Prawn

1.5 tbs shallots

cooking oil just enough to cover the shallots 

 

 

Method:

1. Peel prawn body away form its head, use the prawn head for broth.
2. Fried prawn head with little oil for 2-3mins. add in the rest of soup ingredients.
3. Boil and simmer for 1-1.5hours. Before done, add in sugar and fish sauce.
4. Shallots- place sliced shallot and oil in a microwave proof cup and microwave for 2m30s (high) till gold brown. (timing will varies from different microwave so adjust accordingly)



CORN CHOWDER

Ingredients (Serve 4):

Half broccoli
1 medium onion
1 carrot
1½ tablespoons butter
½ teaspoon dried thyme
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
3 cups milk
1 medium potato, peeled and cut into little cubes
2 cups frozen corn ¼ cup chopped fresh chives and/or parsley (optional)

Method:

Heat the butter in a medium saucepan over a medium heat. Add the broccoli, carrot, onion,

     and thyme. Stir until the vegetables start to brown.

Sprinkle the flour over the veggies and stir for a few more minutes. Pour in the milk, add the     

     potato and bring to a boil, stirring the whole time so the soup doesn’t stick to the pot. Cook until
     the potatoes are tender, but not mushy – this will take around 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, prepare the croutons.

When the potatoes are tender, stir in the corn. Bring the soup back to the boil, then serve.

 Croutons:
1. Cut bread into small pieces.
2. Sprinkle some salt and pepper.
3. Pour in some olive oil and mixed together.
4. Bake in oven at 200degree for 20mins.

Chicken Chop Noodle Soup

Soup base ingredients:
(2 servings)

1. 2 tbs Ikan Bilis
2. 1 tbs Soya bean
3. 2 stalk of spring onion
4. 1/2 tsp sugar

Method:

• Boil Ikan Bilis and Soya bean for 20mins.
• Add in Spring onion and boil for another 5mins.
• Add in sugar.
• Turn off fire and remove all ingredients.
• Soup base is ready for use.

Wanton Soup

Ingredients 1:

150g minced pork
3 chopped water chestnut
Dash of pepper
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp oyster sauce
1 tsp light soy sauce
Pound- 2 small sole fish (place it in oven for 7-8mins OR microwave for 1min on high)
Wanton skin

Ingredients 2:

1 handful ikan bilis
1 handful dried soy bean


Method:

1. Add ingredient 1 together and placed it in fridge for an hour .
2. Bring out and put it in wanton skin. approx, 1cm mixture in 1pcs wanton skin.
3. Wrap it all up.
4. Boil a pot of water, when boiled add in wanton.
5. It is done when the wanton floated up. Dish up.
6. Boil ingredient 2 for 20mins.
7. Add in 1/2 tsp sugar.
8.  Drain away the ikan bilis.
9. Add in the wanton into the soup and is done!

Snow Lotus Soup (冰山雪莲汤)

Ingredients:

• Pork bone broth
• Snow Lotus
• Sweet potatoes
• 1 tbs north south almonds (南北杏)

Method: 

1. Boil the pork bone broth
2. Add in all other ingredients and boil for 1 hour.
3. Ready to serve.

ABC soup

Ingredients:

4 bowls water
Broccoli

1 small carrot chopped

1 corn stripped

1/2 onion chopped

1 pcs celery sliced thinly

1 chicken leg sliced

Marinate chicken leg:

light soy sauce

pepper

1/2 tbs corn flour

1 tsp sugar

1. After boiling water, add in corn, celery and carrots to boil for 15 mins.


2. Add in broccoli and boil for 10mins


3. Lastly, add in chicken leg for 5 mins.


4. Salt, pepper to taste.

Radish & cuttlefish Soup

Ingredients:

Dreid cuttlefish
300g pork ribs
3 dried scallops
7 red dates
4 bowls water

1. Rinse pork ribs with hot water and pour away.
2. Boil water, when water is boiling, add in all ingredients and simmer 3-4 hours with slow fire.
3. Add light soy sauce and pepper to taste.