Sunday, June 19, 2016

Chinese Steamed Eggs (水蒸蛋)

Ingredients:
3 eggs
1.5 cup water (lukewarm water)
pinch of salt

Method:
  1. Beat all ingredients together
  2. Pour in to a bowl and scoop out bubbles if any. Seal it with aluminium foil or cling wrap.
  3. Steamed in medium heat for 20-25mins

Tips: The water MUST be from boiled water. No mixture form tap water. Had tried many times with tap water and the eggs become ugly with lots of holes inside due to the oxygen in tap water.

Quick Muah Chee Recipe


Ingredients:
1 cup glutinous rice flour
3/4 cup water
pinch of salt
pinch of sugar
1 tbs shallot oil

Toppings:
5 big tbs peanut powder
3 tbs sugar


Method (serve 2-3): 
  1. Mix all ingredients together and microwave high for 3 mins (if use plate may need to adjust timing).
  2. Bring out the dough and cut into small cubes and mix into the mixture of toppings.
  3. Top with the shallots (optional).

Tips: I use shortcut method to add shallots and oil to the mixture and microwave together.




Sunday, March 27, 2016

Deep fried Silver Bait Fish



Ingredients:

Silver fish
black pepper
salt
garlic powder
chilli powder

Marinate above for 15-20mins

2 tbs rice flour
2 tsp tapioca flour (optional)

Mix the flour with the silver fish and sift out the excess flour.

Method:
  1. Heat up the oil 
  2. Put in the silver fish and deep fried for 3-4mins.
*Timing may varies, depends on the heat, and amount of fish.



Friday, March 11, 2016

The Killer Toast

This is a very easy bread recipe that only requires one proofing.

Ingredients:

260g bread flour
3g instant dry yeast
180g (egg + full cream milk)
30g sugar (10g if making a salty toast)
2g salt (6g for salty toast)
30g butter

Method:

  1. Mix all ingredients (except butter) together and knead till you get a silky and elastic dough.
  2. Incorporate butter and knead till window pane stage (crucial)
  3. Let it rise for 1-2hrs
  4. Preheat oven at 170dgree and bake for 25mins



Credit from here.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

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!










Sunday, February 7, 2016

Ngoh Hiang

Ingredients A:

2 portion minced meat (preferred fatty, pork belly)
1 portion prawn meat, chopped
1 portion fish meat
1 portion water chestnut, chopped
1 portion red onion, chopped
1.5 tbs oyster sauce
1.5 tbs light soy sauce
1 tbs corn flour
1 tbs tapioca flour
2 tsp pepper
1 tbs sesame oil
1 tbs sugar
1.5 tsp five spice powder

Ingredient B:
1 piece beancurd skin


Method:
  1. Mix all ingredient A together and rest for at least 6 hrs.
  2. Wrap it in beancurd skin and steam for 5mins.
Steam all n keep in freezer, 





Salted Egg Cookies



Ingredients:

4 Salted egg yolks (steam 10-15mins and mashed)
120g butter
140 plain flour
60g milk powder
60g potatoes starch (I use 30g sweet potato starch and 30g tapioca starch)
60g icing sugar

1 egg yolk + 5-6 drops water
some sesame seed 

Method:
  1. Preheat oven 170 degree.
  2. Cream butter, salted egg yolk and icing sugar.
  3. Add in all other flour.
  4. Mix and leave it in fridge fro 15mins.
  5. Roll out the dough, sprinkle some flour if dough is too wet to handle.
  6. Use preferred cookie mould to cut the dough.
  7. After applying egg wash, top with some sesame seed.
  8. Bake for 13-15mins.