Spicy Eggplant with Dried Shrimps

Ingredients

4 pcs Eggplant (cut into3cm long wedge)

1 Tbsp cornstarch

4 Tbsp light soya sauce

2 tsp    sesame oil

1/8 tsp  pepper

3 pcs bird eyes chilli

1 Tbsp garlic finely chopped

50g dried shrimps (soak in water for 5 min, remove and dried)

2 stalks spring onions (coarsely or finely chopped depends on preference)

Methods

1. add cornstarch into eggplant. stir well.

2. heat pan and add oil enough for deep dry. add in mixed eggplant and fry until brown at the edges. set aside.

3. heat wok with oil. add in garlic. stir until light brown.

4. add in dried shrimps. stir for 1 min

5. add in chilli and eggplant. stir for 2 min.

6. add in sesame oil, pepper and light soya sauce, stir for another 2 min.

7. add spring onions, stir for 1 min. dish and serve.

Chicken with Mixed Vegetables Stir Fry

Ingredients

1 halves chicken breast 

1 small carrot

1 packet (300g) fresh pea pods

225g baby corn

3    Tbsp Oil

1/2 Tbsp garlic finely chopped

1    Tbsp oyster sauce

1/2 cup   water

Marinate

1 tsp cornstarch

1/2 tsp light soya sauce

Method

1. slice carrots, baby corn thinly.

2. cut chicken breast into small cubes and place in a bowl. 

3. mix light soya sauce into chicken breast evenly. coat chicken cubes with cornstarch. set aside.

4. heat wok with oil and stir fry garlic until light brown.

5. add in chicken cubes and stir fry until chicken is almost cook (almost turned white colour).

6. add in carrots, baby corns and pea pods, stir fry for 1 min.

7. add oyster sauce, mixed well.

8. bring the heat to small and pour in water, stir well. let it simmer for 3 mins.

9. dish out and serve

Stir Fry Lettuce with Garlic

Ingredients

1 head lettuce/ romaine lettuce/ iceburg lettuce

1 Tbsp chopped garlic

1 Tbsp oyster sauce

1 Tbsp oil

Method

1. heat wok with oil, stir fry chopped garlic until fragrant, lightly brown. 

2. add lettuce into the wok and stir fry for 1 min.

3. add in oyster sauce and serve while hot.

p/s: to ensure lettuce after stir fry is looking freshly green do this: while washing the lettuce for the last time, do not drain all the water from the lettuce. Hence while stir fry, water retain in the lettuce when combined with oil will make the dish looked fresh and green. 

Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

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you might think why my cookies looked so ugly..... well this is the last piece of cookies that i manage to get before my two little dinosaur have a go at it.......  it is really a yummy cookies. Have a try and share with me if you agree with what i am saying.... :-D

Ingredients
280g      flour (all purpose flour)
1/2  tsp  baking soda
240g      unsalted butter
80g       granulated sugar
200g     light brown sugar
450g     chocolate chips
1  tsp    salt
2  tsp    pure vanila extract
2 large eggs
few sheets of baking paper


Method
1. preheat oven to 350 Celsius.
2. whisk flour and baking soda. set aside.
3. in a separate bowl, whisk butter and sugar. (you can use electric mixer to do so). beat until the combination is light and fluffy.
4. add in salt, vanila and eggs( 1 egg at a time).
5. beat until well mixed about 1 min.
6. add in flour mixture and mixed until it is evenly combined.
7. stir in chocolate chips.

8. drop tablespoon size balls of dough (about 5cm apart from each other)  into baking tray that is lined with baking paper.
9. place the ready tray into the oven and bake 8 to 10 min until cookies are golden around edges.
10. remove cookies from oven and let cool on baking sheet 1 to 2 min.
11. transfer cookies into wire rack and let it cool completely.

p/s: if you find the cookies is either too sweet or not sweet, you can always reduce/increase the sugar quantity.

Stir Fry Kailan with Oyster Sauce

I love to eat kailan, especially when it is lightly stir fry, soften and green. However, during my first trial of cooking such a simple dish, I FAILED. My kailan is yellow-brown (over cook), some portion of the vege, espcially the steam portion is hard, and it turned bitter.... here's why......

Kailan is a type of vege where it cannot be overcook (to make it soft) and it cannot be undercook either (like someother type of vege to maintain it's 'greenness').

So from the Tv cooking programme, I FINALLY found the proper way to prepare a stir fry kailan.

here's how:

1. cut the kailan vege into small pcs. (or you can prefer to keep the whole stem)

2. fill a pot with water and boil the water.

3. Add in 2 Tbsp of sugar and 2 Tbsp of cooking oil into the pot.

4. After the water boil, place all kailan into the pot for 2 min.

5. When kailan turned into shining-fresh green, drain the vege. (as shown in the picture)

now... you are ready to stir fry the kailan.

Ingredients

2 Tbsp oil

2 tsp    garlic

2 Tbsp oyster sauce

Methods

1. heat wok with oil, stir fry garlic until light brown.

2. add in kailan and stir fry for 1 min.

3. add in oyster sauce and stir fry for 1 min.

Sweet and Spicy Fish

Ingredients

685g  Fish steaks/ fish fillets

Deep fry ingredient

4 Tbsp oil 

1 tsp    corn flour/ cornstarch

1/4 tsp salt 

Stir fry ingredient

2 Tbsp  oil 

1 clove  chopped garlic

1 tsp     chopped ginger root

Spicy sauce ingredient

2 tsp     hot bean paste

4 Tbsp  catsup (tomato sauce)

3 Tbsp  rice wine

1/2 tsp  salt

1  Tbsp sugar

Garnishing 

4  Tbsp chopped spring onions

Method

1. clean fish and dry fish thoroughly with paper towel

2. coat fish with salt and then corn flour

3. heat oil and deep fried fish until golden brown.

4. set aside fried fish

5. heat wok and oil. Add in garlic and ginger, stir fry 1 min.

6. Add in fried fish and stir fry for few seconds.

7. Add in spicy sauce. Bring to boil and coat the fish evenly.

8. toss in spring onions.