Brinjal and Beans with Dried Shrimps

Had a similar dish like this at a restaurant outside, so I decided to prepare this for him, with lesser oil and no MSG...a healthier choice for him.

Brinjal and Beans with Dried Shrimps

Ingredients

Few cloves of garlic and shallots (chopped coarsely)

2 spoons of dried shrimps (fried to crisp)

1 spoon of chilli paste (cili boh)

1 teaspoon of tamarind paste (dissolve in a little water)

1 bird's chilli (sliced)

1 Brinjal (cut into 1" bars)

French beans (cut into 1" length)

Four-angled beans (cut into 1" length)

Prawns

Instructions

1 Fry some shallots and garlic. Add in dried shrimps and fry till fragrant.

2 Add chilli paste, tamarind paste, bird's chilli, prawns and a little water.

3 Add in brinjal and after half-cooked, add in french beans and four-angled beans.

4 Stir in and serve on a nice plate. Garnish with chilli if you want!

Ta-da!

yum-yum!

Japanese Tofu with Vegetables

♥ Perfect dinner for 2 ♥

Darling loves beancurd (tofu)...it's affordable and good for the skin.

I cooked mine with lots of vegetables:

Japanese Beancurd with Broccoli Island

Ingredients
A few florets of broccoli
A pack of beancurd
Whatever vegetables you want to add in
Garlic and shallots (chopped)
Carrots (diced)
Corn nibblets
Green peas
2 Mushrooms (sliced thinly)
3 tablespoons of chicken stock
A little cornstarch
A dash of pepper and sugar

Instructions
1 Steam broccoli and enoki mushroom (you can substitute with any vegetables you wish) and set to cool.
2 Arrange the broccoli in the middle of the plate (like an island) as well as the enoki mushrooms.
3 Coat the beancurd with some cornstarch, sugar and salt. Fry and arrange around the "island" of broccoli.
4 Fry some garlic and shallots until fragrant. Add water, mushrooms, chicken stock, some sugar and pepper.
5 Add corn. carrot and green peas and let it simmer.
6 Pour in some cornstarch mixed in water to slightly thicken the sauce.
7 Pour the vegetable sauce around the island of broccoli and serve hot.

Yummy!

Spicy French Beans with Onions

Hi there,

Last night, I prepared dinner for him again, this time 3 dishes...

Here's the first dish, it is easy and quick to prepare.

You'll need to chop lots and lots of garlic and shallots.
But its worth the effort, garlic and shallots are good for health.
Garlic lowers cholestrol and have many other benefits while shallots help eliminate toxin from liver and kills cancerous cells.
I need to find what's the best for his health!  :)

Spicy French Beans with Onions

Ingredients

French beans (cut slanted about 5cm long)

Prawns (deshelled)

1 bulb of big onions (cut into big pieces)

2 bulbs of shallot (chopped)

1 bulb of garlic (chopped) 

2 tablespoon of chilli paste

1 teaspoon of belacan powder

A pinch of sugar

Instructions

1 Fry shallots and garlic in some oil untill fragrant. Add in big onion strips.

2 Add in chilli paste, belacan powder and sugar.

3. Add prawns and french beans. Keep stirring until big onions get soft.

4. Dish out when french beans are fully cooked.

Serve!

Japanese Bean Curd with Vegetables

Few days ago, I tried adding bean curd into my cooking...so basically

this is my first time cooking bean curd!

Wow...so many "first times"...

This dish is easy to make, healthy and the ingredients are quite cheap! A pack of japanese beancurd only costs me RM1.80 (approximately USD0.60) while the other vegetables I added are common vegetables. The sauce of this dish is very delicious and goes along with plain white rice.

Here's what I prepared :

Japanese Bean Curd with Vegetables

Ingredients

1 pack of Japanese beancurd

1 egg

4 mushrooms (sliced)

A few florets of broccoli

Carrot (diced)

Corns

Green peas

Garlic & Shallots (chopped finely)

Chicken stock/broth

Sugar and salt

Pepper powder

Instructions

1 Cut the beancurd into 1.5cm thick pieces.

2 Steam the beancurds and after that arrange them on a nice plate.

3 Fry some garlic and shallots until fragrant. Add adequate chicken stock/broth.

4 Put in mushrooms, broccoli, all other vegetables and some water.

5 Add the egg in the sauce as well as a pinch of sugar, salt and pepper.

6 Pour the vegetables in sauce on the beancurds arranged on the plate earlier.

Ta-da!

Have a try!

Healthy Vegetable Soup

Here's one of Malaysia's famous recipe of healthy soup...

Some call it ABC soup, because we mix several types of vegetables in the soup.

Here's how it look like...

Ingredients

Anchovies (cleaned)

Potatoes (cubed)

Onions (Cut)

Garlic Cloves (pounded)

Cabbage

Tomatoes (wedged)

Carrot (diced)

Mushrooms (sliced)

A dash of sugar and salt

Chicken stock/granules (optional)

Instructions

1. Put in the achovies and all the vegetables in a pot of water.

2. Bring to boil. Once boiling, turn the heat lower and let it simmer.

3. Add in a dash of sugar, salt or pepper to taste.

4. If you are into more flavourful soup, you can add a little chicken stock.

   * I made mine without the chicken stock.

I opt for a healthier choice of soup for my darling!

♥

Mixed Vegetables in a Pot

Hi everyone!

I'm back...was busy with Chinese New Year stuff for the past few days...

Pheew! Finally it's over...and here I am to share another simple recipe.

This dish was prepared by me..it looked a little boring, that's because this dish was prepared for older guests we had for Chinese New Year.

Mom said that they can't really chew...so the vegetables has to be super soft and easily swallowed.

 Mixed Vegetables in a Pot

Ingredients

Cauliflower

Brocolli

Carrot (sliced)

Garlic (chopped)

Green bean

Other vegetables you have in your kitchen

Instructions
1. Steam all vegetables in a steamer or boil them in a wok. Dish out.
    (this step is taken to soften the vegetables to ease the chewing for old people! )
2. Fry chopped garlic in olive oil until fragrant.
3. Add all vegetables and stir fry. Add 2 cups of water, a little salt, pepper and sugar.
    (Be careful not to add too much salt and sugar for them!)
4. Add some cornflour dissolved in water into the cooking to slightly thicken the sauce.
5. Serve in a pot.

Ta-da! 

A hearty dish for the elderlies!

Vegetables with cashew nuts

Hi there...I created a new dish 2 days ago...it's stir fried leafy vegetable surrounded by brocolli, cauliflower and cashew nuts.

This dish was created because of :

1) The leafy vegetable he has in the fridge had almost rotten and the ones I got...only consists of less than...10 leaves..?
2) The brocolli and cauliflowers he has in the fridge was too little to be cooked as a single dish...
3) I didn't want to mix the leafy vegetables together with brocolli, cauliflower etc as it will look like "economy mixed vege"... sure enough I want the best for my darling ♥

So...I created a dish that combines 2 dishes in one for those who encounters problem of too little vegetable to be cooked as 1 dish. Ta-da...

Vegetables with cashew nuts

Ingredients

For the Outer Ring

A few florets of brocolli

A few florets of cauliflower

Cashew Nuts (fried)

Carrots (diced)

Yelow onion (cut into rings)

Shallots (sliced)

Salt, sugar, pepper

For the Inner Part

Leafy vegetables (the one in pic is called choi tam in chinese)
Garlic (sliced)
Some cooking wine
Some cornflour
Salt and pepper

Instructions
1. Fry yellow onion, carrots and shallots in some olive oil until fragrant.
2. Add in cashew nuts, cauliflower and brocolli and stir fry.
3. Put a bowl (upside down) in the middle of a plate.
    (this will be the space you need to reserve for the leafy vegetables later)
4. Arrange the fried vegetables around the bowl.
5. Now, fry some garlic till fragrant.
6. Add in the leafy vegetables, a pinch of salt and sugar.
7. Put in a dash of cooking wine for a more appetizing fragrant.
8. Just before it is fully cooked, stir some cornflour in a little water and add in.
9. Lift up the bowl in the plate and serve this vegetable in the middle of the plate.

There you go!

Don't have to waste leftover vegetables in the fridge again!

I think it's also a suitable way to make your kids to eat vegetables...If vegetables are served in this colourful dish, I believe any kids (or young at heart) will love'em!

psstt!! again, i can't believe, I can cook! 

xoxo

Stir Fried Choi Tam

Two days ago I asked my mom, do you dare to let me cook for tonight?

Hahaha...it's like passing the lives of all the family members into my hands...LOL

She said Yes!!! Yipee!! So this was what I cooked :

Stir Fried Choi Tam

I cooked mine soft so my dad can eat them easily  :)

Ingredrients

A few pieces Choi Tam (open up all the leaves and soak them in water)

Carrot (cut sliced or cut into strips)

Garlic (sliced)

Prawn (shells removed)

Cooking Wine (optional)

Sugar and salt

Corn flour (to thicken the sauce)

Instructions

1. Fry garlic slices in little oil until fragrant

2. Add in carrot and after a while add in the prawns.

3. Add in choi tam and water. Then stir fry them.

4. Add some sugar, salt and a few drops of cooking wine.

5. Add corn flour (diluted in little water) and stir fry a while.

Voila! You're done!

Cabbage in a basket

So this is the third dish that completes the whole meal yesterday...this dish is easy and yet delicious...can be eaten on its own..!

Cabbage in a basket

Ingredients

2 eggs (beaten with sugar and shoyu)

Cabbage (shredded/cut into strips)

Carrot (diced)

1 tomato (diced)

Yellow Onion (shredded)

Shallots, Garlic

Tomato sauce, chilli sauce

Soy sauce

Sugar, salt and pepper

Instructions

1. Pour a thin layer of the beaten egg in a flat pan.

2. Lift and line in a plate.

3. Fry onions, shallots, garlic and carrot in some olive oil until fragrant.

4. Add cabbage and stir fry.

5. Add tomato sauce, chilli sauce, sugar, salt and pepper and stir fry them.

6. Add the diced tomato and soy sauce.

6. Pour on the egg lining and garnish with mint leaves or parsley.

* Optional - the egg lining can be used as a wrap

Yummy!

Cheezy Vegie

Just tried my cooking skills for the second time last night...and guess what..? I can cook! Yay!! Got to learn how to cook fast so darling dont have to eat unhealthy food outside in future...

 

So, I would like to show and share my self-created recipe with anyone reading my blog here, I call this dish Cheezy Vegie...The appearance of the dish is very usual but the aroma is so heavenly..! 

My very own --> Cheezy Vegie

Ingredients

A few florets of broccoli and cauliflower

A few mushrooms (sliced)

A medium sized potato (sliced)

Garlic, Onion, Shallots

Grated Cheddar Cheese

Sugar, Salt, Pepper

Corn flour

Thyme (Dried Herb)

Instructions

1. Fry garlic, onion and shallots in olive oil until fragrant.

2. Add in mushroom and potato slices.

3. Add some water and le it simmer for a while.

4. When the potato and mushrooms are almost cooked, add in broccoli and cauliflower.

5. Sprinkle some salt, sugar and a dash of pepper.

6. Add grated cheese and sprinkle thyme over it.

Serve hot!