Teriyaki sauce prawn and broccoli

Is had been long time, I didn’t write my DIY foods.  Last time work in K.L, I used to be having dinner at some Japanese style restaurant(Teriyaki style).  For me, their foods taste delicious, good and fresh and I like the way of order and cook in front of customer.

So, let us make some simple Teriyaki sauce prawn at home, is very simple.

Ingredients :

1. Medium size Prawn
2. Broccoli
3. Teriyaki sauce

Method:

1. Clean the prawn
2. Mixed the prawn with Teriyaki sauce and marinade for half hour
3. Heat up the frying pan with some cooking oil
4. fried / cook the prawn until it turns golden color
5. For broccoli, you either can boiled it or cook with garlic
6. Finally, mixed the prawn and broccoli in a plate (see the photos)

Prawn with teriyaki sauce

Fried prawn

Cook or boiled broccoli

Teriyaki sauce Prawn and broccoli

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Deep fried Oyster sauce chicken

For almost 2 weeks, I didn’t write anything in my blog.  I’m affraid its going to dry out.  To avoid this happen, I had to try some new cooking ideas.  Oyster sauce Chicken, is a Chinese style cooking, hope you enjoy it.

Ingredients:

1. 1 Chicken (chop into small chunk)
2. 2 spoons of Oyster sauce
3. 1 tea spoon of sugar
   • Mix the ingredient (2) and (3) with 1/2 cup of water
4. Garlics
5. Parsley
6. Spring onion
7. Chinese wine (optional)
8. Pepper
9. 1 spoon of Soy sauce

Methods :

1. Marinade(2 hours) the chicken with soy sauce, pepper and 2 slices of garlics
2. Heat up the work with cooking oil
3. Fried the chicken until it turn golden color (don’t over fried)
4. Put a side the fried chicken
5. Cook the garlic
6. Put in the fried chicken and cook evenly (for about 1 minute)
7. Pour in the mixture of Oyster sauce and sugar
8. Cook the chicken until boiled and the sauce become sticky
9. Pour little bit of Chinese wine and pepper
10. Turn off the fire and serve the chicken with Spring onion and Parsley

See below photos for more info.

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Hot season start on April at my place.  Feeling sticky after sweating whole day and loosing my appetite.  See the photo above, it can be served cold or hot as well.  Is a very simple food.

Ingredients:

• 1 ‘block’ of soft white tofu
• Spring onion
• Dry onion
• Soy sauce

Method 1 : to serve cold

• Put the soft white tofu into freight overnight
• Chop the spring onion into small pieces (for topping)
• Fried the dry onion (for topping)
• Put the white tofu into a plate (flat) and pour the fried dry onion (and oil) into it
• Topping with some spring onion

Method 2 : to serve hot

• Put the white soft tofu into a plate (flat)
• Steam the tofu for 10 minutes
• Take out and put the fried dry onion (and oil) into it
• Topping with some spring onion

Oh! don’t forget put some soy sauce into it as well

Enjoy!

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Sambal ! Is a daily meal for some Malaysian(correct me if I’m wrong).  There are lot of different types of sambal, like sambal petai, sambal udang, sambal ikan bilis, sambal sotong and etc.  It has been long time I didn’t cook hot and spicy foods.  So, last Saturday, I had try to cook Sambal udang kering(dry shrimp), and it seem that I still maintain my skill(hahahahhaha….)

Dry Shrimp sambal

Ingredients:

• Dry shrimp(washed)
• Thai Chili(cili padi) or dry chili(cili kering)
• Garlic
• Dry Onion

Methods

• Put all ingredients into a mortar and pound with pestle until all into mash ( you can use blender to blend all the ingredients also, but the out come can be little bit different)
• Scoop out the half-ready sambal into a bowl
• Heat up wok with 3 spoons of cooking oil (don’t put any salt or soy sauce because its already salty)
• Fried the half-ready sambal about 4-5 minutes

Garlic and Dry onion

Thai chili (cili padi)

Dry shrimp (Udang kering)

Pound all ingredients(Pestle and mortar)

Half ready sambal udang kering

WARNING : This Sambal is Super hot and spicy

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At first, I really don’t know what it called.  And is rarely sold at my place, me and my family called it ‘French bread‘.  We even don’t know how to make it become a delicious foods. (sound funny right?)  Then, few days ago, I bought it from market and want to give it a try, to make something different with this – Baguette.

Baguette with potato mixed-DIY Breakfast

Ingredients:

1. Baguette
2. 2 potatoes
3. Mayonnaise – 5 spoons (add more if you like it)
4. Parsley (chop into small slice)
5. Garlic slices
6. Pepper

Methods:

1. Cooked / boiled the potatoes – 30 minutes (until the potatoes become soft)
2. Take out the potatoes and cut it into small cubes
3. Put the potatoes cube into a big bowl and smashed it
4. Put in ingredients 3, 4, 5 and stir it evenly
5. Finally, put some pepper

Can anybody tell me, what is the plant called ?  I just know the Cantonese name(‘Fan Guai Yin Sai‘).  It really taste good when you eat with Chicken(‘Pai Zhan Ji‘). – Sent the name of this plant in comment, Thank you.  Your help is very appreciated.

OK, back to topic, see the photos below for step by step instructions.

Boiled potatoes

Garlic slices

Parsley or the unknown vege

Mayonnaise

Mixed up all ingredients

smashed all the ingredients

And finally, my breakfast is ready!

Baguette with potatoes mixed

Is not only for breakfast, it can be served as tea time snacks as well.  If you like meat, then you can put some bacon on it too.

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As what I understand, ‘Teow Chew’ people love this foods for their morning breakfast.  My ex-colleague told me, his ‘Teow Chew’ boss having porridge as breakfast almost every day when he was once work as chef in United States.

Plain porridge with fried dry fish and pickled lettuce

From what I know, most Malaysian hotels buffet(Morning), one of the item in the menu list is – ‘Teow Chew’ style porridge. Is a plain porridge eat together with peanuts, pickled lettuce, fried dry fish, salted egg.

Is not complicated meal.  Is very easy and simple to cook this dishes.

Ingredients A: plain porridge

1. Rice – 150 ml for 2-3 person
2. 750 ml water

Ingredients B:

1. Dry fish – 100 grams (washed)
2. Pickled lettuce – buy from market
3. Peanuts (optional) – buy from market
4. Salted eggs (optional)

Methods:

1. Wash the rice and put into pot
2. Add in water and cover the pot
3. Cooked the rice until it boiled (medium heat)
4. Open the cover a bit
5. Cook 25 minutes (longer time, the rice will stickier)
6. Plain porridge ready
7. Heat up wok with small-medium fire
8. Pour 2 spoons of cooking oil
9. Fried the dry fish until it come lightly golden color and crunchy
10. Ready to serve

Beside ‘Teow Chew’ style porridge, there are also ‘Cantonese’ style porridge, Chicken porridge, pork porridge, frog porridge, fish fillet porridge, Prawn porridge.  You name it!

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April fool day morning, is a lazy morning.  Nothing much foods left in freight.   So, I decided to make a simple fried bread with egg.

Fried bread with egg

Ingredients :

1. 4 slices of white bread
2. An egg
3. Little bit of pepper
4. Little bit of soy sauce

Methods :

1. Put an egg in a bowl
2. Add in pepper and soy sauce
3. Stir the egg evenly
4. Heat up the frying pan(small fire) with little bit of oil
5. Dunk the bread into the egg (one side only)
6. Fried the bread until it turn golden brown

See below step by step photo

Simple and easy breakfast !

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Remember my previous post – Steam Glutinous rice cake and milled coconut ?  If you still have reserved some glutinous rice cake, then you can make another snacks called – Fried Glutinous rice cake and sweet potato (combo).

2 different sweet potato with glutinous rice cake

Ingredients:

• Glutinous rice cake
• Sweet potatoes
• Flour (1/2 cup)
• Water

Method:

1. Cut Glutinous rice cake into small thin slice
2. Cut the Sweet potato into small slice
3. Mix the flour and water, stir evenly until it look sticky
4. Heat up oil (medium)
5. Clip a slice of glutinous rice cake between 2 pieces of sweet potato
6. Dunk into the flour mixture and put it into wok, fried for 2-3 minutes

See below photos for step by step instruction.

Glutinous rice cake slices

Sweet potato

Sweet potato slices

Mixture of flour and water into sticky look

Stick with flour mixture

Ready to eat

tips: Keep over night (2 days), when you buy sweet potatoes – it will make the sweet potato more soft and sweet.

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Although Chinese New Year is already gone almost 2 months ago.  I think some of our Chinese friends family still kept Glutinous rice cake UNTOUCHED.  Some will throw these NOT very nice cake into dustbin.

Don’t waste foods, I will make you a simple and delicious snack from glutinous rice cake.

Sticky and yummy glutinous rice cake

Ingredients:

1. Glutinous Rice Cake
2. Milled Coconut (Buy from market – ready product)
3. 1/4 tea spoon of salt (Optional) mixed with milled coconut

Method:

1. Chop the glutinous rice cake into small chunk (2 cm)
2. Put the glutinous rice cake on a plate
3. Put the plate into a boiled water and cover it
4. Steam it for 10-15 minutes(you can use chop stick or fork to test the softness and stickiness)

See the photos below step by step

Glutinous rice cake

Milled coconut

Small chunk

Steam for about 15 minutes with cover

Test the softness

Easy ? Sure is very easy and you can served it as breakfast or tea time snacks.   Hmmm… what else can I do with this Glutinous Rice Cake ?  See my next post (coming soon)

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How many of you have your breakfast at ‘home’?  I mean D.I.Y.  I believed most of us only take 2 pieces of white bread with some jams and a cup of coffee every day for breakfast.  Is not very healthy for a daily balance diet.  You can try make this breakfast at home and trust me, is easy, simple and fast(just like my mini tuna sandwich).

Taste nice and good

Ingredients :

• White bread
• 2 eggs
• 3 tea spoons of Mayonnaise
• Little bit of salt (optional)
• Parsley(optional)
• Ham(optional)

Methods:

• Boiled the eggs  for 8 minutes (if you take out from freight)
• Let the eggs in the hot water for 2-3 minutes
• Smashed the eggs in a bowl
• Put in the Mayonnaise, Ham and stir it evenly
• Put in little bit salt and parsley
• Spread it on the bread
• Hmmm.. if you like heavier taste, can put in some roasted garlic

There you go, its only take about 15 minutes to serve this delicious breakfast.  Hey,  don’t just rushed to work, take your time, enjoy your breakfast.

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