Soy Sauce with Fried fish

This morning bought 2 slices of very fresh Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel from the wet market.

 

See the lines of the fish are so clear and the flesh is so nice and juicy.

 

I decided to fry and prepare a simple and nice soy sauce over it.

 

 

The ingredients are,

500 grams fish,

enough oil for frying,

2 tbsp. soy sauce,

2 tbsp. chopped garlics,

1 tsp. sugar,

1tbsp. vinegar,

3 tbsp. water,

dash of pepper and 1/2 tsp. salt (season the fish)

dash of corn flour.

chopped spring onions for garnishing.

 

Wash and pat dry the fish.  Season with salt and pepper for 20 to 30  minutes.  Heat up the oil in a wok,  dash some corn flour on both side of the fish ,then  put the fish in the hot oil to fry until golden brown.  Remove from the wok and place on a serving plate.

 

 



                                                                                    

 

Scoop out the oil from the wok and leave about 1 tbsp. for frying the chopped garlics.  Saute  the garlics until fragrant, add in the soy sauce, water, vinegar and sugar.  Stirring the mixture until boil, scoop up and place on top of the fish.  Garnish with chopped spring onions. Serve hot.

 

 

 

The fish is very fresh and sweet of it own taste and the soy and vinegar just match perfect with it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simple Pumpkin Soup

As I promised yesterday that I will share a simple yet delicious pumpkin soup.  Pumpkin was very cheap last week, it cost only .99c per kilogram as compare a few months ago, the price went as high as 4.99 per kilogram.  I was greedy, I manage to choose 2 medium sized pumpkins from Tesco  hypermarket.  I make some pumpkin jam and some pumpkin steam pau as well.  Now I am going to share my way of preparing simple Pumpkin soup.  This recipe serve 3 to 4 persons.

The simple ingredients are,

600 grams of pumpkin,
1 onion,
1 tsp. salt,
1 tsp. pepper,
3 cups of water,
1/2 cup of coconut milk/milk.
sour cream(optional)

Wash , peel and cut the pumpkin into small pieces, cut the onion into half.

Put pumpkin, onion, salt and pepper and 1 cup of water in a sauce pan, cover and cook for 10 minutes or until the pumpkin is soft.  Pour into blender and blend until all become fine.

Pour the blended pumpkin back into the sauce pan, add the balance water.  Use slow fire to cook until boil, stirring all the time until it boil.  Add in the milk and have a quick stir and boil.  Serve hot with sour cream .  I prefer it to remain as the pure natural pumpkin taste, I  do not add cream.

 

I have the pumpkin soup go with my whole meal roll for dinner.

Chili Sauce

Today I am very excited to share a special chili sauce.  I never like to dip in any sauce or chili sauce whenever I eat anything like fry chicken  and other fry foods,  I do not like to dip in any tomato or chili sauce when I see most of my friends do while eating fast food especially the French fries.

The recipe of this chili sauce is from my new friend, Yoke Yin.  I tried the chili sauce in her house last 2 weeks, oh.... not hot,  not very  sweet but fragrant and a little sour, very nice and special. I like it  and I hope you guys will like this sauce too.

The ingredients are,

!0 red chili with the stalk,
15 musk lime (limau kasturi)  juice,
1 stalk of lemon grass,
1 stalk of wild ginger bud,
3 tbsp. of sugar,
2 tbsp. of oyster sauce,

put all the ingredients into fast speed blender, my blender will blend for 1 minute.

the end result of the blended chili sauce.

I will bring the chili sauce to a boil, let cool completely then store in bottles in the freeze, this can last for a longer time.  This chili sauce is very good for any food dip, and can just pour some of the sauce on the fish for steaming as well.

Whole Meal Dinner Rolls

Looking for whole meal dinner rolls to go with pumpkin soup.  Finally found 1 recipe from the web that is simple and easy to make dinner rolls.

Here are the ingredients,

1 cup of water plus 2 more tbsp. of water,
1 large egg,
1/4 cup of sugar,
1 tsp. salt,
2 tbsp. shortening,
2 cups whole meal flour,
11/3 cups all purpose flour,
1 tsp. dry yeast.

It is very easy for me as I am using bread maker to make this bread.  I just have to put all the ingredients starting from the liquid to dry ingredients in the inner pot and press the start button.  the machine will mix, knead and proof the whole process, it will takes 1.30 hour.

Well, those who do not have the machine can also make the rolls by traditional way, that is by hand.
Put all the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl.  Make a well in the centre, beat in the egg, pour in the water gradually.  Using hands to mix the wet and dry ingredients well, add in the shortening and start kneading for 10 to 15 minutes.  Cover with a piece of cloth and let it proof for about 40 minutes or double in size.

 

my dough has been proofed in the bread maker.

 

 

divide the dough into half

 

then into 4, then at last shape into 12 small balls.  Place the rolls on the greased baking sheet.

Brush with beaten egg, sprinkle with some toasted black sesame seeds(optional) .  Let proof for another 40 minutes or when the balls has become double in size.

 

 

bake in preheated over of 170 degree C for 15 minutes.

Woh...can smell the aromatic smell of bread after about 10 minutes of baking,

 

my dinner rolls are ready in 15 minutes, look so pretty, so soft and nice.  Will share the pumpkin soup recipe tomorrow.

 

 

Old Cucumber with pork ribs soup

This is a very cooling and nourishing soup that my mom used to prepare for the whole family.


the ingredients are,

1 -1 kg old cucumber,
300g pork ribs,
7 red dates,
1- 3 dried sotong,
6 small dried mushrooms(optional),

 

wash the pork rips and par-boil

 

 

 

 

 wash the old cucumber and scrape the skin off, cut into half, discard the seeds and cut into smaller pieces.

soak the dried sotong, red dated and dried mushrooms for about 20 minutes.  wash and set aside.

Boil 1 litre of water in a pot.  Put in all the ingredients .  Slow down the fire when all the ingredients in the pot is boiled.  simmer for about 1 to 11/2 hour.  I usually  will pour into slow cooker after boiling in a soup pot and let slow cook for 4 hours.  Slow cook can slowly simmer out fragrant and the flavour of all the ingredients.  I normally do not add any salt into to soup, we prefer the original taste of the soup.  Garnish with chopped spring onions or coriander.  Serve hot.

 

 

Tamarind Sauce with fried fish

What to cook for dinner tonight?  Check my freezer, there are about 500 grams of fish cutlets.  I have been baking or grill fish for sometimes, today I will like to fry the fish and prepare a sauce over it.  Well, I will prepare tamarind sauce for the fish.

Defrost the fish, season with some salt and set aside.

The ingredients for the sauce.

2 -3 tbsp. chopped garlic,
2-3 tbsp. chopped shallots,
5 small chillies - cut
some fresh basil ,
3 tbsp. sugar,
3 tbsp. fish sauce,
2 tbsp. oil,
150ml tamarind juice(1 tbsp. tamarind pulp)

Fry the fish until light brown. Remove from the pan, leave about 2 table spoon of oil in the pan.  Fry chopped garlics and shallots until fragrant, add in the tamarind water, sugar, fish sauce and chili. .Stir and let boil for 1 minute.  Put in the basil and have a quick stir.  Scoop out the sauce and put on top of the fried fish, serve hot with rice.

Very appetizing dish.

Chocolate Chips Chiffon cake

I have been baking pandan and orange chiffon cakes for many years.  I was amazed to see this chocolate chips chiffon cake from a blog.  I wanted to try to bake this for my tea today.

The recipe called for only 3 eggs and using 7 " chiffon baking pan, I modified to 6 eggs because my baking pan is 9" in size.

The ingredients for egg yolks,

240 grams superfine flour,(sifted)
5 tbsp. caster sugar,
1 tsp salt,
1 tsp baking powder,
6 egg yolks,
8 tbsp. corn oil,
120 ml coconut milk/milk,
1 tsp vanilla,
100 grams chocolate chips.

Preheat the oven to 170 degree C. 
Put the flour in a mixing , make a well in the centre, add in the rest of the ingredients, mix well.  Add in 1/2 of the chocolate chips.  Set a side.

Ingredients for egg whites,

6 egg whites,
1/2 tsp cream of tartar,
6 tbsp. of caster sugar,
some cocoa powder(optional)

Whisk egg whites until frothy, add in cream of tartar and continue whisking when foamy. Gradually add in sugar, whisk until soft and stiff peaks formed.

Fold 1/3 of the egg whites into egg yolk mixture until well combined.  Then fold in well blended mixture into the balance of the egg whites until well cooperated.  Add in the balance chocolate chips, fold lightly.

Pour in 1/3 of the batter into the baking pan , sieve some cocoa powder over the batter(to make some lines in the cake), repeat for a second layer and the top layer.

Wow, the cake is baked, smell so good.

Just in time for my tea.  Taste so good with the chocolate chips just melted in to the cake.