Friday, May 28, 2010

Chinese Cabbage with Fish Ball and Chicken Feet with Peanuts Soup Recipes and Cooking Tips

Soup usually everypne liking but cooking a tasty soup is not simple. Thats included selection and combination of ingredients becoming very important in order to cook a tasty soup. Let me share with you two types of soup recipes and cooking methods.

(A) Chinese Cabbage with Fish Ball Soup

Ingredients :

  • 2 pices of chicken bone
  • 1 slice of dried squid
  • 1 carrot cut in cube size
  • 300g chinese cabbage
  • 250gfish ball

Seasoning :

  • Salt add to taste
  • Gound pepper add to taste

Method :

  • Boil one liter of water
  • Add in chicken bones, dried squid and carrot.
  • Continue stewing with high flame then switch to low flame forone hour
  • Add in chinese cabbage, fish balls and seasoning
  • Cook for another 10 minutes with highh flame
  • Remove and ready to be serve

(2) Chicken Feet with Peanuts Soup

Ingredients :

  • 250g peanuts
  • 4 pairs of chicken feet
  • 1 drumstick chopped into 2 pieces
  • 4 black mushrooms
  • 1 carrot cut to desire sizes

Seasoning :

  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon light soy sauce

Method :

  • Soak to soften peanuts with hot water for about 30 minutes
  • Rinse and drain off water and set aside
  • Soak to soften black mushrooms,drain off water
  • Slow cooker fill with 2 bowls of water and pour in the peanuts and simmer for 2 hours
  • Add in all others remaining ingredients and continue simmerfor another one hour
  • The soup is now ready to serve

Monday, May 24, 2010

Spicy Prawn Recipes

Ingredients :
  • 500g fresh prawns (shelled, deveined and wash in salt water)
  • 2 tomatoes cut in wedges
  • 2 large onions cut in slices
  • 4 pips garlic
  • 1 tablespoon chilli powder
  • Tamrind Juice (1 teaspoon tamarind mixed with 4 tablespoons water)
  • 1/2 cup thick coconut milk
  • 4 tabnlespoons cooking oil
  • Salt to taste

Methods :

  • Heat cooking oil in the saucepan and fry the garlic and onions for 3minutes over medium flame
  • Add in chilli powder
  • Add in tamarind juice and tomatoes
  • Fry till forms on the surface
  • Add in the prawns, thick coconut milk and salt to taste
  • Bring to boil over low flame
  • Continue cook for about 8 minutes
  • Remove from fire and read to be serve

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Garlic and Marmite Chicken Recipes and Cooking Tips

Today I wish to share my 2 favourite chicken cooking style in garlic and marmite. Try it now and you will like most of the time. (especially children)



(1) Garlic Chicken


Ingredients :



  • 300g chicken (half bird) chopped in small pieces

  • 5 cloves garlic, sliced

  • 1 tablespoon cooking oil



Marinade :

  • 2 tablespoon light soy sauce

  • 2 teaspoon thick soy sauce

  • Ground pepper add to taste



Decoration :

  • coriander cut into desired sizes
  • chilli cut into desired sizes

Method :

  • Marinade chicken meat with marinated ingredients for 25 minutes

  • Heat up one tablespoon of cooking oil

  • Stir fry garlic slicves till fragrant

  • Add in marinated chicken meats and continue to fry for 3 minutes with high flame

  • Add in 2 tablespoon water and continue fry for another 6 minutes with medium flame

  • Place onto a plate and garnished with coriander

  • Ready to be serve.

.........To be continue edit with marmite chicken recipes and cooking tips tomorrow.

Hi, Lets continue with the Marmite Chicken as promised to you yesterday...

(2) Marmite Chicken

Ingredients :

  • 2 chicken drumstick cut into 8 pieces

Marinade :

  • 1 1/2 tablespoon marmite
  • 2 teaspoons honey
  • 2 teaspoons corn flour

Decoration :

  • Coriander cut to desired sizes
  • Chilli cut to desired sizes

Method :

  • Marinade the chicken drumstick with marinated ingredients for 15 minutes.
  • Fill wok with cooking oil which can completely cover chicken meat
  • Deep fry chicken meat till 20% cooked over medium flame
  • Switch to low flame and continue deep fry the chicken until golden brown
  • Dredge out and drain off the oil
  • Garnished with coriander and chilli
  • Ready to serve

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Vegetarian Loh Han Zhai Recipes & Cooking Tips

Eat more vegetable and save the earth....Today, I wish to share one of the chinese popular vegetarian dish called : LOH HAN ZHAI.

Ingredients :
  • 8 dried mushrooms
  • 4 asparagus shoots
  • 180g cauliflower
  • 5 small chinese cabbage
  • 1/2 carrot
  • 10 button mushrooms
  • 2 tablespoons cooking oil
  • 1 tablespoon extra origin olive oil
  • 3 strips of ginger

Seasoning :

  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon mushroom sauce
  • 2 teaspoons sesame oil
  • A pinch of salt
  • A pinch of pepper
  • A pinch of sugar

For Thickening :

  • Blend 1 teaspoon cornflour with 4 tablespoons of water

Method :

  • Soak the mushrooms in warm water until soften
  • Cutoff stems and season with above seasoning
  • Wash and cut vegetables in desired sizes
  • Place carrot, cauliflower at the base with small chinese cabbage at thetop in the saucepan
  • Add in 2 tablespoons of water
  • Scaldfor about 6 minutes over medium low flame
  • Heat up the cooking oil and fry ginger until fragrant
  • Add in seasoned mushrooms, button mushrooms follow by vegetables
  • Pour in the cornflourwith water
  • Mix well and the dish is ready to serve

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Curry Fish Head Recipes and Cooking Tips

Curry Fish Head! A lot of people like but to cook a hot yet delicious curry fish head is not easy. Belows are the unforgettable simple and easy cooking tips of curry fish head. Woh.....Lets do it now!

(A) Ingredients :
  1. 500g whole fish head or cut into pieces
  2. 4 tablespoon cooking oil
  3. 1/2 cup thick cocunut milk
  4. 1 cup diluted cocunut milk
  5. 5 ladies fingers
  6. 1 tomato cut into 4 pieces
  7. 1 onion cut into 4 pieces
  8. 1 binjal cut into desire sizes
  9. 1 cucumber cut into desire sizes
  10. 2 pieces chilli cut into slices
  11. 2 stalks lemon grass

(B) Curry Paste :

  1. 2 tablespoon curry powder
  2. 8 stalks dried chilli
  3. 7 pieces shallots
  4. 2 pips garlic
  5. 1.4cm blachan
  6. Item 2 to 5 grind finely

Methods :

  • Heat a saucepan with cooking oil and fry curry paste over medium to high flame
  • Pour in diluted coconut milk
  • Turn to low flame, add in (A) Ingredients 5 to 11 and cook for about 15 minutes till it boils
  • Add iin fish head follow by thick coconut milk
  • When its started to boil, switch off flame
  • Add salt according to taste
  • Ready to be served with plain rice

Please follow through another good delicious recipes and cooking tips tomorrow........Vegetarian Vegetables called Loh Han Zhai...

Monday, May 17, 2010

Potatoes Fried Rice Recipes

Today, I wish to introduce a simple and easy but delicious Potatoes Fried Rice.

Ingredients :
  • 1 potatoes cut in cubes
  • 1 onion cut in cubes
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 2 plate of white rice
  • 180g medium sized prawn, remove the shell
  • 120g chicken meat, cut in cubes
  • 1 teaspoon garlic, grated

Seasonings :

  • 1/4 teaspoon Ground pepper
  • 1 teaspoon thick soy sauce
  • 1.5 teaspoon soy sauce

Methods :

  • Heat 2 tablespoon of cooking oil and pour in the beaten egg
  • Stir fry evenly
  • Add in potatoes, chicken meat, onion and prawn sequentially
  • Stir fry till fragrant
  • Pour in white rice, addi in seasoning
  • Continue to stir-fry for another 5 minutes
  • Ready to serve.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Stir Fried Sting Ray With Bean Paste and Stir Fried Chicken

(1) Stir Fried Sting Ray with Bean Paste

Ingredients :
  • 350g sting ray fish cut into pieces
  • 1 piece ginger, shredded
  • 2 red chili, shredded
  • 2 1/2 tablespoon bean paste

Seasoning :

  • 1/2 teaspoon sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon light sauce

Method :

  • Heat 3 tablespoon of oil
  • Stir fry shredded ginger, chili and bean paste until fragrant
  • Pour in fish and seasoning
  • Continue stir fry for another 6 minutes
  • Add on 1 cup of water and continue to cook for another 6 minutes with medium heat...then serve

(2) Salty Fried Chicken

Ingredients :

  • 1/2 chicken about 325g, chopped into small pieces

Marinade :

  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon five spices powder

Dipping Sauce :

  • 2 red chili finely chopped
  • 5 shallots finely chopped
  • 2 tablespoon sour plum juice
  • 1/2 tablespoon balacan powder
  • Sugar add to taste

Methods :

  • Marinade chicken with marinated ingredient for 20 minutes
  • Heat one bowl of oil,pour in marinated chicken and deep fry with high heat till golden colour, dredge out drain off the oil
  • Mix well all the ingredient for dipping sauce for 10 minutes
  • Ready to serve together with deep fryied chicken.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Recipes and Cooking Tips for Salad Prawn and Teochew Steam Fish

Today I am sharing some classical chinese dishes called Salad Prawn and Teochew Steam Fish.

(A) Salad Prwan
  • Ingredients :
  1. 300g prawn with shell
  2. 1 pc of watermelon cut into cubes
  3. 1 pc of honey dew cut into cubes
  4. 1 pc of mango cut into cubes (optional)
  5. half apple cut into cubes (optional)
  • Seasoning :
  1. 1/4 teaspoon salt
  2. 5 tablespoon salad cream
  • Methods:
  1. Season prawn with salt and steam for 5 minutes
  2. Off the heat and leave to cool
  3. Pour the prawn and other ingredients and well in the mixing bowl
  4. Add in 1 tablespoon of water into salad cream and mix well
  5. Add in all the well mixed ingredients
  6. Preserved in refrigerator for one hour, then serve.

(B) Teochew Steam Fish

  • Ingredients :
  1. 600g garoupa fish
  2. 6 slices ginger, shredded
  3. 2 preserved plum, crushed
  4. 1 large tomato, cut into 4 pices
  5. 2 pcs pickled swatow mustard cabbage,shredded
  • Seasoning :
  1. 1 teaspoon light so sauce
  2. 1 tablespoon cooking oil
  • Methods :
  1. Rinse the fish and put onto metal plate
  2. Steam the fish for 2 minuteswith high heat, pour off the whitish liquid
  3. Spread ingredients all over the fish
  4. Mix in 2 tablespoon of water into seasoning
  5. Pour over the fish
  6. Continue steam for another 8 minutes and ready to serve

Note :

Steaming time may be longer depending on fish size. If the fish size bigger then longer steaming times is required.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Cholesterol Determination and Health Drink

Why LDL Cholesterol remained high despite Total Cholesterol and HDL Cholesterol already improved? Why? Why? Have you asked yourself on cholesterol checking and determined annually?
Potential person for a heart attack, high blood pressure, stroke and/ or various abnormalities resulting from prolonged faulty circulation usually is a personnel with high blood cholesterol. At such, the determination of our annual blood cholesterol for every individual, regardless of age believe needed. Immediate action to lower it should be taken, if this figure found to be above 180 milligrams. Innumerable suffering and untold premature deaths may be avoided were such a procedure followed.
Though, there was lacked of statistical data nor analysis to show that cholesterol alone causes general atherosclerosis, heart attack or a strokes, but an elevated blood cholesterol invariably accompanies these abnormalities. Neither is a gas gauge on a car responsible when the tank is empty, but it indicates trouble ahead which can be prevented.

Health Tips...You may want to try! I believe it work! No harm to try......
  • Squeeze a lemon dry,
  • Mix with water 1 litre, keep in the refrigerator,
  • Pour 80ml to a glass and mix with 80ml warm water and drink with empty stomach.
  • Repeat similar steps every morning until finished.
  • Good to have 10 to 20 minutes exercise thereafter. by;
  • Slowly tilt up and down both toes,
  • Similar time, swinging both arms front and back.

Note : The above action may be repeat once per month.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Eating Healthy, Living Healthy

Let's eat right health food to keep fit and live healthily! There are many people not feel well because of not eat right food can be one of the aspect. The statistics of illness are always too depressing over most of country. for example: illness in allergies, ulcers, arthritis and so on. The illness of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and strokes are the most rapid increasing illness. The significant change too quickly to be accurate.
Nutritional research being carried out in almost every medical institute, university and pharmaceutical laboratory worldwide. There are about 7,149 in 1960 alone, original scientific studies in nutrition are published the summarized in Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews. Therefore, any health sharing or nutrition book in acquisition of knowledge on how to build and live healthy via nutrition and eat right becomes greater demand each year.

.......Please keep an eye for more sharing tomorrow!