Home Cook-Chicken Kuey Teow Soup

Today, I decided to cook at home. Yesterday, I went for grocery shopping and bought my bean sprouts at supermarket and this morning, I bought my remaining stuff at the morning market. 

It's up to you how you like your soup base. There's the prawn base and there's the chicken base.

I will be doing the chicken soup base for tonight.

Ingredients

• 1 piece of chicken drumstick
• 1 piece of chicken stock cube
• A packet of fishballs
• A packet of bean sprouts
• 1 piece of pork
• A packet of kuey teow

Instructions

1. Boil a quarter of water into a pot.
2. Put in the chicken drumstick and chicken cube.
3. Slice the pork into small pieces.
4. When the water is boil, pour in the fishballs and the pork.
5. Boil for at least 15 minutes before taking out the chicken drumstick.
6. Slice the chicken drumstick and throw back the sliced chicken into the pot.
7. Switch off the gas stove/ induction.
8. After that, boil another pot of water for the bean sprouts.
9. When the water is boiled, blanch the bean sprouts for 2 minutes and take it out and place it on a bowl.
10. Repeat step no.9 for kuey teow and mix it with the bean sprouts.
11.  Pour the soup into the bowl and it is now ready to serve.

Home Cook-Spicy Soup La La (Clamshell) Recipe

Ingredients

• 500 gm lala
• 1/4 ginger, sliced thinly
• 4-5 pieces of red chilli padi
• 3 sprigs of curry leaves
• 3-4 cups of water
• Pinch of salt
• Pinch of sugar

Instructions

1. Rinse the lala over water and place it in a bowl.
2. Take some young ginger and sliced it thin.
3. Take the red chilli and sliced it into half. You can keep the seed to add to the spice.
4. Wash and peel the curry leaves.
5. Once all the ingredients have been prep, bowl the water over a pot and pour in the lala.
6. Once the lala is cooked, pour in the ingredients and stir it well. 
7. For seasoning, add some salt and sugar to the pot and taste till you get the flavour that you want.
8. It is now ready to serve.

Home Cook-Korean Beef Pancake Recipe

Ingredients

• 500 gm fat trimmed sirloin steak
• 1 tsp of salt
• 1 tsp ground black pepper
• 2 tsp sesame oil
• 2 minced garlic cloves
• 1/3 cup flour
• 1/2 cup cooking oil
• 2 eggs

Instructions

1. Sliced the sirloin in thin pieces and spread it across a big tray or cutting board.

1. Sprinkle the salt and ground pepper all over the pieces of meat once.
2. Pour slight sesame oil over it after that.
3. Take 2 garlic cloves and mince it. Once done, spread it across the meat.

1. Prepare the flour and pour it to one side.
2. Take each piece of meat and dip it into the flour, front and back and place it back in the tray.
3. After that, crack 3 eggs into a separate bowl and stir it well.

1. Switch on the gas stove or induction cooker and pour 1 tbsp of cooking oil and spread it well.
2. Once the oil is hot, take each piece of meat, dip it into the egg bowl and then spread it onto the frying pan.
3. Fry it for about a  minute, front and back and take it out and place it on a tray for it to cool down. Do not put all the meat at once in the pan but once it is full, switch off the stove and take a piece of paper towel and clean it up and redo step no.9 until all is complete.

*Recipe is taken from www.maangchi.com  

Home Cook-Mushroom Rice with Wolfberries Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups white rice 
• 3 tbsp wolfberries (kei chee)
• 10 fresh Shiitake mushrooms, finely sliced
• Water
• Salt

Instructions

1. Mix all the ingredients, except wolfberries, in a rice cooker or thermopot.
2. Once the rice is on boil, add the wolfberries and stir it.
3. If you are using a thermopot, take it off from the gas stove and place it into the thermopot and let it do its work. If you are using the rice cooker, just let it cook and it will be ready.

*Recipe is courtesy from The Malaysian Women's Weekly Food Book