Vegetables recipe - Stir-Fried Kailan

As I am growing up, my mum always told me over and over again that vegetables are good for me.  I don't really fond of vegetables when I was a kid.  I found it not tasty and it's so greeeennnn....

But now, I will make sure there always be vegetables in my menu.  I can't deny the facts that vegetables are naturally low in energy, fat, and salt.  So, today I am going to share with you my very simple vegetable recipes - Stir-Fried Kailan.

Stir-Fried Kailan

Ingredient:

Kailan, slices of chicken breast, ginger & garlic, oysters sauce, vegetables oil, water, corn flour & salt to taste.

Methods:

Stir fried ginger in a pan with a tablespoon of vegetables oil until fragrant, put in chicken and stir a while, then put in the ginger together with the Kailan. Lastly put in the 2 tbs of water that we mixed with oyster sauce and corn flour to make a thicker gravy. Salt to taste but you can skip this because of the oyster sauce. 

When kailan change to darker color and the gravy is thicker...then...it's done! Enjoy...

Fried Fish with Salted Black Bean

Fried Fish with Salted Black Bean

Still seaching what to prepare for your Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.  Well, I happen to stop by at the small Chinese Grocery Shop yesterday and bought the salted black bean.  So, I have prepared for my dinner yesterday,  Fried Fish with Salted Black Bean.  This is how I prepare it:

Ingredient:

Slices of fish (mix with a dash of salt and 1/2 tbs corn flour)

Salted Black Bean

Oyster Sauce ( I use vegetarian oyster sauce)

Slices of big & red onion, ginger & garlic, 

Cooking Oil, salt and sugar to taste 

Water & Corn flour ( for thicken the sauce)

Slices of Red Chili & chinese pastry for garnishing.

 

Methods:

Deep fried the fish until golden brown, put aside.

Pour in about 1 tbs of cooking oil in a pan, frying the onions until fragrant, then put in the black beans, make sure not to over frying, just enough to smell the fragrant than put in the oyster sauce and 3 tbs of water with corn flour.   

Then, Put in the fish when it is about to thicken.

Put in salt & sugar to your taste (can skip this, cause the oyster and black beans have it's taste also)

When It's thicken, it's done... can put in the serving plate and put in garnishing...

Enjoy....

Blueberry Cake

I made a Blueberry Cake last Saturday for my kids.  Just a simple sponge cake covered with whipping cream and top up with blueberry filling.  My kids really love the cake and the cream too but, never the filling.  My youngest one will ask me to scrap out the blueberry before enjoying the whole piece of the cake.

The recipe, everyone must already had their own favourite basic sponge cake.  As my recipe for quick and simple sponge cake would be:

1 1/2 cup  self raising flour

3/4 cup butter (soften)

3/4 cup caster sugar

3 eggs(grade A)

1 tsp vanilla extract

Methods:

Prepare 20" round baking tin, heat oven to 170 C.

Mix all ingredients in a medium bowl with a spatula.  Beat ingredients in medium high speed until smooth and glossy.  Pour mixer into prepared tin and bake for 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Let it cool, prepared whipping cream and covers and decorates the cake as you desire....

Happy baking...

Nasi Kuning Tawau for Saturday Meal

Saturday is just like any other day for me. Busy working at home, doing some cleaning work, re-arrange furniture and a must cooking job. My husband shared a memory how he fond the Nasi Kuning Tawau during her young aged. And, he didn’t find such a tasty Nasi Kuning anywhere when he visited Tawau. As for me, I never tasted the genuine Nasi Kuning from Tawau and I just can’t imagine how would it like. I’ve decided to prepare Nasi Kuning Tawau for last Saturday. Do some surfing over the internet and found a blog from someone hidayati, credits to her for her efforts.

Preparing this food in 3 sections, preparing the Rice / Nasi, the fish and the kerabu. I made a little adjustment in preparing the fish according to my taste…so, would love to share you with recipe belows:

First Sections: The Nasi (Rice)

Ingredients:

4 Pots of Rice

Coconut grated
4cm fresh Turmeric (pound)
2 pcs Pandan Leaves
Water
1 pinch salt

Methods:
Mix coconut grated, pound turmeric with enough water, then filter it to get the coconut milk. Preparing rice as usual, cook in a rice cooker add up coconut milk, pandan and salt.

Second Sections: The Fish

Ingredients:
About 6 Slices of Fish (any fish will do)
3cm fresh ginger
1 stalk lemon grass
3 cm fresh turmeric
3 pcs shallot
1 tbls cili paste (cili boh)
1tbls prawn paste (belacan)
1 tbls tamarind paste
Sugar
Salt
3 tbls water
cooking oil

Methods:
Add a pinch of salt over fish and let it sit for a while. After that, fried slices until cook and brown and put aside.

Pound or blend ginger, shallot, turmeric, lemongrass until it become paste. Heat 2 tbls of cooking oil in pan, add in paste of ginger, shallot, turmeric, lemon grass until you can smell the aroma, put in all the other pastes, water, and salt, sugar to your suitable taste. Let it simmer a while until you can see the oil boiling up and add in the slices of fried fish, mix them well and stop the cooking process. The fish is ready to be served.

Third Sections: The Kerabu

Ingredient:
1 Coconut grated
1 stalk Lemon grass (slices to small pieces & pound)
2cm ginger (pounding)
1 pinch tumeric powder
Pinch of salt to taste
Pinch of sugar to taste

Methods:
Mix all the ingredient in a heated pan, dry fried until turning brown.
Top up on your fish....to compliment your dishes...

Chicken wt Bake Bean Sauce



Chicken wt baked bean sauce

Reaching home at around 6pm yesterday.  Being a working mom, sometime puts me in hard time preparing meal for my kids.  Especially when this mom will not have enough time to do shopping for fresh groceries and will cook whatever she have around her small kitchen.

So, I created my own recipe, as I believe you will do the same also.  No measurement to be very particular, just enough for everyone at home to enjoy the food. 

The ingredients, chicken cut into small pieces, a can of baked bean in tomato sauce, 2 tbls tomato sauce, half cup water and a bit of garlic, ginger, salt, sugar and black pepper.  Guess what, my kids really love the food...

Carrot Cake (Kek Karot)

Myvusak nak minta maaf banyak-banyak untuk member-member yang ada 'request' resepi Carrot Cake hari tu. Bila dah buka blog ini senanglah sikit untuk myvusak kongsikan resepi-resepi untuk semua 'member-member'. Senang je, buat kek ini. Jika tak faham, bolehlah hantar komen, myvusak akan cuba bantu ok, selamat mencuba dan merasa....

Bahan-bahannya:

 1 cawan walnut (dipanggang dan cincang kasar)

2 1/2 cawan karot (dikisar halus)

2 cawan tepung gandum (diayak)

1 sudu teh Baking Soda

1 1/2 sudu teh serbuk penaik

1/2 sudu teh garam

1 1/2 sudu teh serbuk kayu manis (Cinnamon)

4 biji telur (gred A)

1 1/2 cawan gula halus

1 cawan minyak kanola (minyak jagung pun orait juga)

2 sudu teh vanilla extract

Caranya:

Perkara pertama, perlu panaskan ketuhar/oven dan set pada suhu 180 degrees C.

Lepas tu, sediakan bekas pembakar kek, sapu dengan butter dan lapiskan dasarnya dengan kertas kek.

Satukan dalam sebuah bekas, tepung, baking soda, serbuk penaik, garam dan kayu manis.

Dalam bekas yang lain, pukul telur hingga kembang dan berkrim (1 minit).  Masukkan gula secara berkala dan pukul sehingga pekat (3-4 minit).  After that, masukkan minyak perlahan dari tepi bekas tadi diikuti dengan vanilla.  Campuran tadi dipukul lagi sehingga sebati. 

Then, masukkan walnut dan karot tadi serta digaul menggunakan spatula atau sudu kayu.

Bila dah sebati bolehlah dituang dalam bekas pembakar dan masuklah kat oven.  Bakar dalam tempoh 25 hingga 30 minit atau guna 'toothpick' cucuk di tengah kek, jika dikeluarkan bersih maka, masaklah sudah...bolehlah diangkat dan disejukkan...  bila dah sejuk bolehlah dihias dengan Lemon Cream Cheese.