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Showing posts with label suitable for vegetarian. Show all posts

Old granny's potato 老奶洋芋 - Yunnan style bubble and squeak

I often find similarities between western and oriental food like this stir fried potato which is similar to rustic English bubble and squeak (not the cake shaped type). Here to introduce to you a classic home cooking from Yunnan called lao nai yang yu 老奶洋芋 or old granny's potato. The reason why old granny or lao nai 老奶 is named after this is because this potato dish is soft suitable for grannies

Korean ice cold soy milk noodles - Kongguksu

Kongguksu is an interesting bowl of noodle soup. It is icy cold great for the warm weather. It has an unsual cold soy milk broth with added nuts for more flavour. The broth is mild, nutty, delicious and healthy. If you like strong flavoured noodle soup this recipe is not for you.This soy milk broth is not the normal soy milk. Soaked soy beans are boiled then blended with water to a creamy thick

Simple steamed aubergine 蒸茄子

Whenever aubergine is on offer I just got to buy a few. I got a large aubergine (eggplant) to use up, but I just can't be bothered to fry or braise like I normally do, the weather is so warm to stand in front of the cooker. Opting for the easy way, I steam it and cover it with a simple sauce. Nice and simple, the aubergine is soft and slippery. One extra I added which adds lots of flavour is

Stir fried seitan with mixed vegetables 麵筋炒雜菜

I made seitan few days ago, I shallow fried and braised half the quantity, the remaining (about 300g) I boiled for about 30 minutes till cooked through. After cooling, I pat dry it and left in the fridge to use later. Raw seitan can also be steamed for about the same time till cooked through.Yesterday I stir fry the boiled seitan with mixed vegetables. It was a yummy.For the recipe of the stir

Pajeri nanas (pineapple curry)

It's been a while since I last posted a Malay recipe. This is what I made last week with opor ayam (creamy chicken). The pineapple was spicy, sharp and sweet, the chicken was mild and creamy, perfect match. This pineapple curry is one of my favourite curry, very tasty. If you like curry and sweet & sour this is for you.Recipe is quite simple. All you need is a fresh pineapple** and some

Spring onion pancakes 蔥油餅

Spring onion or scallion pancakes (chung you bing 蔥油餅) are delightful flaky pancakes, similar to Indian paratha. There are various ways of making these pancakes. This is my favourite method.These pancakes can be eaten on its own with any favourite dipping sauces, or as a wrap like this egg filled pancakes or eaten with a meal. No bad with curry if you don't mind fusion.Here is the recipe, makes 6

Tainan coffin board (bread) 台南棺材板

Coffin board (棺材板 'guan chai bun') is a popular snack from Taiwan. When I first heard of this recipe, I was intrigued by its unusual name wondering how superstitious Chinese can be and how many people can get offended by its name. Coffin board resembles American's chowder filled bread bowl. Instead of crusty bread, coffin board uses fried bread similar to English fried bread but much larger

Kimchi

I love Korean food. One of the favourite is kimchi. I have always wanted to know how to make kimchi. Recently made a batch it was a success and to make sure it is safe to eat. I tried it, it was fine. Now I am confident to share a fresh batch with you.

This recipe is a Chinese cabbage (leave) or Napa cabbage Kimchi.

To make kimchi there are several essential ingredients. For the chilli powder

Japchae

Japchae is Korean stir fried glass noodles with vegetables with or without meat. It is very similar to Chinese stir fried noodles. Korean glass noodles 'dang myun' are much thicker than Chinese glass noodles and greyish in colour. Chinese glass noodles are made with mung beans and Korean glass noodles are made with sweet potato starch. Here is the packet I used.Japchae is delicious, healthy,

Khao pad bai horapa (basil fried rice with prawn)

This Thai style fried rice is similar to my previous post for Nasi Goreng Pattaya. This basil fried rice is a lot easier and very delicious. As long as you got some cooled cooked rice it takes few minutes to prepare.Recipe for 2:2.5 - 3 cups of cooked rice, loosely packed (2.5 for light eater)about 18 - 20 peeled raw king prawn, medium size, raw or precooked2 cloves garlic, chopped1 large egg,

Abacus Beads 算盤子

To go with CNY and celebration food, I had made some Chinese gnocchi called Abacus beads 算盤子. This is typical Hakka cuisine and is eaten at most Hakka celebration meals. It’s a good luck dish because the dumplings are round, smooth, sticky and chewy similar in meaning to Chinese as the sticky rice dumplings as mentioned in the last post. These round dumplings are made to look like the beads on

Tofu and mince with black bean sauce

This is very similar to Mapo tofu but with a Cantonese flavour and there is no chilli bean sauce for this recipe. I think it is as nice as Mapo. Don't use black bean sauce in a jar for this recipe, it's not right.Ingredients:about 400g of chinese tofu, cut into small squares100g of minced pork*1 tbsp of fermented black beans (more if you like it a bit salty), roughly chopped1 large red chilli,

Savoury stuffed pancakes

I bought similar stuffed pancakes for breakfast in Hong Kong and China hawker stall. They are simple to make great for breakfast or brunch. I think this is popular in Northern China rather than a Cantonese recipe. You can use any filling you like meat and veg, potato and vegetables (vegetarian) or even cheese and onion english style, great to use up any leftovers. You can make them ahead and warm

Aubergine with minced pork salad

Not an authentic recipe, kind of Asian fusion that I throw together. Easy recipe. Tangy and spicy rather nice and very pretty. For the recipe: (enough for 3 - 4) 2 large aubergines or eggplants Stir fry meat: About 2 tbsp of cooking oilAbout 180 - 200g minced pork3 - 4 kaffir lime leaves, finely shredded2 cloves of garlic, chopped2 tsp of fish saucepinch of ground pepperdressing: 1 – 2

Ants climbing the tree

Chinese: 螞蟻上樹 (ma yee sung su)This is a typical Sichuan dish, a cheap comfort food. The bits of minced pork resemble the ants climbing up the pile of noodles like the tree branches/twigs and maybe the spring onion bits look like the leaves? Funny Chinese imagination ;) and not very foodlike! Last thing I want to eat is a plateful of ants and tree branches. Anyway aside from the name, this dish

Fish Fragrant Aubergine

Lidl's aubergines were less than 30p ea last weekend. I got to buy some. Aubergine is probably one of my favourite vegetable, if you cook it right it’s sweet, soft and scrumptiously good but if it is not cooked through it’s like eating paper pulp, strange vegetable. Moussaka and Fish Fragrant aubergine are probably my favourites. I am no expert in Greek cooking so I will just post a

Mapo Tofu

Chinese called this Mapo tofu 麻婆豆腐, loosely translated in English as 'pockmarked woman tofu'. Several legends all slightly different telling the story how this dish was developed. The story I read said at the end of Ching Dynasty, in Chengdu (Sichuan) by the Wan Fu bridge, a pockmarked woman took over her husband restaurant after he died. There were few street traders who frequently ate in that

Shanghainese Noodle Pancake

Chinese: 兩面黃 (liang mein huang)This a Shanghai street food, in translation this is called 'two yellow faces' (or two sides brown). This noodle dish makes excellent lunch. Cook like a stuffed pancake. Outside crispy inside soft and filled with a meat and vegetable filling.Very easy to make. Best noodles to use are those fresh thin noodles available from Chinese supermarket.recipe enough for 1 or

Chicken, mixed vegetables and tofu with gravy

This tofu dish is a common cantonese home cooking. Simple, colourful and quite delicious. Once you have done all the prep and cutting, it only takes 5 - 8 minutes to cook.Ingredients:Chicken and marinate1 large chicken leg or chicken breast, remove skin, deboned and cut into 1 cm cubes1 tbsp of light soypinch of ground pepperdash of sesame oil1 heap tsp of cornflourOther ingredients2 cloves of

Singapore Fried Rice Vermicelli

Singapore fried rice vermicelli or (xing zhou chow mai) is available in nearly all Chinese restaurants and takeaways all over the world. The funny thing is this dish is not traditional Singaporean. It was a creation by some Hong Kong chef. Thin rice vermicelli is normally the noodles used as the name ‘mai’ means rice Vermicelli, but I have seen so many variations including wheat noodles and