Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Flavoured Chicken Rice

This dish was intended to be a Claypot Rice dish. We had a craving ever since we first tried this. So I decided to give it a shot in cooking the dish myself.



It turned out that it was 'wetter' than it's supposed to be (thus the change in the dish name :P). I believe it has got to do with my subconscious mind of cooking the rice with more moisture (I love 'damp' rice). My hub, on the other hand, prefers 'drier' rice. He kept complaining that it is too moist. He finished the whole plate, though, leaving only a mushroom or two behind. Heh! It goes to show that the standard is still there ok! kekeke... Btw, I love the taste! I drool even by just looking at the picture. :p~~~

Ingredients

  • Rice
  • 2 Mushrooms (cut into halves)
  • 1 prepacked chicken thigh from NTUC
  • 1 Chinese sausage

Marinade (A)
  • 1 tbsp oyster sauce
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 tsp corn flour

Seasonings (B)
  • 1/2 tsp dark soy sauce
  • 1 tsp light soy sauce
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1/4 tsp pepper
  • 1/2 tsp concentrated chicken stock
  • 1 tsp garlic oil

Method

1) Debone the chicken thigh and remove fats
2) Cut the chicken into small parts and and marinade with (A)
3) Cook the rice
4) Stir fry garlic in heated oil until fragrant
5) Cook chicken
6) Once the chicken has changed colour, add chinese sausage
7) Add seasonings (B) and stir until even
8) Pour the cooked ingredients into the rice cooker 5 minutes before the rice is fully cooked.
9) Stir well
10) Once the rice is ready, add another 1/2 tbsp of dark soy sauce and 1 tsp sesame oil to enhance the colour and flavour.

YUMS!

Monday, July 23, 2007

Stir Fried Dou Miao with Mushrooms

Ok Ok, I agreed that the display of the food was a lil' too deliberate, with the carrot and mushroom all lined up in an orderly manner. (Wait till you see the whole photo, with the carrots round the whole plate. Hee!)



But I had to do a bit of housekeeping because this dish would look extremely weird with all the button mushrooms and carrot slices scattered around... :P

I have a slightly varied way of cooking dou miao this time... glad it works for my hub. In fact, he prefers the way it was done up for this round. :) So here goes the revised receipe...

Ingredients
5-6 slices of Ginger
Dou Miao (pea shoots)
1/2 a Carrot (sliced)
10 Button Mushrooms
1 cup of stock (from soaked mushrooms)
1 tbsp cooking oil

Seasonings
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp light soy sauce
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp cooking wine
Salt to taste

Method
1) Stir ginger in heated oil
2) Add carrot and mushroom and cook under moderate high heat
3) Sprinkle 1 tsp sugar and stir
4) Add 1/4 cup of stock
5) Stir fry Dou Miao with light soy sauce and oyster sauce
6) Add remaining stock, cooking wine, remaining sugar and salt to the wok
7) Add sesame oil just before switch off the fire

Kung Pao Mock Meat

"You should cook and sell vegetarian food", commented my husband, after sampling the dishes for today.

I looked up at him in disbelief, as he seldom give compliments like this. Just when I was about to jump up and down in excitement, he added the following.

"But maybe not for other non-vegetarian dishes." kwa kwa >_<''' Thanks hor!

That's when I was reminded of this song title... "哭笑不得" :P

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