Home Cooking
To encourage the young generation to learn to cook as it not only save money, it also help to build a family and maintain the tradition of having meals at home thus creates family bonding. This blog not only teaches you to cook, but also have great tips for success and international food recipes.
Saturday, April 10, 2021
VEGETABLE FRITTERS
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
MAKE YOUR OWN NUT MILK
BRAZIL NUT MILK
Are you lactose intolerance? Want to boost up your good cholesterol? Make your own nut milk. I chose Brazil Nuts because they are rich in magnesium (a necessary nutrient to protect against hypertension and osteoporosis). You will need:
200g nuts of yr choice (Almonds/Hazel/Brazil) 1 litre water (I use Kangen alkaline water @ ph 9.5) A muslin cloth A 1-litre capacity glass bottle, sterilized.Rolled Oats soaked in homemade Brazilnut Milk with fresh fruits/berries. This breakfast is rich in pre-biotics for gut health and keeps your cholesterol in check.
KOREAN KIM CHI
KOREAN KIM CHI
Kim Chi is a vegetable pickle made by the fermentation of the vegetables and sugar/starch from the pear or sweet rice flour. It is rich in probiotics for gut health and best eaten raw.
MAKE-YOUR-OWN KIM CHI. ITS EASY AS 1-2-3: 2 Kg chinese cabbage (Napa Cabbage) 300g white radish 150g spring onions or chives 200 g soy bean sprouts 100g-pc ginger 2 red apples or Korean pears fine salt 4-5 tbsp roasted paprika powder 3 tbsp fish sauce 3 tbsp brown sugar
1. Wash and cut cabbage into 1" lengths.
2. Peel and julienne radish into 2mm thick matchsticks lengths. Put in a large basin with the bean sprouts and add salt generously. Leave them to water n wither. This takes about 1-2 hours. Drain, wash off salt and squeeze out water from cabbage.
3. Cut spring onions/chives into 1" lengths and add them into the salted vege. Add the paprika powder.
4. Peel and grate in the pears n ginger. Stir in sugar. Add in fish sauce.
5. Using gloves, mix well with hands to coat well the vegetable with the marinade. Put them into an airtight container. Leave overnight on your kitchen counter-top to let it ferment and sour. Kim Chi will give out some gas and will continue to water. Put in fridge the next day. Consume within 2 weeks of making.
6. The Kim Chi juices can be used to cook seafood and vegetable soup.
MAKE YOUR OWN GULAI TUMIS PASTE (STRAITS CHINESE SEAFOOD CURRY PASTE)
NYONYA GULAI TUMIS FISH CURRY
600g Big purple onions
2 medium lemon grass (use white part only)
1 whole pod garlic
20 dried chilli, seeded n soak
1 pc x 2" length fresh turmeric or 1.5 tsp heapful turmeric powder
2 pcs x 1" square belachan (abt 3mm thickness)
1. Peel, wash and cut onions n garlic.
2. Slice lemon grass thinly taking only d white part. Peel n slice turmeric..
3. Use a food processer with a feeder tube. With motor running, feed d sliced lemon grass n turmeric through d tube. Add in d soak dried chliis n blend until fine. Next, add in d garlic n onions.
4. Process until fine. Add in d belachan n process until d muxture is well blended.
5. Heat about 5 tbsp cooking oil in a wok n fry paste in medium fire until fragrant.
6. Remove n pack in bottles or use as required
BLACK BEANS FISH
BLACK BEANS FISH
THAI PANDANUS LEAF FRIED CHICKEN
THAI PANDAN CHICKEN
HAKKA NAM YEE BRAISED DUCK
HAKKA NAM YEE BRAISED DUCK
1 Whole duck, about 2kg to 2.5kg