Watercress with Pork Bone Soup 西洋菜猪骨汤

下火汤

Ingredient

200gm watercress vegetable, washed and end trimmed

250gm pork bone or pork rib

1 dried cuttlefish (optional)

8-10 pitted red dates

Some wolves berries 

2.5L water

Salt to taste

Method

1) Boil pork in water for about 5min to remove all the dirty scum.
2) Boil 2.5L water in pot until bubbling. Add in pork, watercress, dried cuttlefish, red dates and wolves berries.
3) Reduce flame to low and continue to boil for about 40 minutes.
4) Season with salt to taste.

Winter Melon Soup 冬瓜汤

冬瓜瘦肉榣柱 ...  落足料!

Ingredient (Forgot to measure the ingredients, so have to guesstimate =P)

Lean pork meat, cut into big pieces

Winter melon, cut into big pieces

4 big dried scallops

8 dried longan

8 red dates

Water

1 tablespoon soya sauce

Salt to taste

Method

1) Boil water in pot. Once boiling, add in all ingredients.

2) Continue to boil for 15 minutes in high heat.

3) Lower to simmer and cover pot. Let it simmer for 2 hours.

4) 10 minutes before turning off heat, add in 1 tablespoon of soya sauce & salt to taste.

5) Serve ... *slurp* ...

Cereal Chicken

Healthier version of cereal chicken ... pan-fried instead of deep-fried

Ingredient

300gm boneless chicken breast meat, pound with back of knife till meat is thiner
Some salt to season chicken breast meat
Some oil, for pan-frying chicken meat

3/4 cup Nestum cereal (original flavour)
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp sugar
1 1/2 tbsp milk powder
*Mix these ingredients together and stir thoroughly. Set aside.

1 bird's eye chilli, thinly sliced
8 sprigs curry leaves, remove stalks (important ingredient, do not omit)

2 tbsp unsalted butter

Method

1) Season chicken breast meat with salt.
2) Heat oil in pan, then pan fry chicken breast meat till cooked (careful not to overcooked otherwise chicken would turn hard and difficult for kids to chew)
3) Dish out and let it cool. Use kitchen towel to dry out excess oil on the chicken meat (Drying is important otherwise the cereal mixture will be wet when you add in the chicken).
4) When chicken is cooled, cut into bite-size cubes.
5) Melt butter in pan till bubbling and lightly brown.
6) Add curry leaves and chilli. Fry over medium heat till fragrant.
7) Lower heat. Add cereal mixtures. Curry leaves should crisp up by this time. (Cereal mixtures burn quite fast, so ensure you reduce heat to low)
8) Add in the chicken cubes and thoroughly coat with cereal mixture.
9) Dish out and serve ...

Adapted from: http://kitchentigress.blogspot.sg/2011/02/how-to-make-cereal-butter-prawns.html

Stir-fry Shrimps in Tomatoe and Egg Sauce

This dish is very appetising. Kids will love the sauce on the rice ...

Ingredients

15-20 large shrimps

1 tablespoon oil

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 egg

Sauce

2 tablespoon tomato sauce

2 tablespoon brown sugar (or to taste)

1/2 cup water

1 teaspoon rice vinegar

Method

1. Clean shrimps, shelled and deveined.

2. Mix sauce and set aside. 

3. Heat oil in pan.

4. Add garlic and stir fry till lightly brown and fragrant.

5. Add sauce and bring to simmer.

6. Add in shrimps. Then immediately crack the egg and add into the pan.

7. Stir lightly till egg and shrimps are cooked. (Shrimps are cooked when it turns from translucent to solid white and pink)

Chrysanthemum Drink

Good stuff ... There is seriously no need to buy those overpriced bottled ones outside.

Added some honey suckle flower. In-law said this is good to reduce what Chinese refer to as "heat".

Ingredient

45gm chrysanthemum

About 3.5L water

A small handful honey suckle flower (optional)

Cane rock sugar to taste

Method

1) Bring water to bubbly boiled.

2) Add in chrysanthemum and honey suckle flower.

3) Let it continue to boil in high heat for about 5-10min.

4) Lower heat to medium low and simmer for another 20min.

5) Add in cane rock sugar to taste.