15 Dec dinner

Soup:补气汤
Meat: Dark Sauce Pork
Veg: Stir Fry Chye Sim

Veg: Stir Fry Chye Sim
Ingredients:
• 500 gm Chye Sim
• 1 teaspoon light soya sauce
• 1 TBSP oyster sauce
• ½ teaspoon sugar
• A dash of pepper
• 2 thin slices of ginger
• 1 tablespoons oil
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped
Method:
• Cut vegetable into 5cm lengths. Separate stalks from leaves.
• Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a wok. Fry ginger for ½ minute, then brown garlic. Add vegetable stalks and stir-fry for 1 minute. Add a little water and simmer for 1 minute before adding leaves.
• Add light soya sauce and sugar and oyster sauce and a dash of pepper. Fry for another 1 min. When stalks are tender and leaves cooked, remove to a serving dish.
• Sprinkle fried shallots on top

Spaghetti with minced pork, celery, carrots and Ragu pasta sauce

Spaghetti with minced pork, celery, carrots and Ragu pasta sauce
Ingredients:
Spaghetti
1 tbsp chopped garlic (4 cloves)
1tbsp of chopped onions
250gm mince pork
1 carrot cut to strips
1 stem of celery cut to small
5 cherry tomatoes halved
5 fresh button mushroom sliced

Seasoning for minced pork:
1/2 tsp light soya sauce
1/2 tsp sesame oil
a pinch of corn flour mix with water


Method:
1. Use a large pot, add water and put spaghetti to boil till al dente..
2. Drain off water and run through cold water to stop cooking.
3. Heat up wok with 1 tbsp of cooking oil. Saute chopped garlic and onions till fragrant.
4. Add sliced button mishrooms. Stir fry.
5. Add mince pork to stir fry.
6. Add vegetable to stir fry.
7. Add Ragu Pasta Sauce and let it simmer.
8.Scoop sauce over spaghetti. Voila!

14 Dec Dinner

Soup:Carrot, celery, potato and minced pork soup
Meat: Sweet and Sour Pork

Soup: Carrot, celery, potato and minced pork soup

Ingredients (serves 4):

Minced garlic
Sliced onions
2 stalks of celery sliced thinly
1 carrots cut into small cubes
1 potato cut into small cubes
5 fresh button mushroom sliced
100g minced meat

Method:

1. Heat up a wok. Saute some minced garlic and onions. Add mushrooms in and fry till limp. Add celery, carrots and potatoes and stir fry. Add minced meat in. Add a little oil, breaking it into little pieces.
2. Add about a litre of water or 8 soup bowls of water and bring to a boil and then lower to a simmer.
3. Add a tablespoon of fish sauce for taste.

Meat: Sweet and Sour Pork

Ingredients:
500g belly pork meat, cubed
1 onion quartered
1/2 ripe tomato quartered or 8 cherry tomatoes halved
1/2 red capsicum, cut into wedges
100gm cucmber, cut into wedges with the centre portion removed

Marinade:
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 TBSP sugar
1 tsp sesame oil

Marinade pork cubes with the marinade for several hours or preferably overnight.

1 egg lightly beaten
1 1/4 tbsp plain flour and rice flour

Dip the marinated pork in the beaten egg and toss in plain flour, then deep fry till golden brown. Remove and drain.

Sauce: (combine)
3 TBSP tomato sauce
1 tsp sugar
1/2 TBSP oyster sauce
dash of pepper
250ml water
apple cider vinegar
3/4 TBSP corn flour

Heat 2 TBSP of oil in a wok. Fry onion briskly for half a minute and add in combined sauce ingredients. When the sauce begins to boil, add in pork, capsicum, tomato, onion and cucumber. Stir well to mix. Dish out and serve immediately

Dec 13 Dinner

Soup: Dou Miao, button mushroom Minced pork and fishball soup
Veg :Stir fry brocolli and carrots with garlic
Others: Fried Ikan Kuning

Soup: Dou Miao, button mushroom, minced meat and fishball soup

Ingredients (serves 4):

Minced garlic
Sliced onions
200g Dou Miao
5 fresh button mushroom sliced
100g minced meat
1 packet of Sakura fishballs halved
1tbsp wolfberries
Pepper to taste

Method:

1. Heat up a wok. Saute some minced garlic and onions. Add mushrooms in and fry till limp. Add minced meat in. Add a little oil, breaking it into little pieces.
2. Add about a litre of water or 8 soup bowls of water and bring to a boil and then lower to a simmer, before adding the Dou miao.
3. Add fishballs into the simmering soup.
4.Add a tablespoon of fish sauce for taste.
5. Scatter wolfberries on top of soup, remove from heat immediately and serve hot.



Veg: Stir Fried Brocolli, carrots with garlic

Ingredients:
1 tbsp chopped garlic (4 cloves)
1 small onion sliced and separated into rings
Mixed herbs
Brocolli cut to florets and stems to slices
1 carrot cut to strips or thin slices

Method:
1. Heat some water in wok and blanch the stems. Add florets in a min or two later. Cook for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes, only until they're slightly cooked through and tender. Remove and set aside
2. Heat up wok with 2 tbsp of cooking oil. Saute chopped garlic and onions till fragrant. Add a dash of mixed herbs.
3. Return vegetable to stir fry till well mixed and fragrant
4. Serve hot.

Fish: Fried Ikan Kuning