My Personal Recipe Collection: 10/01/2007 - 11/01/2007

My Personal Recipe Collection

Consolidate all recipes extracts from websites, blogs, magazines and cookbooks.

Sunday, 14 October 2007

Mashed Beancurd with Fish Paste


Ingredients
fish paste 5 oz

dried shrimps 1 tbsp
cloth-wrapped beancurd 1 pc
salt a dash
diced spring onion 1 tbsp

Seasonings
sesame oil dash

pepper pinch
egg 1 pc

Sauce
boiling oil 1 tbsp

light soy sauce 1/2 tbsp
dark soy sauce 1/2 tbsp

Method
1. Soak dried shrimps until tender. Cut into dices. Rinse beancurd. Wipe dry. Put all ingredients in a big bowl. Stir well. Add seasonings, fish meat and spring onion dices. Stir well. Transfer to a plate.
2. Steam for 10 minutes. Pour sauce on top. Serve.

Saturday, 13 October 2007

Steamed Eggs


Ingredients
eggs 4 pcs

water 3.5 cup
diced green onion 1 tsp.

Seasonings
salt 1/2 tsp.

wine 1/4 tsp.

Method
1.0Beat eggs in a bowl. Add water and seasonings to the plate. Skim the mixture by chopstricks. Remove the bubbles. Cover with aluminium foil and wrap.
2.0Steam eggs for 10 minutes . Sprinkle with diced green onion. Ready to serve.

Friday, 12 October 2007

Monkey head mushroom soup


Ingredients
320g fresh monkey head mushroom

320g pork bones
80g elm fungus
80g Chinese ham
1/2 old chicken
160g soya beans

Method
1. To make the soup base: Wash and blanch the pork bones and the chicken, then stew them with soya beans and 20 bowls of water, about 4 hours.
2. Cut up the mushrooms and soak it in water for 30 minutes. Dry them thoroughly and lightly deep fry them in hot oil. Wash the fungus and fry it. Rinse the mushroom and the fungus with boiling water to remove any excess oil.
3. Slice the ham, put it in the soup with the mushroom and the fungus and let it stew for about 3 hours.

Thursday, 11 October 2007

Lotus Seed Paste Banana


Ingredients
2 Banana

120g Lotus Seed Paste
10 Eggs
1 teaspoon Flour

Seasoning
Dash of icing sugar (add on the top of egg ball)


Method
1. Skin banana. Cut into sandwich slices. Stuff lotus seed paste. Make the banana as sandwiches.
2. Take out the egg whites from the eggs. Pour the flour in the egg whites. Stir with a blender until it turns creamy. Pour dash of egg white in the banana sandwiches.
3. Heat the wok. Turn to low heat. Put the banana sandwiches in the wok and deep-fry them one by one. Be careful when turn over. Turn the heat a bit high before serving.
4. Sprinkle with icing sugar when serving.

Wednesday, 10 October 2007

Mango Pudding


Ingredients
mango 2 pc

milk 2 cups
boiling water 2 cups
mango flavoured jelly powder 2 boxes

Method
1. Place jelly powder in a large bowl and add boiling water. Stir until melted and allow to cool.
2. Peel two mangoes, one minced, another one chopped.
3. Place milk and fruit in jelly. Mix well and pour into pudding mould. Place in refrigerator for about 4 hours . Serve with fresh cream and extra fresh fruit.

Tuesday, 9 October 2007

Fried French Beans with Minced Pork and Olive


Ingredients
320g French beans (snapbeans)

160g pork (semi fat-lean)
40g ChiuChow preserved olive
1 red chilli pepper

Method
l. Wash and mince the pork.Cut out the two ends of the beans and wash clean¡DChop the olive and Julienne the chilli pepper

2. Stir fry the olives with oil, ,then minced pork. Set aside
3. Fry the French beans until cooked, then add the minced port and fry for a while. Season to taste, add the red chilli pepper and serve.

Monday, 8 October 2007

Shallow-fried Pork Loin With Soya Sauce


Ingredients
450g Pork Loin

2 teaspoons Cornflour (for marinade)
450g Cabbage or Celery Cabbage

Seasoning:
2 tablespoons light soya sauce

1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon pepper
5 tablespoons stock

Method
1. Wash pork loin clean. Knock the pork loin until loose. Mix 2 teaspoons each of cornflour and water well. Marinate the pork loin for a while. Wash cabbage clean. Cut into thick stalks. Make the seasoning sauce for later use. Method is that use 5 tablespoons of stock and bring to the boil. Turn to low heat. Dump in sugar, pepper and light soya sauce. Cook the seasoning until mix well.

2. Heat the wok. Put in dash of oil. Put the side with tendon of the pork loin in the wok. Shallow-fry until brown. Turn the pork loin up side down.
3. Shallow-fry until brown. Halve the pork loin. Dump in the seasoning sauce.4. Scald the cabbage in boiling water until cooked.

Sunday, 7 October 2007

Fried Assorted Vegetables with Fish Sauce


Ingredients
160g Tientsin cabbage

80g broccoli
80g kale
80g bean sprouts
80g fresh straw mushroom
4 pieces baby corn
adequate carrots
adequate fish sauce

Method
1. Wash and cutallthe vegetables. Blanch the mushroom, broccoli and baby corn.
2. Fry theTientsin cabbage, kale and carrots first with a little more oil, then stir in the mushroom, broccoli, baby corn and bean sprouts. Season with fish sauce.

Practical Tips:
Do not cut the vegetables into very big pieces or it wouId take too long to cook them.

Saturday, 6 October 2007

Salted Turnips With Hot Sauced Pork


Ingredients
150g Salted Turnips

1 section Firm Beancurd
80g Dried Shrimps
150g Pork's Belly
1 Red Chili
1 Green pepper
1 teaspoon Black Bean
3 cloves Garlic

Seasoning:
2 tablespoons Chaozhou sweet sauce

1 teaspoon chili oil
1 teaspoon oyster sauce
1/2 teaspoon cornflour
1/4 cup stock

Method
1. Dice salted turnips. Wash dried shrimps clean. Soak in water for a while. Dice pork belly and firm beancurds. Dice red chili and green pepper. Mash garlic.

2. Deep-fry the beancurd until golden brown. Stir-fry the pork belly until cooked.
3. Saute mashed garlic in the preheated wok. Put in the black bean, salted turnips and dried shrimps. Stir-fry until fragrant. Add in the diced beancurds and diced pork belly. Stir-fry them together. Pour in half of the stock. Add in green pepper and red chili and stir-fry briefly. Mix the seasoning, stock and cornflour well. Stir-fry and pour in at the same time. Stir-fry until dries up.

Friday, 5 October 2007

Deep fried bean curd with spicy salt


Ingredients
4 pieces bean curd

2 sprigs of green onion
1 red chilli pepper
1 teaspoon five-spice powder
some white pepper
some salt

Method
1. Prepare the marinade by mixing five-spicy powder with a cup ofwater¡D With a knife, cut each beancurd into pieces and then put them in the marinade¡D
2. Then steam the beancurd until they get hot; Chop the green onion and the chilli pepper, then add in some spicy salt and white pepper.
3. Stuff the mixture onto the beancurd and sprinkle some cornflour on top¡D
4. Heat some oil in a wok, slide in the beancurd over high heat, then change to low heat.
5. Lastly fry it over high heat again until golden brown


Practical Tips:
l. Be careful not to oversteam the beancurd
2.You can cut the beancurd into a nice shapes by using different kinds of cutting mould.

Thursday, 4 October 2007

Fried Bitter Cucumber with Beef


Ingredients
600g Bitter Cucumber

160g Chaozhou Fish Fillets
160g Lean Meat
160g Garlic
1 teaspoon Fermented Black Bean
1 Red Chili
2 stalks Spring Onion

Seasoning:
1 teaspoon light soya sauce

2 teaspoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon dark soya sauce
1 teaspoon cornflour

Method
1. Peel the bitter cucumber into pieces, dot dash of salt on the surface, marinate briefly. Press to dry. Then soak in cold water for a while. Drain. Shred lean pork, add cornflour, marinate briefly. Shred fish fillets. Peel garlic and mash. Cut red chili into triangular. Wash fermented black bean clean. Cut spring onion into stalks.

2. Heat wok, add dash of oil, put in shredded pork, scald in hot oil until cooked. Left little of oil in the wok. Saute the mashed garlic until fragrant.
3. Add in red chili, spring onion and black bean. Then stir-fry until fragrant. Put in the thin bitter cucumber slices, stir-fry until cooked. Put in sliced fish fillets and shredded lean pork.
4. Mix light soya sauce, dark soya sauce, sugar, cornflour and dash of water well, stir-fry and pour in at the same time. Stir in the well mixed cornstarch solution. Dish.

Wednesday, 3 October 2007

Stuffed Twisted Crullers With Vegetables


Ingredients
2 Twisted Crullers

150g Pork belly
40g Black Fungus
40g Wood Fungus
240g Broccoli
80g Carrot

Seasoning:
1 teaspoon oyster sauce

1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup stock
1/2 teaspoon cornflour

Method
1. Cut slantwise twisted crullers into pieces. Wash pork belly clean, add in brine and marinate briefly. Wash black fungus and wood fungus clean, soak in water until soft, cut into small pieces. Cut broccoli up into faces. Slice carrot.

2. Potted meat paste stuffing on the twisted crullers, shallow-fry until cooked. Scald in boiling water for a while in order to remove the greasy.
3. Stir-fry fungus until fragrant. Pour in stock and simmer. Add in broccoli and carrot. Simmer until thoroughly done. Put in twisted crullers, cook briefly. Season, thicken with the cornstarch solution. Dish.

Tuesday, 2 October 2007

Black Sesame Paste

Ingredients
200g black sesame seeds
1500ml water
180g castor sugar
2 tbsp corn flour

Method
1. Wash black sesame seeds and drip dry before dry roasting them in a wok till fragrant.
2. Put sesame seeds in a blender and add water before blending to achieve a paste consistency.
3. Pour the paste into a pot and add sugar before cooking.
4. Bring to a simmer. Mix the corn flour with a little water to get cornstarch which will thicken the black sesame paste.

Monday, 1 October 2007

WINE BERRIES JELLO

Ingredients:
200ml white wine (Sauvignon Blanc if possible)
200ml hot water
150ml sparkling white grape juice or any grape juice (or apple juice if you prefer peach-flavoured gelatine)
2 packets of 170g grape-flavoured gelatine (or peach-flavoured Jell-O, available fromsupermarkets)
3 Tbs sugar, to taste
1 Tbs lemon juice
1 tsp agar agar powder (to firm up jelly)
100g strawberries, hulled and halved (or diced, depending on size of fruit and wine glass)
50g blueberries
50g raspberries(The combination of fresh fruit is up to individual taste. You can also use canned fruit or cocktail).

Method:
1. Wash fresh fruit in cold water, taking care not to bruise the berries and wipe dry with a paper towel. Leave aside.
2. Boil hot water, sugar and agar agar powder. Lower heat and stir in the gelatine until it is completely dissolved and mixture is clear. Take care not to boil it or you'll end up with a cloudy mixture.
3. Remove from heat. Gently stir in white wine and sparkling white grape juice to the gelatine mixture.
4. Add in the lemon juice. Pour mixture into wine glasses until about three-quarters full and drop in the mixed berries. Refrigerate for about four hours or until firm.
5. Serve with a dollop of ice cream and remaining berries if desired.