Cookies - Big,Fat, Sinfully Chewy Choc Chip Cookies

Lols..this is one recipe that no one shud ever even attempt to eat more than once a mth!! Its so sinful that even I, feel my arteries clogging. The reason is, I actually added pork lard to the recipe. Its amazingly heavenly...

Ingredients:

250g All-purpose flour
3g baking soda
3g salt
120g unsalted butter, melted
50g pork lard,melted
200g brown sugar
90g white sugar
15 ml vanilla extract
1 egg
1 egg yolk
200g choc chips

Preparation Method:

Preheat oven to 165C. Put parchment paper on a baking tray.

Sift flour, baking soda and salt and put aside.

Mix butter, brown sugar and white sugar. Stir till mixture is evenly mixed. Add egg, egg yolk, vanilla extract and cream the mixture. Add the sifted flour slowly and stir till mixture is consistent. Add the chocholate chip and stir.

Place as many 3 tbsp large dough on the parchment paper, each about 3 inch away from each other. Place in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. Take it out, let it cool on the parchment paper and serve when cookies are no more soft.

Pork - Hungarian Goulash

Hvent had this in a long time. There were two hungarian girls from my hostel..or my ex-hostel who made amazing hungarian goulash!:..recreated the dish...

Ingredients:

1 kg pork (cut into 1x1 inch cubes)
3 large carrots (cut into cubes)
3 tomato (cubed)
4-5 large potatos (cubed)
3 bay leaves
2 onions diced
1 tbsp caraway seeds
2 tbsp black pepper
2-3 tbsp paprika pepper/hungarian pepper
5-10 dried chili
3-4 tbsp tomato paste
2.5 to 3 litres of water
Salt


Preparation Methods:


Heat about 3 tbsp of olive oil, brown onion and add paprika powder. Keep stirring.

Add the pork and stir till browned, add bay leaves, caraway seed,black pepper and dried chilli. Stir for another 1-2 minutes. Add water, tomato paste and stir. Cover pot and cook for about half an hour with medium heat.

Add the carrots, tomatoes and potatoes. Stir and cover pot and cook for another half hour. Add salt to taste and serve.

Noodles - Beef Noodles

This is one dish that i made for my friends who came to munich. Simple dish..just take a longer cooking time. This is pretty similar to the beef brisket recipe...

Ingredients
500g beef brisket (cubed)
3 cloves garlic (diced)
5 slices ginger
2 cinnamon stick
5 star anise
3 cardamom seeds
1 tbsp cloves
3 large bay leaves
1 tsp black peppercorn
1 shallot (diced)
1 tsp sugar
2 tbsp oyster sauce
5 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp black soy sauce (or more if you want it to be darker)
1 litre
salt and pepper to taste
Handful bean sprouts
Rice noodles/Noodles

Preparation Methods:

To make the soup. Heat two teaspoons of oil, add garlic and rest of herbs and fry till fragrant. Add meat till its browned and add water. Add the rest of the ingredients except for bean sprouts and noodles. Boil for 3 hrs or till meat is tender.

Blanche bean sprouts and boil noodles till cooked. Fry shallot with 5 tbsp oil till brown. Add to the soup before serving into a bowl of noodles topped with beansprouts.

Beef - Ngau Lam Pou, Chinese Braised Beef Brisket

This is a yummy yum dish that i cannot resist. Everytime i go chinatown in london late at night after clubbing, this is usually what i order, and i never get sick of it.

Ingredients:

500g beef brisket
3 cloves garlic (diced)
5 slices ginger
2 cinnamon stick
3 star anise
2 cardamom seeds
3-4 carrots, cut in chunks
5 large bay leaves
1 tsp sichuan pepper (optional)
1 tsp black peppercorn
1 shallot (diced)
1 tsp sugar
2 tbsp oyster sauce
5 tbsp black soy sauce
3 cups water
cornstarch as thickener
salt and pepper to taste

Preparation Method:

Cut beef into 2cm cubes. Heat 3 tbsp of oil and fry garlic, ginger, cinnamon stick, star anise, cardamom, shallots till fragrant. Add beef in and fry till browned. Add water and rest of ingredients. Bring to boil then lower heat. Cook till sauce is halved (about 1 hour). Add constarch to thicken if necessary and salt and pepper to taste.

Desset - Peanut Paste

This is a dessert, which u get in Hong Kong? Not sure...but its been such a long time since i had it. HC suddenly raved said she had cravings after finishing 5 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (love them!!) so off i went to the kitchen and made this dessert which turned out nicely.

Ingredients:

500g peanuts
3 rock sugar (or enough sugar)
2 cups water
1 cup milk
4 tbsp butter

Preparation Methods:

Use toaster to toast peanuts for about 10 mins, alternatively, fry with low heat and constantly stirring till peanuts are brown. Remove peanut skin, boil peanuts in enough water to cover the peanuts till dry.

Blend peanuts, adding water slowly, ensuring that peanuts are as fine as possible. Meanwhile, boil 2 cups of water and add sugar, pour the blended peanuts in, milk and butter and stir constantly. Turn to low heat and cook till desired thickness is achieved. Add more milk and/or water if the paste is too thick.

Use a sieve to sieve the paste or muslin cloth and squeeze out liquits from paste to get a smoother paste.

Dessert - Lek Tau Suan

This is one dessert that i must say i have not had in a long time. They dont serve this anymore. Its so hard to find. This is one dish that i have wif you tiao. however, my 1st attempt on you tiao kind of failed, dont think i rested it enuf. Will try tweak the current recipe.

Ingredients:

250 g mung beans without skin
2 to 3 pandan leaf
2 cups water
5 tbsp sugar
10 tbsp tapioca flour dissolved in 1/2 cup water

Preparation Methods:

Soak mung beans at least for 3 hours or overnight.

Steam mung beans for about 20 minutes or until cooked. Meanwhile, boil the 2 cups of water with pandan. Add sugar and tapioca flour solution. Pour steamed mung beans in and stir. Add more tapioca flour solution if not thick enough. Mung beans should be able to float in the water. Serve with you tiao

Dim Sum - Siew Mai

This is one of the most common dishes while having dim sum.

Ingredients:

150g minced pork
150g minced prawn
2 tbsp shao xing wine
2 presoaked dried mushroom
2 tbsp presoaked dried prawn
1 tbsp white soy sauce
1 tsp ginger powder
salt and pepper to taste.
wonton skin
1 carrot

Preparation methods:

Dice dried mushroom and dried prawn. Mix with all the other ingredients. Put about 2 tsp of meat on a wonton wrapper. Wrap the meat, cutting the edges and using water to hold the skin together.

Last but not least place on top of a piece of sliced carrot to prevent it from sticking to plate while steaming. Steam for 15 to 20 minutes.

Sambal - Sambal (For Dipping)

This sambal is a simple sambal recipe that i worked out for use to eat with the ayam penyet, or to eat with rice with nasil lemak.



Ingredients:

1 tsp tamarind pulp
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tsp dark soy sauce
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp sugar
salt and pepper to taste

Blend A:
4 chilies
1 large shallot
4 cloves garlic
1 large onion
4 slices ginger
1 tbsp belachan (toasted)


Blend B:
1 to 2 tomatos

Preparation Method:

Blend ingredients for A. Heat 6 tbsp oil and fry blended ingredients till fragrant. Add blended tomato and rest of ingredients. Simmer till paste is formed.

Chicken - Ayam Penyet

This is some indonesian dish which i made today. Currently into frying things recently. Since I started jogging, i have less guilt eating.

Ingredients:

2 deboned, chicken with thigh
4 tbsp coconut milk
1 tsp light soy sauce
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp tamarind pulp
enough flour to coat chicken.

Blend:
1 stalk lemongrass
1 sprig corainder
1/2 tbsp cumin
2 red chilis
4 slices ginger
3 cloves garlic

Garnish:
4 tbsp Grated coconut flakes (fried)


Preparation Methods:

Blend ingredients, fry with 2 tbsp of oil till dry and fragrant, add rest of ingredients and put deboned chiken in. Simmer till sauce thickens. Leave chicken to marinade with sauce for at least 1 hour.

Heat enough oil to submerge half of the chicken. Fry chicken till brown with medium heat. (about 5 minutes each side). Take chicken out, coat with flour, heat oil until very hot and fry for another two minutes each side. Serve with garnish and sambal.

Chicken - Ayam Percik

This is a recipe for a type of barbequed chicken. However, i decided to use the baking oven instead as i am just too lazy to grill it in the bbq pit.


Ingredients:

2 chicken drum with thigh
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp black soy sauce
t tbsp tamarind pulp
1 cup coconut milk
1 tbsp mash potato

Blend:
1 large shallot
3 garlic
3 cm ginger
1 stalk lemon grass
5 presoaked dry chili
1 tsp cinnamon powder
1 tsp turmeric

Preparation Methods:

Blend the ingredients and mix everything and marinade overnight.

Bake at 180C for 10 minutes each side, baste frequently. Then turn oven to grill function for 5 minutes each side.

When chicken is almost done, use low heat and simmer marinade till thick. transfer chicken to the sauce, coating the chicken with marinade. Serve when sauce becomes thick.