Tomato Fried Rice

I really love the seasoning I bought for SGD 2 in all-2-dollars-shop.... Taadaahh!!

It's called Aji Shio Kosho (Salt & Pepper Seasoning). You can use it for soup or fried rice. Coz I bought this, so I experimenting it with my fried rice. My usual recipe for fried rice:

1. Sausage

2. Green beans

3. Button mushrooms

4. Cooled off rice

5. Olive oil

6. Aji Shio kosho

7. Tomato sauce

How to cook:

1. Pour boiled water on the green beans and let the beans soften.

2. Heat the pan with olive oil.

3. Stir fry green beans, button mushrooms and sausage together.

4. Once the ingredients are mixed together, put the rice in, and stir fry all of them together for a while.

5. Add tomato sauce and mix with the rice thoroughly.

6. When it's almost done, add aji shio kosho in, and mix them well.

Once everything is well-mixed, turn off the flame, and THAT'S ALL! You can serve your super simple but nice fried rice. You can add other side dish as you like together with the rice, like fried egg, chicken finger, or nuggets.

Happy cooking!

Honey Pan-Grilled Chicken

First of all, I won't suggest this recipe, unless you have quite a bit of time to make it. Pan-grilled stuff really takes a lot of time (based on my experience), unlike deep fry or stir fry.

However, this recipe got an ENCORE request from my hubby! *Proud*

It's not that complicated actually, you just need to spend a little more time to cook it. I learnts it from Ingrid, but I kind of modified it a little bit =P

What you need is:

1. Oyster sauce

2. Salt

3. Sugar

4. Soy sauce (both light and dark soy sauce)

5. chopped garlic

6. honey rock sugar (Another option is raw honey)

7. Chicken (with bones)

8. Olive oil

9. Butter

How to prepare it:

1. Marinate the chicken with oyster sauce, both soy sauces, a little bit of sugar, and chopped garlic. I put quite a bit of garlic, because I love the smell. The amount of chopped garlic is totally up to you, depends on your taste.

2. Marinate the chicken for at least 30 minutes. I love marinating the meat overnight, because the taste will be much more wonderful.

3. If you use honey rock sugar, dissolve it on a pot with water. Keep the flame small, when dissolving it. Once it's dissolved, don't off the flame, as you need to keep it hot. Otherwise, the rock sugar will be thickened again.

To grill the chicken:

1. Heat olive oil and butter together on the pan. Mix them together.

2. Once the oil is hot and the butter is dissolved, put the marinated chicken and grill it.

3. When the chicken is almost done (about 75-85% done), brush the chicken with the honey. I was too lazy to brush each and every chicken, thus, I pour the honey on the chicken directly, and turn the chicken upside down frequently, until it's done.

Enjoy!

Sushi Roll

Previously, I shared some of my experiments in making sushi rice and tamago. To make sushi roll, it's super easy, when you use this tool. I never use bamboo roll before, but I believe, this is tool is much easier than bamboo roll.

Okay.. Straight to the point... This is the magic tool...

What you need to make sushi:

1. Nori sheet/Seaweed sheet

2. Sushi Rice --> Click HERE how to make sushi rice

3. Filling

- For filling, you can use anything you like. e.g: cucumber, tamago, tuna fish, salmon fish, crab stick, etc.

- I use salmon chunk, tamago and slices of cucumbers. Click HERE on how to make 2 minutes tamago

4. The magic tool to make the sushi roll :)

The steps are really simple. The tool has 3 parts, let's call it Part A, B and C.

Before you start, ensure that the three parts are wet. This is to prevent the sushi rice to stick on the tool. Then, what you need to do is:

1. Fill Part A with sushi rice, but make the kernel at the center side, to fill in your fillings.

2. After that, fill in with the stuffs you want to fill in, at the kernel you make.

3. After that, place Part A inside Part B, then fill Part B with rice.

4. Once it's full, close Part B with Part C, to make a roll. Ensure Part A and Part C have no gap when you close it.

5. Take the rice roll out, and wrap it with nori.

After that..... Taa daaa.... Here's how it looks like....

Use a sharp knife to cut the sushi roll in pieces. And you are ready to serve your homemade sushi. :)

Survival Food: Spaghetti ala You!

Spaghetti is always the type of food that I will cook, if I'm too tired, too lazy or too busy. I call it, survival food =P

I believe, everyone's home should have these, just in case, you can't get any food when you are super hungry.

You just need a pack of spaghetti. This is the brand I normally use... It allows about 6 servings per pack.

And... Any type of spaghetti sauce you like. My hubby only like this, but I would love to try Carbonara once.

To prepare it, here's the simple ways:

1. Boil the spaghetti. Add a little bit of salt into the water, to add a little flavor. But this is optional.

2. Once it's done, put the noodles on the plate, and get ready to prepare the sauce. :)

For the sauce, you can stir-fry any minced meat you want. I normally use chopped chicken sausage. Here's how:

1. Heat the olive oil, and add the chicken sausage.

2. Stir fry them until it's well-done, and turn the flame to small.

3. Pour the spaghetti sauce and mix it with the chicken sausage, and heat the sauce until it's hot at low heat.

Once it's done, just pour the sauce on the spaghetti, and here you go....

Tips: You can add black pepper or pepper if you like ;)

Black Pepper Chicken with Potato

Black pepper chicken is my husband's favorite dish, and most importantly (for me), it's super EASY to make, plus the ingredients are super cheap.

All you need is just:

- Chicken fillet

- Chopped garlic

- Potatoes

- Sweet soya sauce

- Light soya sauce

- Black Pepper

- Corn flour

- Water

First step is, you need to marinate the chicken. Just cut the chicken into dice-sized and mix both soy sauce and black pepper on it. For the details about how to marinate chicken, you can read this.

Click here.

Now I'm working, so, I normally marinate the chicken one day before cooking, wrap it, and leave it in the fridge over night.

How to cook:

1. Boil water and put the potatoes in the boiled water, until it's half-cooked.

2. Cut the potatoes into dice-sized, and leave them aside.

3. Heat the oil (I use olive oil)

4. Stir-fry chopped garlic

5. After it's fragrant, put the marinated chicken on the pan and stir fry it until it's cooked.

6. Put the potatoes in the pan, and stir fry them with the chicken.

7. Lower the flame, and add in a little bit of water. Then mix them well.

8. Close the pan for a few minutes and turn off the flame.

And here you go the black pepper chicken with potato!

Tips:

- If you like spicier and sweeter, you can add dark soy sauce and black pepper, after adding water (step 7). If you like it salty, you can add a little bit salt or light soy sauce.

- The ratio of chicken and potato is 2:1 in general. But that depends on what you like, you can put equal amount of chicken and potatoes as well. :)

Happy trying!

Salmon Mayo & Egg Wraps

If you are looking for an easy and quick making breakfast, you may want to try Wraps. You can wrap varieties of food and have a great and healthy breakfast!

So far, I have tried Salmon Mayo & Egg wraps, and it tastes good. Straight to the point, so here's what you need:

1. Wraps. You can heat it directly on the fire (so it will taste a little bit crispy), or you can heat it in microwave for 1 minute (that's what I did).

2. Salmon

I used "Ayam Brand" canned salmon mayo. I personally don't think salmon mayo is suitable for the wraps, I should have tried the light version of the canned salmon.

If you guys want to use salmon mayo, don't spread too much of the salmon mayo on the wrap. Otherwise, it will taste too rich in flavor.

3. Omelette

What you can do:

- Beat the eggs and mix them well

- Add in a little bit of salt, pepper and soy sauce. Don't put too much soy sauce, it will make the egg turn too dark in color.

- Heat the frying pan and oil.

- Stir fry any ingredients you want to mix with the omelette (For example, I used chopped onions and sliced button mushrooms).

- Pour in the beaten eggs, and stir fry the eggs.

How to wrap:

1. Spread the salmon mayo/salmon chunk on the wrap.

2. Spread the omelette on top of the salmon.

3. Ensure that the spread is at bottom half of the wrap, and you don't spread it at its edge.

4. After that, wrap the bottom part of the wrap (the part that's closest to you), then wrap the two sides of it (the side with the salmon chunk and omelette).

5. Roll it towards the top half that doesn't contain any spread. Or you can choose not to roll it up.

And here you go, your salmon & Egg Wraps....

Enjoy!

Ginger Chicken

This is one of the favorite dishes of my hubby. He likes ginger chicken a lot. So, I made one for him (and myself) like this!

In order to make the ginger chicken ala "ME", all you need is just the magic packet of mixed ingredients. I used Woh Hup, and it tasted nice.

What you need to do is, cut the chicken in pieces, and marinate the chicken with the ingredients for at least 30 minutes. After that, here's a few simple steps:

1. Heat the frying pan, and the olive oil.

2. Stir fry the chicken until it's fragrant, then add in the vegetables you want to use.

In the packet, they use carrots (you may need to boil the carrots half-cooked first, before stir fry them), cauli flower and peas. It's totally up to you and your creativity. But you may need to watch the amount of vegetables you want to add in. Make sure, the chicken is still the main ingredient, not the vegetables.

After trying Woh Hup, I will recommend this brand to you, if you want to try Ginger Chicken. The ginger chicken doesn't taste too strong (I dun normally like an over-strong ginger smell).

And... Woh Hup is Halal too... So, it's safe for Muslims....