Chicken and Mushroom in Oyster Sauce

Ingredients:

250g of chicken boneless (cut into big chunks)
5 dried shiitake mushroom (soaked and cut into half)
5 dried red chillies (cut into half)
2 inches of young ginger (sliced)
3 cloves of garlic (minced)
1 tbsp Shao Hsing cooking wine/ white vinegar
2 tbsp of spring onion
1 tbsp of corn starch
1 tbsp of chilli sauce
2 tbsp of oyster sauce
1 tsp of dark soy sauce
1 tsp of light soy sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp of cooking oil
1 cup of water

In a pot, pour cooking oil add dried red chilies when its plumped up add in garlic and ginger fry for a minute then add chicken that have been mixed with corn starch, fry until the chicken releases water. Then add sesame oil, oyster sauce, chilli sauce, dark soy sauce and light soy mix well then add water and let chicken cooks well. Now add in Shao Hsing cooking wine or white vinegar (this give some tangry sharp taste), now add mushrooms and let it cook further until the gravy thickens. Now our Chicken and Mushroom in Oyster Sauce is ready, add in the spring onion and our dish is ready to be served.

Do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

Fried Meehoon (Rice Noodle)

Ingredients:

A pack of meehoon (rice noodle, boiled and drained)
2 pcs of chicken breast (cubed)
1/2 cup of shredded cabbage
5 pcs of dried red chilli
1 tsp of dark soy sauce
1 tbsp of light soy sauce
3 cloves of garlic
1 onion (chopped)
1/4 cup of dried shrimp
1/4 cup of water
2 bird eye chilli
2 eggs beaten
Oil

Blend dried red chilli, garlic, dried shrimp and water until smooth and keep it aside.

Heat oil in a pan and fry the chicken pieces until half cooked, drain and keep it aside, fry the beaten eggs and scramble it until you get small pieces.

Now in the same pan pour oil and simmer chilli paste until it changes in color to deep red and oil separates. Then add chicken, cabbage, dark soy sauce and light soy sauce mix well until everything is well incorporated then add in boiled noodles, toss well so that the chili paste and noodles are mixed perfectly. Adjust seasoning depending on your preference and Fried Meehoon is ready to be served. Garnish with scrambled egg and bird eye chilli that have been sliced.

Fried Meehoon is ready to be served, do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

Simple Clear Chicken Soup

Hi, everyone, I'm glad to meet all of you after a long break. Some of you might be thinking what have happened to Arthy,she is missing in action. Anyway to be frank, I have been extremely busy with work, work and work only, I have cooked many dishes all these days but never had enough time to take pictures. Now let us take a look at what I have to share with you today, Simple Clear Chicken Soup.

Ingredients:

100g of boneless chicken (sliced thinly)

1 pc of chicken carcass/ bones (optional

10 pcs of white fish balls

1/2 a carrot (sliced)

A handful of cabbage (cut coarsely)

A handful of cilantro leaves

A handful of spring onion (sliced)

1 chicken stock cube (store bought)

1.5 liter of water

In a pan, boil water, stock cube, chicken carcass until the stock reduces to 2/3. Now add in chicken slices, carrot, cabbage and fish balls, let it simmer until chicken is completely cooked. Finally before serving add in cilantro and spring onion. Adjust seasoning if needed and now our Simple Clear Chicken Soup is now ready to be served.

Do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

Stir Fried Penne Pasta

Ingredients:

2 cups of penne pasta 

1/2 cup of minced chicken

3 dried red chilli

1 onion (sliced thinly)

3 garlic (chopped)

3 tbsp of oyster sauce

3 tbsp of oil

Salt to taste

Boil the pasta, with salt and a few drops of oil, once its cooked drain the pasta and set it aside.

In a pan, heat oil and fry garlic and onion then add dried chilli and onion, fry until the chicken is completely cooked. Now add in the oyster sauce and cooked pasta, mix well and season with salt, make sure you taste it before adding as oyster sauce gives saltiness too.

Now our Stir Fried Penne Pasta is ready to be served. Do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

Mix Vege Stir Fried with Chicken

Ingredients:
1/2 cup of minced chicken
1 pack of peas
1 carrot (sliced)
1 cup of cauliflower
3 garlic pods (chopped)
1 tbsp of oyster sauce
1/2 tbsp of corn slurry
3 tbsp of water
1 tbsp of oil
Salt to taste

In a pan, heat oil and fry chopped garlic and minced chicken, add all the vegetables and oyster sauce, fry all for a couple of minutes. Now add in salt and water stir very quickly, finally add in the corn slurry let the sauce thicken and ready to be served. Serve in a platter, do try and let me know how it was!

Lemon Chicken

Ingredients:
300g of boneless chicken pieces (sliced)
1/2 cup of lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 tsp of white pepper powder
1/4 cup+ 1/2 tbsp of corn starch
2 tsp of rice wine vinegar
1/8 cup of sugar
1/4 cup of water
Salt to taste

Marinate chicken pieces with salt and vinegar, add corn starch just before frying (shake off excess starch), fry the chicken pieces until crispy and set aside.

Now prepare the lemon sauce, mix lemon juice, water, sugar and boil in a small saucepan until it bubbles. Add 1 tsp of rice wine vinegar and season with salt and white pepper. Finally add corn slurry (corn starch and little water) and let the sauce simmer and thicken. Now pour lemon sauce over the fried chicken and serve while its still hot.

Best eaten with hot plain rice, do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

Butter Prawn

My love for Chinese Cuisine, I just can't explain. I love the cuisine because of its quick preparation and does not need long hours of waiting even when you order in a very busy restaurant. I have admired the food since I was a kid, dad used to bring us to Chinese restaurants almost every week, my love for it grew fonder after I have started cooking. Butter Prawn is a dish that have been my all time favorite and must order dish when ever we eat out. It look me so long to get a perfect recipe of this dish, you can find many similar recipes in the net but I have copied this recipe long long ago even before I blog so I don't write down the source of this recipe. My heart felt gratitude to those who have shared this recipe, now let us see how to prepare this easy and delicious dish;

Ingredients:

10 large prawns (cut the antennae)

3 egg yolks (I have used 2 large whole eggs)

2 sprig of curry leaves 

3 bird eye chilli (chopped)

1/4 cup evaporated milk

2 tbsp of vegetable oil

2 tbsp of corn starch

1 tsp of white pepper powder

4 tbsp of butter

1 tsp of sugar

Salt to taste

Marinate prawns with salt and pepper for 10 minutes, before frying add cornstarch. Heat 2 tbsp of butter and 1 tbsp of vegetable oil, let the butter melt and fry prawns until it turns red/pink/peach colour. Do not over cook the prawn, it take a couple of minutes to achieve this. Drain the prawns and keep aside.

In another pan add 1 tbsp butter and oil, pour the whisked eggs and fry until you get tiny pieces of scrambled egg (very tiny pieces like you can see from the above picture). Pour the balance 1tbsp of butter and oil add curry leaves and chopped chilli, then add the evaporated milk when it starts bubbling add prawn, sugar and salt. Quickly stir fry until all the ingredients are well incorporated and serve.

This dish best eaten while its hot. Do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

Pineapple Fried Rice (Vegetarian)

My husband loves Thai fried rice because they add pineapple to it, the sweet and sour taste of the pineapple adds an unique taste to the rice. I planned to fry some rice not in Thai style but my own version by adding some pineapple chunks to it. Now let us see how I made this;

Ingredients:

2 cups of cooked rice

1/4 cup of pineapple chunks

1/4 cup of frozen mixed veges

1/2 cup of soy made sausages

3 pcs of bird eye chilli (chopped)

1 tbsp of mushroom sauce

Salt to taste

Oil to fry

Heat oil in a frying pan and fry sausages, bird eye chilli for a couple of minutes then add frozen mixed veges, stir well until the veges are soft. Now add the mushroom sauce and salt mix well with the veges and stir in the cooked rice. Incorporate all the ingredients well and finally add the pineapple chunks, Pineapple Fried Rice is ready to be served.

Do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

Simple Fried Flat Noodle

Simple and easy to prepare meal would be what every woman prefer making especially when she's busy and do not have much time. Okay to go to that list I have prepared this Stir fried Flat Noodle, I have added chives, tofu and chicken pieces to this dish. Now let us see how to make this;

Ingredients:

1 pack of flat noodles (fresh ones)

3 pcs of white tofu (cubed)

2 pcs chicken breast (cubed)

5 cloves of garlic (diced)

2 tbsp of chilli sauce

2 tbsp of chilli paste

1 tbsp of light soy sauce (depending on individual preference)

A bunch of chives (cut into 1 inch length)

Heat oil in a a wok

Fry diced garlic once lightly browned add cubed tofu and fry for a couple of minutes

Then add cubed chicken pieces and fry until almost cooked

Add in the chilli paste and chilli sauce to the chicken and tofu, mix evenly

Add in chives and stir together with the other ingredients

Now add the flat noodles and mix well, add in the light soy sauce

Now our Simple Fried Flat Noodles is ready to be served

Do try and let me know how it turned out!

Honey Chicken

This is a very very easy recipe, eating out Chinese food could be very costly for even a small portion, so if you make it at home so much you can save and the whole family can have as much as they like. Now let's see how I made this;

Ingredients:

Few pieces of fried chicken (click here for recipe)

1/4 cup of honey

2 tbsp of soft brown sugar

1 cup of water

2 tbsp of corn slurry (corn starch+water)

A pinch of salt

I have used my previous recipe to make fried chicken, so let's see how to prepare the gravy.

Boil water in a pan, add honey, salt and soft brown sugar when you can see the small bubbles add in the corn slurry and let gravy thicken. Turn off the flame and pour the gravy over the fried chicken.

Now our Honey Chicken is ready to be served, pour the gravy only when you are ready to serve the chicken. If you pour the gravy earlier the crispiness of the fried chicken will be gone and will be soaked.

Do try and let me know how it turned out!

Carrot & Peas Stir Fried with Tofu

Ingredients:
1 pack of peas
1 carrot (cut as per your preference)
2 fried white tofu
2 tbsp of mushroom sauce
1 tbsp of diced garlic
1 tbsp of oil
Salt to taste

Clean peas and carrot, wash, drain and keep aside.

Heat oil in a wok and fry garlic until fragrant, now add in tofu, peas and carrot stir very quickly. Then add mushroom sauce, salt and stir for another minute. Ready to dish out, do not over cook the veges as it wouldn't taste good.

Now our Carrot and Peas Stir Fried with Tofu is ready to be served.

Do try and let me know how it turned out!

Seasoned Fried Squid/ Calamari Rings...

Ingredients:

250 g of squid (cleaned and cut into rings)
1/4 cup of plain flour
2 tbsp of corn starch
1 tsp of 5 spice powder
1 large egg beaten
1 tsp of salt
Oil to fry

Pre-soak squid in beaten egg for at least 30 minutes with a pinch of salt. 

In a bowl mix plain flour, corn starch, salt and 5 spice powder and keep aside.

When ready to fry, roll the squid in the flour mix and dust off the excess and fry in deep and hot oil. Do not leave it to fry too long as squid will be rubbery if cooked too long. Remove from oil as the flour coating the squid turns golden and drain out on a paper towel.

Fried Squid is best eaten while its hot so fry the squid only when you are ready to eat it right away.

Now our Seasoned Fried Squid is ready to be served. Do try and let me know how it turned out!

Healthy Chinese Style Mix Vege

Ingredients:

2 cups of Cauliflower (cut into florets)
1 pack of Holland Peas (cut into 2)
1 carrot (cut thinly into semicircle)
10 pcs of cashew nuts (optional)
1 tbsp of diced garlic
2 tbsp of oyster sauce
1 tbsp of corn slurry
1 onion (sliced thinly)
1/4 cup of water
1 tbsp of oil
Salt to taste

In a pan heat oil and fry cashew nuts until golden and keep aside.

In the same pan, fry onion and diced garlic until fragrant, add Cauliflower, Carrot and Holland Peas and fry for a minute. Pour water, add in oyster sauce and salt, cover to cook for a couple of minutes. Finally add in corn slurry and stir well to incorporate with the veges to thicken the gravy.

Garnish with fried cashew nuts and our Healthy Chinese Style Mix Vege is ready to be served.

Do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

Fried Tilapia with Mushroom Sauce

Ingredients:

1 whole tilapia (cleaned and marinate with corn starch)

3 tbsp oyster mushroom sauce

5 garlic diced

1 tbsp butter

1/4 cup water

Oil to fry

1 tbsp corn slurry (1 tbsp corn starch+ 1 tbsp water)

Deep fry fish until cooked and golden.

In a pan, pour butter and add diced garlic, fry until golden add oyster mushroom sauce and water. Let the gravy boil then add corn slurry until gravy thickens. Place fish on a serving platter and pour over the gravy and serve.

Do try and let me know how it turned out.

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Char Kway Teow/ Flat Noodle Stir Fry

Char Kway Teow is a popular hawker dish in Malaysia and Singapore, it's my family's favorite too. It's made of flat rice noodle cooked in a wok, this is a very simple dish and most importantly anyone can make this. Char Kway Teow is a complete meal and careful of the calorie, yea it is high in calorie so a small portion is very filling.

Usually this meal is stir fried with eggs, prawns, cockles, bean sprout, chives, chili paste and soy sauce but I as usual have altered this recipe according to my family's preference. We don't really prefer cockles so I have substituted chicken for prawn and cockles.

Let us look at how I have prepared this, to make things easy I'm going to give you pictorial step by step preparation.

Ingredients:

1 pack of kway teow/ flat noodle

250g chicken thinly sliced

3 eggs beaten

4 garlic diced

3 tbsp chili paste (onion+dry red chili+garlic)

1 cup of bean sprout

1/2 cup of chives

2 tbsp of dark soy sauce

2 tbsp of light soy sauce

Oil to fry

For chili paste blend until fine 1 onion, 10 pcs dry red chili and 5 garlic without adding much water.

In a wok, pour oil add diced garlic, stir for a minute add sliced chicken, 

chili paste and stir until chicken is cooked and gravy dries

Add in Kway Teow and mix well incorporating noodle 

with chicken and chili paste

Now add in chives, bean sprout, both the soy sauce and stir well, 

do add extra light soy sauce to adjust to your preference as we don't eat if its very salty

Pour in beaten egg at one side of the wok and scramble it 3/4, 

then mix in the noodle incorporating with the scrambled egg

After stirring everything, this is how the fried noodle should be

Our Char Kway Teow is ready to be served, enjoy!

Do try and let me know how was it.

I'm sending this recipe to Shama's Easy2Cook Recipes event FAST FOOD NOODLES

Mushroom and Tofu Stir Fry

This is a very simple recipe, come let's check how to cook this.

Ingredients:

5pcs mushroom cut small
1 pack silken tofu
2 tbsp oyster mushroom sauce
1 tsp light soy sauce
3 garlic chopped fine
1 tbsp groundnut oil
5 tbsp of water
1 tbsp corn slurry (1 tsp corn starch+ 1tbsp water)

In a pan, pour oil and add garlic saute a while be very careful not to burn the garlic. Now add in mushroom and silken tofu, scramble the tofu then add in mushroom sauce, light soy sauce, water. Let it simmer for 3 minutes and add corn slurry. Adding corn slurry will make the gravy thicken, now our Mushroom and Tofu Stir Fry is ready to be served.

Do try and let me know how it turned out.

Chili Chicken My Style

I have chicken almost 4 times a week, I just love chicken so much. Trying out something new every time I cook chicken has become a norm to me, I BW or create something out of what I have in the fridge. One ingredient I always have in my fridge is definitely chicken. I have tried this chicken dish last week and fund it very delicious and it suits my family's palette.

This is chicken is called Chili Chicken because I used chili sauce to make it, and with very simple ingredients. Let's look at the recipe.

Ingredients:

500gm boneless chicken (cubed)

1 green capsicum (cubed)

1 large onion sliced

3 pods garlic diced

3 tbsp chili sauce

1 tbsp oyster sauce

2 tbsp oil

To marinate chicken:

1 tbsp custard powder

3 tbsp corn starch

A pinch of salt

Marinate chicken for 10 minutes and deep fry. Drain on a kitchen towel and keep aside.

In a pan, pour oil add in garlic, onion and saute for a minute now add in capsicum and stir a while. Then add chicken pieces that have been fried earlier and add in salt, chili and oyster sauce. Mix every thing well so that the sauces and chicken will be incorporated. Now our dish is ready to be served.

Do try it out and let me know. Thank you.

Plum Chicken Stir Fry

Today have been a very busy day for me, didn't have much time to write on my blog. Chinese cuisine has always been my all time favorite and I'm sure many of you all love it too, I'm sharing with you all a  very simple dish " Plum Chicken Stir Fry".

Maybe some of you have tried this dish before, for those of you who have been looking for the recipe come take a look how to cook this.

Ingredients:

1/4kg chicken cubed (I have used chicken keel)

1 capsicum cubed

1 red chili sliced

1 large onion (cut into wedges)

3 cloves of garlic diced

2 tbsp corn starch

3 tbsp plum sauce

Salt to taste

Oil to fry

Marinate chicken with corn starch, I do not add salt at this point as my family members are very particular with salt anything exceeding the normal amount will go to bin. Leave the chicken for 5 minutes and deep fry it in shallow oil and fry until its golden, keep a side the fried chicken.

In a wok, pour oil and add garlic, saute a while careful not to burn it. Now add onion stir for a couple of minutes this will release the juices from the onion then add in the capsicum and red chili. Do not over cook the above ingredients, immediately add fried chicken stir for a minute, now add the plum sauce. Make sure stir it well so that the chicken pieces will be completely coated with the plum sauce and add salt to taste.

If u prefer more sauce, you could add some water to the mixture above and thicken it with corn starch slurry. Now our "Plum Chicken Stir Fry" is ready best served with white rice.

Do try this recipe and let me know how it turned out. Thank you.

Hokkien Noodle

I'm always a big fan of Chinese cuisine and I have it at least twice a week. This noodle have been my favorite all this years and I was BW and found the recipe from Rasa Malaysia. I totally love this dish after trying it, it tastes better than you buy from the restaurants. I have altered this recipe according to my taste, please pardon me on this. Okay let us look at the recipe without wasting much time.

Ingredients:

200g chicken sliced 1cm and marinate it with ingredients listed below:

2 cloves garlic crushed

White pepper (A pinch)

1 tbsp soy sauce

1/2 tsp oyster sauce

1 tsp sesame oil

1 tsp corn starch

Marinate and leave aside.

Condiments:

Prawns

White fish ball

4 cloves garlic chopped

Some Chinese cabbage

200g Hokkien noodles

Seasoning:

3tbsp oil

4 tbsp dark soy sauce

2 tbsp light soy sauce

3/4 cup chicken stock

2 tsp sugar

A pinch of white pepper

1 tbsp corn starch

2 tbsp cold water

In a wok, add oil and then add marinated chicken when the chicken almost cooked add in prawns, fish ball and chinese cabbage now fry for a minute.

Add in noodles and give a quick toss, now add dark soy sauce, light soy sauce coat the noodles.Add chicken stock, sugar and white pepper. 

Take corn starch and cold water mix well to make slurry and mix to the noodles. This will thicken the gravy. Adjust saltiness and sweetness of the gravy accordingly.

Hokkien noodles are ready now and serve with garlic chili sauce or belacan sambal. Best eaten while its hot.

Happy trying and leave your comment.

I have sent this recipe to Shama's EASY2COOK RECIPES FAST FOOD EVENT SERIES.





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