Q's Spicy and Sour Squid

Ingredients
(A)
500 gm Squid cut stripe 1”
20 gm Onion slice thin

(B) Blend till fine
6 cloves Onion
2 cloves Garlic
3-4 tbsp Chili paste
3 stalk Lemongrass

( C)
1 tsp Tamarind
200 ml Water

1 no Wild Ginger Flower (Malayis Bunga Kantan) cut half
Sugar and Salt to taste

Methods
1. Heat wok and 1 tbsp cooking oil.
2. Add in Ingredients (B). Stir fried till fragrant.
3. Add in Ingredients (A) and stir till gravy blend in.
4. Add in Ingredients ( C) and stir will all ingredients is well mix.
5. Add sugar and salt to taste.
6. Add in wild ginger flower.
7. Cook and stir on medium heat for 8 minutes.
8. Remove and serve with rice or bread.

Q's Stir Fried Fermented Soya Bean

Ingredients
1 pkt Fermented Soya Bean (Malay call it Tempeh) cut to small strip ½”x ¼”
2 pcs Hard Beancurd cut to small strip ½”x ¼”
30 gm Long Beans cut to 1” long
1 no Egg
20 gm Onion chop

Methods
1. Heat wok and pour in 300ml cooking oil.
2. Fried beancurd till golden brown and remove to kitchen towel.
3. Fried fermented soya bean till golden brown and remove to kitchen towel.
4. Add in chop onion to the wok and sauté will fragrant.
5. Beat egg and pour in to the wok and stir like making scramble egg.
6. Add in long beans and let it cook for 1 min.
7. Add in the fried beancurd and fermented soya bean. Add seasoning to taste.
8. Remove and serve.

Q's Grilled Yogurt Chicken

Ingredients

8 nos Drumstick (Can be any parts of the chicken)

(A)

3 tbsp Meat Curry Powder

1 tbsp Chicken Seasoning

1 tsp Salt

1 small cup Plain Yogurt

Methods

1. Wash and drain dry the chicken.

2. Mix Ingredients (A) into the mixing bowl / mixing bag.

3. Once all ingredients are all mix, add in the chicken.

4. Marinated it for 8 hours. For better taste, leave it overnight in the fridge. 

5. Heat-up non-stick grilling pan and wash it with light oil.

6. Place the marinated chicken onto the grilling pan.

7. Grilled each side for 5 mins or till the chicken is cook in medium heat.

8. Remove and serve.

Q's Fried Turmeric Squid Ring

Ingredients
500 gm Squid Ring
10 gm Onion finely slice

(A)
3 tbsp Turmeric Powder
1 tsp salt

Methods
1. Wash and drain dry the squid ring.
2. In a mixing bowl, marinate the squid ring w Ingredients (A) for 30 mins.
3. Heat wok and pour in 300 ml cooking oil.
4. Once the oil is hot, put in the marinated squid ring.
5. Fried till golden brown and remove to the kitchen towel to drain out access oil.
6. In a clean pan, transfer 1 tsp oil from just know and add in the slice onions.
7. Stir fried it till fragrant.
8. Remove the fried squid ring from the kitchen towel to the stir fried onion.’
9. Mix the squid ring and slice onion.
10. Remove and serve.

Q's Fried Kway Teow

 Ingredients
(A)
150 gm Fresh Kway Teow
1 no Egg
10 gm Beansprout
2 clove Garlic roughly chop

(B)
2 tbsp Chili Paste
1tbsp Fish Sauce
1 tsp Dark Soya Sauce

Methods
1. Heat wok and then add 1 tbsp cooking oil.
2. Add in chop garlic. Stir fried till light brown.
3. Add in kway teow and stir for 10 second.
4. Add in Ingredients (B) and keep stirring.
5. Push aside the kway teow to the side of the wok.
6. Pour 1 tsp sesame oil and break the egg into the center of the wok.
7. Scramble the egg a bit and then cover it with the kway teow.
8. Add beansprout and stir to mix.
9. Garnish with the Tamarind Prawn from my earlier post.
10. Remove and serve hot.

Note: Garnishing you can also use Grilled Chicken Fillet, Fish Fillet or anything that fancy you.

Q's Yam Rice

Ingredients
(A)
2 cups Rice wash

(B)
100 gm Yam cut cubes ½”
50gm Dried Shrimps

( C)
2 cloves Garlic finely chop

Methods
1. Heat wok with 1 tbsp cooking oil.
2. Add in Ingredients ( C) and fried till light brown.
3. Add in dried shrimps and stir fried till fragrant. Remove and put aside.
4. Mix in fragrant dried shrimps and cube yam into the rice and add seasoning to taste.
5. Place all mixed ingredients in the rice cooker and add water as describe by the rice manufacturing.
6. Serve rice hot.

Note: It is nice to eat with plain sambal tumis.

Q's Chicken in Thick Chili Gravy (Ayam Sambal)

Ingredients
(A)
Half Chicken cut 6 pcs
1 no Russel Potato cut 6

(B) Blend till fine
6 cloves Onion
2 cloves Garlic
3-4 tbsp Chili paste
3 stalk Lemongrass

( C)
3 tbsp Tomato Puree
1 tsp Tamarind
200 ml Water

Sugar and Salt to taste

Methods
1. Heat wok and cooking oil.
2. Once oil is hot, fried Ingredients (A) individually till golden brown. Remove and drain access oil.
3. In a clean wok heat up 1 tbsp cooking oil.
4. Add in Ingredients (B). Stir fried till fragrant.
5. Add in Ingredients (A) and stir till gravy blend in.
6. Add in Ingredients ( C) and stir will all ingredients is well mix.
7. Add sugar and salt to taste.
8. Cook and stir on medium heat for 8 minutes.
9. Remove and serve with rice or bread.

Q's Fried Tamarind Prawn

Ingredients
(A)
500 gm Prawn (Size 28 -30 nos per Kg) trim the head. Peel the shell from the body but leave the head and tail intact.

(B)
50 gm Tamarind (use the one with seed on)
½ tsp salt

( C)
1 cup Cooking oil for frying

Methods
1. Marinate the clean prawns with Ingredients (B). Let it sit for 30 minutes.
2. Heat work and add in cooking oil.
3. Once oil is hot, add in marinated prawn.
4. Fried the prawn in medium heat till golden brown in color.
5. Remove and serve hot with rice or noodle.

Q's Old Cucumber Soup

Ingredients
1 no Old Cucumber (approximately 300 gm)
50 gm Dried Shrimps
10 nos Fresh Fish Ball (Optional)

Methods
1. Cut old cucumber to half.
2. Use a Chinese soup spoon to remove the seed.
3. Slice the old cucumber to 1”
4. Use a soup pot and pour in 1 to 1.5 liter of water. (Depend on individual liking)
5. Once water boiling, add in the sliced old cucumber, dried shrimp and fish ball.
6. Bring it to boil. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Q's Stir Fried Lettuce Romaine

Ingredients

300gm Lettuce Romaine

100gm Fish fillet

3cloves Garlic

Seasoning to taste

Methods

1. Wash and peel the lettuce

2. Wash and slice fish in chunky size. Seasoning with 1 tbsp sesame oil and black pepper

3. Smash garlic

4. Heat wok with 2 tbsp cooking oil

5. Fried garlic till fragrant

6. Add in fish fillet and fried for 2 minutes

7. Add in lettuce and stir till all blend.

8. Add seasoning, remove and serve with hot rice.

Q's Stir Fried Walnut Beef

 Hmmm what goes nice with black pepper beef.  At first thinking of pine nut as I have tasted stir fried venison with pine nuts in one of the Chinese restaurant in town.  Due to out of pine nut, I substitute it with walnut.                                                     My son was saying mummy where got people use walnut in main dish.  Well you haven't try you wouldn't know how it turn out.  So I go ahead with it.  To my maze, they like it.  The beef is juicy and you can taste the crunchy of the walnut.  Here is the recipe. Try it. :)

Ingredient:-

200 gm beef (stripe), 50 gm mixed vegetable, 1 no onion (slice), 100 gm walnuts (toast in oven), 50 ml black pepper sauce, 1 tsp black pepper powder.

If you do not take beef, you can always substitute it with chicken, fish fillet or prawn.

Q's Steam Minced Chicken w Salted Egg

Those days Mum use to cook this dish to go with porridge.  In hokkien it is call Tim Bak.  You can replace it with minced chicken. 

The ingredients I use to cook this dish are 200 gm minced chicken, 1 no salted egg and 50 ml warm water them you mixed the minced chicken and the salted egg in a stainless steel bowl.  On the electrical steamer.  Add in the warm water into the mixture and place the bowl in the steamer. Steam for 20 min or until the chicken is cook.

Q's Assam Laksa

Missed home cooked Penang Assam Laksa. You cann't even find a good tasty Assam Laksa in Kuala Lumpur. Eventhough they claim that their recipe is origin from Penang.

I had a bet with my family that I'll be able to wiped out a nice tasty Penang Assam Laksa.  And walla our dinner last night is Penang Assam Laksa. 

Simple Dish #13

Another simple dish for dinner.  Today we're having is stir fried mixed vegetable, assam pedas fish and chicken cream cracker pattie.

Simple Dish #12

Don't know what to eat for dinner. Hmmm.............

Ha I'm sure my family have not try this rice.  The first and the last time I ate this rice is during one of our picnic in Pulau Pinang where my friend's mother cook 

for us this Dal Rice and eat it with Sambal Ikan Bilis.  It's a best meal we ever had.

So for dinner we are going to have is Dal Rice with Grill Chicken, Acar Buah and Vegetable Dalca.   I have kept a portion for my lunch tomorrow. Want to join me? 

 :)

Simple Dish #11

In Simple Dish #11 clockwise from top Stir Fried Cabbage w Dried Shrimp, Assam Pedas Sardine and Cekor Chicken or in Hokkien they name it Hon K.

During my childhood day, my mum used to cook Hon Bak and I enjoy eating it with

Bengali Bread.  Due to situation does not permit, I substitute pork with chicken and it still taste yummy.

Try it.  :)

Simple Dish #10

Another simple dish clockwise from left Stir Fried Broccoli with Scallop & Prawn, Assam Pedas Pari and Egg with Green Pepper & Onion.

Simple Dish #9

For dinner tonight we're having Assam Pedas Taucu Ketam, Terung Sambal Udang Kering and ABC Chicken Ball soup.

From now on you'll see more of my cooking is without coconut milk and less oil.  

I have a big size family members and we're trying hard to cut down mostly coconut milk, oil, deep frying, sugar and salt.

Hope this works.  :)

Q's Fish in Salted Vegetable Soup

Everyone like fish.  But difference type of cooking.  My friend's wife love fish in soup and she has her own way of preparing the dish.

I share this with her.  I use 800 gm Garoupa fillet, 200 gm Salted Vegetable, 2 nos Tomato, 3 nos Preserve Plum, 50 gm Ginger and 10gm Dried Chili.

It's nice to eat hot.

Try it  :)

Simple Dish #8

This round my son's friends requested for a surprise dish as their meal after group study.

So in Simple Dish #8 we have (from the top clockwise) is Asam Pedas Sardin, Mixed Vegetarian Dish and Black Pepper Chicken.

Try it :)