Long Bean Rice ~ My Mum's Style

Finally my hubby has recovered, means I can cook something alittle oily for him..;p Anyway, he still need more rest and healthy food to boost up his antibody..:)

Its alomost another week pass since school starts, but my daughter is looking forward to next week's holiday again. *Gosh*...why so many holidays??? That's because the school doesn't have a hall for the Standard 6 (UPSR) examinations, so the lower grade got to miss their lessons...:( This will make the kids getting lazier, but in another way, I have another week break...;p

Right, back to my post. this a dish / rice that I used to have since I was a kid. My mum used to cook this quite often for us. Maybe its easy and she only need to whip up everything in a pot then serve....haha! There are alot versions that I read from other bloggers about "long bean rice" but I just love the way my mum did...:)

Mom's recipe.....
2 cups rice (washed and soaked for 1 hour)
2 tbsps dried shrimps (soften)
200g long beans (cut into 1")
150g pork belly (thinly sliced)
10 shallots (diced)
550ml-600ml water (might not need all)

Marinade the pork belly with:
2 tsps sesame oil
1 tbsp light soy sauce
a dash of pepper

Seasoning:
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1/2 tbsp thick / black soy sauce
1/2 tsp sugar
~ add those seasoning into the rice (as shown below)

Method:
~ Panfry the shallots and dried shrimps until fragnant. Add in pork belly and stir fry alittle while.
~ Add in long beans and mix well.
~ Add in the rice with seasoning and mix well. Lower the heat and add in water (about 300ml) until just covered the rice (shown above). Simmer at low heat.
~ Stir rice every 5 minutes to prevent from sticking the wok or burn.
~ Add in water little by little and stir well while simmering.
~ Continue adding the water if the rice is not cook, and always simmer at low heat until cook.
~ Total cooking time is about 25-30 minutes.


We love this rice, and I usually cook this once every 2 months..:) Then till now I notice I did not post this before..hehe! Hope that you'll like this recipe as much as I do.

Cheers!!

Roasted Drunken Salt Chicken 酒香盐烤鸡

School has started today, and I was rushing my daily schedule as usual again. Today was abit too much for me, which I have to take care of 2 person in 1 time...;p Cook for my daughter and sent her to school of course, but my hubby is sick. So I have to wake early today, prepared 2 different breakfast and lunches... then office work...then dinner...*tired*!! Then when I'm ready to give myself a break with some facebook games...it was under maintenance......:(


Anyway, I'll be patient and try to relax with some other things then. So here I am...blogging..:) Sharing with you this super yummy recipe which I tried last weekend. Trust me, its super duper yummy. A recipe again adapted from "Flavours From My Kampung" by Bryan Ong, with some changes.

Ingredients:
1/2 chicken (I used small little drumsticks)

Marinade (Mixed)
1 tbsp salt
2 tbsps ginger powder
1/2 tsp five spice powder
dash of pepper
5 tbsps Shao Xing wine

Method:
~ Rub marinade all over chicken and marinate for 30 minutes at least.
~ Put marinated chicken onto a piece of aluminium foil and wrap up.
~ Bake in a preheated oven at 200'C for 30 minutes then unwrapped the top and continue bake for another 15 minutes.
~ Remove and serve.

Hope you all like this recipe as much as I do..:)

Cheers!!

Marble Chocolate "Fatt Gao"

Our school 3rd term break / Raya holiday is almost going to end. By next Monday, everything will be back to normal, my daughter is going back to school and I'm going back to my daily schedule..:( How I wish the holiday is longer...;p

Anyway, I still have something to look forward to....hehe! I'm going to meet my dear friend & family next weekend....Ooooo I just can't wait!!!

This holiday, my youngest sister & family came visit. We had a great time shopping and dining outside for 3 days. My daughter had so much fun, well too much actually and ends up she's not looking forward to go back to school. Yes, too much playing makes her lazy...;p Alright, with too much heavy food for almost a week, I've made something which is really light and healthy for our snack today. A "chocolate marble fatt gao" which was adapted from one of my collection book, "Steamed cake & Kuih Muih" by Famous Cuisine.


Ingredients A:
1 egg
140g castor sugar
300g plain flour
1 tsp double action baking powder
180ml water

Ingredients B:
1.5 tsp melted chocolate

Ingredients C:
1 tbsp instant yeast
1 tbsp castor sugar
60ml luke warm water

Method:
~ Mix ingredients C, rest 5 minutes for fermentation.
~ Sift flour and double action baking powder and set aside.
~ Whisk egg and sugar until light and creamy with mixer (as shown on 2nd picture above), add in water, mix well slowly.
~ Gradually add in flour mixture, mix well. Next add in ingredients C mixture, stir until become smooth batter. (as shown on 2nd picture above)
~ Divide batter into 2 portions evenly, mix a portion with ingredients B. Leave aside.
~ Grease 12 small fatt gao moulds with a thin layer of corn oil. Preheat in the steamer for 5 minutes before add in batter.
~ Remove moulds from steamer, spoon in chcolate batter then follow by original batter. Form a marble texture with a chopstick.
~ Steam in preheated steamer at high heat for 20 minutes. Remove and serve.

The texture is so fluffy soft and my daughter had 2 right away. She said this is really nice, haha! Well, kids do tell the truth right...LOL!! The sweetness was just right if you are using semi sweet chocolate here. If not, you may reduce the sugar to 130g in ingredients A.

Notice there are no oil or butter used here except the greasing part. So I guess this is a really healthy snack that you can have anytime you like. I might change to other flavours the next time I make this, with my favourite coffee, pandan, anything will just go right with it....^^

Cheers!!