Snakehead with Black Beans Soup ~ Remedial Effects药膳生鱼黑豆汤

Herbal Soup with remedial effects!

The main ingredients of this herbal is  fresh water Snakehead fish, the most sought carnivorous predatory fish in Malaysai as it is wedely believed by Malaysian  to have remedial effects. It is said to be speed up the healing process after operation.

Snakehead fish in Bahasa Malaysia is called Ikan Haruan and in Chinese is  called 生鱼.

 

Ingredients

Snakehead fish about 1 kg  (clean and cut into big pieces)

300 gm black beans

20gms pak kei  北茋

30gms Tong sum 党心

6 -8  pcs of red dates

1 litre of water

few slices of ginger

Method

1. In a wok, dry fry the black beans till skins open up.  Keep aside.
2. Boil water in a pot, add in the black beans, pak kei, tong sum and red dates
3. Boil to the black beans till soft that take about 1 hour or so.
4. Add in the fish and boil another 10 mins till fish is cooked.
5. Add salt to taste.  Serve hot.

Japanese Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き)

Have been absent for 2 months without any posting on my blog but seems nobody missed my food leh!  Sad!  But life goes on...........   

Had a great holiday at Jeju and Seoul, Korea for 8 days trip with my 2 girls from 23rd May to 1st June 2012.   Hope to upload the photos and details here in the near future!

After the fascinating Korea Trip immediately have to head to Gopeng Perak to register youngest daughter Tammie to her matriculation school for the next 52 weeks.   Tammie is not  physically  and mentally prepared for a brand new life ahead!  Bless her and wish her all the best in her future undertaking!  Mummy and Daddy love you!!

I am sharing here with you a Japanese Delight Okonomiyaki ((お好み焼き).  A Japanese pizza.  Okonomiyaki simply means 'what you like" whereby you can add any ingredients as you wish. 
 If you have a passion for food, you absolutely must try Okonomiyaki! 

 

A giant Okonomiyaki (8" the size of the bottom of my frying pan)

This no so nice  photo was taken using my outdated hand phone as my Nikon D3100 was still at the workshop    =(

 These ingredients are picked randomly  in my kitchen!  

The recipe got it from a book (made some amendments) belong to my friend Winnie Tan from Johore Bharu.

I am excited to share the joy of this wonderful  Okonomiyaki Recipe!

Recipe 

Some squids  (sliced)

 some cabbage ( I used purple cabbage)

4 crab stick (diced)

some spring onion or chives (cut into sections)

I add on my favorite basil leaves which is available in my fridge

 (You can add any ingredients of your liking with no restrictions and fixed amount

Okonomiyaki

200 gm low protein flour

30gm custard powder

2 eggs

4 tbsp soy sauce

1/2 tsp sugar

1 tsp salt 

500 ml water or to adjust

For the sauce

5 tbsp soy sauce

1 tbsp oyster sauce

4 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp potato flour

5g bonito flakes

100 ml water

To garnish

some mayonnaise, some shredded seaweeds and some  Bonito flakes

Method

Mix the sauce ingredients together and bring to a boil set aside.

Sieve and combine the low protein flour and custard powder, add in other ingredients of okonomiyaki and mix well. Set aside.

Heat up a non stick frying pan at low heat, coat with a thin layer of oil.  Pour a few scoops of flour mixture of no. 2 into thin layer.  Add in the cabbage, crab stick and squids (which is pan fried earlier) Add in few more scoop of the flour mixture on top.

Fry both side till golden brown with medium heat.

Pour sauce of No. 1 over the okonomiyaki.  Garnish with seaweeds, mayonnaise and Bonito flakes.

Tadaaa......  The crispy on the outside and soft inside Okonomiyaki is ready to be served!  

Tips

The above recipe is just a guide line only.  You have your imagination and create your very own master piece of Japanese  Pancake or Pizza!  Have fun!!!!   

 

Tempura Fish Fillet with Potato Wedges & Egg in Bell Pepper

Bought 2 packets of Tempura Fish Fillets at Malaysia International Halal Showcase (MIHAS) at KLCC recently, plus a basket of fresh veges from my muslim neighbor and hence here I am with a wholesome of western delights for the family!

  

Dinner is ready to be served!  ^_^

 

Tempura Fish Fillet to go with Baked Pumpkin and Potato Wedges

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Simple Green Tea Butter Cake 绿茶奶油蛋糕

I will make every effort to bake any cakes (chiffon, cheese), pie, puff with green tea as one the ingredients!    A fluffy and moist Green Tea Butter Cake, highly recommended to give it a go!

Updated on 28th March 2013, sharing another Orange butter cake's recipe.

Superior Steamed Miost Chocolate Cake

First of all thank you my Muslim  neighbour for  sharing such an easy but premium Steamed Chocolate Cake。  The recipe given to me was  in Bahasa Malaysia.   Hope I got the translation right!   On the topping, I am sharing with you 2 type of chocolate toppings with you!

An old fashioned Steamed Moist Chocolate Cake

 

 

Tasty Marmite Spare Ribs 妈蜜排骨 (2)

I seldom prepare this dish as it is a very tedious chores.  The last time when this dish was served, my son was not around to enjoy it.  This time my son came back to Kuala Lumpur on 25 March, just to watch the FI race in Sepang, which I got the tickets at the main stand  from  my friend Hitomi.  TQ Hitomi!  Please do make it a habit!  hehehe...  I specially prepare the dish again for him and the rest of the family to enjoy!

Anyway, when came back for the late dinner on Sunday ,  he said "  Mom, the  Marmite Spare Ribs is awesome !   Huh!  That make me feel good  and forget  all the hardwork  and time  spend to prepare the dish in the kitchen!    Cheers  to me!

The Awesome Marmite Spare Ribs

I consider this is quite a time consuming dish to prepare, but the end result  worth the effort!   But again, there is no fix rule or steps in culinary, we can always plus and minus as we go along, the end result  -  TASTE is most important!

As for the recipe refer my previous post at  Marmite Spare Ribs

 

Pancake with Orange Curd

Healthy and simple breakfast for a bright and sunny Sunday morning!  Or you may serve the pancake for your afternoon tea with your buddies!