Vegetables With Satay Sauce

Hello,

Another quick stir-fry vegetables that we used to cooked at home are vegetables with satay sauce. These satay dishes also popular in Chinese restaurant, normally they cooked with meat like chicken or seafood but the sauce for me was too watery, while I like my vegetables satay a bit dry. Mon mari likes the creamy vegetables satay but I like mine without cream, just as simple as that.

VEGETABLES WITH SATAY SAUCE

Ingredients;

Vegetables (carrot, courgette, onion, dry mushroom, pepperoni)
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 shallot, chopped
2 tablespoons satay powder
Salt and pepper to taste
Cream liquid

METHOD;

- Heat a few tablespoons oil in a wok or frying pan and fry garlic and shallot until fragrant.
- Add satay powder, stir well for a few seconds, add little water if it to dry.
- Add all vegetables, cover and cook until vegetables are tender. Stirring occasionally.
- Season with salt and pepper, and for the creamy vegetables satay, add in the cream and cook for a few seconds.

Happy cooking!

Stir Fried Prawn Chinese Style

Ni how,

One of the delicious meal to cook for dinner is stir fried prawn Chinese style. This quick meals was so good yet they are so simple and easy to prepare. Unlike in Asia, most of the prawns here are sold ready cooked either peeled or the shell still on and most of the people make a salad or to eat as an appetizer. I used to buy these precooked prawns but when I cook it again in some recipe, I add the prawns at the end to avoid overcooked them.

When its come to stir fry recipes, these kind of meals are always in the list because stir frying is a great way to eat fresh meals in less than 15 minutes.

STIR FRIED PRAWN CHINESE STYLE

Ingredients;

200g prawns
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 shallot, chopped
2cm ginger, chopped
1 green chili, chopped
2 tablespoons tomato sauce/ketchup
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
2 tablespoons Chinese cooking wine
Salt, pepper and sugar to taste

METHODS;

- Fry the prawns for a minute if using fresh prawns. Set aside.
- Heat little oil in a wok or frying pan and fry garlic, shallots, ginger and chili until fragrant.
- Add in the sauces, cooking wine and season with salt, pepper and sugar.
- Add prawns and stirring quickly just until the prawns are well coated.
- Dish out and enjoy them with rice.

Bon appétit!

Sweet And Sour Fish

Bonjour,

We had a sweet and sour fish for dinner last few days and it was so good, easy to prepare and delicious. I don't make this sweet and sour fish often, but once in awhile I would cook these kind of dish for our dinner, just like the popular dishes in a Chinese restaurant. Homemade sweet and sour fish, we can even make it at home much better, much cheaper and even delicious than a restaurant one.

Let's cook this sweet and sour fish at home and see how much we enjoy the homemade food. Its totally delicious and forget about the restaurant dishes for a while.

SWEET AND SOUR FISH

Ingredients;

200g fish fillet, thinly sliced
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup cornflour
2 tablespoons tomato sauce/ketchup
1 tablespoon sweet chili sauce
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
2-3 tablespoons water
Sugar and salt to taste
1 cloves garlic, chopped
Any vegetables of your choice (green pepper, onion, cucumber etc)

METHOD;

- Clean the fish and dry on paper towels. Dip fish in the beaten egg and coat again in a cornflour to fully coated, set aside.
- Combine tomato sauce, chili sauce, vinegar, water and salt and sugar, set aside.
- Heat up oil in a wok or saucepan for deep frying.
- Fry coated fish until golden brown, set aside.
- Pour out some oil and just leaving a few tablespoons and fry garlic until fragrant.
- Add all diced vegetables and fry for a minutes.
- Add in the sauce and let simmer for another couple of minutes.
- To thicken the sauce, pour some cornflour mixture, stir well and add fried fish.
- Quickly fry for a few second to coat the fish with the sauce, turn of the heat and dish out.

Bon appétit!

Anchovy And Onion Fritters

Hey there,

What's for afternoon tea snack today? Sometimes we have no idea what to eat for our teatime, just a simple crackers, mini cakes or fritters? Deep fried food are so typical for Asian people because we love fried food, from fried noodles to fried fish and fried banana, everything used oils. Not to say that fat are not healthy, some fats are good because fat gives food good taste and texture and sometime our body needs some fat from food. The most important thing is, eat in moderation.

I made these anchovy and onion fritters recently for our tea time snack. It's simple yet delicious.

ANCHOVY AND ONION FRITTERS

Ingredients;

1 cup flour
2 tablespoons rice flour
2 tablespoons anchovies
1 onion, thinly sliced
Spring onion, chopped
Red chili
Salt to taste

METHOD;

- Combine all ingredients and add water little by little until it get thick and sticky batter.
- Heat some oil in a wok or saucepan and drop a tablespoon of batter into hot oil and fry until golden brown.
- Remove the fritters to a paper towels, serve with sweet chili sauce or ketchup.

Spiced Peanuts

Bonjour,

Nuts are one of the popular healthy snacks and almost everyone loved nuts and just like other people out there, nuts are my favourite snacks especially spiced nuts, anytime and anywhere. As everyone knows, different types of nuts contain different nutrients but in general, nuts are a healthy food. A handful of these spiced peanuts won't be enough for me, it was so good and is totally addictive.

Let's make spiced peanut for 'apero', I'm sure everyone would be happy and don't be surprise if someone could be addicted to it.

SPICED PEANUTS

Ingredients;

300g raw peanuts
1 egg
3 tablespoons flour
1 tablespoon rice flour
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 shallot, chopped
1 tablespoon curry powder
1/2 tablespoon chili powder
Salt and sugar to taste
Water
Curry leaves, fried separately, optional
Anchovies, fried separately, optional

METHOD;

- Combine all ingredients except peanuts, and add about 1/2 cup of water, mix until everything well combined.
- Add peanuts and stir until all peanuts are well coated.
- Heat up lots of oil in a wok or saucepan for deep frying.
- Drop a few tablespoons of coated peanuts and quickly separated the crumbled peanuts so this way they will fall apart and do not stick together.
- Keep the heat on the medium heat and stirring frequently to avoid any burning peanuts.
- Take it out with slotted spoon once the peanuts are cooked and golden brown and drain well on paper towels.
- Mix with fried curry leaves and anchovies, but that's not necessary because these peanuts tastes good even without those anchovies and curry leaves.

Stir Fried Chinese Green Vegetable

Hello,

Chinese greens, there are various types of Chinese greens vegetables like bok choy, kailan and choy sum. We are eating green vegetables almost everyday in Asia regardless of how these vegetables are cooked and the way we eat it. The good thing is, we can find these green vegetables everywhere and even planted them in our backyard.

Here in France, Chinese green vegetables are quite hard to find unless we go to the Asian grocery store and sometimes they're sold in some supermarket or fresh vegetables market. We eat a lot of vegetables at home and without a doubt, vegetables and fruits are good for health.

STIR FRIED CHINESE GREEN VEGETABLES
For 2 persons

Ingredients;

Bok choy/ choy sum
4 cloves garlic, chopped
Oyster sauce
Light soy sauce
1-2 tablespoons of corn flour mixture
Salt and pepper

METHOD;

- Heat up some oil in a wok or frying pan and fry garlic until they're slightly brown but not to burn them.
- Add the greens and fry for a few seconds over medium heat.
- Season with oyster sauce, soy sauce, salt and pepper.
- Pour little bit of corn flour mixture just to thicken the sauce, quickly stir fry and dish out.

Bon appetit!