Red Bean Soup With Mandarin Orange Peel  

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Ingredients :
  • 3/4 rice bowl of red beans (pre-soaked for 30 minutes)
  • Dried Skin / Peel from 1 mandarin orange
  • 6 rice bowls of water
  • Sugar to taste
Directions :
  1. Bring water to boil and add red beans. Reduce to simmer. Add mandarin orange peel after 30 minutes and continue to simmer for at least another 30 minutes. (alternatively, you can put the water, red beans and orange peel in a slow-cooker and cook it for 3 hours or more / overnight)
  2. Add sugar to taste before serving.

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Stir-Fried Dwarf Bok Choy With Garlic And Dried Prawns  

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Ingredients :
  • Approximately 200 grammes of dwarf bok choy (wash and rinse to remove dirt)
  • 5 cloves garlic (chopped)
  • 30 grammes of dried prawns (rinsed for a couple of seconds, pre-soaked in 50 ml water for 20 minutes - retain water for cooking)
  • 1 tablespoon of cooking oil
Directions :
  1. Heat oil in wok and stir-fry the dried prawns for about 10 seconds. Add garlic and continue stir-frying till garlic begin to brown. Add dwarf bok choy and stir-fry for another 15 seconds or so. Add the water (previously used to soak dried prawns) and close lid.
  2. Cook dwarf bok choy according to how soft you want the stems to be. Add a little water if you wish to have more gravy and add salt to taste.

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Stir-Fried Turnip (白萝卜) With Carrot And Dried Prawns  

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Ingredients :
  • 1/2 turnip (peel skin using a knife and cut into strips)
  • 1/2 to 1 piece carrot (cut to strips of similar size as turnip)
  • 30 - 50 gms dried prawns (pre-soaked in a rice bowl to slightly soften them. Retain the water for cooking)
  • 3 cloves garlic (finely chopped)
  • Fish cake slices (optional)
  • 1 tablespoon cooking oil (palm oil preferred)
Seasoning :
  • Salt and white pepper powder to taste
Directions :
  1. Heat oil in wok and saute dried prawns and garlic together till fragrant or till garlic begin to brown. Add fish cake slices at this point (optional).
  2. Add turnips and carrots and stir fry briskly for about 30 seconds whilst adding salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle water (used to soak dried prawns) to keep turnips and carrots moist.
  3. Cook the turnips and carrots to your desired softness and serve hot.

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Stir Fried Ladies Fingers With Dried Prawns  

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Ingredients :
  • 200 grammes of ladies fingers (sliced to not more than 5mm thick)
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons volume of dried prawns (pre-soaked in about 100 ml of water for 15 minutes)
  • 4 shallots (sliced thinly)
  • 2 tablespoons of cooking oil (palm oil)
Seasoning :
  • Fish sauce to taste
  • Sugar to taste
  • Salt to taste
Directions :
  1. Heat oil in wok and fry the shallots will golden brown. Remove fried shallots from oil and set aside.
  2. Remove oil from wok leaving not more than 1 tablespoon of oil in the wok. Fry the dried prawns for 30 seconds and add the ladies fingers. Stir well.
  3. Add seasoning and sprinkle some water (used to soak dried prawns) if the dish is beginning to burn or too dry for your liking.
  4. Stir fry the ladies fingers to your desired crunchiness / softness. Dish up, garnish with fried shallots and serve with steaming white rice.

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Corn Cake (玉蜀黍糕)  

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Ingredients :
  • 400 gm creamy sweet corn (罐頭碎玉米粒 400克)
  • 150 gm sugar (糖 150克)
  • 100 gm custard powder (蛋黃粉 100克)
  • 20 gm corn flour (玉米粉 20克)
  • 400 gm coconut milk (椰漿 400克)
  • 600 gm water (水 600克)
  • 5 pieces pandan leaf (香蘭葉 5片)
Directions :
  1. Place the corn flour and sugar into the bowl, add in coconut milk to become evenly batters. (將玉米粉和糖放在鍋子，加入椰漿攪拌均勻成麵糊)
  2. Add in water, creamy sweet corn and pandan leaf and mix evenly. (加入水、罐頭碎玉米粒、香蘭葉拌勻)
  3. On medium baking temperature, while boil agitation well in order to avoid the base falls burnt. (開中火，一邊煮一遍攪拌，以免底部焦掉)
  4. Boils till cook then changes the small flame and continue to boil for 10 minutes, till batters thick. (煮至滾改小火繼續煮10分鐘左右，至麵糊濃稠)
  5. Pours into mold immediately, put to coolling (離火，馬上倒入模子內，放涼后凝固，冷藏后食用更佳)

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