Clear Carrot Chicken Soup  

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Ingredients :
  • 1 1/2 litres water
  • 1 chicken carcass, cleaned
  • 2 stalks spring onions
  • 1 tsp white peppercorns
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 100g deboned chicken meat, sliced
  • 50g carrot, cut into small wedges
  • 50g green capsicum
  • 50g button mushrooms, diced
  • 50g maccheroni (pasta), cook till al dente
Seasoning :
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
Garnishing :
  • Chopped spring onions

Directions :

  1. Bring water to a boil. Add chicken carcass, spring onions, peppercorns and garlic. Cook to a boil again and simmer over gentle heat for 30 minutes until soup turns clear .
  2. Strain soup. Add chicken meat, carrot, capsicum and button mushrooms to soup. Boil until meat and vegetables are soft and tender.
  3. Add cooked pasta and seasoning. Dish out soup and serve with garnishing in individual bowls together with the puffs. It makes a wholesome meal.

Cucur Udang  

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Ingredients :
  • 600gm flour
  • 400gm fresh prawns (small)
  • 1/2 cup dried prawns
  • 3 onions
  • 3 fresh red chillies
  • 2 sprigs Chinese celery
  • salt to taste
Directions :

  1. Shell and wash fresh prawns. Drain. Wash and thoroughly pound dried prawns. Finely slice onions, chillies and celery.
  2. Sieve flour and mix well with water into a soft consistency. Add in the other ingredients. Mix well.
  3. Drop spoonfuls of the mixture (or use your fingers) into a kuali of hot oil for deep frying. Drain on kitchen paper.
  4. Cucur udang is best served warm and dipped in chilli sauce.

Kerabu Sayur  

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Ingredients :
  • Shredded carrot (紅蘿蔔全切成絲)
  • Shredded cucumber (黃瓜全切成絲)
  • Shredded cabbage (白菜心葉全切成絲)
  • Shredded sweet potato (番薯全切成絲)
  • Shredded chicken (雞絲)
Seasoning (辣椒調味汁) :
  • 250 grams dried chillies (辣椒乾 250克)
  • 1 kgs small onion (小蔥頭 1公斤)
  • Balacan 1 divided into 4 small pieces (峇拉煎 1又4份塊)
  • 2 pieces gula melaka (椰糖 2片)
  • 1/2 kg peanut fries and blend (土花生 半公斤(炒熟後攪拌成花生碎)
  • Sour citrus juice (酸柑汁)
Directions :
  1. Put the dried chillies, small onion, balacan and gula melaka into the mixer to stir evenly. (首先,把辣椒乾、小蔥頭、峇拉煎和椰糖放進攪拌機內攪拌均勻)
  2. Put the above material into the pot in boils. (add in crunch peanut and sour citrus juice before serve) (把上述材料放到鍋里煮滾。(花生碎和酸柑汁是在享用佳餚前放進辣椒調味汁內攙拌,使調味汁帶有酸辣味道和花生的香味)
  3. Place evenly the vegetables into the tray, then add in seasoning sauce. (將蔬菜均勻地擺放在盤子中,然后淋上辣椒調味汁即可)

Kiam Chye Tau Foo Soup  

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Ingredients :
  • 5 to 10 pieces of salted mustard leaves (kiam chye)
  • 2 large tomatoes (quartered)
  • 1 piece beancurd (soft type, approximately 6 inches x 2 inches x 2 inches - LxWxD, cut into 8 pieces)
  • 2 bowls of stock (prepared using 2 1/2 bowls of water used to boil belly pork)
Directions :
  1. Bring stock to boil and add tomatoes and salted mustard leaves. Simmer for 1 hour or more.
  2. 3 minutes before intended serving, bring back to boil and add beancurd.
  3. Serve steaming hot.

Tako Delight  

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Ingredients :

(A)

Mix together and leave aside to soak for 30 minutes, then sieve :
  • 65g arrowroot flour
  • 1 tbsp green pea flour
  • 200ml water
(B)
  • 350ml unsweetened pineapple juice
  • 150g sugar
  • 2 pandan leaves. knotted
  • 6 pieces water-chestnuts, diced
Santan topping :
  • 550ml general santan
  • 2 1/2 tbsp green pea flour
  • 1 1/4 tsp agar-agar powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
Directions :
  1. Prepare pandan leaf casings.
  2. Bring pineapple juice, sugar and pandan leavesto a low boil. Gradually add in mixture (A) and keep stirring. add in water-chestnuts. When they turn transparent, remove fromheat. Spoon a heaped teaspoonful of filling into each pandan casing. Leave to set.
  3. To make santan topping: Mix all the ingredients together and cookwell till blended and thick. Remove from fire.
  4. Spoon one teaspoonful of topping ingredientover the pineapple layer. Leave to set. Chill well before serving.

Tuna Salad  

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Ingredients :
  • 5 unripe mangoes, peeled & shredded
  • 600gm tuna, grilled and flaked
  • 5 shallots peeled and sliced
  • 500ml thick coconut thick milk
  • 3 sliced chillies
  • 3 sprigs fresh coriander, chopped
  • Salt & pepper
Directions :
  1. Mix shredded mango with the salt.
  2. Set aside for 10minutes. Squeeze to remove liquid.
  3. Mix in tuna & all ingredients.
  4. Chill and serve.

Stir Fried Fish Slices With Ginger And Spring Onion  

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Ingredients :
  • 200 grammes white fish (sliced to not more than 1 cm thick, marinade lightly with salt for 10 minutes and dust with corn flour)
  • 5 cm ginger (sliced thinly)
  • 3 stalks spring onions (cut to about 5cm lengths)
  • 4 cloves garlic (chopped finely)
  • 150 ml hot water
  • corn starch (prepare by mixing 1 teaspoon corn flour with 3 tablespoons water)
  • 200 ml cooking oil

Seasoning :

  • 1 teaspoon oyster sauce
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt or to taste
  • ¾ tablespoon of Chinese cooking wine
  • a couple of dashes of white pepper powder
Directions :
  1. Heat oil in wok till smoking hot. Fry fish slices for about 30 seconds on each side taking care not to break them. Remove fried fish slices and set aside.
  2. Remove oil, leaving approximately 1 tablespoon or lesser in the wok. Saute garlic and ginger till aromatic. Add spring onions next. Stir evenly before adding fried fish slices and hot water.
  3. Add seasoning followed by a teaspoon or two of corn starch to thicken the gravy.
  4. Dish out and serve hot with steamed white rice.

Stir-fried Bitter Gourd  

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Ingredients :
  • 1 medium-size bitter gourd , halved, seeded and sliced thinly
  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 salted duck egg
  • salt and sugar for seasoning
Directions :
  1. Beat the egg and salted egg together. Cut the salted egg yolk into small pieces with a fork.
  2. Heat the wok and add the oil.
  3. When oil is hot, add in the egg. Toss in the sliced gourd when the egg mixture is still a little runny in texture. Mix thoroughly for about 1 minute.
  4. Cover pan and cook for 2-3 minutes. Do not overcook - leave some crunch in the vegetable.
  5. Season and dish out.

Spinach Soup With Wolfberries  

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Ingredients :
  • 300 grammes of spinach (rinsed and plucked at the stems. Discard old or thick stems)
  • 10 grammes of wolfberries (about 20 to 30 pieces)
  • 100 grammes of minced meat (we use pork)
  • 50 grammes of ikan bilis
  • 3 soup bowls
Marinade :
  • 2 teaspoons light soya sauce
  • a dash of white pepper powder
Seasoning :
  • Salt to taste
  • 2 teaspoons light soya sauce
Directions :
  1. Boil ikan bilis in water for 30 minutes to make stock. Remove ikan bilis when done. Meanwhile, marinade minced meat.
  2. Bring stock to boil again after removing ikan bilis. Scoop minced meat into meat balls using a teaspoon and add into the stock. Cook till all meat balls float to surface. Add spinach and wolfberries and bring back soup to boil. Add seasoning to taste and serve immediately.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge  

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Ingredients :
  • 3 cups white sugar
  • 1 cup evaporated milk
  • 1/4 cup cocoa
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 1 tablespoon butter
Directions :
  1. Butter one 9x9 inch pan.
  2. Combine the sugar, evaporated milk and cocoa in saucepan. Stir over high heat until mixture comes to a rolling boil. Lower heat to medium and continue cooking to a soft ball stage.
  3. Remove from heat, add peanut butter and margarine. Beat by hand until creamy; pour into prepared pan. Allow to cool and cut into squares.