Simple Cooking Ideas

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Chives, Carrot and Potato Pancakes

Here is a quick and simple meal to do in a jiffy. Chives, cheeese and potatoes have to buy to stock in the fridge and use it when ever you need them. These are some of the ingredients to prepare for savoury pancakes.

Ingredients: serves 4

50 cents chives, chopped
1/2 piece carrot, peeled and grated
3 raw potatoes, peeled and grated
1 big oinion, peeled and chopped
1/4 cup grated cheese of your choice
3 beaten eggs
2 cups plain flour
salt and pepper to taste
oil for frying

Method:

Mix all ingredients in a mixing bowl. Stir to combine and … read more

Stewed Chicken With Vegetables

For this dish, chicken stewed with vegetables, you can use carrots, big onions, potatoes and celery. Spring onions and parsley or coriander you put last when about to serve. This is optional. Add herbs and some spices, like dried thyme, dried sage, oregano, cinnamon, peppercorn, garlic and ginger. You can add two or more herbs of your choice.

Ingredients:

Half a chicken about 600 gm, cut to pieces
Salt and pepper to taste
2 tablespoon cooking oil
2 cups water
2 carrots, cut into pieces
2 big onions, quartered
3 potatoes cut into wedges
2 stalks … read more

Stir-fried Chicken with Selasih and Bean Paste

Selasih or yee heong in Cantonese which you can grow easily in your garden. Add to the stir-fried chicken gives an aroma taste. If you like the fragrant of the herb, the dish will be tasty. If you do not like just leave out.


Ingredients:

1/2 chicken, cut to bite-sized pieces
1 tablespoon black sauce
1 tablespoon minced tau cheong or bean paste
1 tablespoon light soya sauce
3 long dried chillies, cut to 1 inch pieces
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
1 thumb-sized ginger cut to slices
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon cooking oil
salt and pepper to … read more

Potato, Red Pepper and French Beans Salad

It is a long time, I did not prepare some salad to eat. Always stir-fried vegetables. Now for a change, try this dish of salad with mustard dressing. You can prepare salad dressing earlier and keep in the fridge. Use it when needed.

Ingredients:(Serves 4)

500 gm potatoes, boiled and peeled
50 gm red pepper, sliced thinly
250 gm young French beans, slice slanting
50 gm green peas

Salad Dressing:

1 teaspoon mustard seeds
1 tablespoon Bragg’s apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 tablespoon brown castor sugar
salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Cut boiled potatoes into … read more

Garlic and chilli Vinegar

Here is a method of making garlic and chilli vinegar. Vinegar prepared in this way is good for health and you can buy brown rice vingar in an organic shop. As you know garlic can prevent heart attack, relieves cough and cold, kills bacteria and is a good antioxidant. Chilli aids in cardiovascular system and reduce pain in rheumatoid and osterarthris. Dilute garlic and chilli vinegar with 10 times cold water and drink after meals to maintain good health.

Ingredients:

50 gm garlic
50 gm small chillies (chilli padi)
600 cc brown rice vinegar

Method:

Wash and … read more

Fatt Thieu Cheong (Buddha jumps over the wall)

The name of this recipe may look strange to you. It is only a herbal soup and is prepared with more than a dozen herbs. This is an extremely nutritrious delicacy and is expensive to eat out. You can try to prepare it during your free time. The Chinese believe this herbal soup has curative powers and good for the body. The festive season is around the corner, if you want to prepare a reunion dinner, try to have this herbal soup.

Ingredients: ( For 6 persons)

1/2 kg sea cucumber, blanched in hot water
1 tin abalone, divided equally
6 dried … read more