Simple Cooking Ideas

Breakfast and Snacks

Simple Homemade Chicken Burger

Burgers are a favourite among the old and the young., especially my grandchildren like to eat so much that they even eat burgers for lunch or dinner. There are several ways to cook a burger. you can grill it or fry it on a frying pan. For this recipe I use the frying method.

Ingredients:

2 chicken breasts, minced.
1 egg
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1 tablespoon cornflour
2 tablespoon chopped onions
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper to taste
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
Tomatoes slices,lettuce
Mayonnaise. tomato sauce and mustard

Method:

Mix the ingredients evenly together and marinate … read more

Sweet Potato Fatt Koh

These steamed cup cakes combine with the mixture of sweet potatoes to get the rich natural colour. You can get the orange type variety sweet potatoes in the market or supermarket. You can steam this fatt koh in little cups or a round cake tin of 6-inch diameter.

Ingredients:

200 gm plain flour
1 teaspoon double action powder
a pinch of salt
220 gm sweet potatoes
200 ml warm water
180 gm sugar

Ingredient A:

50 gm plain flour
2 teaspoon instant yeast
100 ml warm water
1/2 teaspoon sugar

Method:

Sift double action powder together with plain flour and add a pinch of … read more

Fatt Koh With Attractive Colours

Fatt koh with more than one colours looks attractive for praying and eating as snack too. Kids will like to eat if you try to make some for them. This method needs eggs as one of the ingredients. Another method of preparing, is to leave out eggs which the people use for praying for the Taoist religion.

Ingredients:

300 gm plain flour
1 1/2 teaspoon double-action baking powder
250 gm castor sugar
3 large eggs
180 ml cream soda
light pink and light green food colourings

Method:

Sieve flour baking powder and double-action powder together. Whisk eggs and sugar … read more

Glutinous Rice Balls In Soya Milk

Normally ready cooked rice balls are put into boiled sugar syrup and eat cold or hot. In this recipe the ready made rice balls are put into soya milk to eat. You can add filling of nut paste or bean paste.

Ingredients:

200 gm glutnous rice flour, sifted
300 gm fragrant leave water (daun pandan)

Filling:
100 gm roasted peanuts, skinned and minced in a mincer

Soya Milk:
2 litre soya milk, bought from soya milk stall
sugar syrup given separately to suit taste

Method:

Knead flour and water to form soft dough. Divide into small parts to form small balls. flatten each ball … read more

Steamed Yam Cake With Oats

Yam cake is my favourite snack. I hope busy mothers like to eat too. You can try this dish and prepare on a weekend or any public holiday. I have tried adding some oats to make a lovely crunch to this dish. It needs half an hour to prepare and steaming time will take about 45 mins. or until firm to the touch

Ingredients:serves 6

400 gm rice flour
100gm quick cooking oats
300 gm yam, shredded
6 cups chicken stock
salt to taste
1 tablespoon oil

Topping:

100 gm dried prawns, washed and drain
50 gm pickled radish (chye poh)
1 tablespoon oil
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Yam Cake With Oats

Yam cake is my favourite snack. I hope busy mothers like to eat too. You can try this dish and prepare on a weekend or any public holiday. I have tried adding some oats to make a lovely crunch to this dish. It needs half an hour to prepare and steaming time will take about 45 mins. or until firm to the touch

Ingredients:serves 6

400 gm rice flour
100gm quick cooking oats
300 gm yam, shredded
6 cups chicken stock
salt to taste
1 tablespoon oil

Topping:

100 gm dried prawns, washed and drain
50 gm pickled radish (chye poh)
1 tablespoon oil
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