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I have tasted a dish of prawns with butter and cheese sauce in a restaurant a week ago. It was delicious and after a few days I cooked this dish for my family. Would you like to try it?

Ingredients:

10 pieces of big prawns, devein and cut off feelers, unshelled
40 gm butter
100 gm grated Parmesan cheese or Cheddar cheese
cornflour with a little water
Half cup evaporated milk
salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Melt butter in a saucepan over gentle heat. Fry the prawns till cook and fragrant. Dish out and put on a dish. with the same amount of butter add cornflour mixed with a little water to dilute, add half cup evaporated milk and cook gently over fire until thicken. Stir in the cheese until it melts. Add salt and pepper to taste. Pour sauce over prawns and garish with chopped parsley.

This dish is a simple roasted cod fish that you can prepare for the coming Chinese New Year especially for the busy mothers. Cod fish is expensive imported fish that can be bought in the supermarkets. It is fleshy and smooth to the taste. The Chinese must have fish for the reunion dinner.

Ingredients:

2 pieces cod fillets
Salt and pepper to taste
1 big tomato, cut into slices
1 tablespoon chopped chives, cut into 1/2 inch long
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 tablespoon thyme
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon fried onions

Method:

Preheat oven to 200 degrees C. Meanwhile season cod with salt and pepper and put a side for 10 mins. Place cod, tomato slices on the roasting tray, follow by spreading chopped chives on top. Drizzle olive oil and roast cod for 20 minutes. Top with parsley and fried onion. Serve at once.

Coming home from work, exhausted and still have to cook for the family? Well do not fret, here is a dish of steamed prawns done and prepared all in about 20 minutes. But make sure you defrost the prawns earlier. You can accompany with 2 other dishes like a bowl of mamite soup and blanched vegetable dish with soya sauce and onion oil.

Ingredients:

10 big tiger prawns, slit and deveined, cut off feelers
2 tablespoon minced young fresh ginger
2 tablespoon ginger wine
salt and pepper to taste
a few dash of sesame oil
chopped parsley

Method:

Put the cleaned prawns on a stainless steel plate. Add the chopped ginger, wine, salt and pepper to taste. Put in a wok of boiling water and steam for 10 minutes. Add some chopped parsley and sesame oil. Serve with rice.

Nowadays yee sang is one of the most popular dish to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Fortune., happiness, properity and success fill the table with dishes like Braised Abalone with Fatt choy, Steamed Chicken and Sharkfin to name a few. Do try this home-made yee sang.

Ingredients:

100 gm fresh fish (salmon, carp, or abalone)

Shred finely:

900 gm white radish, sliced and squeeze dry
1 carrot
300 gm yam
30 gm jelly fish
30 gm pickled papaya
5 stalks spring onions
2 stalks coriander leaves
2 red chillies
3 -inch young ginger
2 tablespoon shredded pickledyoung ginger
5 pickled onions
2 kaffir lime leaves
2 stalk serai
2 slices pomelo, seperate the flesh evenly
1 large lime

For the sauce:

120 gm plum sauce
100 gm oil
sugar and salt to taste
1 teaspoon 5-spiced powder

Garnishes;

2 packets chrunchies ( available at supermarkets)
50 gm sesame seeds (lightly fried till fragrant

Method:

Slice the fish thinly and and put aside in the fridge. Arrange shredded ingredients on a large flat plate, radish in the middle, top with carrot and lime leaves. arrange other ingredients around the plate. To serve, add a little lime on the fish or you can add 2 tablespoon brandy on the fish and put on top of ingedients. Pour the plum sauce on the ingredients follow by 5-spiced powder and pepper, sugar and salt to taste. Serve by tossing the ingredients high for good fortune and properity with chopsticks.

Sometimes you wish to cook a quick dish of prawns for your family to enjoy. Try this crispy mouth watering dish that every one in the family would like to eat. To devein the unshelled prawns, you have to use a sharp knife to slit the back of the prawns and then pull the vein. Plum sauce is needed for this dish. You can buy it in the supermarket.

Ingredients:

300 gm fresh water prawns, deveined
2 tablespoon cooking oil
1 tablespoon chopped garlic and ginger
2 stalk of spring onions (cut into 2 inches length)
1/2 cup of plum sauce
2 tablespoon water
sugar and salt to taste

Method:

Add oil in a wok and when hot add prawns and fry for 3 min. Move the prawns to the side of wok and fry ginger and garlic till fragrant. Add the spring onion and toss to mix well for 2 min. Add plum sauce mix with water, sugar and salt to taste. Stir well until prawns are well coated, for about 5 min. Serve with rice.

Some of you may not like to eat eels, but they are very nourishing. Eels are a delicacy in some of the Chinese restaurants. Here in Malaysia, eels can be obtained easily in wet markets and you can also find in supermakets too. Research study says it contains vitamin A, B1, B2 D and E which helps to rejuvenating the body. It has several minerals and high quality protein and also unsaturated fatty acids like DHA and EPA are abundant in the eels. It helps to lower cholesterol and blood pressure, prevents vascular diseases, reduces the risk of developing arthritis and improve eyesight. Here is a simple dish to try.

Ingredients:

1 eel, about 300 gm, (remove head and inert)
10 cloves garlic
10 shallots, skinned
ethod:
1 tablespoon chopped parsley

Seasoning:

1 tablespoon dark soya sauce
1 tablespoon soya sauce
1 tablespoon rice wine
salt and sugar to taste
1/2 cup water

Method:

Blanch eel in hot water and remove slime with the help of a knife. Rinse cleaned and slice about 4 cm long. Marinate with salt and cornflour. Deep fry eel until slightly brown. Pour out excess oil and leave 1 tablespoon oil. Fry the shallot and garlic whole until fragrant. Add water and seasoning. Put in the eels. Simmer for 10 minutes. Thicken the gravy with a little cornflour and water. Stir to mix for a few seconds. Dish out and garnish with chopped parsley.