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Japanese beancurd is easily available in supermarkets and wet markets. You can buy the small or medium prawns for this dish. My grandchildren like to eat this stuffed beancurd and they will happily finish their bowl of rice when I cook this dish for dinner.

Ingredients:

2 packets Japanese beancurd
150 gm prawn meat, cleaned and devein
1 tablespoon cornflour
dash of Aji- No- Motto
salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Cut each packet of beancurd into 6 portions and use spoon to ditch a hole in the center of the beancurd. Mince the prawns and season with salt and pepper with a dash of Aji-no- motto. Blend well with 1 teaspoon cornflour. Form into little balls and insert the prawn meat balls into the beancurd.

Steam for five or six minutes. Prepare an egg sauce adding 3 tablespoon water in a sauce pan mix with 1 teaspoon cornflour, bring to boil and mix in a beaten egg.
Then pour over the beancurd and serve immediately.

How To Make Homemade Fish Fingers

“Ngaku” as it is called in Cantonese and is also called the arrowheads. You can find them in abundant in the hypermarkets at this time of the year. You will find crowds of Chinese men and ladies busy choosing and packing ‘ngaku’ into plastic bags. Ngaku chips are now popular selling in cake shops, grocery stalls and market stalls. For the busy mothers, you can buy them. For some who prefer to fry themselves, here is the recipe. It is also the kids’ favourite!

Igredients:

1 kg ‘ngaku’
1 kg cooking oil for deep frying
Fine salt

Method:

Soak and clean ngaku. Cut off the head and tail and peel off the skin. Drain and put aside. In a heated wok, add oil until hot. Slice ngaku thinly with a slicer over the hot oil. Reduce heat and fry til ngaku chips are crispy and golden brown. Fry them in patches until finish. Drain ngaku chips in absorbent paper. Add salt over chips. Shake to mix salt evenly over chips. Pack into air-tight containers.

Eating chocolate biscuitS or bars make from oats are tasty and nutritrious for the kids. Some kids dislike oats which is so difficult to ask them to eat such as a porridge of oats. Here is a recipe using oats cut into bars coated with chocolate.

Ingredients:

4 cups quick cooking oats
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/3 cup creamy peanut butter

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 degree C.Grease a 9×13 inch baking tin. Combine the oats, butter, brown sugar and white sugar and press into the bottom of the prepared pan. Bake at 180 degrees C. for 10 to 12 minutes. Melt the chocolate chips and peanut butter together over low heat. Spread over the top of the baked oatmeal mixture. Cool and cut into squares.

If you have a sweet tooth, this mouth- watering chocolate desert would be a taste treat for your palate. It is easy to prepare and would certainly a yummy for kids and your family.

Ingredients:

400 gm castor sugar
50 gm golden syrup
50 butter
1 small can sweetened condensed milk
25 gm Vanhouten Cocoa
4 tablespoon water
75 gm chopped nuts

Method:

Well greased a tin. Put sugar, cocoa, water, golden syrup, butter and milk into heavy sauce pan. Heat slowly, stirring all the time until sugar dissolves and butter melts. Bring to the boil and cover with a lid for 2 minutes then uncover. Continue to boil steadily for further 25 minutes
stirring frequently until a little of the mixture forms a soft ball when drops into a cup of cold water. Stir in nuts and vanilla essence and cool to a luke warm. Beat well until thick and creamy, then transfer to a prepared tin. Spread smoothly with a knife. Mark into squares and leave in the refrigerator until set. Cut up and remove from tin when cold.