There are many varieties of sweet potatoes in the markets in Malaysia. The sweet potatoes have several varieties of colours including orange, white, purple and yellow. There are many ways of serving these versatile tuber. The sweet potatoes can be used in salads, frying as fritters, puddings, sauce and even add into rice porridge and sweet porridge. Purple colour potato is the rarest and most delicious and seldom you can see it.

Research and studies on sweet potatos and their colours have health benefits and have anti-cancer components. The purple sweet potatoes have high contents of anthocyanin, which is a pigment … read more

Hainanese chicken rice is a popular dish in Chinese restaurants, coffee shops, and food court. You can prepare it at home and eat comfortably with your family. I use a free range chicken for this dish which taste better.

Ingredients: serves 4

1 free range chicken, about 1 1/2 kg
1 Japanese cucumber, sliced
2 liter water
3 cups rice, rinsed and dried
1 tbsp chopped garlic and ginger
2 tbsp margarine
2 screwpine leaves
3 red chillies
1 thumb sized fresh ginger

Method:

Add water to a stockpot and bring to boil. Submerge chicken into boiling water. Bring down heat to simmer … read more

Cooking conge or rice porridge using an the common rice cooker is easy. This a one pot meal suitable for breakfast and lunch. If you are a light eater, can prepare for dinner too. You can called it a balance diet by adding a little of each, fish fillet, prawns, squids, shreded lean pork or shreded chicken. Garnish with chopped spring onions and parsley when served.

Ingredients:

1 cup of rice
10 cups of water
100 gm fish fillet (red snapper or wan yu)
50 gm medium prawns, discard shell
50 gm squids
50 gm shreded chicken meat.
1 stalk spring onion, … read more

Some of you may like to eat glutinous rice or lor mai kai very much. You can eat it at breakfast tim sum restaurant. You can try to prepare it at home during your spare time when your children are at home to give a helping hand. Here I use chicken fillet and Chinese dried mushrooms as fillings. The mushrooms have to be well soaked until soften for smoothness.

Ingredients:

glutinous rice, shoaked for 1 hour and drained
500 gm chicken fillet, chopped to bite-sized pieces
100 gm of Chinese mushroom, soaked until soft and smooth
2 tablespoon chopped garlics
1 large … read more

Tomato rice is tasty and appetising. It turns out perfect too in a rice cooker. Cooking in the electric rice cooker is just perfect to the taste. My grandchildren love to eat the rice without adding any vegetables or meat.

Ingredients: (serves 4 to 5 persons)

2 cups rice, washed and drained
1 tin chopped tomatoes with their juice
1/2 can of tomato puree
2 cups water
2 tablespoon olive oil
2 tablespoon salt
4 cloves
2 inch cinnamom stick
2 cloves garlic, crushed

Method:

Put the washed rice with 2 cups water into the rice cooker. Add in the rest … read more

Crispy rice with chicken and pork slices in gravy is the dish to try. Add prawns for more flavour. You have to use a pot to cook the rice on the gas stove. Cook your rice enough for six persons. Wash rice and bring rice to boil in a pot and simmer in low fire until rice is cooked and has an aromatic smell of crispy rice at the bottom of the pot. Scoop out the freshly cook rice and leave the hard crust in the pot and put aside till you are ready to use.

Ingredients:

200 gm crispy … read more