Rice is an important food that we Asians eat almost every day. The rice we usually eat is white or polished rice which husk, bran, and germ have been removed during milling so it is less nutritious. Nuritionists nowadays recommend that we eat brown rice which rice with only the husk is removed. It contains alot of vitamins and minerals and is good source of dietary fibre. However, one disadvantage is that it takes 45 minutes to cook and it has a flavour that is a little difficult … read more

This dish is very popular in Malaysia.  It is my personal favourite too.  It is served with chicken curry. I love to cook this rice during special occasion.  This is a recipe for cooking the tumeric rice.

Ingredients:

1 kg glutinous rice
4 large pieces tumeric root
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups thick coconut milk mixed in 1/2 teaspoon salt

Method:

Wash rice. Crush tumeric root and wrap in a muslin cloth. Add tumeric and salt to the rice and leave it overnight.

Line base of Chinese bamboo tray with banana leaves. Drain rice and spread it on the tray. Steam for … read more

This is a simple fried rice dish. It is better to use overnight rice. That will keep rice seperately and will not be sticky.

Ingredients:

4 rice bowls cold cooked long grain rice
4 tablespoons cooking oil
2 eggs
100 gm cooked chicken or lean pork cut into cubes
100 gm small fresh prawns
50 gm chinese sausage (lap cheong) sliced
1 medium-sized onion, chopped
100 gm long beans, cut to quarter inch long
50 gm carrot, cut into small cubes
1-2 tablespoon soya sauce
saltand pepper to taste
1 red chilly , sliced

Methods:

Heat … read more

Just the other day, my daughter was asking me for a porridge recipe. She has tried cooking porridge but just can’t get the nice texture like those in the Cantonese restaurants. Usually my grandchildre love the porridge in the restaurants as the porridge texture is extra smooth, gooey, light and tasty.

To make good Cantonese porridege , the proportion of water to rice must be correct, which means 1 cup of rice, you have to add 10 to 12 cups water. Another secret you need to know is that the water must be boiling before adding rice.

There … read more

My grandchildren simply love this!

serves -5 or 6 persons
Ingredients

1 medium rice bowl – Quaker oats
200 gm minced meat or fish
salt, pepper to taste
afew drops of seseme oil
chopped spring onion and parsley
fried onion

Method

Add 4 meduim bowls of water together with oats in a pot to boil. marinate the meat withsalt. pepper, seseme oil and soya sauce for awhile. When the oats is boiling add the seasoned meat Boil slowly until the meat is cooked. Stir it one egg. Turn off fire. Add chopped spring oinions, parsley and fried onion … read more