BLANCHING VEGETABLES TO COOK WITH OYSTER SAUCE

This is a 3-ingredient dish.  You will need:

1) Vegetables with heartier stem
2) 2-3 Tbs of oyster sauce
3) Fried garlic with oil

Watch this video to have a look at how the blanched vegetable is cut and served.

 

SPICY RED SPINACH OR BAYAM

Here is how you can fry red spinach or bayam with spices or without.

Jemput Jemput Pisang

We ate Jemput Jemput Pisang for breakfast this morning.

These are the ingredients in it:

500g of ripe banana
3 Tbsp of sugar
3 Tbsp of grated coconut
1/4 tsp of salt
120g plain flour

Here is how it is made.

Leftover rice? Boil porridge with it.

If you cooked your rice with too much water, you can solve the problem by making porridge with the leftover.

Put rice in a pot.



You can add leftover dish like steamed minced pork or oyster sauce chicken to the rice to add flavour to it.  Bones, if any, should be removed from the leftover dish.

If you do not have any leftover dish to add, you can use marinated sliced or minced pork, chicken or fish.  Add fresh ingredients to the pot of rice once the water is boiling.

Ingredients for marinating sliced or minced pork, chicken or fish:

1) Soya sauce
2) Sugar
3) Garlic Oil
4) Corn flour

Add ginger slices or ginger juice to fish.

This is the bowl of leftover steamed minced pork which will be used to make the porridge.



Fill the bowl of leftover dish with boiled water.  That will make it easier to pour dish into the pot of rice and make cleaning up the bowl easier.



Pour the ingredients into the pot of rice.  Add more hot water to cover over the rice.  Turn on heat.  Reduce the heat once the water starts boiling.

Watch the fire, as you do not want the water to boil over and mess up the stove.  Lifting the lid off the pot a bit will prevent that from happening.

Add salt or soya sauce to taste.  This is how the porridge should look like once it is cooked.



You can add pepper to the porridge if you want to.

If you do not add any ingredient to the porridge, you can eat the white porridge with salted egg, salted fish and preserved vegetable.

Prevent Long Electric Cord From Entangling

An extra long cord that could stretch from one end of the shop to the other is very useful. The problem with a long cord is that if you not do know how to roll it up properly, it entangles each time you use it So, I experimented and discovered that this is the best way to roll it up. I hope you find this tip useful too.

Learn to Make Kuih Bakul

This is a lost tradition.  In the olden days, most Chinese made their own kuih bakul for prayers during the Chinese New Year.  My grandmother had a large grind stone for grinding grains, like glutinous rice to make "Nian Gao", as it is called in Mandarin.


These are the ingredients you need to make Caramel Nian Gao (Kuih Bakul)

350g granulated sugar

430g hot water

350g glutinous rice flour

Adequate banana leaves to line moulds

You can find the full instruction with lots of photos of the processes at MyKitchen101en.

Here is how it can be served, deep fried with sweet potato and yam.

Crispy Smashed Potatoes

The next time you boil your ABC soup, do a "planned over" and add more whole potatoes so that you can cook this Crispy Smashed Potatoes dish.

 

As we do not use olive oil in Chinese cooking, I  have replaced it with garlic oil.



Source:
https://www.recipetineats.com/crispy-smashed-potatoes/