Mongolian Beef

Another made up menu I found in internet :P

Mongolian beef or chicken is quite common food in Chinese take-away menu.

The recipe quite easy, not so many ingredient and fast cooking.

We tried to copy the recipe for our weeknight dinner.

Well.... since we don't have enough meet in the fridge, I throw in blanched cauliflower, carrot and yellow onion to make it look more on the plate. 

Ingredients:

200 gram beef, slices nicely. Dust with corn flour, set aside.

1 cup cauliflower cut and blanched for 30 second

1 carrot, peel and sliced

1/2 yellow, cut in big slices

2 cloves garlic, 1 cm ginger => slices all

3 dried chili

1 tbs cooking oil

1 tbs oyster sauces

1 tbs dark soy sauces

1 tbs light soy sauces

1 tsp sugar

*mix all with 1/2 cup water

*If you are indonesian, you can change the dark-light soy sauce with just kecap manis. And remove sugar from the recipe.

1 tsp corn flour, mix with bit of water (I use about 1/4 cup)

Heat up wok, add in cooking oil. 

Stir in garlic,ginger and dried chili, cook for 30 second.

Add in beef. Cook until beef start browning.

Add in the sauce mix, and vegetable. Cook for about 1 minutes until carrot start soft.

Add in corn flour mix and onion, stir until the sauce thicken.

Taste to your preference, Mongolian beef should be a bit sweet, spicy and tasty :)

Served with hot steamed rice.

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Sop Ceker aka Chicken Feet Soup

Some people might frown when I mentioned about eating chicken feet. 

But for Asian, chicken feet is common food to enjoy.

Chicken feet is non-meaty part of chicken, more to bone-y and lot of collagen make it jelly-ish when we boil it for long hours.

Chicken feet always good to make anything with gravy, or just simply stir fried, or deep fried.

I like chicken feet to make soup broth since it has no fat content, makes my soup less greasy yet still taste very nice.

This soup is very simple and quite low fat-low calories, you can eat as much as you like :)

Seger untuk teman makan siang terutama di hari yang panas terik, dimakan dengan nasi dan kuah yang banyak untuk dihirup.

Ingredients:

6 chicken feet, cleaned up, cut the nails. Blanch with boiling water for 1-2 minutes, discharged the water.

1 carrot, peel and slices diagonally

1 corn, cut into 5-6 pcs

2-3 leaves of cabbage, cut but not too small

- 1/4 tsp fenugreek

- 2 cloves garlic, crushed

- 1/2 teaspoon white pepper

- 2 liter water

- salt, pepper to taste

Add fenugreek, corn, garlic and blanched chicken feet into 2 liters of boiling water.

Cook until chicken feet soft.

Add in Carrot, leave for 1 minutes till carrot half cook.

Add in cabbage, cook for another 1 minutes.

Add in salt and pepper to taste.

Sprinkle with minced chinese parsley and spring onion for better aroma.

Served immediately :)

Dare to try?

Ayam Kecap

Ayam Kecap / Ayam Kicap / Braised Chicken in Soy Sauce

Another simple yet very satisfying dinner for easy weeknight meal.

I choose chicken breast to cut of cooking time instead of yummy drumstick.

Simple Ingredients

2 Chicken breast, cut into 4

Mushroom, potato, tofu puff (all optional)

5 Cloves garlic, minced

1 tsp ginger, minced

lot lot lot of chili (as per your spiciness level)

1/2 cup water

3 tbs light soy sauce

1 tbs dark soy sauce (kicap manis)

1 tbs palm sugar

salt, pepper

1/2 yellow onion, sliced

1 star anise

       

Pan Fried 2 chicken breast (i cut each breast into 4)

=> I like to pan fried chicken before cook to another dishes just to lock the taste.

also to prevent the meat from falling apart.

1. Heat up 1 table spoon cooking oil, add in onion and ginger. Cook till fragrant

2. Add in water, soy sauce, star anise.

3. Add in chicken and stir a bit make sure the chicken well covered.

4. Cook in low simmering fire. 

5. You may add mushroom, tofu, potato anything you like

Couple minutes before finish, add in onion.

Enjoy Chicken with some salad and steam rice.

I have my steamed vegetable with peanut sauce :)