Monday, December 15, 2008

Sweet and Sour Fish Recipe

Sweet and Sour Fish Recipe

Marinate
450g white fish fillets (cut into bite size)
2 tbsp flour
2 tbsp conflour
1 egg
2 tbsp soy sauce
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp vinegar
¼ tsp white pepper

Sweet & Sour Sauce
1 cup hot chicken stock / or plain hot water (pre-boil or microwave)
½ cup syrup from canned pineapple
1/3 cup vinegar
1/3 cup sugar
1 tbsp corn flour/starch (mix with little water)
¼ cup ketchup
¼ tsp salt
1 tbsp light soy sauce

Vegetable (all cut into wedges)
4-5 pineapple rings (from canned)
Half , each of green , red and yellow bell pepper
2 stalk of chinese celery
1 brown onion (AKA sweet onion)
2 string of spring onion (for garnish)
1 carrot

1. Sift the flour , corn flour and salt together in a mixing bowl. Make a well in the center; add the egg and soy sauce beat until the batter is smooth. Then beat in the sugar, pepper and vinegar. Marinate the fish pieces in the batter for 1 hour.

2. Heat the oil in wok, deep fry the marinated fish until crisp and golden. Drain on absorbent kitchen paper.

3. Heat 2-3 tbs of oil and fry all the vegetable (except spring onion) for 3 minutes or until the vegetable are tender but still crisp.

4. Pour in hot stock/water, pineapple syrup, vinegar, sugar, ketchup, corn flour solution, salt and soy sauce. Bring to broil, stirring constantly, simmer for 3 minutes.

5. Add in the fired fish and spring onion into the vegetable and the sauce, stirring and mix well for about a minute then serve.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Kuching Famous Kolo Mee Recipe


Ingredients

3 pieces of instant noodles
100 grammes of minced pork
1/2 bulb of garlic (finely chopped)
spring onions for garnishing (chopped finely)
6 tablespoons of palm oil

Seasoning (for 3 servings)

3 teaspoons of fish sauce
1/3 teaspoon of salt
5 tbsp lard (red colour oil-dripping from bbq pork)
1/2 tbsp vinegar
1 teaspoon of light soya sauce
1/3 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate
a couple of dashes of white pepper powder

Marinade (for minced pork)

2 teaspoons of fish sauce
1 teaspoon of light soya sauce
a couple of dashes of white pepper powder
1 teaspoon of corn flour / potato flour

Method


Marinade minced pork for at least 1 hour.

Bring a pot of water to boil. Add instant noodles and cook till almost done. Remove noodles from pot using a net or colander and run it through cold or tap water. Return noodles to boiling water to heat it up again and thereafter, drain the noodles after 30 seconds. Set aside.

Heat oil in wok using medium high heat. Fry garlic till golden brown. Remove fried garlic and set aside.

Scoop up oil into a bowl leaving about 2 tablespoons of oil remaining in the wok. Increase heat to high and stir fry minced pork till completely cooked (about 2 minutes). Sprinkle some water whilst stir frying to prevent burning. The minced pork should be just moist after cooking and not soaking in gravy. Remove cooked minced pork and set aside.

In a large bowl, add all the seasoning and stir well. Add cooked instant noodles and stir till evenly coated by the seasoning. Separate the noodles onto three serving plates. Add some cooked minced pork and garnish with fried garlic and spring onions.