Hokkien Porridge

This is a traditional Hokkien black porridge recipe I got from my mom. I grew up eating this porridge and it has now become my own family's favourite too. It's a simple one-dish meal and it's easy to make too!

Ingredients (serves 5):

2 cups rice
4 tbps chopped shallots
2 cups long beans (cut in an inch long)
3 pieces of white beancurd (pan fried and cut into cubes)
1/2 cup dried shrimps (optional)
1 cup dried oyster (soaked and sliced)
100gm minced pork (marinate with light soy sauce and pepper)
dark soy sauce, light soy sauce and pepper to taste

Method:

1. Wash the rice and cook white porridge in a large pot. Leave to boil.
2. Heat up about 3 tbsp cooking oil and add in shallot. Fry til golden brown.
3. Add in dried shrimps. Fry till fragrant.
4. Add in oyster and minced pork. Fry till pork is thoroughly cooked.
5. Add in long beans and beancurds. Stir in dark soy sauce according to your liking on the color and taste.
6. Transfer all the fried ingredients into the pot of porridge. Stir and let it simmer til porridge is well cooked and soft. Serve hot.


*picture will be added once I take a shot :) *






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Honey Flavoured Roasted Chicken

Absolutely love making this dish, not to mention love the taste too!
You can eat this with rice, aromatic or plain rice or even on a bed of aglio olio, which I make pretty often. I usually top up on some sauteed vege and voila, a complate meal! Just like how I make this. Just replace those spam meat with this yummy honey flavoured roasted chicken. You can get the recipe of aglio olio fom the link above.

My kids and hubby absolutely love this dish and I make it pretty often - about once in every 2 weeks :)

Ingredients:

10 chicken wings or 4 pcs of chicken thighs (i prefer to use chicken thigh as I can avoid feeding my family the skin :) )

Seasoning (combined)
125 ml light soy sauce
4 tbsp honey
1 tbsp maltose (optional) it's ok if you dont hav this in your kitchen.
2 tbsp tomato sauce (you can replace it with chilli sauce if you are cooking for adults only)
1/2 tsp pepper

Method:
1. Marinate the chicken with the combined seasoning (at least 6 hours or preferably overnight for better and stronger taste). Be sure to pat-dry the chicken before marinating to avoid wet/watery result from the baking afterwards.
2. Bake the chicken uncovered at pre heated oven at 180'C for 20 mins before turning over and bake for another 20 minutes or until the chicken is thoroughly cooked.
3. Serve hot with rice or spaghetti with sauteed vege on the side :)

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Marinated Baked Chicken Chop

Got this recipe from my beloved BFF and tried it out for the first time few days back (substituting pork chop with chicken chop fr the original recipe and making a lil changes here & there based on my own tastebud).....AND voila! hubs, my kids and I love it sooo much! 

It's seriously yummy and best of all, EASY to prepare! 

Ingredients:

6 pieces of chicken chop, trimmed. I usually use the whole chicken thigh.

2 tablespoon white soya sauce

4 tablespoon vegetable oil

2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

4 tablespoon brown sugar

4 tablespoon tomato sauce

2 teaspoon lemon juice

Method:

1. Marinade the chicken chops 2 hours prior to baking for better taste. Refer to method #4 for marination instruction.

2. Pre-heat oven to 170'C.

3. In a small bowl, mix the soya sauce, vegetable oil, Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar, tomato sauce and lemon juice together until properly blended.

4. Place the chicken chops upside down inside a medium sized baking tray and spread half of the sauce over them. Make sure sauce is evenly spread and meat is covered. *Skip this part if marination is done 2 hours before baking*

5. Bake for 20 minutes, covered. *10 minutes only if you prefer a drier finishing. You will end up with less but sticky gravy on top of the chicken chops*

6. When done, flip the chops over and spread the remaining sauce over them.

7. Bake for 10 minutes, uncovered or until chicken chops are thoroughly cooked with gravy boiling in the tray.

8. Serve with rice or bread or just on its own with a few side dishes ala western style! 

The chicken chops can be substituted with pork as well.

Hope you enjoy making this dish as it's extremely simple; and of cos sharing it with your friends and family! It will definitely be one of my most prepared dishes for mu beloveds! 

Bon Appetit!

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Vegetable & Chicken Patties

Found this recipe from the newspaper. Tried and tested.....hubby and kids love it! Thats all it matters, isnt it? Here you go....

*apology for the slightly burnt outer layer of the patties...looks can be deceiving! - they are seriously delish.....*

Ingredients:

300g minced chicken (I think u can replace it with other meat of your choice)

1 onion (puree) *just blend it till its all thoroughly soft*

1/2 carrot (puree)

50g spinach (puree)

1/2 tsp salt & pepper

1 egg

1 tbsp cornflour

Method:

1. Mash the onion, carrot and spinach puree and add minced chicken.

2. Add salt, pepper, cornflour and egg. Mix untill wel combined.

3. Using wet hands, shape the mixture into patties abt 4cm in diameter and abt 1cm thick.

4. Heat up 3tbsp of oil in a large pan/skillet and fry the patties over medium heat.

5. Serve with sweet & sour Thai chilli sauce.

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Fried lo shu fun

One of my lazy dishes and the kids/ favorite....

Ingredients:

200gms minced meat (any meat of your choice)

1 packet of lo shu fun (sold mostly in hypermarkets & wet markets)

any green vege of your choice

1 carrot (cut into match stick size)

3 tbsp of chopped preserved radish (choy po)

fish cake or fishballs (sliced)

1 tbsp each of chopped onion and garlic

1 egg (optional)

Sauce (A)

4 - 5 tbsps Del Monte tomato sauce

2 tbsp oyster sauce

dark soy sauce to taste

Method:

1. Marinade the minced meat with light soy sauce and pepper for about 2 hours and refrigerate it.

2. Heat up the wok with 3 tbsp of oil. Stir in chopped onion and garlic

3. Add in minced meat and fry til it's thoroughly cooked. Add in fish cake/fishballs.

4. Add in the sauce and stir well before adding in the carrots and vege. Stir fry til vege is half cooked.

5. Add in lo shu fun and stir thoroughly till all ingredients are thoroughly mixed and cooked.

6. Serve hot with cut fresh chillies. Sprinkle some fried onion or spring onion for garnishing.

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Hearty meat porridge

One of my self-improvised porridge recipes which makes my kids consume all the vege unknowingly :D
The one I'm about to share here is one with minced pork. You can also simple replace the pork with fresh fish fillet as a variation to your menu.

Ingredients:

200g mince pork (seasoned with light soy sauce and pepper for about 2 hours)
2 cups of rice
2 tbsp chopped garlic
1 whole carrot (chopped or grated) or any chopped vege of your choice
chopped spring onions for garnishing
about 2 litres of water (or according to how you prefer your porridge to be)

Method:
1. Wash the rice and leave aside
2. Heat up the wok (or non-stick deep cooking pot) and add in some cooking oil and sautee the garlic for abt 30 seconds.
3. Add in the washed rice and fry til they turn aromatic.
4. Add in the water and leave to boil.
5. Add in the minced pork (bit by bit using a table spoon) once the rice in the pot expand and turned semi rice-like. (picture below)

6. Stir occasionally while dropping in the minced pork (at slow fire)

7. Once all the minced pork are added in, put in the carrot or vege into the boiling porridge.

8. Stir the porridge and leave to boil for a lil while longer or according to your prefered rice texture. We like having our porridge still looking rice-like :)

9. Garnish with spring onion (optional) and serve hot.

*for fish porridge, simply replace minced pork with fish fillet and boil to your preferred texture*


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For the kids - omelette and minced pork with tauchu paste

I make this dish at least once a fortnight simply bcos my boys love it and it's easy to prepare as well...

Ingredients (serves 5):
6 eggs
1 tbsp tauchu (bean) paste
1 tbsp oyster sauce
200g minced pork (seasoned with light soy sauce and pepper)
salt, light & dark soy sauce, sugar and pepper to taste
1 tbsp cornflour mixed with 1.5 cups of water
1 tbsp chopped garlic
cooking oil

Method:
1. Beat the eggs and add in some light soy sauce and pepper to taste.
2. Make a huge omelette out of the 6 beaten eggs. Cut into small pieces and leave aside.
3. Heat up the wok and add some cooking oil.
4. Sautee the garlic and add in the minced pork.
5. Fry till pork is well cooked. Add in tauchu paste and 1/2 tsps of sugar. Next add in the oyster sauce.
6. Add in the corn flour water and about tbsp of dark soy sauce.
7. Add in the prepared cut omelette. Stir thoroughly.
8. Serve hot with white rice.

*you can add in chopped carrots or any vege of your choice into this dish so that your kids will have a complete meal of meat & vege*

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