Sunday, June 27, 2010

Chocolate chip cookie

Ingredients

85gm chocolate

Set A
125 gm unsalted butter
1 tsp vanilla
75gm brown sugar
50 gm regular sugar

Set B
150gm plain flour
30 gm cocoa
1 teaspoon of bicab
1/2 teaspoon of salt

1 cold egg
1/2 kg chocolate chips

Method
1. melt chocolate over water
2. Prep set A
3. Prep set B
4. pour melted chocolate into set A
5. Add 1 cold egg and chocolate chip
6. Bake in Oven

Noodle soup

Ingredients
500 ml chicken Broth
1/2 teaspoon of brown sugar
1 star anais
ginger
soy
udon noodles
Shitaki Mushroom

Ragu

Ingredients
1 tablespoon of olive oil
Pancetta cubes
250gm Mince meat (Lamb or beef)
caramelised onion (jar)
sherry
3 tablespoon of red lentil
water
1/2 can chopped tomatos

Method
cook on stove for 20 mins

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Steamed Fish Chinese Style

Ingredients:

1 live fish (about 1.5 lb or less)
2 inches ginger (peeled and cut into thin strips)
1 stalk scallion (cut into 2-inch length, and then cut into thin silken threads)
Some cilantro leaves
2 tablespoons cooking oil
1 tablespoon shaoxing wine or rice wine

Steamed Fish Soy Sauce Mixture:

4 tablespoons light soy sauce
2 tablespoons shaoxing wine or rice wine
2 tablespoons water
1/4 teaspoon sesame oil
3 dashes white pepper powder
2 tablespoons rock sugar (grind into powder form) or to taste

Method:

Clean the fish properly (remove scales, guts, gills, etc.) and pat dry. Blend the soy sauce mixture in a small bowl and set aside.

Lay the fish on a plate and drizzle 1 tablespoon shaoxing (or rice) wine on top of the fish. Top the fish with 1/2 of the cut ginger strips.

Heat up a wok with enough water for steaming. Wait for the water to boil. As soon as it boils, place your fish inside the wok, propped up with a small inverted bowl or a couple of wooden blocks (meant for steaming). Cover your wok tightly and set your kitchen alarm for 8 minutes.

As soon as the fish is done steaming, transfer it out from the wok. Discard the fish water and ginger strips. Lay the remaining ginger strips on top of the fish.

Heat up a pan over high heat and add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil, swirl around until it’s hot. Pour the hot oil over the steamed fish. Put the pan back onto the stove, add the soy sauce mixture and stir well. As soon as the sauce bubbles up and boils, pour the soy sauce over the fish. Topped with scallions and cilantro leaves and serve the steamed fish immediately with white rice.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Pumpkin Ravioli

Ingrediants
Pumpkin
Pamesean Cheese
salt
pepper
Nutmeg
Ammerato Biscuits
Breadcrumbs

Method
1. Bake pumpkin for 40 mins
2. Scrape out flesh
3. Mix in crushed ammerato biscuits, breadcrumb, cheese, season with salt and pepper and a touch of nutmeg
5. Fill ravioli with mixture
6. melt some butter
7. Fry some sage and put in ravioli to stirfry