Glutinous Rice Balls (Tangyuan)

Winter has arrive....yes, but for the coolest day in China (according to my grandma), it has to be 22 December (that's why we eats Tangyuan, the Glutinous Rice Balls).

I am not going to wait till then, and decided to have some fun doing this with my girl at home. My method of making:

Ingredients:
glutinous rice flour
water (cold and scaling hot)
food coloring
brown sugar

Method
1. Start to make a small little dough with hot scaling water (for bouncy purposes)
2. Mix it into rest of the flour and add cold water to make the dough
3. Separate into a few sections (for few colours) and roll them into balls
4. Boil water on pan and cook them.
5. Take them out, rinse with some cold water.
6. Boil the soup with brown sugar ( or coconut sugar)
7. Put the balls into the sweet soup
8. You can see the balls floating on the surface once cooked.

For variation, you can even add paste into the balls. Wait for my red bean glutinous rice balls ...

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Steam Yam cake

Guess what’s the taste like ? Haha….of course it is YUMMY!! (with full supervision from a teacher)

Ingredients :
1 yam, cubed, 5 cloves garlics
(A) Mix Well 1 packet blended rice flour, 2 tbsp tapioca flour
Water Seasoning – salt, 5 spieces powder, sugar to taste
Garnishing – shallot crisp, dried prawns crips

Method
1. Heat oil and sauté shallots and dried prawns (separately) till crisp. Dish out and set aside.
2. Saute garlic with remaining oil, add in yam and stir-fry till fragrant.
3. Mix in water and bring to boil.
4. Add in mixture (A), cook batter becomes thick.
5. Pour out batter into a greased tray to steam (30minutes).
6. Once yam cake is cooled, add garnishing and serve with your favourite sauce (I use sweet black sauce from the market).

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2 In 1 (ABC & Stir Fried Vege)

This is a short cut dish. Why short cut, because by just cooking one ABC soup, I get 2 dish (see above picture). Get what I mean? Read further...

Ingredients for soup
chicken (or anchovies), carrots, potatoes, onions, tomatoes

Ingredient for Stir fried Vegetables

Soup:
1. First, throw all the ingredients for soup and bring to boil.
2. Simmer under low fire for an hour or so.
3. Once ready, take out all the ingredients.

Stir Fried Dish:
1. Fry garlic till frangant.
2. Add in mince meat and boil vege to stir fried.
3. Add in some boiled brocolli (I boiled brocolli in my ABC soup)
4. Add some soup and oyster sauce to taste.

Salted Egg Fried Chicken

What do you think of this black chicken picture? Probably my picture doesn't look that good, but I tell you, this is the best chicken that you will keep asking for me.

A modified dish from the Salted Egg Fried Prawn or Salted Egg Fried Crab (Ham Tan Hai in Cantonese). It is also very easy to cook.

Ingredients:
Chicken
Steam salted egg yolk
Marinate: soy sauce, oyster sauce, pepper powder
Coating: flour (I used self raising flour mix with some corn flour)

Method:
1.Marinate chicken (best if marinated overnight)
2. Spoon some flour mixture into the chicken and mix well.
3. Deep fry chicken.
4. Remove chicken from oil.
5. Use very little oil to stir fry the mashed egg yolk will you see bubbles.
6. Add in chicken and stir well.