Jiu Hu Char (鱿鱼炒)

An authentic nyonya dish which prepared for all festival, Chinese New Year, Cheng Beng and the hungry ghost festival, hokkien family will not go without it.



These are what you need.........


Utensils

Wok


Ingredients

1 bangkuang (chinese turnip), peeled the skin, sliced thinly, cut to long fine stripes
2 carrot, peeled the skin, sliced thinly, cut into long fine stripes
2 leeks, cut into long stripes
Wedge of cabbage, using the edge slice thinly
4 onions, sliced thinly
50gm of shredded dried cuttlefish, soak with hot water for 5 mins
8 shitake mushroom, soaked one night before, cut off the stem, cut into thin stripes
5 tablespoons of oil
Salt to taste
Shiitake mushroom water


Instructions

1. Heat up the wok with oil, stir fry onion till fragrance.
2. Add mushroom and dried cuttlefish stir fry for few minutes
3. Add leeks and cabbage stir fry for few minutes,
4. Add bangkuang and carrot stir fry for few minutes
5. Pour in the mushroom water, bring to boil, let it shimmer for 15 minutes, while shimmering, stir it on and off.
6. When water is reducing, keep stirring till dry up, add salt to taste. Now the dish is ready to serve........

 

ABC Soup

Something simple and easy to start with this blog, hope that you will like it. This is something that everyone
should have familiar with......... ABC soup

These are what you need...


Utensils

• Pot

Ingredients

• 300gm pork rib/pork spinal cord bone
• 2  onions
• 1 carrot
• 2 tomatos
• 1 potato

Instructions

1. Boil a pot of hot water, put in pork rib/pork spinal cord bone
2. Leave it for at least 10 minutes in order to make a a clear soup.
3. Dice tomato and onion cut wedge, carrot and potato.
4. Put all the ingredient into soup pot and add 2000ml water, high flame bring to boil 
5. Then turn to medium flame, maintain medium flame boil for 1 hour 
6. Then turn to low flame boil for another hour.
7. Now add salt to taste and the ABC soup is ready to serve.

Herbal Advise
If you have infant at home, use this soup to replace water to cook porridge, it taste yummy and nutrition, believe me they will love it.