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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Steam Herbal Chicken Wings

This is a very nutritious dish and is simple to prepare, steaming is the greatest cooking techniques, besides preserving its moist and also keep the chicken meat succulent and tender.This recipe was from my friend Jessica, but I do a bit of modify of the recipe ingredients, still it turn out not bad :) I realise after cooking a few herbal dishes and soup, nevertheless most of them are easy to cook and of cause you need to know which are the correct combination of chinese herbal, if not it will turn out funny taste..


Ingredients
  • Chicken Wings 8 pcs, cut into parts
  • Dang Shen 当参 - 3 small pcs
  • Huai Shan 淮山 - 10gm
  • Wolfberries 枸杞子 - 20gm
  • Chun Gong 5gm- See picture above
  • Hua Qing Wine 3 tbps
  • Soy Sauce 3 tbps
  • Oyster Sauce 2 tbps
Method
  1. Season Chicken wings with all above ingredients in a dish for at lease 8hours
  2. Cling wrap dish and leave it in the fridge
  3. Remove cling wrap and cool off for awhile after season with 8hours
  4. Boil water in the wok with the steam rack, when water is coming to boil place chicken wings dish and steam for at lease 30mins to 40mins, reduce heat if necessary.
  5. Serve with hot rice

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Oyster Sauce Mushroom

This is a extremely simple dish to prepare, and is also serve well as a confinement food, because it was cook with ginger, with the same ingredients you can add some button mushrooms and some chicken wings too, but remember to seasoned longer if cook with chicken wings :)

Ingredients
  • Chinese Dried Mushroom (Soaked over night)
  • Sliced Ginger (2 potion)
  • Oyster Sauce 4 tbsps
  • Sugar 1 tbsp
  • Soy Sauce 3 tbsps
  • Sesame oil 1 tsp
  • cooking oil 1 tbsp
Method
  1. You can sliced the mushroom or cooked it whole, seasoned mushrooms with 1potion of ginger, oyster sauce, soy sauce and sugar for at lease 2 hours.
  2. Stir fry 2nd potion of ginger in wok with cooking oil.
  3. Pour in seasoned mushrooms and saute, add a bit of water if needed but not too much.
  4. covered wok for 5mins and served.

The above measurement of the ingredients are for 2 persons :)

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Some Porcelain Photography

Today I went shopping with mum at Orchard and bought some nice dishes and bowls, I also bought 2 table cloths, one red and one green.

Green Tea Cup

Piggy dish, My mum loves this