Orange Peel & Red Beans Soup

An hour preparation and cooking but worth doing...
2 - 3 servings


Ingredients

2 cups of red beans
5 cups of boiling water
2 pieces of dried orange peel
5 Tbsp of sugar (sweetness to personal taste)
1 cup of lotus seed

Method

1. Boil red beans and lotus seed for about 40 minutes till cooked.
2. Add sugar and orange peel and continue to cook for another 20 minutes.

This is a simple dessert to cook but the yummy part of it is the orange peel adds a special flavour to it.

My Favourite - Cabbage with Tomatoes

This may be something really simple but it is my favourite.....

30 minutes of preparation and cooking time
3 - 4 servings

Ingredients

Half a Cabbage
2 tomatoes
2 cloves of garlic
a dash Pepper
2 tsp Sesame oil
2 Tbsp of cooking oil
1 tsp light soy sauce
half a cup of water or chicken stock

Method

1. Shred the cabbage and soak in water to cleanse the vegetable.
2. Cut your tomatoes.
3. Chop the garlic.
4. Heat up the wok and stir fry the garlic together with the cabbage.
5. Add the light soy sauce and fry the cabbage for about 5 minutes.
6. Add tomatoes and water or chicken stock.
7. Cover the wok with a lid and let it simmer for another 10 minutes.
8. Add pepper to taste and sesame oil before serving.

Watch out for many of my other favourites.....

Yam Rice

30 minutes of preparation and cooking time

This serving is for 2 - 3

Ingredients

2 cups of rice
3 shallots
1 garlic
100 g dried shrimp
100 g prawns
200 g lean pork (optional)
1 yam about 200 g (taste excellent if u could get it imported from Thailand)
50 g dried shitake mushroom
10 g fried peanuts (optional)
1 dried scallop
1 tsp salt
Cooking oil
2 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp 5 spice powder
1 Tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tsp light soy sauce


Method

1. Cut the yam in cubes and marinate the yam with the 5 spice powder for 10 minutes. Deep fried the yam.
2. Wash the rice and cook it in a rice cooker. Once cooked, transfer the rice in a container to let it cool.
3. Fry the shallots with the garlic till brown. Remove the fried shallot and garlic for garnishing later. Leave the oil in the wok to fry the dried shrimp, mushroom and scallop.
4. Add the lean pork and prawn and fry about 5 minutes. Add light soy sauce in the mixture. Remove the dried shrimp, mushroom, scallop, lean pork and prawn.
5. Add the rice in the wok and if required add a little oil to fry the rice.
6. Add salt and dark soy sauce on the rice and fry for about 10 minutes.
7. Add the yam with the mixture of dried shrimp, mushroom, scallop, lean pork and prawn.
8. Fry till there is a nice aroma, add sesame oil to enhance the fragrance.
9. Add the fried shallot and garlic to garnish.
10. It is ready to serve, optional to add some fried peanuts if you like.

....... Next coming up with more recipes from Mum :o)

My Mum's Cuisine

This is a site dedicated to my late mum....she is a fantastic cook and would like to share her recipes here with all who loves cooking and EATING like me :o)

I love to cook and eat too....so hope you would try out the recipes and give me your feedback.

Thanks