Korean bim bim bap

We love Korean food.  We tried all kinds of Korean food and I try to pick up the recipe.  This dish is so easy to make...

Ingredients

• 2 cups of cooked rice
• shreded carrot
• mushroom (cut in strips)
• beans sprout
• spinach
• minced meat of your choice
• toasted sesame seeds
• fried egg
• ko chu chang (Korean red pepper paste)
• sesame oil

The Method

1.   Take turn to fry the shreded carrot, mushroom slices, bean sprout, spinach, meat separately seasoning with salt and pepper.  Set them aside on separate small plates.
2.   Scoop 2 spoons of cooked rice in a bowl.  Dish a spoonful of carrot, mushroom, bean sprout, spinach, meat on the rice side by side.  Don't mix them together yet.  
3.   Top it up with a fried egg, sesame seeds, sesame oil (desire taste) and ko chu chang.  
4.   Mix them together well and serve immediately.  You will love the taste.    

Cantonese Fried Yee Mee

This is one of my favourite noddle dish.  I simply love it...

Ingredients

• One pack of Canton Yee Me
• 300grams of chicken fillet (cut into small cubes)
• 50grams of fish cake
• prawns (optional)
• few stalks choy sum (clean and cut)
• 3 cloves of garlic (minced)
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp of soya sauce
• 1 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce
• 2 tsp of corn flour
• 1 1/2 bowl of water
• oil
• salt
• green onion (cut into 1 inch)

 Method
1.   Boil the Yee Me in half pot of boiling water for 1 1/2 minutes.  Drain water and set aside.
2.  Add oil to frying pan, add garlic, chicken and fry till chicken is half cook.  Add fish cakes slices and continue to fry for 2 minutes more.  Add choy sum and fry for another 2 minutes.
3.  Mix the corn flour and water, follow by soya sauce, oyster sauce and salt.  Add to the frying pan and mix with meat and vegetable till slightly thick.
4.  Crack an egg in a bowl, pour into pan and mix it well.
5.  Add the noodle and mix well.  Taste and add soya sauce if not tasty enough.
6.  Dish out and serve.

Pumpkin Fried Rice

I had some left over pumpkin and lot of rice so I decided to make pumpkin fried rice with green beans.  I usually I make pumpkin rice in the rice cooker but this is different.

Ingredients (prepares for 3 people)

• 1/4 of pumpkin, cut into small cubes
• 50g of green beans. Cut into small sizes
• 100g of waxed pork sausage (cut into small cubes)
• 3 bowls of cooked rice (best to use leftover rice)
• 2 cloves of garlic (minced)
• salt
• pepper
• soya sauce (1 tsp)

Method

1.   Add 1tbsp of oil into a pan.

2.    Stir fry the pumpkin till soft.  Set aside.

3.    Fry the garlic, followed by waxed pork sausage and green beans (add oil if needed) for 3-4 minutes.  Season with salt, pepper and soya sauce.

4.   Add pumpkin and rice and fry for another 4-5 minutes.  Taste and add salt if needed.  Serve.

Soya Chicken

This is also one of my favourite.  It's so nice especially with steamed rice.

Ingredients

• half chicken
• 5-6 cloves of garlic
• 4 star anise
• 1 small bowl of soya sauce
• 1 tbsp dark thick soya sauce
•  3 tbsp sugar
• 1 small bowl of water

Method

1.   Marinade chicken with dark thick soya sauce.  Set aside.
2.   In a bowl pan, heat 1 tbsp of cooking oil.  Add garlic and star anise.  Stir fry till fragrant.
3.   Add the bowl of soya sauce and water and let it simmer in low fire for 20 minutes.
4.   Add the marinated chicken and let it simmer for another 20-30 minutes.  The chicken should be well covered in the soya sauce and water.  
5.  Add sugar to taste.
6.  After 30 minutes, use a chopstick to poke the chicken to see if it's cook.
7.  Let the chicken cool before cutting into bite sizes.  Serve with pounded chili sauce.

Fried Soya and sesame salmon

My husband and I saw some very fresh salmon strip at the supermarket and we bought it.  Since it was slice as a long and thin strip I wonder how I can cook it.  Then I came up with the following dish and it's so delicious.

Ingredients

• 200gms of salmon strips 
• 1/2 medium onion 
• green onion 
• 1 Tbsp soya sauce 
• birds eye chili 
• toasted sesame seeds
• corn flour 
• pepper 
• salt

 Method

1.   Marinade salmon with salt and pepper.
2.   Coat with corn flour and fry in oil till golden brown (only takes 2-3 minutes). Set aside
3.   Mix 1tsp corn flour with water and soya sauce.  In the same frying pan, add onion and fry till fragrant.
4.   Pour in flour mixture and stir till sauce starts to thicken.  
5.   Combine fish to sauce, add green onion and sesame seeds. Mix well and serve immediately.

Steam Fish Roll

I got inspired by the post on Let's get wokking  so I decided to try to make my own.  I didn't like to buy the ready-made paste so I decided to make the fish paste on my own.  Experimented twice and it's much better this time...

Ingredients

Fish Paste

• 1 medium size mackerel (deboned)
• salt
• pepper
• water
• diced carrots
• diced green onion

Method

1. Scrap of all the fish meat and place in bowl.

2. Add salt and pepper.  

3. With a big knife (wet with water so that meat won't stick to it), chop the fish meat, flip over and over again till a paste is form.  

4. Mix with diced carrots and onion.  Set aside.

Egg roll

• 3 large eggs
• seedweed sheet
• salt
• pepper
• oil

Method

1.  Break the eggs in a bowl.  Add salt and pepper to taste.

2.  In a non stick pan, add two table spoon of cooking oil.

3.  Pour in half of the egg mixture.  

4.  Swirl the pan to spread the egg.

5.  Remove the egg once cooked.  

6.  Repeat the same process with the remaining egg mixture.

7.  Place the egg crepe on a flat plate.  Spread a thin layer of the fish paste and roll.

8. Place the second egg crepe and the seedweed sheet on top.  Spread a thin layer of fish paste and roll.

9. Place both rolled egg on a steaming plate and let it steam over boiling water for 8 minutes.

10.  Remove, let it cool, cut into smaller pieces and serve with chili sauce.