Steamed Sticky Glutinous Rice With Chicken 糯米鸡

This is a delay post!! Don't know why..after pregnant..I became more and more lazy!!!! "Cannot lazy..choihsia..next time your baby same lazy like you...then you know..." I try to motivate myself!!!

Last months, when my Malaysian friend, Anne going back for good. She pass me a small bag of glutinous rice!! Suddenly..I have an idea..why not I try to make this Steamed Sticky glutinous rice with chicken, since I have all the ingredients!! Is a successful dish!! But...don't know why..after I done everything..I only eat few of it!! No appetite to enjoy it!! haizzz!! So...end up...Mr.Quah keep for his next day breakfast!!!

This recipe I take from here "my kitchen". But I change a little bit!!

Main Ingredients ( for 3 medium bowl)
1. One cup of glutinous rice, rinsed and soaked 4-5 hours or overnight.
2. Few boned chicken thigh, sliced
3. 4 big Chinese mushroom, sliced
4. 1 Chinese sausage, sliced

Ingredients A
1. Minced few sliced of ginger, I put more cause I like ginger taste.
2. 3 clove garlic, chopped
3. 1 teaspoon of sugar
4. 1 teaspoon of sesame oil
5. 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce
6. ½ teaspoon of salt
7. 1 tablespoon of corn starch

Ingredients B
1. 1 tablespoon of cooking oil
2. 2 minced cloves garlic
3. *1 teaspoon dark soy sauce (depend your taste, if you like darker color can put more)
4. *1 tablespoon light soy sauce
5. *1 tablespoon oyster sauce
6. *½ teaspoon salt (or to taste)
7. *½ tablespoon of sesame oil
8. *½ teaspoon ground white pepper powder
9. *A pinch of 5-spices powder
10. 1 cup water

Methods:

1. Marinate chicken and mushroom with ingredients A for at least 30 minutes.
2. Heat oil in wok, fry garlic and until fragrant. Stir in glutinous rice and ingredients B marked with *. Stir until rice is coated with the sauce evenly.
3. Add in water and cook until all water is absorbed. Remove from heat.
4. In each steaming bowl, place 2-3 slices of Chinese sausage follow by 2-3 pieces chicken and mushroom. Next, fill in glutinous rice until three quarter full.
5. Steam in preheated steamer for 30 minutes or until the rice is cooked.
6. Turn the heat off, keep the cover on for about 10 minutes before taking them out from steamer to prevent surfaces from drying out.
7. Run a spatula or knife around the bowl then invert lor mai kai onto a plate and serve warm with some chili sauce (optional)

Fry eggs with sweet chili paste!!

This is one of the food, I cook using that chili paste!! This dish is quite normal in Malaysia Melayu's food stall!! I like it so much!! hehe!!

The ingredien is: 

1. One tablespoon of Chili paste
2. One onion chopped till very fine
3. Few garlics chopped till very fine too
4. Sugar, Salt, Oil
5. One onion, just cut into slice (onion ring)
6. Eggs

Method:

1. Fry egg first. And put aside.
2. Heat pan with oil and fry chili paste for 2-3 minutes
3. Add fine onion and garlic, fry for 2-3 minutes too!!
4. Add 2 big spoon of sugar, a little bit of salt.
5. Add some water as you like.
6. Finally add the onion ring!! And pour on top of the fry eggs!! Done!!

Spicy mince meat with pumpkin

Pumpkin is a very healthy food...I know, everyone know!!! But...frankly speaking....I not really like it!! But evertime in the market, I forced myself to buy it!! After bought it, everytime open the fridge, I look at it!! Don't know how to cook it!! With rice again, same like last time I used to cook it!! No way!! I already bored!! Pumpkin soup again!!! no no!! This time never want to drink  any soup!! So, one day, two days. This pumpkin is happyily sleeping in the fridge, cause nobody want to eat it!!!!! So...one day, I finish everthing in the fridge, so is time to cook it!!!! I try to search in internet, see the various way to prepared it!! Finally I got this...Mince meat with pumpkin!!! Em...in my imagination...it should be good!! But I change the original recepi!! I add red chili in, so make it spicy!!! hahahhahh!!!

So, now this should call Spicy mince meat with pumpkin!!

Ingredient:

1. Pumpkin
2. Mince meat (beef, chicken will do)
3. Green capsicum in small pieces
4. Gralic (chopped)
5. Chili

Method:

1. Hot pan and add oil fry gralic till fragrant.
2. Add in mince meat and fry it for few second.
3. Add Pumpkin stir few time and add warm water.
4. Cover the pan, and let it boil, turn down the heat. 
5. Cheak time to time, to make sure the pumpkin is soft enough.
6. When is soft, add in gran capsicum and chili. And let it boil again.
7. Start seasoning with salt, pepper. No need add sugar, cause the pumpkin is sweet.
8. Then done!!!

Nasi Lemak

Yesterday, my neighbor Ann taught me how to cook this nasi lemak.  A very famous dish among all Malaysian. Without think twice, I cook it today!! hehe!! 

Still remember last time, I always bought a packet of Nasi lemak, then eat in the office with a cup of hot coffee as my breakfast!! Em...is so nice!!! There are 3 different type of nasi lemak stall, only slightly different, not much. Sometime I will buy from Chinese's stall, sometime is Mamak's stall, or sometime is Melay's stall!! Okie la, share with you the recepi.

Ingredients:

1. 2 cup Rice
   
2. 2 cup of cocont milk
3. 1 and half cup of water
4. Few ginger slices 
5. Cucumber slices
6. Peanut (fry in a pan without oil, or roast it)
7. Hard boiled egg
8. Ikan bilis (dried anchovies)
9. Dried chillies (softened in water and pounded finely)
10. 2 big onion (one chopped, another ond slice it)
11. Few garlic (Chopped)
12. Sausage
13. Ketchup
14. Sugar, salt

Method (Rice-2 serving)

1. 2 cup of rice, cook with 2 cup of cocont milk, and 1 and half cup of water.
2. Add few slide ginger insides. 
3. Add some salt.
4. Cover and cook.
5. When rice is almost dry, lower the heat. Let rice stand over low heat for 15 to 20 minutes.

Method (sweet chilli paste)

1. Add oil and fry 1 big spoon of dried chilies for few second.
2. Add the chopped onion and chopped garlic and fry till fragrant.
3. Then add Ikan bilis (dried anchovies).
4. Add some water.
5. Start seasoning with ketchup, sugar, and salt. 
6. Finally add the slide onion ring for few second. 
7. Swith off the heat. Serve with coconut rice, roasted peanut, cucumber slices, sausage and eggs!!! Enjoy!

Omurice (Japanese Omelet rice)

Yesterday night, I search recipe online like usual!!! Suddenly I found this in youtube!! Omurice (Japanese Omelet rice). And the title is "Cooking with Dog" Wakakkakaka..Mr.Quah and me laugh non-stop when watching it!!! Because the Japanese people just put the Poodle dog beside the stove, then this is so call cooking with dog. At first we still imagine is the dog so clever, maybe can help up in this cooking session!!! hahahah!!Who knows, just stand beside..hahahhhahah!!!! Plus, their way to pronous "onion" and "chicken" is so funny!!!!! hahahahah!!

For the recipe, is show in the end of this youtube. Do try it, is quite nice and easy!!! hehehe!!

Soft soft soft Tofu

Haha!! Tofu time!! You know what this one small piece of tofu (soy bean curd) is Rm 7-Rm8 here!! wakakakka!! Like eating gold!! And some more this tofu is not always import here. Maybe Arabic people don't like tofu..hahaha!! So, I really appreaciate this. Today I try to cook it. Em...what its' name?? Mince beef hot tofu. Haha..why is hot? cause I cut lots of chili cook together. hehe!!

Ingredients:

1. One soft tofu.

2. 3 piese of mice beef hamburgar meat.

3. One onion, half green capsicum, half tomato or red capsicum and small chili (all choped).

4. Oyster sauce, sesame oil, and corn flour.

Method:

1. Steam tofu for 10 minutes

2. Hot pan with sesame oil and fry onion, and onion for 10 minutes.

3. Add half cup of water, add in capsicum and tomato.

4. Seasoning with 1 teaspoon oyster sauce, sweet black soy sauce, salt (if you need more salty, cause the meat already salt enough). And 1 tea spoon of corn flour mix with cold water, this will make the gravy more thicker.

5. Take out the tofu and make sure is dry, some tofu will have water beside. Then pour in the gravy. If you have the spring onion, sprinkle on top. Ready to serve with rice!!

West Indian Curry Chicken

Haha!! Finally I success to cook my Indian curry! haha!! This time is West Indian curry. The first time I cook was the South Indian curry. This recepi is sponsor by my friend Suchita...hahaha!! Thanks a lot, Mr.Quah and I like it very very much!! I really cannot imagine I can cook it!! wahaha!! 

Marinate chicken

3 big Onion, 1 big garlic, few pieces ginger, few tomato paste, 1/2 teaspoon of Garam masala, 1/2 teaspoon of Cummin powder, 1/2 teaspoon Corriander powder, 1 teaspoon paprika powder, 1 and 1/2 teaspoon of tumerik powder, 1 teaspoon of salt, 5 spoon of Oil. 

 Cooking 

1. Heat oil in the pan
2. Add in 4 pieces of bayleaves, 2 Cinnamon stick, 3 Cardamom. Fry till you smell the aroma.
3. Add in the potatoes (I boil the potatoes first before add in, cause it so hard to turn soft).
4. Add in the marinate chicken, pour 1 cup of water, then boil it till you see the red oil seperate from the sauce. 
5. Start seasoning with salt, sugar, and chili powder. (according to your taste)
6. Turn off the gas, close the lid for 10 minutes. Then ready to searve.

Strawberry cake!!

Em!! When I bake this, my whole apartment smell good!! Cause I'm baking a strawberry cake. Do you still remember my lemon cake? which I bake last time, using the cake mixes powder which is a " instant cake powder". I just add 3 eggs, oil and water. Then after 30 minutes your cake is ready!! haha!!

The white cream also a "instant cream powder", just add milk and beat with high speed!! hahaha!!

One day he didn' back for lunch!

Yesterday, I cook happily in the kitchen, cause I was thinking to eat lemon sauce with chicken since early morning. When about 12pm, Mr.Quah suddenly call me, and tell me today he maybe come back at 1pm, he ask me to eat first. Okie lo, I enjoy my great lunch by myself happily....and suddenly he call again around 1:20pm, tell me, he really cannot come back already, cause now all his team is in the motivated mode, they want to finish all the work!! haha!! Okie lo, I pack his lunch in to the container and serve as his dinner!! haha!!

My indian curry chicken!! 我的印度加哩鸡!!

This is my first time to use this separate spices. Normally, I use what I brought from Malaysia, all the spices is included, I just need to add garlic, and onion then my Malaysian Chinese style curry chicken is done. But this time my curry powder is finish. So, I have to buy all the separate ingredient and spices. Before I buy, I search in the internet about indian curry. And the recipe show need all this spices...and when I cook, I so "innocent" and never think the recipe is cook for 10 person or more. I follow all the ingredient need in the recipe....end up my curry is tooooooooo spicy!!! Oh My God!!!!!!!

okla...I told Mr.Quah..give me another chance...I will adjust this indian curry chicken to chinese curry chicken!!! hehehehe!!

Sweet Corn Chicken Soup!! 甜玉米鸡汤

I love sweet corn chicken soup very much. I learn from my mom!!! Besides, sweet corn sometime she will use apple and papaya to cook soup!! maybe is new for others, but for me is quite normal!!hehe!! Yesterday I saw very fresh sweet corn in the market so I decided to cook this today!! hehe!! very nice to drink oh!!!

Seven ingredients rice 七宝饭

I call this "Qi bao fan" in Chinese. But in english translation will be seven ingredients rice!! haha!! Funny name. But normally in chinese cuisine will have eight ingredients, but this recipe I change myself, so is not the real recipe. I just gave a name, don't be too serious about the name okie!! wakakakka!! The main taste is from the chinese dried mushroom and the chinese sausage. Okie!! What is the seven ingredients (Chinese mushroom, chinese sausage, cabbage, carrot, chicken meat, egg, and leek....opps!! one more is the rice) .

这是我的七宝饭。eh...平常不是八宝的吗？？怎么会是七宝而已呢？？我只是随便取个名字，而且这不是真正的八宝饭啦！！！你们就接受吧！！哈哈！！主要的味道是香菇和腊肠。好的！！在这里面真的有七样东西嘛。。。是哪七样呢？（香菇， 腊肠， 包菜，萝卜，鸡肉，鸡蛋，还有青葱。。。em...米加进去吗？？）

Method

1. Hot pan and fry garlic  for few second.
2. Fry chinese mushroom, chinese sausage, carrot and chicken meat.
3. Then finally add cabbage, and add little bit of water.
4. Start seasoning with salt, pepper, sweet soy sause and little bit of oyster sause. (no need add sugar cause the carrot, and cabbage is sweet enough)
5. Cook till the cabbage soft and add in raw rice.
6. Add water (For me 1 cup of rice, I'll add 1 and a half cup of water).
7. Cover it and let it boil for 10 minutes. 
8. You may stir it time to time. 
9. While waiting the rice, you can fry egg and put aside.
10. You found the rice is dry, turn off the fire and let it cover for few minutes. This can make sure the rice will be tender.
11. Decorate your rice with leek and fried egg. done!!

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Sesame oil with ginger and egg 麻油，姜，和鸡蛋！

This few day really boring, cause don't have camera I cannot take photo...haizzz!!! Show u my last week menu!!!

Because the weather start changing now, from winter to summer!! Morning and night is cool but in the afternoon is damm hot...so like usual I get sick!!! I cook this for my lunch!! I like ginger...hehe!! But this Mr.Quah also don't like...I always cook the thing he don't like ya!!! hahahah!!! I'm a bad house wife!!

Baked bean!! My Favourite!!

Actually Mr.Quah don't like baked bean. But..but...But I still insisted to cook it!!! wakakkaka...I don't care..I don't care!! hehe!!

But, normally if his mother cooked baked bean, she will fry another sunny side up egg for him. He will only eat the egg, all the beans, he will left it on the plate. This time, I challenge him for lunch, I only prepare this with rice. He have no choice....he have to eat..wakakkaka

Hehe...I add the humbergar meat, onion, egg and fry potatoes. End up, he finish all...yeah!!

Egg Soup with white rice

I really RUN OUT of idea, what to prepare for him as a lunch!!!! Open and close the fridge since morning, really don't know what to do with all this ingredients. Have a bad idea, why not ask him buy KFC wakakaka...But I think and think and think....Finally I wanna to cook this!! hehe!!

It is really great when eat together with "chili padi" or "sambal" hahaha!! Inside the egg soup, I add in crab stick, mushroom, Pak choy, chicken drum stick, enoki mushroom, and eggs.

You either can add noodle, rice noodle or eat together with rice. hehe!!

Tea time!!

Tea time, let's have a piece of lemon cake!! Hehe...I think this powder is made for those lazybones like me!! Previously I have to beat butter with egg and all the ingredients till my hand ache. Now by using this powder, I only need to add 3 eggs, vegetable oil and water and just beat for 2-3 minutes. Then, put inside the oven for 30 minutes. After that, ready your coffee or tea and enjoy a good tea time!!! wahahahha!! Just like the message in the advertisement.