Saturday 31 May 2014

Minced Pork and Century Egg porridge

Porridge is not my darling favourite. However my Kwai G and son do eat porridge. Since my Kwai G was not feeling well, I cooked this minced pork and century egg porridge for him. I did this at night and so the next morning they can have a yummy breakfast.


Ingredients
1 cup of rice
150g minced pork
2 slices of ginger
10 dried scallops
2 dried oysters (optional)
3 tbsp dried anchovies (ikan bilis)
1 century egg (cut to small pieces - optional)
1/2 or 1 salted egg - depending how salty you want (boiled and cut to small pieces - optional)
- chopped spring onion for garnishing (optional)
- fried shallots for garnishing (optional)

Marinate for minced pork
1 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tsp corn starch
1 tsp sesame oil
pepper

Steps
1) Wash the anchovies and bring to a boil with 12 cups of water and then reduce heat to low and simmer for 15mins. Sieve the anchovies soup.
2) Add washed rice, ginger, dried scallops, dried oysters and the anchovies soup into the slow cooker. Turn to auto.  (If not using a slow cooker, bring to a boil in the pot.  Leave the lid partially open and reduce heat to low.  Keep stirring the bottom of the pot every now and then to prevent the rice sticking to the bottom. Simmer for 20 to 30 minutes)
3) Marinate the mince pork and put it in the fridge (If not cooking overnight, then marinate it for 10mins)
4) Put in the marinated minced pork for about 6 to 10minutes before serving.
5) Garnish with chopped spring onions and fried shallots.

Wednesday 28 May 2014

Home made nuggets


My little girl likes to eat chicken nuggets at fast food restaurant. So I thought why not do some breakfast with home made nuggets?  This is my first time making this and she said it's yummy like french fries.  Am happy :)

Ingredients
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 or 2 teaspoon garlic salt 

black pepper
2 skinless chicken breasts (cut into small bite sized pieces)
1 egg
Vegetable oil


Steps:
1) Place flour in a resealable plastic bag and season with the garlic salt and pepper.
2) Place the chicken pieces in the bag with the flour and toss to coat (work in batches).
3) Whisk the egg and 1 tablespoon water in a bowl - add in some salt & p
epper here too.
4) Remove the chicken from the flour, dip in the egg mixture one by one.
5) Heat up the oil over medium-high heat.
6) Cook the chicken till brown on each side, about 8 minutes in total.
7) Transfer to the paper-towel lined plate

You may try one piece first to check out the saltiness and if not enough, add on salt in the whisked egg.  Serve it with Tomato sauce! My gal like it this way  


For crunchy crust, you can dip in flour, beaten egg, then finely crushed cream crackers or cornflakes.