Monday’s Simple Dinner – Brown Rice & Potato Vegetable aka Sayur Manis Soup With Century Eggs

It’s working Monday again! How’s your Monday? Do you suffer from Monday blue? I don’t because I work for myself.

Today’s breakfast was Mee Suah Soup with Egg and Broccoli and tonight’s dinner was Potato Vegetable (‘Sayur Manis’ or She Zai Choi in Cantonese) Soup with Century Eggs.

Hubby asked why there wasn’t any Steamed Lap Cheong tonight. I said there were century eggs in the soup tonight, so it’s kind of a heavy meal if I still added Chinese sausage.

Photo Credit for She Zai Choi Soup

Ingredients:

500g potato vegetable aka ‘sayur mani’, remove leaves from the stems
Handful dried anchovies or ‘ikan bilis’
5 white mushrooms
2 century eggs
1 egg
1 clove garlic
1 liter water
Oyster sauce
Soy sauce

Instructions:

1. Place the water, dried anchovies and garlic into the rice cooker. Bring to boil.

2. Add in white mushrooms, century eggs and egg. Then, potato vegetable leaves.

3. Add oyster sauce or/and soy sauce to your taste.

Speaking of century egg, it’s also known as thousand-year egg, hundred-year egg or Pi Dan in Mandarin or Pei Dan in Cantonese. It is a type of preserved egg that is a Chinese delicacy.

I love it very much, especially when it’s in the soup or porridge. Oh, I love it best when it’s eaten with pickled ginger!

If you like cheese, then you may like the smell of century egg that is pungent.