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Today’s Simple Dinner – Brown Rice & ABC Soup

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Tonight’s dinner is soup again! Monday’s dinner was ‘Sayur Manis’ aka Shu Zai Choi Soup and today’s dinner is ABC Soup. What to do? It’s easy to cook soup. :-)

Why is it called ABC Soup? I think it’s because it’s easy to cook. You know, there is an English idiom ‘as easy as ABC’?

It’s supposed to be ABC Vegetable Soup, but I forgot to buy cabbage at the market this morning.  So, it’s ABC Soup.

ABC Soup
Photo Credit for ABC Soup

Ingredients:

2 chicken ribs
3 potatoes, peeled, cut into chunks
3 tomatoes, peeled, cut into wedges
2 carrots, peeled, cut into chunks
2 large onions, cut into chunks
1 tbsp whole white pepper, crushed
1 litre water
Oyster sauce
Salt

Instructions:

1. Blanch chicken ribs in boiling water for about 5 minutes, then rinse with cold water, set aside.

2. Add water, blanched chicken ribs and all the ingredients into slow cooker. Bring to boil and then simmer over low fire for another hour.

3. Season with salt or/and oyster sauce if needed.

Though I forgot to buy cabbage, I did buy another vegetable. It’s called Hiong Mak Tam in Cantonese. What is it called in English and Bahasa Malaysia, please?

This is what I did to the vegetable, Heong Mak Tam. After washing and removing the leaves from the stems, I threw them into the pot of ABC Soup and let them cooked. When they are cooked, scoop them out and serve on the plate.

What a super lazy way of preparing vegetable dish, right? But don’t you think it’s healthier than frying the vegetable? Besides, the yummy soup makes the vegetable tasty.

Today’s Simple Dinner – Brown Rice & Braised Mui Choy With Raw Peanuts And Chicken Drumstick

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Tonight’s dinner is brown rice and Braised Mui Choy with Raw Peanuts and Chicken Drumstick.

To prepare this dish of Braised Mui Choi with Raw Peanuts and Chicken Drumstick, I had to call my aunt living in Kuala Lumpur to confirm what the ingredients were.

It’s so difficult to find the recipe for Mui Choy with Raw Peanuts and Chicken Drumstick online. Most of the Mui Choi recipes I found were Mui Choy Kau Yoke (Stewed Preserved Vegetable with Pork or Stewed Mui Choy with Pork).

Braised Mui Choy With Meat
Photo Credit for Braised Mui Choy with Pork/Chicken

Anyone out there who likes this dish called Mui Choy with Raw Peanuts and Pork/Chicken?

There are two types of Mui Choy aka preserved vegetable. One is preserved with salt while the other type is preserved with sugar.

As I forgot to ask my aunt whether to use the salty one or the sweet one, I had to ask the grocer.

I wanted to buy pork this morning, but there’s no pork today. Why leh?

Ingredients:

300g sweet Mui Choi aka sweet pickled vegetable
1 chicken drumstick, chopped and skin removed
100g raw peanuts (We love peanuts!)
5 cloves of garlic
1 small bulb ginger
500ml water

Instructions:

1. Remove leaves of Mui Choi from stems, wash and soak them in water to remove excessive salt. Cut into 1 inch lengths.

2. Place the water, chicken drumstick, raw peanuts, garlic and ginger into the slow cooker. Braise for 1.5 hours.

3. Add in Mui Choy and continue braising until it’s soft.

Updated on January 7th, 2010: My digital camera is not functioning, so for the time being, I have to borrow other bloggers’ images/photos. Of course, with photo credits. :-)

This is the closest photo I could get for the Braised Mui Choi with Pork/Chicken.