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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 – Dried Oyster Porridge

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Filed under Chinese Porridge/Congee Recipes, Malaysian Dishes, Today's Simple Dinner

It’s Saturday today. I was not supposed to cook today, but I had to because hubby and I didn’t go back to Gopeng this weekend.

I decided to cook Dried Oyster Porridge/Congee for dinner. It is light and suitable on hot days especially when hubby and I want to eat something non-oily.

Ingredients:

50g dried oysters, washed and soaked in warm water for 1 hour
50g raw peanuts (Love peanuts!)
20g dried anchovies aka ‘ikan bilis’
2 carrots, cubed
1.5 cup unpolished brown rice, washed and pre-soaked in water for 30 minutes
A few slices of ginger
1 liter water
1 pinch salt

Method:

1. Place the water, rice, carrots, ‘ikan bilis’ and raw peanuts into the rice cooker and cook for about 30 minutes or until every grain of rice breaks down.

2. Add in the dried oysters and slices of ginger. Cook until …

With the convenience of a rice cooker, I think you know when the porridge is ready to be served, right? :-)

Dried Oyster Porridge
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You may add century eggs and scallops into this Dried Oyster Congee. As for me, I forgot these 2 ingredients when I was at the wet market this morning.

I must admit that I am a lazy woman when it comes to cooking at home. I love throwing every ingredient into a rice cooker or slow cooker to save time.

Well, well, so long as the dishes come out yummy and healthy, I am fine with the way I am cooking.

Besides, hubby has no complaint about my Watercress Soup, Mui Choi with Raw Peanuts and Sheong Tong Yuen Choi so far. ;-)