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Today’s Simple Dinner – Lotus Root Soup With Peanuts, Red Dates & Chicken Drumstick

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Posted by Vedis on January 15, 2010 – 7:45 pm
Filed under Chinese Dishes, Chinese Soup Recipes, Malaysian Dishes, Today's Simple Dinner

Too busy to cook last night due to a sudden increase of assignments. Wow, if it was like this every week, my bank account would be fat. :-)

I was able to cook tonight’s dinner because I completed 98% of the assignments. According to a blogging pal, there’s going to be another round of assignments today or tomorrow. Woo Hoo!

What did I cook for dinner? Of course, soup again. Tonight’s soup is Lotus Root Soup with Raw Peanuts, Chicken Drumstick and Red Dates.

Lotus Root Soup With Raw Peanuts & Red Dates
Photo Credit for Lotus Root Soup

This soup is traditionally cooked using pork ribs but there was no pork today, so I used chicken drumstick. So weird! Since I started cooking at home, I haven’t been able to buy any pork.

Ingredients:

1 lotus root, washed and skinned. Cut the roots cross-wise so that they look like wheels
1 chicken drumstick, washed and marinated with soy sauce/oyster sauce
200g raw peanuts
15 red dates
500ml water
Salt to taste

Directions:

1. Place the water, lotus roots, raw peanuts and red dates into the slow cooker.

2. Put on low and cook for 2 to 3 hours or until well cooked.

What a simple, homey, and economical soup! Of course, it’s a very light, pleasing, and refreshing soup that I just couldn’t stop sipping.

As for the chicken meat, it seemed to be softer and more tasty after hubby told me to marinate it with soy sauce or/and oyster sauce first.

As usual, there’s a vegetable dish. Tonight’s vegetable was Choy Sam aka Chinese Flowering Cabbage with Oyster Sauce.

What I did was I added Choy Sum into the pot of Lotus Root Soup and simmered until it was bright green and tender. It’s about 1 minute.

Then, I removed the Choy Sum from the soup, placed it on a plate and drizzled it with oyster sauce.

Yay, it’s Saturday again tomorrow! No need to cook. ;-)

Today’s Simple Dinner – Brown Rice, Sheung Tong Yuen Choi & Lap Cheong

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Posted by Vedis on January 8, 2010 – 6:52 pm
Filed under Chinese Soup Recipes, Today's Simple Dinner

Last night’s Braised Mui Choy with Raw Peanuts and Chicken Drumsticks was a bit salty. I think it’s because I didn’t soak the Mui Choi long enough. :-)

Tonight’s dinner was a bit heavy – Unpolished brown rice, Sheung Tong Yuen Choi and Chinese sausage.

As usual, they were all done with my rice cooker and slow cooker. Too lazy to move my gas burner from the old house to this rented flat. Besides, I am scared of using gas!

Finally I remembered to buy the Chinese sausage that hubby wanted. He had reminded me a few times, but I kept forgetting.

It’s RM16 per 0.5kg for the so-so Lap Cheong and RM25 per 0.5kg for the better one. As I didn’t know whether there’s any much difference, I bought the so-so Chinese sausage that cost RM16 per 0.5kg.

Chinese Sausage aka Lap Cheong
Photo Credit for Chinese Sausage/Lap Cheong

Chinese sausage, commonly known by its Cantonese name Lap Cheong, is now available everywhere as Chinese New Year is next month.

It’s funny. Although Lap Cheong is available throughout the year and found in grocery stores, mini markets or supermarkets, hubby and I don’t bother to buy it. It’s only when the Chinese New Year is around that we want to eat it.

Sheung Tong Yuen Choi
Photo Credit for Sheung Tong Yuen Choi

I cooked Sheung Tong Yuen Choi or Yuen Choi Sheung Tong (Yuen Choi Soup) per request by hubby.

Ingredients:

500g yuen choi (We love vegetable!)
1 chicken rib, chopped and skinned removed
50g dried anchovies aka ‘ikan bilis’
50g wolfberries
1 clove of garlic
1 litre water

Instructions:

1. Remove leaves of Yuen Choi from stems, wash and cut into 1.5 inch lengths.

2. Place the water, chicken ribs, garlic and ‘ikan bilis’ into slow cooker. When it’s boiling, add in the wolfberries.

3. Add in yuen choi stems. Once they are softer, add in the leaves.

You can add in century eggs aka preserved eggs if you like. Hubby and I love century eggs but I forgot to buy any in the market this morning.

Disclaimer: 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 Sheung Tong Yuen Choi.