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

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Posted by Vedis on January 18, 2010 – 1:25 pm
Filed under Chinese Dishes, Chinese Meat Recipes, Chinese Soup Recipes, Malaysian Dishes, Today's Simple Lunch

This morning while thinking if I should buy chicken or pork, I saw a stall selling fish paste. Since I was going to cook Sheung Tong Yuen Choy, fish paste was perfect too.

Right after I bought the fish paste, I noticed that all the chicken stalls operated by the Chinese were not opened. Oh, their off day on Monday?

What did I cook for lunch? Unpolished brown rice, Sheung Tong Yuen Choi and Lap Cheong.

Lap Cheong aka Chinese Sausage
Photo Credit for Lap Cheong

Lap Cheong again? What to do? Hubby didn’t want the Lap Cheong to be around for too long as there’s no fridge in the house to store it. So, there went my last 4 rolls of Chinese sausage.

This time, the Sheung Tong Yuen Choi was cooked with fish paste and not chicken rib.

Ingredients:

1 bunch of Yuen Choi, remove leaves from the stems
1 packet of fish paste, washed and rolled into small balls
Handful of fried anchovies aka ‘ikan bilis’
15 red dates
50g wolfberries
2 century eggs
2 cloves of garlic
1 small bulb ginger
1 egg
1 liter water
Oyster sauce to taste

Instructions:

1. Place the water, fried ahchovies, red dates, garlic and ginger into the rice cooker. Bring it to boil.

2. Add in wolfberries, fish balls and century eggs. Boil until the fish balls are cooked.

3. Pour the whole pot of soup into the slow cooker and add in the egg. Simmer for 1 hour.

4. Add in Yuen Choi. When the vegetable is cooked, it means the soup is ready to be served.

From today onwards, I am going to cook lunch rather than buying food. As for dinner, it’s going to be pretty simple. Heat up the afternoon leftover dishes or/and add a vegetable dish, that’s it.

Hubby and I think that we should eat well for breakfast and lunch. As for dinner, let it be simple. If possible, eat something light.

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. ;-)