Monday, April 4, 2011

Seafood U-Don

Ingredients:

Japanese U-Don-2 packages
Shrimp-6 medium size
Scallop-6
Onion-1 big one

Seasoning:
Soy sauce-2 tsps.
Black vinegar-2 tsps.
white sugar-1 small tsp.

Method:

1. Boil a pot of hot water and cook shrimps and scallops. When the shrimps change color, take them out. Rinse with cold water. Remove shrimps shells and chop the scallops into small pieces.

2. Chop onions into small pieces.

3. Heat the pan and add 1 tsp of olive oil. Cook the onions when you can smell them, add U-don into the pan. Continue to cook them with medium heat. Use a pair of chopsticks to seperate U-don.

4. Add all the seasonings. Cook U-don for another 2 mins.

5. Add shrimps and scallops. Stir them around.

6. Serve.

Indian Authentic Beef Curry

Ingredients:

Cardamom -2pcs

Curry powder -2 and half teaspoons

Ground cumin -half teaspoon

Coriander Powder- half teaspoon, optional you can use Chinese fresh parsely. 2-3 fresh ones.

Turmerig- 1 teaspoon

Chilli Powder -half teaspoon

Bay leaves-2

Fried dried onions- half cup or 3/4 cup

Tomato-2 red ones (chop them in to small chunks)

Plain yogurt-1 small container

Potato-4

Beef-2lbs (shin shank )

Method:
1. Mix all powder ingredients with 1 cup of water.
2. Heat the pan and add 1tsp of E.V.O.O. and cook tomatos for 1-2 mins. Add the powder ingredients into the pan. Continue to add dried onion and the rest of the ingredients.
3. Add beef, turn the heat to medium low. Cook 5-10 mins and keep on stirring them around)
4. Add salt (1 and half tsp.)
5. Cook beef for 20 mins. Then, add Yougurt.
6. Continue to cook beef for another 25 mins.
7. While cooking beef, wash and chop the potatos. Heat oil in a pot with high heat. Use a bamboo chop stick to check if the temperture is high enough. (If the bamboo bubbles when you put it in there.)
8.Turn the heat to medium, fry potatos for 10 mins or until they are soft. Before take them out, turn the heat back to high. (Use a fork to poke the potatos to see if it's soft.)
9. At the end mix the potatos with beef curry.
10. Let it sit overnight. (There will be more flavour.)
11. Before serving re-heat them again.
12.Serve


Turmerig & Cardamom

Bay leaves & Fried dried onions


After frying the potatoes, place them on paper towels to extract the oil.

Naan from Costco. Very yummy!

Biryani Rice


Ingredients:

Biryani powder or paste (Recommend Laziza Brand)

Basmati rice-3 cups

Plain Yogurt-1 small cup

Dried onion

Chicken thighs-6-8 pcs or
Chicken legs- 3-4 pcs

Method:

1. Cook basmati rice first. 

2. Cook chicken with biryani. The skin sides face down, so that the fat will extract.  Add yogurt in b/t cooking the chicken.

3. Place rice in a baking tray. Spray dried onion and chicken sauce on top of rice. (Remove the fat from the chicken sauce's top layer with a spoon.)

4. Bake 20 mins at 350 degree

5. Serve
Before baking, spray some dried onion on the rice.

Done baking! Take the chicken out, then use a rice scoop to mix the rice around  to get the flavour even.