Saturday, 23 March 2019

Prawns Mee Goreng (Collaboration with RedMart)

Ingredients
10 fresh prawns, peel and devein, tail on
300g yellow noodles
10 cherry tomatoes, halved
100g cai xin, cut into sections
1 small onion, sliced
2 tbsp minced garlic
2 tbsp cooking oil

Seasonings
2 tbsp ketchup
2 tbsp sambal
1 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tsp sugar
Dash of pepper
1 tbsp water

Directions
1. Combine all the seasonings in a medium bowl, set aside.
2. Heat up 2 tbsp of cooking oil in a wok/pan. Fry prawns and prawn heads till cooked. Squeeze out the prawn extract from the heads. Remove and set aside.
3. In the same wok/pan, fry onion till translucent. Add garlic, continue to fry till fragrant. Add cherry tomatoes and cook for 2 minutes.
4. Add yellow noodles and vegetables, stir fry and mix well with other ingredients for a few minutes.
5. Season the noodles with all the combined seasonings, taste and adjust the seasonings to your preference.
6. Lastly, put the prawns back into the noodles and toss for a minute. Dish up and serve hot.

Pan Seared Salmon with Garlic Butter and Truffle oil (Collaboration with RedMart)

Ingredients
300g salmon fillet
100g brussel sprouts, halved
50g asparagus
6 cherry tomatoes, halved
1 bulb garlic, halved
1 tsp olive oil
2 tbsp butter
1 tbsp truffle oil

Seasonings
Salt
Pepper
Parsley

Directions
1. On a cast iron pan, heat up some olive oil. Sear both sides of salmon fillet for 1 minute on each side and baste some butter on it. Sprinkle some salt, pepper and parsley.
2. On another pan, fry brussel sprouts, asparagus and garlic with some olive oil. Season them with salt and pepper.
3. Arrange all the vegetables, garlic and cherry tomatoes in the cast iron pan together with seared salmon fillet.
4. Roast it in the 180°C preheated oven for 3 minutes. Remove from the oven, sprinkle some truffle oil and serve hot.

Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Spicy Sardine and Vegetables Salad

Ingredients
1 canned Ayam Brand EVOO Sardine
Some brocolli, cut
6-8 prawns, remove shell and devein
2 red chilli, sliced
8 garlic, sliced thinly
1 onion, sliced thinly
Olive oil from canned Ayam Brand EVOO Sardine

Seasonings (to taste)
2 tbsp sambal
1 tsp brown sugar
Salt
Pepper

Method
1. Heat olive oil in a wok/pan, add sliced garlic and fry till golden brown. Remove garlic and put it in a big mixing bowl.
2. In the same wok, pour a little oil, fry onion and chilli till brownish, remove and put it in the mixing bowl together with the fried garlic.
3. Add some oil again, fry brocolli for about 3 minutes and flip it over the other side and continue to fry for a while until it's slightly charred. Don't over cooked the brocolli as we want it to be crunchy. Move it to the mixing bowl.
4. Pan fry the prawns until it's cooked and lightly toss the sardines. Remove and put it in the same mixing bowl.
5. Lightly torch all the ingredients and sear it for a few seconds to make it charred.
6. Combine all the seasonings and mix well with other cooked ingredients.