Showing posts with label Western. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Western. Show all posts

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Spaghetti White Sauce

Ingredients

1. Spaghetti - serving for 2 pax
2. 2 tbsp olive oil
3. 2 tbsp chopped garlic
4. 3 pieces oyster mushroom - sliced
5. 1 chicken thigh - deboned and cut cubes
6. a handful of fresh basil leaves
7. chopped fresh parsley
8. 100 ml whipping cream

Marinate of chicken cubes

1. 1/4 salt
2. dash of sesame oil
3. dash of pepper
4. 1/2 tsp corn flour

Seasoning

1. 1/2 tsp salt
2. 1/2 ground black pepper coarse
3. some white wine/shaoxin wine

To cook

1. Cook the spaghetti in advance in boiling water with some salt and oil for 15 mins. Set aside. Heat up olive oil in pan. Add in chopped garlic and stir fry until fragant. While waiting, deep fry the basil leaves in another pot until crunchy and transparent. Set aside the fried basil leaves.

2. Add in oyster mushroom and chicken cubes. Stir fry until chicken is cooked.

3. Add in whipping cream and seasoning. Mix well and bring to boil.

4. Add in spaghetti (again rinse it with water and drain first as it might get sticky after set aside for sometime). Mix well spaghetti with the sauce.

5. Dish up and sprinkle with some fried basil leaves and chopped parsley or bread crumb. Serve hot! (your actual pasta might look more watery than the above picture as I used less cream to individual preference)

Stir Fry Spaghetti with Ham and Vege



Ingredients

1. Spaghetti - serving for 2 pax
2. 4 tbsp olive oil.
3. 2-3 tbsp chopped garlic,
4. a handful of fresh basil leaves
5. 1 onion - cut rings
6. 1 portion of carrot - sliced
7. half a zucchini - sliced
7. 2 slices ham - sliced
8. chopped fresh parsley


Seasoning
1. 1/4 tsp salt
2. 1/2 tsp ground black pepper coarse.
3. 1/2 tsp of white wine/shaoxin wine
4. 1/2 tsp paprika
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To cook
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1. Cook the spaghetti in advance in boiling water with some salt and oil for 15 mins. Set aside. Heat up olive oil in pan. Add in chopped garlic and stir fry until fragant. While waiting, deep fry the basil leaves in another pot until crunchy and transparent. Set aside the fried basil leaves.
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2. Add in onion rings, carrots and ham, stir fry. Add salt and ground black pepper coarse. Continue fry until u see the ham is a bit brownish.
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3. Add in spaghetti (rinse with water again and drain first before adding in as the pasta tend to be sticky after set aside for sometime). Then add in zucchini and chopped parsley. Stir fry.
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4. Add white wine/shaoxin wine and a dash of salt and ground black pepper coarse again. Add in paprika. Stir fry and mix well.
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5. Dish up. Garnish with some fried basil leave on top and sprinkle with chopped parsley. You can sprinkle with crushed macademia nuts OR bread crumb, taste nicer.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Lamb Chop

Ingredients
  1. 5 pieces lamb shoulder

Marinade

  1. 2 tbsp oyster sauce
  2. 2 tbsp light soya sauce
  3. 1 tbsp HP sauce
  4. 1 tsp worcestershire sauce
  5. 1 tsp dark soya sauce
  6. 1 tsp salt
  7. 1 tsp black pepper
  8. 1 tsp sugar
  9. dash of rosemary herbs
  10. some water

To cook

  1. Clean the lamb and mix with marinade. Season for overnight.
  2. Heat up oil and pan-fry until cooked.
  3. Serve with vegetables of your choice and fried potatoes.

Macaroni Cheese

Ingredients
  1. macaroni pasta - 1 bowl
  2. 2 pips garlic - chopped
  3. 3 tbsp grated cheese
  4. 2 tbsp olive oil

Seasoning

For boiling pasta

  1. 1/2 tsp salt
  2. 1/2 tsp cooking oil

For cooking

  1. 1/2 tsp salt
  2. 1/2 tsp black pepper
  3. dash of white wine (optional)
  4. 300 ml UHT whipping cream

To cook

  1. Cook the macaroni pasta in hot boiling water with 1/2 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp cooking oil, for 10-15 minutes. Dish and drain. Set aside.
  2. Heat up wok with 2 tbsp olive oil, saute chopped garlic till fragant.
  3. Add in macaroni and seasoning. Stir fry until the sauce is thicken.
  4. Add in grated cheese and mix well. Dish up and serve hot.

Tips : Optional ingredients = chicken meat, button mushroom, fresh olive, carrots/cauliflower, parsley/basil. Add in these ingredients after saute the garlic and thereafter follow from step no.3

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Home-Style of Western Food


Ingredients
  1. 1 chicken thigh meat, deboned
  2. Pasta (u can have spaghetti, penne, fuscilli or macaroni)
  3. Potatoes
  4. Vege (u may choose brocolli-cut florets, carrots-cut strips, asparagus-cut into 3 in length, cauliflower-cut florets)

Marinade for chicken

  1. 2 tbsp oyster sauce
  2. 1 tsp dark soya sauce
  3. 1 tsp worcestershire sauce
  4. 1 tbsp HP sauce
  5. 1 tsp black pepper
  6. 1 tsp sugar
  7. 1 tsp sesame oil
  8. 2 tbsp light soya sauce
  9. 1/2 tsp salt
  10. 1 tsp corn flour

To cook

  1. Cut the potatoes in strips. Use aluminium foil, coated with olive oil and wrap the potatoes.
  2. Before wrapping it, put some butter, sprinkle salt and black pepper.
  3. Put the wrapped aluminium foil to toaster and toast for 1/2 hour or until the potatoes are cooked. For the last 10 min, unwrapped the foil for potatoes to get more toasted. (You can opt to fry the potatoes or baked in oven)
  4. Deep-fry the chicken meat in hot oil till cook.
  5. While waiting for the potatoes, blanch the pasta. Boil water, put some salt and oil. Boil the pasta around 10-15 min or till soft. Dish up and set aside.
  6. After the potatoes are done, use the same foil for vege.
  7. Same procedure, apply olive oil, put vege, butter, salt, and black pepper. Put in toaster for around 20 min or till it's cooked. (can opt to use a pot of boiling water to blanch the vege. thereafter can put the same seasoning)
  8. Use a pan to put in pesto sauce (can buy in one bottle at supermarket). Put in the pasta, add salt, black pepper, minced parsley and stir well. Dish up on serving plate.
  9. Serve the chicken and everything on the same plate. Can put some raw tomatoes or lemon slices for decoration.