Napa Cabbage Rolls With Sticky Rice

First Meatless Meal....testing out to see if my Meat Eater can have Meatless Meal at least twice a week 🤣 Napa Cabbage Rolls with sticky rice. Recipe inspired by instagrammer @woon.heng . I tweaked the filling recipe a bit, mine the fillings is just steamed sticky rice with mushroom,chopped chilli and carrots. Seasoning is oyster sauce. Cooked a light sauce with sliced mushrooms for the Napa Cabbage Rolls. So yummy good. No complaints so far. He likes sticky rice so I supposed he is fine with this dish.

this is seriously so good, I used

cast iron pan to braised the wrapped

Napa cabbage 

the glutinous rice filling is

 flavour packed

blanch the Napa cabbage to soften 

and enable wrapping easier

Click here for the recipe

Chicken Curry With Tean's Gourmet Chicken Curry Paste

Tean's Gourmet has a wide range of Traditional Malaysian Cuisine  ready to cook paste. My daughter in Melbourne first introduced me to their Assam Tumis Fish Curry Paste. Before her introduction, I have never heard of Tean's Gourmet, most probably I am a person who usually cook everything from scratch, that's why I never look at ready to cook paste at the Supermarket shelf. Their Assam Tumis paste was good and I today I tried their Chicken Curry Paste....you will never believe how good it is.  It was really good, tasted so authentic that I am going to buy more of their Chicken Curry paste the next visit to the supermarket.  I have to thank my daughter for introducing me to Tean's Gourmet 😁

I cooked blue Pea flower rice to go with the Chicken Curry

mouthwatering , tasty and spicy

I used my favourite

 enamelled cast iron pot

to cook the chicken curry

Tean's Gourmet Chicken Curry Paste

has made cooking this curry dish so easy

I added curry leaves, lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves for a deeper flavour though it was not required. 

Instructions was just to mix the paste with the chicken pieces and potatoes till well combined and cook over slow fire for 5mins. Add 500 ml water and continue to simmer till chicken and potatoes have soften. Last, add in 250 ml of coconut milk to the curry. Once it boils. Off heat and it is ready for serving. No oil and salt required. 

I discovered this Chicken Curry is great for Nasi Kunyit and Roti Jala. 

Oven Baked Banana Leaf- Wrapped Fish Curry

This is our all time favourite way to prepare a fish dish.  Seasoned with curry paste and wrapped in banana leaf and baked in oven. Firstly saute wet curry paste which we can get from the wet market with curry leaves till fragrant. Add in sliced onions, okra and tomato and stir fry till well combined. Spread the vegetable and curry paste into the paste and wrap with banana leaves. Put into the oven and baked for 30 mins @200c . Easy and a delicious fish recipe for dinner.

Banana leaves from homegrown banana plants

Spread out the cooked curry paste and

Vegetables over the fish fillet ( I used red snapper fillets)

Recipe for the curry paste 

3/4 cup fresh ground curry paste

1tbsp sugar

1/8 cup vegetable oil

2 stalks curry leaves

1kaffir lime leaf

Vegetables

1 large red onion - sliced

1 large tomato - sliced

4 okras - sliced

Saute the above ingredients with oil till fragrant. Off heat, add in the sliced okra, tomato and red onions. Marinate the fish fillet s with the above vegetable curry paste. Prepare banana leaves. Brush oil on the side where you going to place the marinated fish. Wrap and use bamboo skewer to close the edges and put the wrapped fish on a baking tray and baked for 30 minutes @200c. ( Depends on size of fish)

Enjoy!

Crispy Sesame Tofu

Another try out of Woon Heng of woonheng.com 's Crispy Sesame Tofu. Easy to prepare and it's a great vegan finger food. Can be served as a snack for Movie Night. I used frozen firm tofu which gives the tofu a compact spongy texture which we like very much. Crispy on the outside and soft compact spongy on the inside. Tasty as the tofu has been marinated with aromatic sweet marinade. They are baked so they are healthy finger-food.

Crispy on the outside ,spongy texture on the inside

It's freaking healthy, baked and plant based

Place sesame coated tofu on greased liner and dab vegetable oil on

surface of tofu for a crispier top

marinate tofu slices with the prepared

marinade sauce

Freeze firm tofu overnight to get the spongy texture

Click here for the recipe

Finger Food - Roast Wingettes And Drummettes

Roast drumettes and wingettes are best finger food for Whisky and watching movies at home. Marinate with just salt for a few hours, and added Steakhouse Pepper Seasoning before roasting. We had these last night while watching a movie on Netflix. The best and unhealthy finger food but the yummiest. Fingers licking good too.Once a while naughty indulgence.

deliciously good

Goes well with whiskey

Easy to prepare and they are really

 lips-smacking good

Dhall Curry With Moringa Drumsticks

Finally I was quite free today. Life was quite hectic the last few days 😜  I cooked the Moringa Drumsticks ,which my Sister Julie gave me, in Dhall Curry. And my Instagram friend @abakersendeavours asked to show how I cooked it. Nothing special, just cooked the drumsticks in dhall curry. I have carrots, okra,potato and tomato besides the 'drumsticks' added to the curry. This curry is easy to prepare and goes well with roti Jala, chapati or rice. Homecooked dhall curry taste just as good as those sold in restaurants. I love my own homecooking as I can adjust the taste to my liking. I can drumsticks to it too.

Precook the dhall and drumsticks

will helps shorten the cooking time

Ingredients used for the curry

Homegrown Moringa drumsticks

Ingredients for the dhall curry:

Morning Drumsticks - 12 pods cut into 1.5inches length - cook till slightly soft

Dhall  1.5 cups - wash clean and cook till slightly soft

1 Carrot - diced

2 Potatoes - diced

2 Tomatoes - diced

1 big red onions - diced

6 okra - cut into 1/2 inch length

6 green chillies - cut into 1/2 inch length

1 heaped tbsp of mixed spices ( halba campuran for cooking curry)

2 sprigs of curry leaves

3 dried chilli

1 tbsp of fresh ground red chilli for a more intense red color

2 tbsp of curry powder

2 tsp of turmeric powder

2 cloves of garlic - chopped finely

2slices of ginger

1/4 cup coconut milk

1 litre of Water - adjustable

3 tbsp Olive oil

1/2 cup tamarind juice from 1 tbsp of tamarind paste plus water

Method:

Lightly stir fry the mixed spices (halba campuran) with olive oil till fragrant, add in curry leaves, fresh ground red chilli,  curry powder, tumeric powder, dried chilli, garlic ,ginger till fragrant. Add in all precooked dhall and drumsticks, water . Simmer till the dhall and drumsticks has soften to taste, add in all the rest of diced vegetables. Continue to cook till all have soften. Add in coconut milk and tamarind juice last. Salt to taste. Serve with rice or Roti Jala or Chapati flat bread.

Artsy Gyeran Mari

Tried out instagramer @eden_table Korean egg roll, egg white with crabstick filament on the inside and egg yolk layer on the outside. It is  really delicious and pretty and artsy looking . Not perfect yet but can do better next time. Tasty no doubt with the balance Hainanese Chilli sauce. So good!

Check out her Instagram post, she has a lot of delicious Korean recipes

pretty and artsy looking

and taste good too

I love my cast iron pan

Gyeran Mari /Korean Egg Roll

Gyeran Mari -Korean Egg Roll my favourite playtime in making this delectable tasty egg roll. Packed with finely chopped green peppers, carrots and I added red chilli for some heat. My protein for today. It is not only easy to whip up but delicious to the tongue and colorful feast for the eyes.I love this Rectangle Cast Iron Pan of mine.

You can use any ingredients for the fillings but must be finely 

chopped for easy rolling 

Click here for the recipe

 

 

Fish Head Assam Pedas

This dish is cooked by the hubby. I skidded and sprained my right leg so hubby said he will take over the cooking. We bought the ready to cook Assam Pedas paste from Aeon Supermarket. Hubby just followed the instructions on the back of the package and tada, he did a great job. The dish was cooked perfectly. He added sea prawns for himself. He is a smart guy. He can cook alright. I gave him a thumbs up 😝

Thank you to my Meat Eater for being such a great helper. Love him to moon and back .

Vegan Teriyaki Tofu Balls

I have been trying out a few vegan dishes from Woonheng dot com and I find that her Vegan dishes are truly delicious. Veganism is not about diet or calories but a NO to violence of animals. I am trying out to see if I can be a full Vegan. Hopefully I can be one. Today highlight is Vegan Teriyaki Vegan Tofu Balls. It was so good that I had to add to my menu list for Vegan dishes. I am fan of Tofu so this is one way to prepare tofu. Easy to prepare and deliciously good.

They taste good even without

the teriyaki sauce

Deep fry them over med fire

to get the crispsness

Make sure the draining off water 

From the firm tofu is done correct,

mash them fine and shape into a ball

without the tofu breaking apart,

the tofu is ready to be mix with 

the other chopped ingredients

These are the ingredients

 for making the tofu balls

Click here for recipe link 

Homemade XO Sauce

XO sauce is the most delicious accompaniment sauce that I have ever made. It is a spicy seafood sauce with an  umami flavour, a to die for sauce that goes well with any tossed noodles or fried rice.  It has been in my to-do-list for a few years and finally last week ,I cooked the most delicious sauce for our noodle meals. I used Marion's kitchen recipe. So good. Recipe link is at the end of the post.

the most delicious seafood spicy sauce

bacon, dried scallops,dried shrimps,

are the main ingredients

I used only medium sized dried

Scallops

Click here for the recipe