Weekend dinners

I have been cracking ideas what to cook for dinner over the weekend and I thought Beef would be nice. Beef with brocoli and lettuce as extra greens since no carbohydrate is involved. First, you marinate the beef pieces with pepper, soya sauce, mixed herbs and left it for 20mins or so. Cut up your brocoli (or yr prefer vege) but brocoli always goes well with beef. Pre-boiled till cooked and set aside on the plate then the lettuce. Pan-fried the beef pieces and then prepare brown sauce and add into the beef and stir in for a short while – don’t overcook your beef. Just make sure your beef is still juicy with some rawness.

Then next day, I have to make do with what I have in the fridge i.e. chicken breast – lean meat. First, cut them into cubes – marinate with pepper and salt. Next add wheat flour and some corn flour with enough water – not too much and mix together with the chicken cubes. Stir well. Next prepare your oil for deep-frying – till golden brown and leave it on the napkin to get rid of excess oil. Then – you can prepare your sweet sour sauce with pineapple cubes, tomatoes cuts and then add some tomato sauce and a little sugar and tapioca flour to thicken sauce. Simple right. If you want the cripsy chicken cubes to stay that way – don’t add the sauce in as it will soften it. Pour over it when you are ready to eat. As always, no carbohydrate – so I prepare pre-boiled french beans. Easy…….

10th day of CNY

I remind myself that I need to cook the fattchoi with mushrooms with fuchok wrap up to steam for hours – 4 to 5. I also add clams, dry osyters and somehow this dish did not turn up as I expected it to be. Maybe I have to try it again some time.

 

Well the next one -the prawns big ones cost me RM50.00/kg (never buy during the peak season) I seasoned with mix herbs, little salt & pepper and chop up garlic pieces and fry in a non-stick pan with dash of oil till garlic turns brown and then add in the peeled prawns (Ngiap2 is lazy to peel them – I think it taste better if you leave the shelves on). Stir fry till cooked and put it aside. Since we are all non-rice eater – I pre-boiled some spinach and then serve the prawns on the top…..(Spinach is very good in calcium and for those who have constipation problems – this is a good fibre.

I use left over chicken wings and thighs and marinated with chinese wine, little soy sauce and sugar. I also cut up stips of ginger (young ones). Use non-stick pan, add little oil and fry ginger stips, then add marinated chicken pieces and stir it for 3 mins. Do not add water but you can premium osyter sauce. It brings out the flavour and sprinkled chopped spring onions. There you are not that difficult to cook.