After the lala miso soup, my second dish for this year’s reunion dinner is Hong Kong Kailan with Roasted Pork. This is actually the first time I made this dish, though had it a few times at various restaurants, usually with Choi Tam (Brussels Sprout). I would usually have my vegetables fried only with garlic, but since this is the year of pig, why not a spice it up with some roasted pork?

this dish sure looks yummy, isn’t it?

Ingredients:

• Hong Kong kailan
• roasted pork (RM 3-5, from morning market or hawker)
• sliced or chopped garlic
• corn flour
• cooking oil
• salt

Steps:

• heat up a few spoons of cooking oil
• throw in the garlic and then roasted pork, stir
• add in the vegetabl ewhen the garlic gets golden, shoots first, then the leaves
• add some salt for flavor (half a tea spoon should suffice)
• pour in the mixture of corn flour and water (2 table spoon of corn flour and half a cup of water)
• stir till vegetable is cooked

cooking this is easy as 1-2-3

The dish was pretty easy to prepare, and it did turn out great. The aroma of roasted pork complimented the fresh vegetable really well. Corn flour and water gives a slightly salty gravy that makes eating this dish with steamed rice a very good combination. Try it!

Tags:  Cooks,  dinner,  garlic,  kailan,  roasted-pork

Posted by KY | 15 Comments »

It’s been a while since yours truely posted some wholesome healthy dishes that you too can make at home. Here is the latest invention of the KY herbal soup that I am quite sure, no ordinary chef will serve at any decent restarants, enter the KY’s herbal glass noodle soup.

glass noodle, herbal soup, chicken, shrimps, yumm..

So here are the ingredients:

• a pack of herbal soup.. er.. herbs
• a piece of chicken breast
• some pork ribs
• some shrimps
• two portion of glass noodle
• some garlic
• half a chinese cabbage

Simple enough isn’t it? Now here are the steps:

• First pre-boil the ribs seperated in a small pot
• Remove the ribs from small pot and put it in a bigger pot, boil this with the herbs
• Let the herbal soup simmer in a low fire for at least an hour
• Boil the shrimps and chicken breast (cut into pieces) with some garlic in a seperate pot
• At the same time, add some Chinese cabbage to the herbal soup, add some salt accoreding to taste
• After the shirmps and chicken are about cooked (only takes a couple minutes), add in glass noodle
• Cook for another couple minutes, then remove the water and empty the good stuff into serving bowls
• Finally, add herbal soup with vege and ribs into the bowl that already has glass noodle, chicken, and shrimps

are you hungry?

This is just about as wholesome a meal one can get in a dish. Seafood, poultry, meat, vegetable, all in the rejuvenating herbal soup. I had some red chilies in soya sauce on the side too. It’s all pretty simple to make, impress your girl friend, or mother in law, or something..

By the way, the ingredients were not really chosen by design, though they ended up mixing well and being absolutely delicious. Cheers!

Tags:  Cooks,  glass-noodle,  herbal-soup,  shrimp

Posted by KY | 12 Comments »