Chinese Mixed Porridge

Ok, lately I had gone a little crazy with multigrain meals and just saw in the drama they are eating porridge and suddenly, I thought of  cooking porridge.

So, just went to cook some with the left over multi grain rice.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup of cooked multi grain (quinoa, millet, rice and brown rice)
• 3 dried mushrooms, cut to small pieces
• 1/4 cup pumpkin, cut to small cube
• 1 piece of Y pork, leftover from braised pork the night before (cooked with minced ginger, minced garlic and preserved beans)
• 1/4 cup of beetroot, cut to small cube
• 1/2 salted egg, cut to small pieces
• 1/2 century egg, cut to small pieces
• a handful of english spinach
• 3 cups of water
• some shredded ginger

Steps:

1. Put all ingredients except for spinach and ginger in the pressure cooker.
2. Cook on high for 10mins and lower down the fire for 20min.
3. Let the pressure cooker release pressure. Once open, stir in the spinach.
4. Served and garnish with shredded ginger.

Multigrain Drink

I bought this drink last week and like it. But I suspect the high amount of sugar as well as not sure in terms of the processing. I'd prefer something I prepare myself with all the fibre and guarantee of cleanliness.

So, I went shopping and got all the stuff to cook this:

Ingredients

• 1.5 cup soy beans (soaked for 1/2 hour and removed skin)
• 1 cup brown rice (soaked 2hours)
• 1/4 cup barley
• 1 piece palm sugar (roughly 60g)
• 1.5l water
• 4 tablespoon black sesame seed powder

Steps:

1. Soaked the ingredients that requires soaking first.
2. Put all ingredients except the black sesame seed powder in the pressure cooker. 
3. Cook under high fire till it reaches 2nd bar and then boil another 20mins.
4. Let it release pressure. If the water get absorb add in more water (I used ready to drink water).
5. Put all ingredients (including the powder now) in the blender and blend till fine.
6. Store and fridge and served according to the consistency you like (add water).

Home made Ramen with Tonkatsu Broth

My demanding husband had requested that I prepared the nice tonkatsu ramen and after shopping for all the ingredients, finally, managed to do that.

For the broth (do note it takes a long time to prepared).

Ingredients:

• 2 pieces of pork trotters (the one with more bones, less meat, cut to small pieces)
• 1 chicken carcass
• 1 big onion, cut to half, lightly roast in the air fryer (I put it for 5mins, 200C)
• 2 spring onion, cut to half
• 1 pc of ginger, roughly 1 inch
• 4 bulbs of garlic, skin removed
• 5 litres of water

Steps:

1. Put the trotters and carcass in the pot along with 2 litres of the water.  Leave it to boil.
2. Then drain and wash the trotters and carcass. Scrap the skin and bones off those scum.
3. Then put all the balance ingredients plus the trotters and carcass in another clean pot and boil.
4. Next there are two options. You can lower down the fire and boil for 10hours. Second option, use the thermal pot. Once the water boil, leave it to boil another 20mins on low fire and move it into the thermal pot. Repeat the boil for 30mins 8hrs later and do this for 3days.
5. By the fourth day, it should be ready. If you have heavier taste bud, season with some soy sauce, otherwise, you may served it this way.

The noodle:

Ingredients:

• 400g bread flour
• 180ml water

Steps:

1. Pour the flour into the noodle maker.
2. Start the machine and add in the water.
3. Boil some salted water with oil and cook the noodle.
4. Can served with eggs, corn, endamame, flower fish cake, seaweed strips, carrot, charsiew, spring onion, etc

Pumpkin Rice (4grains)

Yesterday we had nutritional pumpkin rice that consist of four different types of grains.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups rice, pre soaked for an hour, can soak longer if got time (jasmine rice, brown rice, tri colour quinoa and millet)
• 2 lap cheong (waxed sausage), sliced
• 1/2 onion chopped
• roughly bout 400g pumpkin cubed
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• 2 tablespoon dried shrimp, pre soaked
• 2 cups water
• 3 tablespoon oil

Steps:

1. Sauté the lap cheong with dried shrimp and onions till almost crisp. 
2. Add in garlic and pumpkin. 
3. Stir fry for bout 2mins, add in grains and water and cooked under low fire for bout 15mins.

Air Fried Fluffy Cupcakes, with sliced banana and melted chocolates

Ingredients:

• 2eggs separated (white and yolk)
• 100g self raising flour
• 80g sugar
• 5g olive oil

Steps:

1. Beat white till stiff peak. 
2. Then beat the yolk and sugar (separate bowl) till creamy white. 
3. Add in self raising flour, oil and mix well. 
4. Fold in the egg whites into the mixture till the batter is well mixed.
5. Scooped in the paper cups. I sliced some banana and push down the middle of the batter and put a piece of cooking chocolate on top, push it down. 
6. Preheat air fryer at 160 for 2 mins. Bake for 7 mins at 170.

Healthy Energy Ball

Since I'm still breastfeeding, I'm eating non stop and like crazy (get hungry easily). However, I can't just simple snack on junks as I still want to be on diet to shed those extra weights. So, I was looking up for healthy snack and decided to try make energy balls instead. But the initial batches are super unhealthy with too much calories, fat and sugar (I need to be very careful with sugar intake).

Here it is, the healthier version.

Ingredients:

• 10 pitted dates
• 1 small piece of seaweed, shred it
• 1/4 cup of rolled oats
• 3 tablespoon of virgin coconut oil
• 1/8 cup of dried cranberries
• 1 slice of ginger, cut to really small pieces
• a handful of dried coconut flakes to coat

Steps:

1. Blend all the ingredients together with the blender. Don't need to blend till they are fine, but slightly coarse will do.
2. Chill in the fridge for at least 20mins.
3. Use the hand to scoop small amount to form into small balls and coat it with coconut flakes. Make sure you press it hard to avoid it from breaking apart.
4. Ready to serve. Do store in the fridge if not finish eating it.

Sup Ekor or Oxtail Soup

Just had the felling of drinking those Malay type of soup and so, I bought a bag of oxtail from the butcher the other day and wanted to try cooking it myself.

Here it goes .

Ingredients:

• 500-600g of oxtail
• 2 teaspoon of cumin seed
• 1 star anise
• some dried chills (I omitted this cause my daughter is drinking, she don't like it spicy)
• a small piece of cinnamon stick
• 1 carrot cut big chunk
• 1 potato cut chunk
• 1 tomato, quartered
• a little oil
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• a handful of chopped spring onion
• a handful of parsley
• half a big onion, sliced and fried till crispy, for serving
• 1.5l water

Steps:

1. Wash the oxtail, and dry it.
2. Pound the star anise and cumin seed together till it is quite fine and form a paste. put them in the muslin cloth.
3. Pan fry the oxtail till brown all side, leave the cinnamon stick in the oil too.
4. Put the oxtail, cinnamon stick and the paste in muslin cloth in the pot (I uses the pressure cooker). Add in the water. Boil for 2hours. I boil mine on high for 15mins and low fire for another 15mins. If you using chilli, add in now too.
5. Add in the potato, carrot and tomato and cooked for another 2hours (mine another 20mins).
6. Season before serving with salt and top with the rest of the ingredients.