Lentil Potato Burger

Not sure what to do with the leftover lentils that I used for the dhall curry, and dont feel like making shall again and again, so, decided to make some healthy lunch for myself instead.

Ingredients:

• 1.5cups of yellow split beans (soaked overnight in the fridge)
• 2 small size potato, cut into cubes, skin removed
• 3 tablespoon of oat
• 2 chinese mushroom, soaked
• one bunch of black fungus, soaked
• half a medium size carrot
• 2 tablespoon of water
• 1egg
• 2 teaspoon of curry powder
• a dash of cinnamon powder
• 2 teaspoon of soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon of sesame oil
• a dash of ground pepper

Methods:

1. Cooked the bean and potato in the sauce pan with enough water to submerge the ingredients for about 15mins.
2. Then mixed it with ingredients 3 to 7 in the magi mix (or the blender). Blend till all items are fine and mixed well.
3. Add in an egg and continue to blend till it is even.
4. Season with the rest of the ingredients. 
5. Similar to the pork burger, shaped and keep in the fridge.
6. Pan fry and served as per the way you like it.

Yam Abacus

Thanks to the big adverts from Ying Ker Lou, I had been wanting to attempt making Yam Abacus. Finally today, I got all the ingredients from the wet market and manage to make that for dinner.

For the abacus:

Ingredients:

• 211g yam (steamed till soft and mashed with the fork)
• 75g tapioca flour
• 60g warm water
• 1 teaspoon cooking oil
• a pinch of salt
• a teaspoon of sugar
• a pot of boiling water
• shallot oil

Steps:

1. Mixed all the ingredients till even and till it forms a soft looking dough, slightly dry.
2. Take a small pinch, roughly a teaspoon amount of the dough, roll it round n give it a pinch, set aside.
3. Boiled in a pot of boiling water, drain off when floating.
4. Spoon roughly a table spoon of fried shallot with some oil on the abacus so that they dont stick together.

For the frying stuff ingredients:

• a tablespoon of minced garlic
• 4 tablespoon of dried shrimps, soaked and chopped
• a handful of julienned carrot
• a handful of julienned black fungus
• 3 tablespoon of minced meat (marinated with salt, pepper, rice wine, corn flour and oyster sauce)
• a dash of fish sauce
• 1 handful of chopped parsley
• 1 teaspoon of oil
• 1 tablespoon of water
• a dash of pepper
• a pinch of sugar

Steps:

1. Stir fry the dried shrimps along with the minced garlic till golden brown.
2. Add in the carrot and fungus.
3. Add in the minced meat and stir fry, add in the water too.
4. Season with fish sauce, pepper and sugar
5. Add in the abacus. slightly fry and dish out. 
6. Served with the chopped parsley.

Bake Fishy Potato

We had bake potato with fish paste yesterday:




Ingredients:

• 600g fish paste
• 1 black fungus, soaked and chopped finely
• 1 chinese mushroom, soaked and chopped finely
• 1 tablespoon of chopped carrot
• a pinch of salt
• a pinch of pepper
• 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce
• 1 tablespoon of corn flour
• 1 tablespoon of kicap manis (sweet soy sauce)
• 2 potato washed and sliced to 0.5cm thickness each
• 2 teaspoon of sesame oil

Steps:

1. Mixed all the ingredients (except for potato and sesame oil) evenly.
2. Spread the mixture on top of the potato and bake under 180 degree celcius heat for 15mins.
3. Take it out and drip one drop of sesame oil on each and put back in the oven (turn off the heat). Leave it for 5mins..