Warm Potato Salad

Ingredients

4 medium potatoes, peeled and quartered

Bunch of cilantro

Salt and Pepper

Extra virgin olive oil

Method

1. Boil potatoes in salted boiling water for 10mins

2. Drain and cover with tea towel to steam the potatoes.

3. Once cooled, toss potatoes with extra virgin olive oil 

4. Season with salt and pepper

5. Serve with cilantro

6. Enjoy! 

Home made Dark Chocolate Ice Cream

Ingredients

200ml Whipping Cream
100ml Fresh Milk
55g Cooking Chocolate Chips
1 tablespoon Sugar or to taste

Method

1. Prepare a pot of water and let it simmer.
2. Place whipping cream and fresh milk in a smaller pot.
3. Put the smaller pot over the simmering water and warm the cream and milk.
4. Add the chocolate chips into the warm milk and melt it, while still hold it over the simmering water.
5. Keep stirring till all chocolate chips are melted and blended in with the milk.
6. Add sugar to taste and melt it.
7. It will now look like thick chocolate milk.
8. Pour the chocolate milk to your freezing ware.
9. Cool it before freezing.
10. Enjoy! 

Seafood Bee Hoon

Ingredients (Serve 1)

1 piece of A1 Bee Hoon, soaked in water and drained

1 stalk Shanghai Green, cut into strips

1 small squid, cut into rings

6 prawns, shelled and deveined

50ml water

1 Tbsp of chopped garlic

cooking oil

coriander 

Seasonings:

1 Tbsp of oyster sauce

1 Tsp of dark soy sauce

2 Tbsp of light soy sauce

dashes of white pepper powder

Method

1. Heat 3 tablespoons of oil in the wok and saute garlic until fragrant. Add the prawns, and shanghai green to stir-fry for 2 minutes.

3. Add bee hoon.  Pour in seasonings, water and mix well. Continue to stir-fry until the sauce is thickening. 
4. Stir-fry for 1 minute. Dish out and garnish with coriander leaves.
5. Enjoy!

Leek and Roasted Pork Stir-Fry (蒜炒烧肉)

Ingredients

2 Stalk of leek, rinsed and sliced diagonally

Roasted pork, cut into bite-sized

1 Tbsp of chopped garlic

1 Tbsp of cooking oil

50ml water

1 Tbsp of oyster sauce

Method

1. Heat up a wok. Dry-fry the roasted pork till fat released from the pork.

2. Top up 1 tbsp of oil. Saute garlic till fragrant.

3. Add leek and stir fry for few minutes. Pour in water and bring to a boil.

4. Season with oyster sauce. Mix well and stir for a while and dish out.

5. Enjoy!  

Grilled Chicken Breast

Ingredients

1 Chicken breast, cut into 2 halves

Few leaves of Rosemary

Salt and Pepper

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Method

1.  Marinade chicken breast with pinch of salt and pepper and rosemary leaves on both sides for 1 hour

2. Heat up a pan, sear the chicken breast for 3 mins each side on low heat until cooked

3. Let them rest for 10 mins

4. Slice up the chicken breast

5. Serve with Rice, noodles or even as a sandwich!

6. Enjoy! 

Crispy Roasted Pork (脆皮烧肉)

Ingredients

1 pc of pork belly approx 400g to 600g (do not cut into thin strip)

1 Tbsp salt (I used fine sea salt)

1 Tbsp white pepper

1 Tbsp five-spice powder

Method

1. Clean the pork belly and pat dry all over with kitchen paper towel.

2. Score the meat about 1cm apart both diagonally and horizontally (do not score the skin).

3. Prick all over the skin. Prick as much holes as possible. 

4. Rub skin and meat with salt all over.

5. Mix white pepper and five-spice powder and rub into the meat including the scored areas (do not rub on the skin).

6. Leave the pork belly in fridge uncovered, skin side up, for a few hours. This is to dry up the skin, so that it will become crispy after baking.

7. Take out pork belly 30 mins to 1 hour before baking to thaw in room temperature. Put the pork belly on a grill with skin side up

8. Bake in an oven using grill mode (Upper only), for 45 minutes.

9. Enjoy! 

Sweet Potato Rösti

Ingredients

2 Purple sweet potato, shredded

1 Tsp Djion Mustard

Salt and Pepper

Oil

Method

1. Heat up a flat pan till smoky, add in 2 Tbsp oil

2. Scatter your shredded sweet potato into pan, and using a spatula, slowly form a disc with equal thickness

3. Let it fry, untouched for 6 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

4. Flip over and fry for another 5 minutes untouched. Season with salt and pepper.

5. Serve Rösti with djion mustard.

6. Enjoy!