Steamed Rice with Chinese Sausage and Chicken

I bought a recipe book recently : Ultimate Guide to Steam Cooking.

Well, I'm suddenly into eating steamed food as well and also because my hubby would always say "When are you going to cook some Chinese dishes?"

So out of the 80 recipes that was featured in the recipe book. I chose to make an "all-in-one" dish. My son is a picky eater. He likes his food to be flavorful, not too much and not too plain.

 I added some chinese celery on top of the rice as the boy loves the taste of chinese celery.

It was a success! :D Hubby and son enjoyed eating it.

Here's the recipe:

(adapted from Ultimate Guide to Steam Cooking: Easy and Healthy Recipes)

Ingredients:

1 rice measuring cup rice

1 rice measuring cup water

1 Chinese Sausage

1 chicken thigh

some shredded ginger

Marinade:

1/2 tbsp oyster sauce

1/2 tbsp dark soy sauce

1/4 tsp sugar

1/4 tsp olive oil

dash of pepper

1/2 tsp potato startch (I used corn startch instead)

Method:

1. Rinse chicken and remove the bones. Cut into thumbsized pieces. Remove casing from the Chinese sausage and cut into slices. Combine well chicken, ginger and marinade, set aside for about 15 minutes.

2. Rinse rice and soak in 1 cup of water for about 15 minutes. Pour rice together with the soaking water into a steaming bowl and add 1/2 tsp sesame oil. Steam for about 15 minutes until the rice has absorbed all the water.

3. Add chicken and chinese sausage, put the lid on and continue to steam for about 15 minutes.

*If you wish to make this dish but can't have pork, just omit the chinese sausage. :)

Enjoy!

Mad about BUTTER!

My hubby don't fancy cakes. I believe I mentioned it before. He will still eat them but he won't help himself to another slice or unless reminded or served.

I asked him, if someone asked and you must give an answer, what's his favourite cake? He said Butter Cake without any frosting.

So I decided to make  butter cake.

A simple and nice butter cake.

Delicious when it's served warm. :D

Don't have much time but want to bake? Try this Butter Cake recipe:

Ingredients:

225g caster sugar

5 eggs (medium sized)

300g butter

250g all purpose flour

13g milk powder

1tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1tsp vanilla extract

Steps:

1) Preheat oven at 175 degree Celsius. Prepare a round baking tin (I used 8"), greased (I usually grease it with vegetable shortening) and lined with baking paper.

2) Beat butter & sugar until light and fluffy.

3) Sift flour, milk powder, baking powder and salt together into a separate mixing bowl.

4) Pour in flour mixture into butter mixture and mix.

5) Add in eggs one at a time.

6) Add vanilla extract.

7) Pour into prepared tin.

8) Bake for 50-60minutes or until cake tester inserted into center comes out clean.

9) Remove cake from oven and cool for 5-10minutes before removing it.

You may choose to frost it with vanilla frosting or eat it plain or have it with a scoop of ice cream! YUMMM!

Enjoy!:D

Mum's Pancake

My son fancies eating the kind of pancake my mum makes.

It doesn't look like normal pancake (the ones you get outside). It looks like this...

Yesterday my son decided to have some pancakes for dinner. So I had to call my mum up and ask her for the recipe.

My mum's the kind of cook that goes.. "Put a little of this.. add a little of that..then .. cook then you see how then can already." Ya.. -_-

So here's my conversation with my mum when I asked her how to make her kind of pancake:
Me: Ma, your grandson wants to eat pancake. How to make?
Mum: Oh, very easy. Just use one egg, add a bit of flour, add a bit of sugar, add water and mix. Not too thick, not too watery.
Me: -_-"

So I took up the challenge.Gathered all the necessary ingredients and used my measuring tools to make the pancake.

 One egg, flour, sugar & water

Mix them up until smooth.

 Til I get the texture that I want..

Put some butter into my saucepan..

 Then add the batter...

and Tadddaaaaa!

 My boy loves ketchup! So I cut them into small pieces and let him have it with ketchup.

There you go, one happy boy!

Since I'm not as "professional" as my mum in cooking, I decided to measure how much flour, sugar & water  I needed to make the batter.

So here's the recipe:

(Makes 2 round 8cm pancakes)

Ingredients:

1 egg

1/2 cup plain flour

1/2 cup water

2 tbsp sugar

1/2 tbsp butter

Steps:

1) Beat the egg lightly in a bowl.

2) Add flour, water & sugar. Mix until smooth.

3) Heat up saucepan using medium heat. Add butter.

4) Pour half of the batter and spread.

5) As it cooks, lift the edges of the pancake and then flip it once you can lift the bottom of it.

6) Cook the other side for about a minute or until you can lift it all up.

Served with sugar/honey/maple syrup or like how my son loves it, ketchup.

Enjoy! :D