Deep Fried Seabass with sweet soysauce

Deep Fried Seabass with sweet soysauce for dinner.

Today's sides are green onions omelette, chap chai (mixed veg) which I added too much dark soy sauce.

Simple and fast recipe.

Ingredients
Seabass. Garoupa or Red Snapper is yummy too.
Cornflour for coating before frying
Salt
Oil for Frying

Sweetsoy Sauce. I used Kicap Manis Habhal Cap Kipas Udang.
1 Onion - Sliced
1 red chilli - Sliced
Mixed all in a bowl.

Scale, gut and score the fish.
I cut into half so that I can fry the otherhalf tomorrow.
Wash wipe the surface abit so that it's not too wet.
Season with salt, be sure to season the inner belly area.
Dust with corn flour, Deep fry.

Drain on kitchen towel.
Serve and pour the sweet sauce. Squeeze lime if you like.

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Daging Tetel (Beef Shank) Masak Merah

Tonight I left office at 6:30pm just so I could reach home early before 8:30pm. My emergency meal depleting fast and I don't like going out for lunch so I reminded myself that i must leave office earlier..

Tonight's dinner is daging tetel masak merah. Im a happy girl cos I finished cooking before 8:30pm.. (poke poke hubby..)


Daging tetel or Beef Shank needs long slow cook... I boiled the tetel on low heat for long long long time last Sunday so all I need to do earlier is tumis the rempah and whatnot and stew the meat for another 30mins or so. While stewing, proceed to prep and fry vegs..After years of practice. . You more or less have yr own cheat sheet right?? If can make things easier why not right? #blog

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French beans for sides. This one specially requested by Mr. I've forgotten to add sliced bird's eye chilli.. :p..

No more cooking after 8:30pm :-(

Mr ban me from cooking after 8:30pm. He said I generated too much noise... He cited last week pounding of sambal belacan at 9pm.. I thought HDB said no noise after 10pm? 9pm still ok right plus i placed many rags underneath the mortar.... Im sure i did not make that much noise.. -> wife logic.. I left office at 8pm tonight, so cooking dinner is out of the question (there goes my daging tetel masak merah that I've been thinking since yesterday) So tonight dinner is Raid The Freezer Night. Last weekend, I cooked extra batch of one pot pasta meal solely for emergency nights. I'm having this with shredded cheddar cheese and sprigs of thai basil or daun selasih which i bought from wet market last Sun and cherry tomatoes.#blog #homecookedfastfood

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Stuffed Tao Pok

Just a quick update.

I owe some girls this recipe :-)

Quick and easy recipe. For the fillings, loosely adapted Siew Mai's recipe. I omitted sesame oil and prawns and soy sauce due to allergy. I'm sure it will be even yummy with prawns and sesame oil.

For the Tao Pok, I followed domestic goddess wannabe method to turn the tao pok inside out for more crispier ending. Her stuffings recipe seems interesting too. I will definitely try her recipe next time. (with minced chicken of course ;p) You can try her recipe here. Also do browse through her recipe pages... alot of interesting weekend projects you can try.

Ok here's my easy and quick recipe.

Everything here is about a palm here a pinch there. Agak2..
Recipe enough for 2.

Ingredients
For fillings
- 100g minced chicken. I got mine from ColdStorage Halal section. Those prepacked ones.  So sometimes I'll use more at time I use less.
- 200g prawns - shelled, deveined and chop. (i omit this so i use total 300g of minced chicken)
- diced chinese mushrooms (soaked and softened) (i omit this)
- 2 tbsp soy sauce - I omit soy sauce due to allergy so i added salt
- splash of sesame oil - i omit this due to allergy
- dash of pepper
- 2 teaspoon of cornflour
- 1 grated carrot
- 1 finely chopped chillies
- spring onions chopped
- some garlic chopped

Tao Pok. - i bought 1 packet of small square ones from NTUC tofu section.

Method
Dumped all the ingredients except for Tao Pok into a bowl

Mix mix mix... until like this. 

Prepare the Tao Pok. Carefully slit the top of the Tao Pok and turn it inside out like below. 

I tried this way as well as leave the Tao Pok unturned. The Tao Pok that I turned inside out is very crispy. I like that better.  

Stuffed the Tao Pok.. Do not over stuffed else will overflow. Don't take that long to fry. Also avoid over fried as the chicken meat will end up too dry.

Serve with dipping sauce or sweet sauce. SEDAP !!

psst : You can basically stuff anything you fancy. It's really up to you.

psssst : I forgot the most important thing. Tao Pok is SOY. So funny that i'm avoiding soy based products but neglect the part that Tao Pok is Soy. I got slight rashes after eating this. Nothing serious though. It went away the next day. 

Simple steam fish...

(Updated... realised, I missed out the recipe)

I'm well enough to cook simple steam fish for dinner tonight.

It's fast, it's healthy and it's protein.


This dish is a very simple dish using few ingredients and of course missing the sour plum, tofu, salted vegetables and other trimmings... but still yummy nonetheless. 

recipe as below..

Ingredients for simple steam fish

1. Fish of your choice. I used frozen Sutchi fish fillet thawed and rub with a bit of salt
2. Oyster sauce 1 spoon (You can use soy sauce if you want.. but I'm currently staying away from soy products so I avoided soy sauce.) More if you like
3. Lime juice (I used 3 small lime) 
4. Add a dash of sesame oil if you want. I didn't add cos recently seems like I broke out rashes after consuming, nuts, soy, sesame... 
5. salt / pepper / sugar if you like but I didn't add
6. Mix the oyster and lime juice and seasoned to taste
7. Sliced chilli (I used 2 birds eye chilli)
8. 3 sliced ginger
9. 2 cloves garlic smashed

Arrange sliced Ginger and garlic on a plate. 

Place fish slice on the ginger and garlic

Top with chilli

Pour the sauce on the fish

If you are adding optional items, scatter ard the fish

Steam it for 5 to 10 mins

Garnish

Spring Onion or Coriander leaves

Cod fish oyster sauce

After grilling, deglaze the pan with a bit of water or stock if you like.

Add sliced ginger and crushed garlic.

Add a bit of oyster sauce and seasoning.

Simmer till thicken.

Before turning off heat, I removed garlic n ginger and added sliced spring onions n chilli.

And because I love sesame oil, I added that do.

It's pretty much easily customised to suit your taste.

I changed phone.. this was taken from my facebook.. 

Pan Fried Cod with Sambal

I've been cutting down carb intake and up my protein. 

Getting enough protein is a big challenge.  I was told that an adult need an average if 62g of protein daily.  I don't think I even meet half of the daily intake.

Egg is great source of protein.. unfortunately I seems to get itchy after eating eggs so I'll limit my intake as of now. Soy is also a great source... but after a week or so, I got rashes after drinking soy milk so I limit my intake as well.

My other options are fish, chicken, meat. I don't enjoy red meat hence my main protein source is Chicken. Curry chicken, KFC chicken, Mac Spicy, Chicken nuggets.. you name it. That is until recently when hubby bought a packet full of frozen fish from Fassler.. 

I've been a great fan since. Reasons being, 

1) It's fast to thaw 

2) Fast to cook - Took me minutes in oven grill.. equally fast pan fried

3) Healthier... - No fatty chicken skin that I can sneak into my mouth

4) It's yummy without the need for sauce etc... just simple salt and pepper. 

5) Load's of simple recipes you can create just by digging your fridge and pantry... My only problem is.. I cannot recall what I added previously and can't re-create lol 

This is fast food my way to the next level. It's even faster than calling Mac Donald. 

Today is Frozen Cod fish pan fried with sambal. 

Pan fried with a big of olive oil, when it's half cooked, I added a table spoon of sambal on the fish, add sliced onions and cover a while to steam. 

Remove cover and continue pan fried till sauce dry up and serve. 

I added Lemon slice and fried onions and chopped parsley and carrot.. because I happened to have it in the fridge. 

This is very easy because most Malay can't leave without sambal so I'm sure you can find left over sambal in your fridge. There's so many other yummy combinations you can try. Try Sambal kicap. Or if you want to, try store bought Thai Chili Paste. A bit sweet but will do for emergency fix.