Claypot yam rice

Ingredients: ( 2 persons )
1 cup of fragrant rice
150gm yam ( diced and deep fried )
10 gm dried prawns
5 to 6 pips of garlic 
Half a bowl of meat cut into slices and seasoned with soy sauce  ( belly pork, chicken meat, or beef )
2 tbspoon of fried shallot ( for garnishing )
2 tbspoon of  chopped spring onion ( for garnishing )

Blend dried prawns and garlic to a paste.
Fry the above paste till fragrant, Add seasoned meat. Stir fry.
 Pour rice into the above and saute till dry. Add enough water.
Cook rice in claypot . When the rice start to boil stir it then add yam.
Add salt to taste . Stir cooking rice so that it doesn't stick to the bottom of pot.
When rice is cooked keep lid covered.
Serve rice with fried shallot and spring onion.

Yam rice is best taken with sambal belacan and lime juice.

Mushroom chicken in claypot

Ingredients::
Half a chicken (chopped into small  pieces)
1 tbsp light sauce
1 tbsp dark sauce
1 tbsp oyester sauce
1 tsp sugar (according to taste)
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 large onion
10 pc dried mushroom ( pre- soaked )
3-5 slices of ginger
4 or 5 dry chiili ( optional if you like it spicy)

Mix ingredients together with chicken (marinating it for 1/2 hour)  Pour it into a clay pot and cook it over a medium flame with lid on when it start to simmer stir it and then lower the flame , ( add the optional dry chilli stir fry it in wok  first over big fire for fragrant ) let it simmer for 3 to 5 mins.Switch of the fire but do not open the lid yet

A delicious chicken dish is ready
Note : For working people you can marinate the chicken before going to work. When you reach home just put the marinated chicken in a claypot and cook it on the stove. Then go and take a quick shower, by the time u come out your chicken dish is ready in a JIFFY  yeh !

Claypot ginger/garlic chicken rice

Claypot chicken rice

Ingredients :
( For 2 persons )
1 cup fragrant rice
2 chicken whole leg ( preferably de boned easier to cook through )
2 inches of old ginger ( sliced )
6  or 7 pips of garlic chopped finely
Pandan leaves
sesame oil
chicken stock

Season chicken with salt, poke the chicken with a fork.
Heat wok,  pour in 2 tblspoon of sesame oil
Saute garlic and ginger. Put  the chicken over the garlic and ginger.
Leave it to heat up on low flame ( cover the wok )
Turn over the chicken , keep the wok covered.
Dish out the chicken.
Pot in the rice and saute it with the now fragrant garlic/ginger mix.
Add salt to taste.Put in the pandan leaves. A teaspoon of light soy sauce can be added to add colour to the cooked rice .
Scoop the rice mixture into a claypot. Cook rice with chicken stock .
When the rice is almost dry put the semi cooked chicken on the rice, cover lid When the rice is dry switch     off the flame.  After 10 to 15 min serve the rice with cut ccucumber and a dash of sesame oil.

It is best taken with a home made sauce  ( chilli /garlic/young ginger/lime juice /soya sauces )

Chicken rice with homemade chilli sauce

Claypot nasi lemak

Rice cooking in the claypot

Ingredients:
* 3 cups of fragrant rice  or ^ 2 cups of  Basmathi rice (if * 2and the half cup water  if ^ 4 cups water)
Pandan leaves
2 inch ginger cut into slices
1 stalk lemongrass  ( Split and smash it )
Pinch of salt
2 tbsp  pure virgin coconut oil

Cook rice in claypot adding pandan leaves, lemongrass and ginger .Stir rice when it starts to boil .Add salt.When the rice is about half cooked  add 2 tablespoon of pure virgin coconut oil (white coconut oil). Stir to mix the oil and rice thoroughtly. Cover pot with lid. Turn on very low flame, cook until its  dry. Keep the lid on . After 20 or 30min serve with your favourite side dishes.

Suggestions for side dishes
Fried peanuts with anchovy fish
Prawn sambal with petai
Cucumber slices
Fried egg or hard boiled egg

Chicken rendang or fried chicken

 

Claypot oyster sauce chicken rice

Claypot oyster sauce chicken rice

Ingredients : For one person
1 chicken whole leg (debone ) and cut into bite size
Half a stick of Chinese sausage (de skin and shredded)
Oyster sauce
Dark sauce
Light sauce
Sesame oil
Pepper
One egg
Spring onion
Half a cup of fragrant rice  (rice cooker cup)


Season the chicken with the sauces , pepper and sesame oil for 30 minutes
Rinse rice and cook it on high flame. When it start to boil stir the rice and lower the flame .Cook until it is almost dry add sausage . Add the seasoned chicken . Cover the pot with the lid .After about 20 min add an egg. Cover the lid again. .After 5 minutes serve the rice with chopped spring onion. For extra fragrant add a teaspoon of sesame oil

Yummy yam balls

Yamballs

Ingredients :
1 )  Half a bowl of minced meat
2 )  Half a bowl of  prawns (de shell and de vein) Chopped up
3 )  Half a kg of yam (grated coarsely or use a chopper)
4 )  3 or 4 water chestnuts  (de skin ) Cut into fine cubes or use a chopper
5 )  1 egg
6 )  1 big onion Cut into small cubes (as chestnut)
7 )  pepper
8 )  Corn flour
9 )  salt /sauce  for taste   
10 )  Oil for deep frying

Mix all the ingredients together then shape the mixtures into balls the size of big fish balls (if its too dry add a bit more egg but if too wet add corn flour
Heat up the wok add oil when oil is hot put in the balls slowly, stirring it gently so as not to break up the balls.Fry the yam balls untill golden.

Try this yummy yam balls you will want to repeat

Steamboat

Steamboat

Make a tasty stock for the soup. Using anchovies or bones (chicken , pork , or beef)  adding some turnip, carrot, corn ,onion , pepper corn and a pinch of salt.

Put any ingredients that u think the diners will like. Suggested things :

1) Fish fillets (debone) cut into slices and marinate with some soy sauce or fish sauce)

2) Prawns  cut off the feelers

3) Fresh scallops

4) Squids (slices) marinate with a pinch of salt

5) Slices of meat of your choice (sliced and marinate with a bit of soy sauce)

6) Fishballs, sotong balls, meatballs,

7) Quail eggs (kids favourite)

8) Yong tau foo

9) Soft tau foo (bean curd)

10) Varieties of fresh mushroom

11) Varieties of vegetable ( eg.Chinese cabbage, lettuce, siow pak cai, )

12)  Fried slices of yam

13) Tom yam paste

14) Rice vermicellin or any noodle (Use this at the end of the meal when the soup is at its thickest)

A )    Pour the stock into the steamboat (which can be any pot over a electrical hot plate , or an authentic electrical steambaoat or even a rice cooker )

B )   When the soup start to boil add the above ingredients (For the First 4 items take care not to over    cook )

C )   Tom Yam paste can be added for those who prefer the soup spicy

Enjoy the the steamboat with plain rice or eat it by itself and end the meal with vermicellin or noodle

HAPPY COOKING

Note : A family steamboat meal foster Happy Dinning . Everybody is cooking for everybody at the table .

           Try it today have a healthy and less oily meal