Category: Asian Dishes

Asian Dishes

Eid Adha 2013 Lunch

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This year for Eid was super simple. Then again the only people who did any visiting was us. We visited the mothers. And the mothers this year cooked chicken. One did chicken rice and the other chicken soto. It was simple fare that pulled at the heart strings. Something I know if I were away staying in some Ang moh land, I’d miss right away.

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Asian Dishes, Bread and Batter, Desserts, Singapore, Snack

Muah Chee

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Muah! Muah! Muah! I love muah chee and now, thanks to my new toy, the Happy Call pan, I can make my own muah chee anytime I want! Muah!

Add a cup of glutinous rice flour to a cup of water (or slightly less) and stir till it forms a smooth mixture.
Make sure the pan is not hot or it will instantly cook the mixture before you can even form it into a dough. Using a very small fire, heat the pan and then add onion oil. If you have no onion oil, then fry some sliced onions until they are browned and then remove the onions. I used barely a teaspoon of oil to fry my onions and then after removing the sliced onions, poured the mixture in. Do not cover.
Stir the mixture into a dough. Something like this. And then you cover to cook the dough. It takes only about two minutes on one side. Turn over to the other side and then cook.
Once it’s cooked (the inside is not pasty and raw), take it out onto a board and snip or cut into small chunks.
Drop the nuggets of dough into a bowl of powdered peanuts and sugar (make sure lots of sugar. I used 3 tbsp to 3 5 tbsp of peanut powder) and roll till the nuggets are all nicely and evenly coated. And there you have it, muah chee! Yummylicious indeed. And so economical!
Asian Dishes, Japanese/Korean, Noodles and Pasta

Korean Glass Noodles – Fried

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Been on an East Asian binge lately. Bought this from NTUC Finest. It’s Korean sweet potato noodles, much like the normal glass noodles or what the Malays called ‘su-un’.

When I searched a recipe to make use of this, I only found one called ‘japchae’. It is sooo time consuming. Every ingredient is tossed in soy sauce and sesame oil individually! I did the very Singaporean thing instead.

After boiling the noodles for a minute till they are done, I fried them in garlic and oil, the usual style and seasoned with a bit of soy sauce. And I used thinly sliced beef too. For the beef, I marinated them in Korean hot paste, soy sauce, pepper and garlic.

 

Asian Dishes, Japanese/Korean, Rice

Inarizushi

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Still going strong on a Jap theme here, I made inarizushi this afternoon. It’s pretty simple to make. The way I was taught by a relative who lives in Japan is to use konbu water, Japanese soy sauce and a teaspoon of sugar added last. The mixture must be thick and syrupy and the longer you boil the tofus in, the nice it’ll be.

My version was boil water, add light and dark soy sauce, and a bit of Indonesian kicap manis, and then boil it till the mixture is evaporated. Squeeze to get rid of the excess sauce once the tofus are done. But before that, make sure you boil the tofus to ‘de-oil’ them, if that makes sense.