Meat – Page 5 – The Occasional Cook

Asian Dishes, Bread and Batter, Malay, Meat, Singapore

Roti John

June 2, 2018March 3, 2021 7shasha7

Essentially a minced beef french toast on a batard. Who invented this nobody really knows but definitely in Singapore/Malaysia during Colonial rule.

Buy baguette or batard or what we locals simply call the French Loaf (Roti Perancis). Cut in half and then slice open but don’t cut all the way through.

Prepare seasoning ingredients. Curry powder, ground chillies, chopped coriander, minced beef. Crack five small eggs and whisk till smooth.

Pour two to three tablespoons of oil, and then add a teaspoon of ground chilli paste. Fry till chilli is cooked then add minced beef. Mine is already precooked but it’s ok to use raw ones too, just cook longer till beef is thoroughly cooked through. Add 1/8 teaspoon of curry powder and salt and black pepper. Add one teaspoon of chopped coriander.

Now this is the tricky bit. Form and spread meat mixture in the hot pan to roughly cover the area of the bread. Quickly pour just enough whisked egg to cover the meat mixture and the spread the bread on top of it. Use your fingers to manipulate and get all the egg and meat mixture into the bread. Press down and cook till browned. Flip over and cook the other side so both sides are crispy.

Above is the non-chilli version. Suitable for kids and those who don’t like it too spicy.

To serve, fold the bread and then slice into roughly one inch portions. Make a mixture of ketchup, chilli sauce, water and lime juice to dip the bread with.

Try it! It’s a hawker favourite, especially back in the 80s.

Asian Dishes, Japanese/Korean, Meat

Korean Galbi

February 7, 2018March 3, 2021 7shasha7

I had recently purchased a griller. And am having so much fun having Saturday or Sunday dinners eating grilled food!

My latest try is Korean beef galbi because while the boy was having his taekwondo class, I was roaming in the supermarket when I spotted beautiful boneless beef short ribs.

So that morning, I put the beautiful fresh meat in a ziplock bag. And in a mixing bowl, added 3 tbsp brown sugar, light soy sauce, garlic, smashes of thinly sliced ginger and sesame oil. And then I poured the marinade in the bag and left it in the fridge.

That night, out came the portable grill and soon, the whole kitchen was smokey. I sliced the meat fairly thinly and then we ate that with lettuce wraps, Korean style. I also had some extra chicken breasts which I had marinated simply with bottled honey soy sauce marinade and grilled that too. Overall, I am happy with my weekend grilled dinners and this weekend, I’ll try grilling something else instead!

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Fat Papas

September 9, 2017June 7, 2020 7shasha7

Burgers! Sheikh Haikel, a local celebrity here teamed up with the original Fatboy Burgers in Singapore for a haal version called Fat Papas! Coz you know, he ain’t no boy anymore and he is a Papa of three lovely kids. Whatever it is, we are so glad he did this because the burgers are goooood!

We tried the wimpy burger, and the mushroom one.

We are so coming back to try out the other burgers.

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Texas Beef

December 19, 2014December 19, 2014 7shasha7

Texas. Land of beef. I wonder how vegetarians could live in a really carnivorous place. The beef here is very good. And luckily for us, there is a halal supermarket selling really good beef. When we went to Orlando, we found that the halal places there could not produce the same quality of beef in Texas. If you really love beef, then Texas really is the best place to be.

While we were there for that just few weeks, we were lucky because by then, The Man had learnt how to make pretty good steak. The meat itself is delicious on its own, and I never needed to eat it with any kind of sauce. The trick is to have high heat but staying in a hotel room where the smoke alarm is very very sensitive did result in it being activated and us sheepishly calling the hotel reception that we were just ‘cookin’ some steak’. I did see The Man marinade the meat using Lawry’s 30 min Steak Chop. Oh, man. I’m so missing a good thick Texan rib-eye now…

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Cottage pie

March 2, 2014 7shasha7

I know I’ve made this before but today I was inspired to make them individually in aluminium bowls.

I was also very inspired to make the topping using a mix of Japanese sweet potatoes and russet potatoes.

For the beef mixture, I sautéed garlic and three onions till soft in my herb flavoured EVOO. Then I added the minced beef. I added a can of tomato paste and about 3 tbsp of jalapeño Tabasco sauce. I then added two finely chopped habanero peppers. I added lots of Worcestershire sauce and added chicken stock and water till the meat is cooked and the whole mixture is thick and saucy. Towards the end I added salt and black pepper.

For the topping I boiled almost 2kg of potatoes and 1kg of Japanese sweet potatoes. I used a ricer to pulverise the root veggies and then added fresh milk, butter, salt, black pepper and a handful of freshly grated Parmesan.

I must say it was enjoyable but then again, who doesn’t like meat and potatoes together? 😉