Category: Seafood

Asian Dishes, Japanese/Korean, Rice, Seafood

Japanese and Salmon Furikake Rice Balls

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I’ve been forced to cook now for my meals at work.

So last night I made a simple dish I learnt from my friend.

Cook Japanese rice. And then fry breaded salmon. The air fryer works perfectly! I used Louisiana Fish Fry crumbs (no need to add water) to my salmon pieces and then air fry till golden and cooked.

Then mix fish and rice together. Add furikake (one satchet) and one teaspoon of Japanese mayonnaise. Add salt to taste.

Shape into balls, but for me, I used the plastic star mold bought from Daiso years ago when the kids were little.

At work today, I ate it with the salmon spread which I should have mixed un with the rice. Next time, I will do this once I’ve purchased this delicious spread!

Asian Dishes, food, Japanese/Korean, Places, Seafood

Uni in a bowl

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Today my friend brought me to a space in a supermarket where we could have excellent seafood rice bowl. Most importantly, with fresh uni or sea urchin.

This dish is so decadent for me because it’s so high in purine level but we shared the bowl so I didn’t feel too bad.

After the excellent meal, I googled from my friend’s recommendation the site that ships fresh uni right to my doorstep. It is of course very pricey and I wouldn’t mind paying the price IF I am not the only one in the family eating it. So it looks like if ever I have a craving for uni, I have to make that trip downtown.

All the flavours of the sea in this bowl. 😍

Asian Dishes, Malay, Seafood

Stir Fried Prawns with Pineapples

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Even though I cannot eat prawns anymore, I still cooked them tonight just because I had bought a kilo of it before I knew my test results. And even though I vowed not to eat them when cooked, I caved and ate two pieces 😅

The dish is inspired and copied from my trusty Malay cookbook from a decade ago. It is so simple to make! Unfortunately, instead of slicing the garlic and the rest of the aromatics, my helper pounded them fine. But no worries, it still worked out fine.

This is the original recipe in Malay which I’ll translate at the end of the post.

It’s such a simple but delicious meal to make. Taucu (pronounced TAO-CHO) is salted soy beans.

For the dish, I added oil to the pan and then the pounded garlic and ginger. Then the sliced galangal, red chillies and onions. After which prawns and two tablespoons of crushed taocu. There’s no need at all to add salt as the taocu is already salty. Then, from a can of cubes pineapples, throw away the juice and add half a can when the prawns are cooked. Serve hot garnished with fresh coriander.

I served this with baked teriyaki salmon, herbal chicken soup, stir fried baby greens and plain rice. The Macdonald’s comment was because yesterday I ordered it for dinner and we all fell sick. The food was not digestible. Maybe it’s an age thing. Or an Asian thing haha.The Recipe from the book calls for:

  • 300 g fresh prawns
  • 1/2 a fresh pineapple cubes
  • 4 garlic cloves, sliced
  • 1 onion, sliced
  • A bit of galangal, sliced
  • A bit of ginger, sliced
  • 2 red chillies, sliced
  • 2 tbsp of taucu (salted soy beans)
  • Salt and pepper (you really don’t need the added salt)
  • Oil to stir fry the ingredients in
Asian Dishes, Malay, Sauces and Sambals, Seafood

Sambal Tumis Kupang

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Remember the basic sambal tumis recipe? Well, if you add any protein to it, it becomes a nice side dish. Though one can also make a sambal tumis dish from scratch.

That day I had some frozen shelled mussels and decided to make a popular malay dish called sambal tumis kupang, or mussels sambal. Using the same base, once it’s nice and well cooked, I added in the already boiled and defrosted shelled mussels. I also added onions for some texture. My mommy said it was a but bland so next time I’ll add more salt to the dish. If eaten with hot coconut rice (nasi lemak) this sambal is a winner!