Friday, February 22, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Fried Brown Rice Vermicelli
It's been months since my last post. Sorry for my tardiness in posting....
This is a very high fibre dish as I used plenty of vegetables : 1 bowl of fresh vegetables (mung bean sprouts, Anorki mushroom, carrot (juliened), string beans, cabbage (juliened)), and 1 bowl of brown rice vermicelli to cook this dish.
The special feature is the all natural spices used for the pounded chilli paste : fresh chilli (or Korean chilli powder), shallot, garlic, galangal (lengkuas), lemongrass, turmeric. I added very small amount of tamarind juice to impart a very mild sour taste to it. The final taste is akin to Tom Yam fried rice vermicelli.
I abstained from the use of the store bought Tom Yam Paste which contains too much of additives. If you are a lover of strong, savoury flavours, then this "all natural" dish is a dish that you will most likely fall in love with!
(For non vegetarian, I suggest you add one or a combination of these :fresh prawns, fresh squid, dried shrimp (pounded or in whole) to make it even more relishing - as I sometimes do!)
Monday, October 22, 2007
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Wholemeal Steamed Bun (Steamed Bread) & Lentil soup
Brown rice, lentil & mushroom soup. Serve with steamed wholemeal bun.
These are usually part of our breakfast, but sometimes we take these for lunch or dinner. They can be served with mushroom soup, lentil soup, dry shrimp sambal, lentil curry, , kadala curry , vegetable or meat curry. We usually make plenty of them (half kg of flour or more) and keep them in freezer.
4-angled bean (kacang botor) & shrimp sambal
This simple but yet very appetizing dish can be easily seen on most of Malaysian dining table. The Kacang botol are to be taken raw, accompanied by the dried shrimp sambal---and the're yummy!