Turmeric Eggplant Rice (Meatless Recipe)

A very simple rice which is easy to be prepared and at the same time healthy and nutritious too.  I had no intention to cook this.  While looking through my fridge, I saw that I still had some brinjals/eggplants and lemongrass.  So, just took out the brinjal and beginning to wash it. As for the lemongrass, I had wanted to use it for a simple stewed chicken.  Oh gosh, I realised that the chicken meat was still in the freezer, ah....  At the spur of the moment, it crossed my mind that in order to make life easier for me, I decided to cook Fragrant Eggplant Rice , the one that I had posted earlier but wanted to have it different.  

So, this is the result of this simple one-pot rice meal!

Ingredients :

- 3 cups of rice (I used brown rice)

- water (the usual measurement  as per your rice cooker model, but less about 1/2" of water)

- 3 brinjals (washed and cut)

- 4 stalks of lemongrass (washed, slit and bruised)

- 1/2 tbsp of turmeric power

- 3 cloves garlic (crushed)

- 1 thumb size ginger (crushed)

- 1" cinnamon stick 

- 1 star anise

- 1 tbsp of ghee/butter (I used ghee)

- salt (to taste)

Method :

1)  Wash rice.  Add water but less about 1/2" of  water of  the usual measurement; depending on the model of your rice cooker.

2)  Add all the ingredients except brinjals and butter.  Stir and mix well and press the cook button; the usual way you cook your rice.

3)  When the rice is just about to cook (just before the cook button signal), add in the brinjals.  Continue cooking or keep warm for about half an hour.

4)  Then, add butter.  Stir and mix well.  Add extra salt if necessary.

5)  Serve warm.

This one-pot meal is great when you are busy but still prefer to have home-cooked food than take-away.

Quick, simple, healthy and nutritious meal

Have a wonderful day and cheers :)

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Simple Stir Fried Chayote Shoots/Dragon Beard or Dragon Whiskers (龍鬚菜) with Dried Shrimps

Chayote shoots and fruits are believed to have diuretic, cardiovascular and anti-inflammatory properties. It's also said that tea made from the leaves has been used in the treatment of arteriosclerosis and hypertension, and to dissolve kidney stones.

My family eat  chayote  and its shoots from time to time.  Chayote shoots also known as 龍鬚菜 in Chinese and it means dragon's beard or dragon's whiskers.  

It's very delicious even with just simple stir fried.  I usually stir fried it with chili paste, sambal belacan and at times just a simple stir fried with dried shrimps or anchovies.  It's very yummy and my children who don't really fancy vegetables, love it.  Besides, it's very healthy and delicious too.

Ingredients :

- 1 bunch of chayote shoots (cut according to your desired length)

- 1 tbsp of dried shrimps (washed)

- 1 red chili (sliced)

- 3 cloves garlic (crushed)

- oil

-salt (to taste)

Method :

1)  Heat oil in a wok and saute garlic and dried shrimps until aromatic.

2)  Add chayote shoots and stir fry until cook.  Add water if too dry.

3)  Dish up and serve.

This simple stir fried is so healthy and nutritious

Yummy and healthy for the whole family :)

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Simple Pan Fried Norwegian Blue Mackerel with Pandan Leaves (Screwpines)

Hubby bought 2 packets of Norwegian Blue Mackerel and of course I was grinning from ear to ear as my children love this fish very much.  It's very yummy just with simple pan fried and this time I pan fried it with pandan leaves.  

Ingredients :

- 3 pcs of mackerel fillet or any fish depending on your preference (washed, slit and marinated with salt for 30 minutes)

- 3 pandan leaves

- Japanese Black Sesame Sauce

- 1 tbsp oil

Method :

1)  Wrap pandan leaves around the marinated fish.  

2)  Heat a tbsp oil in a pan and arrange the fish.  Pan fry over medium low heat.

3)  Pan fry until both sides are slightly brown or cooked.  

4)  Turn off the heat.  Add Japanese black sesame sauce over the fish and quickly pan fry both sides with the heat off.  Remember not to overheat the fish or else the sauce will get burn pretty fast.

5)  Dish up and serve.

Very easy to prepare and yummy too

Hope you like this and do try to cook this for your family

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Nutritious Chicken Soup with Dried Figs (无花果)

According to Tonic Soups for Vitality by Madam Choong Su Yin, dried figs is neutral in nature and tastes bitter sweet.  Figs from America possess better quality.  Figs helps in preventing cancer such as lung cancer and gastrointestinal cancer.  It improves digestion, increasing breast milk, relieves swelling and is anti-inflammatory. 

This soup is easy to prepare.  It's healthy and nutritious too.  

Ingredients :

- 1 whole chicken leg 

- 8 dried figs

- 3 red dates

- 1 tbsp Chinese Wolfberries

- 4 bowls of hot water

Seasonings : (to taste)

- a dash of salt

Method :

1)  To double-boil, first boil water in a big pot or wok.

2) Then put all the ingredients into a Chinese ceramic pot and cover.  I used vision pot.

3)  When the big pot of water is boiled, place the ceramic pot (vision pot) of ingredients into it and steamed over high heat for 1/2 hour.

4)  Lower the heat and steam for about 2 hours.

5)  Season with salt and serve hot. 

A very healthy and nutritious soup for the whole family

We usually finished all the soup and the ingredients but not the meat.

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Sweet Fragrant Wheat and Corn Porridge

I used to cook  Sweet Fragrant Wheat (Gandum) Porridge for the past 1 month as I would try to use up all the grains or beans that I have bought.  I don't like to keep the balance of it for too long as I tend to forget about it and at the end it would be ended up in the garbage bin!  Out of sight, out of mind!  That's me... but don't get me wrong.  I am not referring to friends but only to those ingredients that were being stored away from my sight.  Don't worry, you all are always on my mind. 

This time, I added corn kernels to it as I noticed that I still had 1 ear of miserable corn sitting in the fridge.  Give this a try and you will love it :)

Ingredients :
- 3/4 cup of wheat/gandum (washed)

- 1 ear of corn  (washed, and cut the kernels into a bowl)

- a bunch of pandan leaves/screwpine leaves

- 100ml of coconut milk/coconut milk

- sugar (to taste)

- a dash of salt (to taste)

- 2.5 litres of water

Method :

1) Fill water in a pot and add drained wheat and corn kernels.  Boil over high heat for 20 minutes. 

2) Then, lower the heat, add pandan leaves and slow boil for another 1 hour or until the wheat and corn kernels are cooked and expanded.

3) Should you need to add extra water in between, be advised to add only hot boiling water.
4) Add sugar and let it simmer for a while.
5) Lastly, add santan and keep stirring. Season with a dash of salt.

6)  Serve hot.

Serve this yummylicious dessert as your breakfast or tea time.

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