Fragrant Snake Gourd Egg (Meatless Recipe)

Previously, I had posted a dish on Snake Gourd (Pudalankai) Stir Fried with Salted Egg and the benefits of snake gourd.  As such,  I am not going to brag on its benefits here as I don't want you to get bored with my grandma's stories.  Just click at the link on Snake Gourd (Pudalankai) Stir Fried with Salted Egg if you want to know more about the goodness of eating snake gourd.

This dish is slightly different as I added curry leaves and turmeric powder to the dish. Besides  that, I used the leftover salted egg white from my previous Sha Zui Fish with Salted Egg Yolk.    Frankly speaking, it's so much better than the previous Snake Gourd (Pudalankai) Stir Fried with Salted Egg and my girls love it very much :)

Ingredients :

- 1 snake gourd (halved and use a spoon to scoop out the seed, sliced)

- 3 eggs (beaten with a dash of salt)

- 1 mashed hard boiled salted white eggs (you can used whole salted egg.  I only used the whites as it was the leftover from previous dish)

- 1 tbsp dried shrimps (washed and finely chopped)

- 1 tbsp garlic (finely chopped)

- 2 sprigs of curry leaves

- 1 tsp turmeric powder

-  a dash of Chinese cooking wine (optional)

- soy sauce (to taste)

- Ghee oil for frying

Method :

1)  Heat some ghee oil in a pan and saute garlic and dried shrimps until fragrant.

2)  Add sliced snake gourd and stir fry for a few seconds.

3)  Push aside the snake gourd and pour in beaten egg.  When the egg is about to set, scramble it and mix it with the snake gourd and stir fry.

4)  Add turmeric powder and stir well.

5)  Then add mashed salted egg white and curry leaves.  Continue to stir fry until aromatic.

6)  Turn off the heat and add a dash of soy sauce and Chinese cooking wine to taste.

7)  Stir and mix well.  Dish up and serve.

This is a very healthy and yummy dish.

It would be more flavourful if you add some red chilies or bird eye's chilies.  I had ran out of chilies and just made do with whatever is available.

Hope you like it.  Do enjoy :)

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Sha Zui Fish (沙嘴鱼) with Salted Egg Yolk

Have anyone tried this Sha Zui fish with salted Egg Yolk?  In fact this is also my first time trying this and oh my God!  You couldn't believe it!  It's so delish and yummylicious!!!!  We love it so much and my girls asked me to cook again but substitute the fish with chicken meat.  Eh... good idea, isn't it?

This recipe is sourced from YumYum 50 pg 72.  So happy I can fried this fish using my Homemade Salted Duck Eggs with some minor changes.  

Ingredients : (A)

- 12 sha zui fish (marinated)

- 1/2 cup corn flour

- some oil for deep frying

Ingredients : (B)

- 1 tbsp chopped garlic

- 3 salted egg yolks (cooked and mashed)

- 1 stalk spring onion (I used 1 sprig curry leaves instead of spring onions)

Marinade : (to taste)

- salt

- 1 tbsp shaoxing wine

- 1 egg (beaten) 

Seasonings : (to taste)

- 1/4 salt

- 2 tbsp sugar

Method :

1)  Marinate fish for 15 minutes.

2)  Coat marinated fish with corn flour.

3)  Deep fry (I shallow fry) in hot oil until crispy and golden brown.  Dish up and drain.

4)  Leave 1 tbsp oil in the wok and saute garlic and mashed salted egg yolk until it bubbled.  Add curry leave and stir fry.

5)  Return the fish to the wok .  Season with salt and sugar.  Stir and mix well.

6)  Serve with steamed rice.

Add more curry leave if you love crispy curry leaves.  I regretted I didn't add enough curry leaves.

We finished everything and my girls even fought for the crispy curry leaves.  

Do enjoy and have a great weekend ahead :)

I am submitting this to the Little Thumbs Up "Egg" event organized by Bake for Happy Kids, my little favourite DIY and hosted by Baby Sumo of Eat Your Heart Out. 

I'm also linking this post to September 2013 Cooking With Herbs Blog Challenge hosted by Lavender and Lovage.

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Homemade Salted Duck Eggs

Do you like salted duck eggs? I DO!!!! I love salted duck eggs and just give me a plain porridge or any porridge with salted eggs, I am in seventh heaven!!!!! Besides that, I like to use salted eggs in whatever savoury dish I can think of. I am really crazy over salted eggs and would go even crazier if the super bright orange red yolk is oily! It has this buttery taste! As far as I know, since my childhood days, my mum had been making salted duck eggs using the brining method. This homemade salted duck egg is as per my mum's step-by-step instructions.
My eldest daughter only eats the white egg but not the yolk! Good news to me!!! So every time I will eye her egg yolk and she will happily pass it to me.

The cutting is not perfect as I cut it while it's still hot.  Overall the taste is perfect :)

Step-by-Step Instructions  :

1)  Choose 10 fresh duck eggs.  If possible, try to get those greenish in colour as they are more flavourful and fragrant.  It's very difficult to get it in KL.  However, whenever I go back to my hometown in Perak, I would try to get it from the wet market.

2)  Use a damp cloth to clean and wipe away the dirt.  My mum repeatedly reminded me not to soak it in the water.

3)  Put 350gm coarse sea salt into a pot.  Add 2 liter of water and boil over medium heat. Occasionally stir and boil until all the salt is dissolved.  Leave it aside to cool.

4)  Arrange cleaned eggs in a glass jar.  

5)  Slowly pour the brine into the jar and make sure all the eggs are fully immersed and  close the lid.   Keep it in a cool dark place between 18 to 21 days or longer depending on how salty you want the eggs to be.

7)  After all the eggs have been harvested, do not discard the brine.  It can be recycled for a 2nd batch of homemade salted eggs!

8)  Boil salted eggs as you boil the normal hard boiled eggs.  It takes between 10 to 15 minutes. 

9)  Let it cool before cutting the eggs.  Otherwise, your egg yolks would look messy just like mine!  I was a bit impatient and cut it when it hadn't totally cooled off :(

Homemade Salted Duck Egg is so much better than the commercial salted eggs.  It's easy peasy.  So why not give it a try if you also love salted eggs?

I am submitting this to the Little Thumbs Up "Egg" event organized by Bake for Happy Kids, my little favourite DIY and hosted by Baby Sumo of Eat Your Heart Out. 

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