Monday, June 25, 2012

Black Pepper Sauce Pre-Mix

This is a pre-mixed black pepper sauce for any stir fried vegetables and noodles. You make the pre-mixed sauce before beginning to fry vegetables so that you can adjust the flavor to your liking. On top of that, the pre-mixed sauce makes your cooking much easier!!!


Soy Source, Sugar, Black Pepper Sauce Paste, Sesame Oil and Water



You can find this type of  black pepper sauce at any Chinese supermarket. 



Looks like black berry jam 




Combine Black Pepper Paste (3 tbs), Soy Source (1/2 tbs), Sugar (2 tbs), Water (4 tbs) and few drops of Sesame Oil and mix well. Feel free to experiment with your own preference. I always add a little bit of extra sugar to the mixture.



Garlic & Ginger Mix for Stir Fries

These are the most important and popular ingredients for the Asian cooking. It's always a good idea to chop them when you cook. This simple mixture will add rich flavor and fresh aroma to your fried rice and stir fries. 





Garlic and Ginger 



Peel and chop, chop, chop and chop. 



Chop both garlic and ginger in small pieces 



Mix and ready to use


Sunday, June 24, 2012

Grass Jelly Dessert

This is a very unique, easy and delicious South East Asian dessert. Don't be freaked out by the ingredients that you have never seen in your life. Trust me, you will love it. So let's get started.




This is the grass jelly. You will find several different brands at any Chinese or Vietnamese super market. Any brand works for me. The jelly has slight bitter taste and a little bit of iodine lavender flavor.




Slash and cut the grass jelly in a bowl. Don't even bother the shape, just slash into small pieces.




Coconut sugar. This is the key to this dessert. Coconut sugar is produced from the sweet juice of coconut palm sugar blossoms. Coconut sugar has twice the iron, four times the magnesium and ten times  the amount of zinc when compared to brown sugar.




Bring 2.5 cups of water to a boil. Place coconut sugar into the water. Simmer for 15 minutes until coconut sugar is completely dissolved. Put the mixture in the refrigerator to chill.




Coconut milk 




Place slashed grass jelly in a cup, glass or bowl. Pour chilled coconut sugar and coconut milk. It's good idea to put some ice cubes. Hope you enjoy it !!

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Easy Simple Broccoli

This is one of the easiest and most delicious ways to enjoy broccoli. People say simple is the best, I guess they are absolutely right. Here we go!


All you need is broccoli, salt and vegetable oil

Add salt (2 tbs) and vegetable oil (1/4 cup) into boiling water

Add pre-cut broccoli and keep boiling approximately 2 to 2.5 minutes
Tip: don't over cook!!

Drain 

Enjoy!! 

Hope you like it!!