Chef Chloe's Peanutty Perfection Noodles

My mother loved this noodle dish I cooked for her! Recipe is from Chef Chloe's cookbook. The fragrant, nutty, spicy sauce is really really good! ^^

Ingredients (serves 4):

(A)
- 4 servings of flat rice noodles

(B)
- 1 cup coconut milk
- 1/4 water
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 cup peanut butter, chunky or creamy
- 1 tablespoon chilli-garlic sauce
- 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
- 3 cloves garlic, minced

(C)
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil

(D)
- 2 carrots, peeled and shredded
- 1 cup iceberg lettuce, thinly sliced
- 6 mushrooms, thinly sliced and lightly stir-fried

1. Cook noodles according to package's instructions. Drain, rinse with cold water, and drain again.

2. Make the sauce by combining ingredients (B) in a medium saucepan, over medium heat, whisking frequently, until sauce comes together and thickens. Remove form heat and mix in ingredients (C).

3. Toss hot noodles with the sauce, and ingredients (D).

Keep leftovers in fridge and warm it up the next day, or you can simply eat it cold! ^^

Teochew Steamed Yam Cake

This is really one of my favourite food in Singapore!

It's a Teochew Steamed Yam Cake and it's super super delicious!

We call it 'kueh' actually, and it's made from rice flour instead of your normal kind of flour.

You don't need an oven for this, and you can't go wrong at all if you follow my recipe. ^^

The reason why I made this one night was because I accidentally finished eating the yam cake my mum's friend made for her! Yes!! One whole 6 inch big piece like this! I'm so terrible. -___-" She was upset because you can't buy such delicious wholesome ones outside. You know, chunky yam pieces, mushrooms that were stir-fried till they are super fragrant, generous servings of char siew sprinkled here and there, and the most delicious garnish of lard, crispy baby prawns and freshly chopped spring onions, thinly sliced chilli....

It's really so delicious! 

So I told her, "AHhhh!! This is easy to make. I will make one for you right away."

And I did! Haha! And she loved it!

My version is really simple but delicious all the same! Check out the really simple ingredients. I hope you will attempt to this recipe! ^^

Ingredients (serves 4~6):

- 150g rice flour (soak in 450ml water/vegetable soup/chicken soup for at least 30 minutes before cooking)

- 400g yam (skin removed, diced, and soaked in water)

- 6 pieces of mushroom (rinsed and soaked in hot water until soft enough to dice. You can even use this flavoured water to part of your 450ml water mixture. ^^)

 

- 4 tablespoons of dried shrimps (soaked in water until soft, washed thoroughly and pounded or diced finely) (optional)

- 3 tablespoons sesame oil
- salt & pepper to taste

Garnish:
- 2 tablespoons of dried shrimps, fried (optional)
- 1 spring onion, cut finely
- 1 red chilli, sliced

1. In a big wok, using medium flame, stir-fry dried shrimps in sesame oil until fragrant.

2. Add in mushrooms and fry for another 3 minutes.

3. Drain diced yam and add to the wok.

4. Fry until yam changes colour.

5. Stir rice mixture till well-blended and pour into wok. Turn to small flame.

6. Add salt and pepper. Mix evenly.

7. Keep stirring the mixture in the wok until mixture thickens.

8. When mixture thickens, turn off fire. Pour mixture into a round or square container for steaming.

9. Steam for about 30 minutes. It's done when your yam is thoroughly cooked. To check, poke a fork into the yam. The yam should break easily.

10. Garnish your steamed yam cake and cut into slices to serve! ^^

Soooo yummy!!! ^^

* You can add in Char siew (Chinese BBQ pork) or chinese sausage or lean meat to your yam cake at Step 2. I had leftover mixture so I tried adding Otah in it to make it a spicy flavour!

I really love eating steamed yam cake. It's not difficult to make, just a lot of preparation work. And even so, the preparation work is mostly cutting and slicing stuff, so it's not difficult. I hope you will try it and impress your family!

You can replace yam with thinly sliced carrots, diced pumpkin, and maybe even sweet potatoes! That'd be interesting! I haven't had Steamed Sweet Potato Cake before! hehe! ^^ I may make it next time!

Where to buy:

1. Rice Flour

You can get it in any supermarkets easily on the Flour shelf.

Do not confuse it with Glutinous Rice Flour! 




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Cute Steamed Otah Egg

Hi!! Happy Girls Cute Food received so many new likes yesterday! Thank you very much!

Yesterday, I made this for lunch! So, I would like to share this recipe for you!  It's very easy to make!

Ingredients:

- 1 egg

- 1 tbsp soy sauce 

- pinch of salt and pepper

- 1 tbsp sesame oil 

- 1/4 cup water

- 1 piece of otah

1. Beat egg with soy sauce, salt and pepper until fluffy. Add sesame oil.

2. Mix the water in.

3. Place otah in the middle of a shallow dish.

4. Pour egg mixture in the dish.

5. Prepare a metal pot filled with some water. It should cover the steamer rack. Boil the water over high heat.

steamer rack

6. Put dish into pot. Reduce heat to medium. Steam for about 8~10 minutes. Don't steam it too long or your egg would be rubbery! 

Make sure there is enough water in your pot to steam or you may spoil your pot!

7. Garnish with chopped spring onions or any nice-looking leaves. Haha! Serve immediately while hot.

You may add some minced prawn or meat in your egg too. It will be very delicious!

You can find cute pictures like the bear in the 1st picture in Daiso, the bento section. There are many different kinds!

I hope you like this recipe! It's very easy and very fast to make and it tastes very good with porridge or steamed rice! ^^

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