Dinner Dishes

[02.03.2015]

Dinner for us: Bake lamb steak (chicken drumstick for papa), stir fry purple cabbage, spring onion bittergourd egg, lotus seeds chicken soup ♡_♡

Bake lamb steak -
1 piece cut lamb steak
1/4 orange juice and 1/8 orange zest
1/2 cup chopped mint leaves

Marinate lamb with orange juice, zest and mint leaves. Bake at 170c for 20 minutes.

Stir-fry purple cabbage -
1 whole small purple cabbage (roughly cut and split)
2 cloves garlic (minced)
2 Tbsp presoaked anchovies
some squid
some organic orange bell pepper slices
1 cup soup stock

(1) Heat up some vco on a cooking pan. Add in garlic and anchovies and stir fry till slightly brown or crispy.

(2) Add in squid and stir fry shortly. Add in cabbage and stir fry a little while.

(3) Pour in some soup stock, put on a lid and simmer in medium low temperature till cabbage soft.

(4) Once it is almost soft, add in bell pepper and continue to simmer till done.

Lotus seeds chicken soup -
1 large part chicken carcass
1 small cut carrot
1 small potato
1 whole garlic with skin intact
1/2 cup presoaked lotus seeds (middle part removed)
4 organic dried huai san
1 organic honey date
4 organic red dates (pitted)

Heat up some water in a small slow cooker pot. Add in all ingredients except red dates and cook for 6 hours. Halfway through, add red dates and let it continues to cook.

Remarks : The soup is really delicious and i would definitely make it again.