Butter fried rice

Recipe:
3 cloves garlic (chopped)
1 shallot (chopped)
1 stalk scallion (roughly cut)
1 egg (beaten)
1-2 knob unsalted butter
1/4 cup garden green peas
1 small slice of chicken breast (chopped and minced)
estimated amount of shredded mozarella cheese
1/2 cup basmati rice (cooked and cooled)

(1) In a non stick frying pan, pour in beaten egg. Once harden, flip and roughly stir. Once cook but texture still soft, remove from pan immediately.

(2) Using the same frying pan, add butter and saute garlic and shallot till fragrant (but not brown). Add in minced chicken and stir fry till the meat separated (use ladle to roughly cut).

(3) Add green peas and fry till soft. Stir in scallions, cook for 1 minute and pour in the cooked rice immediately. Stir fry till all mix and off fire.

(4) Pour the fried rice into a bowl and top with shredded mozarella cheese. Steam the rice for 3 minutes or till cheese melted and absorbed into the rice. Serve warm.

Serving: 1 adult portion

Results: Although there is no seasonings, but the taste is really nice. I reckon the butter helps to add taste to it. Will definitely give it a try again with different ingredients in the future.

Whole loaf garlic bread

Recipe (in sequence):

1 1/8 cup warm water
2 Tbsp olive oil
2 cloves crushed garlic
3 cups bread flour + 2 Tbsp additional bread flour (due to reduction of sugar)
1 tsp brown sugar
1 tsp dried basil leaves
1 tsp dried onion flakes
1 tsp black pepper
2 Tbsp organic instant dry yeast

(1) In a breadmaker, put the ingredients as according to the list (listed above).
Mode: Basic
Crust: Light
Weight: 1.5 lb, or 700 g setting

(2) Once done, leave the bread in the breadmaker till consuming time - if not rushing to eat. Alternatively, leave the bread for 10 minutes before removing it to the cooling rack. Slice when the bread has cooled down completely.

Results: This is the first attempt making bread using breadmaker. The texture is soft, but the skin is slightly hard. Nevertheless, the smell of the bread is fragrant. For future, will try using less flour or more liquid to test if the skin will be softer.

Ning pasta with tomato pumpkin sauce

Recipe:

1 cup ning pasta
1 tomato (chopped)
1 small piece of pumpkin (deskinned and chopped)
1 clove of garlic (minced)
1 shallot (chopped finely)
handful of parsley
1 Tbsp olive oil
4 ice cube of vegetables stock

(1) In a sauce pan, bring estimated amount of water to boil. Add in olive oil and bring to boil for 1 minute. Add in pasta and cook till soft - around 10 minutes. Set aside. Bring pumpkin to boil for 5-6 minutes. Set aside.

(2) In the same sauce pan, saute garlic and shallot till fragrant, add in cooked pumpkin and tomatos and cook till all soft. Add in stock and bring to boil for 3 minutes. Lower temperature and bring to simmer for 10 minutes, till the sauce slowly thicken up. Remove the sauce and let it cool for 5 minutes. Using a food processor, blend the sauce till half smoothed / blended or texture according to preference.

(3) Separately, soak parsley in a bowl of hot water for 5 minutes. Drain water and keep the parsley as topping for the sauce.

Oatmeal with vegetable and mushroom

Recipe:

Vegetable with mushroom oat
1/4 cup of blended rolled oats
1 stalk of xiu bak choy (chopped finely)
1 shitake mushroom (chopped finely)

(1) In a saucepan filled with estimated amount of water, sprinkle in oats and bring to boil till soft - around 10 minutes.

(2) Add in shitake mushroom and cook till all soft - around 5 minutes.

(3) Add in vegetables and cook for another 3 minutes. Off fire and leave it covered for about 5 minutes before removing.

Other dishes: Boiled xiu bak choy with raisins, boiled yam with white potatoes.

Steamed ABC soup

Recipe:

ABC Soup
1 small carrot (cut thick)
1 small white potato (cut square)
1 shallots (halved and open up)
1 garlic (sliced)
1/2 tomato (quartered)
handful of chopped parsley

(1) In a bowl, put carrots, garlic and potato with 1 cup of water and steam for 20 minutes. Add in shallots and tomato and steam for another 5 minutes.
(2) Once done, add in chopped parsley and cover for another 5 minutes.


Steamed egg with parsley
1 egg (stir gently, without any bubbles formation)
handful of chopped parsley

(1) Mix parsley into egg mixture and steam for 10 minutes.

Others - steamed celery and carrot, mixed grain rice containing millet, buckwheat and pearl white rice with chopped shitake mushroom

Steamed tomato chicken drumstick with pumpkin and vegetables

Recipe:
Steamed chicken drumstick
1 medium size tomato (chopped finely)
1 stalk celery (chopped finely, in strip)
1 small piece of pumpkin (deskinned)
1 shallots (chopped finely)
1 garlic (chopped finely)

(1) In a bowl, arranged pumpkin on it. Put chicken drumstick on top.
(2) Roughly spread the mixture of tomatos, celery, shallots and garlic at the side and on top of the chicken drumstick.
(3) Steamed in preheated steamer for 15 minutes


Bittergourd egg
1/4 bitter gourd (sliced)
1 egg yolk (stirred)

(1) Pour egg yolk in a bowl. Stir in bitter gourd till the egg yolk mix with the gourd.
(2) Steamed in preheated steamer for 10 minutes.

Spinach and carrot soup
1 cup of spinach
1/2 carrot (cubed)
1 cup water

(1) Steam carrot with water for 15 minutes.
(2) Add in spinach and steam for another 5 minutes.

Others - Steamed mixed grain rice containing millet, buckwheat and pearl white rice

Oatmeal with purple sweet potato and apple

Recipe:

1/4 cup of blended rolled oats
1/2 purple sweet potato (halved)
1 Washington gala apple (cubed)

(1) Steamed oats with water, ratio of oat to water is 1:1 or 1:1.5. Once done, stir and keep pressing using a big metal spoon till all mix properly. Add hot water if too dry.

(2) Steam potato for 30 minutes. Add on apple in the last 5 minutes and continue to steam.

Results: This is a simple and healthy meal for baby during tea time