Wednesday 26 February 2020

Chicken Soup for Vitality 补气鸡汤



Ingredients:

1/2  half a kampung chicken
30 g huang qi  黄芪
  7 g gou qi  枸杞
  4 red dates
  2 black dates
  5 g  dang shen  党参
  5 g  dang gui  当归
1 stalk of speing onion (cut into 4 )
5 slices of old ginger
3000 ml water
a little salt to taste

Method

1.  Rinse all ingredients and place it in a pot.
2.  Bring to a boil.
3.  Turn to medium heat and heat for another 3 hours.
4.  Season to taste.


Sunday 16 February 2020

Tomato Rasam (without rasam powder)


They say CoVi_19 can be destroyed in high temperature.  This recipe will make the our body real warm, hence may be, it will do some good in prevention.


Ingredients:

Tamarind paste            1 lemon size paste
Cumin seeds                3 tsp
Tumeric powder           1/2 tsp
Black pepper corns      2 rsp
Garlic                           6 cloves (roughly chopped)
Cooking oil                  2 tbsp ( I use olive oil)
Mustard                        1 tsp
Asafoetida                    2 pinches
Dry red chillies             3 pcs
Curry leaf                     12 pcs
Tomato (medium size)  2 pcs (chopped into 4 pcs)
Coriander leaf               2 tsp  (chopped)

Method

1.    Soak the tamarind paste in half cup of warm water for 30 minutes.
2.    Squeeze the soaked paste. strain and keep aside.
3.    In a grinder, grind the cumin seeds, black pepper corns and garlic.
4.    Heat up oil, temper with mustard.
5.    Add in asafoetida, dry chilies and curry leaves.
6.    Add tomatoes and saute untill soften.
7.    Add in the grinded ingredients.
8.    Add in tumeric powder.
9.    Stir till fragrance can be smelled.
10.   Add in the strained tamarind pulp.
11.   Add salt to taste.
12.   Bring to a gentle boil.
13.   Switch off the stove, add coriander leaf.
14.   Serve.


Kampung Chicken in Coconut Tureen 菜园鸡腿椰子盅





Ingredients:

1 whole drumstick of a kampung chicken.
   (Skinned, deboned and chopped into pieces)
1 fresh coconut
   (cut away the top, pour out and keep the coconut water)

15 g  yu zhu  玉竹
15 g  bai he   百合
15 g  lotus seed
Some gou qi  枸杞
Some red dates
1 slice of ginger
Coconut water
A pinch of salt
A sprinkle of white pepper.

Method:

1.    Put all ingredients into the coconut.
2.    Add coconut water until all ingredients submerged.
3.    Double boil for 3 hours