Chinny's Mee Siam Goreng

I luv noodles. Especially vermicelli. I would always choose noodles over rice! Hehe…this dish is a one-pot meal that I tried to create with my own recipe and style. 

I hope you like it J 

What you need [Cooks for 5-6]

- 2/3 pack of Vermicelli/Bee Hoon (Pre-soak it for 20mins in warm water)

- 1 bunch of chives (cut to 1.5 inches long)

- 1 handful of bean sprouts (add more if you want more ‘crunch’ factor)

- 3 pcs of fish cake (sliced)

- 5-6 tbsp of Fermented beans / Tau Jiu (pounded)

- ½ kg of prawns (peeled & left the tail)

- Tau kwa (optional)

- 2 tbsp Heinz chilli sauce

- 4 tbsp tomato sauce

- 6 tbsp of onion (grinded into paste)

- 1 tbsp of garlic (grinded)

- 2-3 tbsp of grinded dried chilli paste (add more if you want more kick J)

For the seasoning (adjust to your preference according)

- 1.5-2 teasp salt

- 1 teasp sugar

- A sprinkle of kicap manis

For the Garnishing

- Egg omelette using 2 beaten eggs (optional)

- A handful of fried shallots for garnishing

Method

- Heat 3 teaspoons of cooking oil in your wok

- Sauté the grinded onion & garlic mix until fragrant

- Add in the grinded chilli

- While the sambal is cooking, prepare your omelette in a smaller pan

- Add in the pounded fermented beans

- Cook for 15mins or until the oil starts to separate from the chilli

- Add in the prawns & fishcake and stir-fry for 3-5mins

- Cut your bee hoon shorter with a scissors

- Add in the bee hoon and stir-fry for about 10mins

- Add in the bean sprouts and chives and stir-fry for another 5mins

- Lastly, roll up the omelette & cut into strips and garnish with fried shallots

Serve hot & enjoy J

Yummalicious Mee Soto

This is one of my all-time favourites! It's a real easy-peasy dish to prepare. However, the 'troublesome' part is actually making the bagedil (potato balls) that goes GREAT with Mee Soto. So yummy, you can even eat it on its own. You can see bagedil in almost every Nasi Padang stall. Mee Soto will taste alil' weird and incomplete if you dun eat it with them. Heheh...Warning: It can be very addictive, once you pop, you can't stop! 

Sorry I kept forgetting to blog about this :P

Now here it is!

What you need [Cooks for 5-6]

- Yellow noodles
- Bean sprouts
- 1kg Chicken wings/drumsticks
- Mee Soto paste (Mine is from the wet market)
- 3-4 tbsp of tumeric powder
- 6 tbsp of onion (grinded into paste)
- 1 tbsp of garlic (grinded)

For the Garnishing

- A handful of Chinese parsley (Chopped)

- A handful of Spring onion (Chopped)

- Fried shallots

For the Seasoning
- 2 teasp Salt
- 1 teasp Sugar

Method
- Heat some oil in the frying pan and sauté the garlic for 3 mins
- Add in the onion and continue to cook for another 3mins
- Add in the Mee Soto paste, tumeric powder, 3 tbsp of water and stir-fry 
  till fragrant
- Add in water (my paste instruction states 1litre) and bring to a boil
- Add in the chicken and boil for 15mins or till chicken is tender
- Throw in a tbsp of fried shallots to make your soup more fragrant!

[Making The Mee Soto Chilli]

What you need

- 8-10 stalks of red chilli padi

- 2 stalks of normal red chilli

- Kecap manis (use less of this if you prefer to have a thicker chilli paste)

Method

- Pound/blend the chilli to a paste

- Add the chilli paste to the kicap manis and mix well

[Making Bagedil]

What you need [Makes about 15pcs]

- 4-5 potatoes

- 100g of minced beef

- ½ teasp salt & a dash of pepper

- A sprinkle of fried shallots

- 1 egg (whisk to mix the egg white & yolk thoroughly)

Method

- Boil the potatoes in water till soft

- Once cooked, mash them up (I used my pestle and mortar)

- Stir-fry the minced beef in a pan with a tbsp of cooking oil / butter and mix 

  into the mashed potatoes

- Sprinkle the fried shallots, salt & pepper and mix well

- Roll the mashed potato into 1.5 inches-wide potato balls and flatten it slightly

- Dip the bagedil into the egg and fry it in hot oil till golden brown

Blanch the noodles and bean sprouts, add in all the toppings and serve hot!

Stir-fried Hokkien Mee

It's been pretty hard for me to find a good halal Hokkien Mee, so as usual, I decided to try cooking it myself to satisfy that craving. Hehehe...

What you need [Cooks for 4]

- 500g Yellow noodles

- 500g Thick bee hoon

- A handful of bean sprouts

- A bunch of Chives (cut to 2-inches long)

- 3 rolls of Fishcake (sliced)

- 1/2 kg prawns
- Sambal chilli
- 5 lime (cut into halves)
- 2 tbsp Garlic (grinded)

For the Seasoning

- Chicken stock (can be soup form or the concentrate) or

  Prawn stock (from boiling the prawn shells)

- Salt

- Sugar

Method

- Heat some oil in the frying pan and sauté the garlic for 3 mins

- Add in the stock and bring to boil

- Add in prawns, followed by fishcake and stir-fry for 3mins

- Add in the following in this sequence – Thick bee hoon, yellow noodles, 
  bean sprouts and mix thoroughly and simmer for 5 mins

- Lastly add in the chives, cook for 2mins and serve hot with sambal chilli and lime

How to cook the sambal paste

You will need
- 9-10 tbsp onion (grinded into paste)
- 2 tbsp Garlic (grinded into paste)
- 4 tbsp dry chilli paste (grinded into paste)
- Salt & sugar

Method

- Heat some oil in the frying pan and sauté the garlic for 3 mins

- Add in the onion and cook for another 5 mins

- Add in the chilli paste, stir-fry for 5 mins and add salt & sugar for taste and

   continue to stir-fry till the paste darkens slightly and becomes drier and the oil

   is slightly separated from the oil

CCC: Chinny's Chicken Curry (Kuay Teow)

Hi everyone, I'm back after a long 4 months' maternity leave!

I hope to share more recipes soon as I can.

This is one of my favourite dishes of all time. You can either have it with Kuay Teow or noodles or even serve with hot steaming white rice :)

Please take note that my Curry is slightly of the thicker type. For more watery kind of curry please add more water and use less of the paste. If you wanna have more 'kick', please add more of the dry chilli paste or chilli powder! Feel free to modify this recipe to your own taste :)

What you need [This is for 5 people]

- 1 kg Chicken midjoint / wings / drumsticks
- 1kg Med-width kway teow / yellow rounded noodles

- A handful of bean sprouts
- 7 tbsp of Onion (grinded into paste)
- 2 tbsp Garlic (grinded into paste)
- 3 tbsp Dry chilli paste (grinded into paste)
- 1 small Cabbage (roughly cut / peeled)
- 4 Potatoes (cut into bite size)
- 1 tbsp Tumeric powder

- 1 tbsp Chilli powder

- 1 tbsp Curry powder for meat / chicken
- A small handful of curry leaves (Optional)

- 1 box of Coconut milk (can be boxed or fresh ones)

For the Seasoning

- Salt

- Sugar

Method

- Heat some oil in the frying pan and sauté the garlic for 3 mins
- Add in the onion and cook for another 3 mins
- Add in the chilli paste and add salt & sugar for taste and continue to stir-fry

   till the chilli paste darkens slightly and becomes drier
- Add abit of water followed by some tumeric and chilli powder
- Stir for 5 mins
- Add in potatoes and continue to stir for 10mins
- Add more water till it covers the potatoes and boil for 10 mins
- Add in the chicken and boil for another 10 mins

- Add the coconut milk & cabbage and bring to boil for another 10mins

- Boil your kuay teow/noodles and bean sprouts in a separate pot of water and add 

   in to the curry

- Serve hot!

SG Zi Char Hokkien Mee

This dish has always been a good option on days when you don't feel like cooking much. Since it's a dish so rare for me to find at any good halal Zi Char stall, I might as well cook it my way. It's an easy one-pot meal to satisfy the hungry stomachs with all ingredients so easy to prepare :)

What you need

- Yellow rounded noodles / yellow flat noodles

- Chicken thigh meat (cut to smaller pieces and marinated)

- Fishcake (sliced)

- Fishball (halved)

- 1 tablespoon of finely-chopped garlic

- Chye sim (cut into 4-cm stalks)

- Bean sprouts (optional for that extra crunch)

- Prawns (peeled and left the tail on)

- Fried shallots & seasoned green chopped chilli

Seasoning

- Sesame oil

- White pepper

- Dark soya sauce (premium quality ones)

- Salt

- Sugar

Method

- Saute the chopped garlic with some cooking oil till golden brown

- Cook the chicken meat for about 10mins

- Add in all the seasoning and adjust taste according to your preference

- Throw in the prawns and cook till they turn 80% orange

- Add the chye sim and stir-fry for about 5mins follow by the fishcake/fishballs

- Add in the noodles and stir well till the noodles are coated with the dark sauce

- Add in the bean sprouts and cook for another 5mins

- Add another dash of pepper

Garnish with fried shallots and serve hot!

{Chinny’s Chicken Soup for the Soul}

This is an all-time favourite comfort food for me. Something simple to have when I dunno what else to cook. It's my own version now, as since young my Mum has been cooking this but with pork ribs instead. This is my Halal version. I've been a Muslim-convert since I was married in 2007, so this is my way of having Mum's food without her cooking it for me. Hahaha...

{Chinny’s Chicken Soup for the Soul}

What you need

- Potatoes (cut into bite-size pieces)

- Carrots (cut into bite-size pieces)

- Mid-joint wings (I marinated the chicken with oyster sauce, sesame oil,white pepper & some honey the night before)

- Tomatoes (quartered)

- 1 whole clove of garlic

- Fried shallots & Chinese parsley for garnish

Seasoning

- Chicken stock (concentrate or the stock itself)

- Sesame oil

- White pepper

- 1 teaspoon of sugar

- 1 teaspoon of salt; adjust to your own taste preference

Method

- Boil the carrots in a pot of chicken stock mixed with water for 10mins

- Add the seasoning to the soup

- Throw in the potatoes and continue to boil for another 10mins

- Add the garlic and chicken to boil with small-med fire

- After 15mins, throw in the tomatoes and boil for another 10mins

- Finally add a dash of pepper when you off the fire on the stove

Garnish with fried shallots & chopped Chinese parsley & serve hot with a bowl of nice & hot steamy white rice!

One-pot Meal: Beef stew Noodles

I've always like one-pot meals. It's easy to whip up and doesn't require too much of my effort. Healthy & nutritious too. Best to have this on cold, rainy days, especially on the weekends. Hehehe...

{Beef Stew Noodles}

What you need

- Potatoes (just a couple of potatoes, diced)

- Carrots (cut into bite-size pieces)

- Beef meat (cut into bite-size & marinated with oyster sauce, sesame oil, 

  white pepper & some honey)

- Chye sim (cut into 5cm stalks)

- Minced garlic

- Grinded onion

- Eggs (lightly beaten)

- Flat yellow noodles

- Fried shallots & Chinese parsley for garnish

Seasoning for the stew

- Chicken stock (concentrate or the stock itself)

- Sesame oil

- White pepper

- Kicap manis

- Salt - adjust to your own taste preference

Method

- Sauté the mince garlic in a pot with some cooking oil till golden brown

- Add in the onion and cook for 5mins

- Add the beef and stir-fry till 70% cooked

- Add chicken stock & water into the pot and boil for 30mins

- Add the carrots and potatoes for another 20mins

- Add the seasoning to the soup

- Throw in the chye sim and noodles and boil for another 5mins

- Stir in the beaten eggs

- Finally add a dash of pepper when you off the fire on the stove

Garnish with fried shallots & serve :)