Our Dinner - 1 Fish, 1 Vege and 1 Egg

19 July 2013

My 3-dish dinner prepared with love for my family (爱心晚餐). :D

Make a guess which is the hot favorite for the night? Yeah, think you guess as much...it's the egg rolls! Strangely, kids just love eggs right, in any way you cook them....gee:))

From left: stirred-fried beansprouts, song fish head and egg rolls.

Fried Egg Rolls ('Egg Popiah')

19 July 2013

I chanced upon this very nice 'egg popiah' from Facebook and decided to cook for my family. Very favourable response from my little customers (aka my children) for my 1st attempt! They loved it and asked for more! Hee! :p

I love that this dish doesn't required alot of ingredients. The only challenge lies in your frying skill :D

Ingredients for 3 egg rolls (6 pax serving):

- 2 pieces of picnic ham, chopped.

- 8 eggs, mixed and stirred till smooth.

- Spring onion, chopped finely.

- Oil

- Soya sauce for taste

How to cook:

- Break the eggs, mixed and stirred till mixture turned smooth.
- Add the chopped ham and spring onions to the egg mixture.
- And add 2 tablespoons of soya sauce to the egg mixture.
- Heat the non-stick frying pan with oil enough to cover the frying pan.
- Pour the mixture onto the pan and leave it to cook.
- When the mixture is about 75% cooked, start rolling the egg slowly so as not to break the egg in the midst of rolling. I use pair of chopsticks together with spatula and roll slowly. As my rolling speed was rather slow, it was cooked by the time I complete rolling ;D and ready to dish out.

This is close to 75% cooked. When half of the watery portion is cooked, its about time to start rolling the egg. Any delay, the fried egg will be too hard to roll! Have fun experimenting! ;))

 

Stirred-fried Beansprout with Japanese Cucumber

19 July 2013

I usually will prepare 2 vege and 1 meat or 1 vege, 1 meat and 1 soup for dinner. So on the same day I did the egg rolls, I had fried beansprouts as my vege dish. Eh, don't think beansprouts cheapo dish. If you add other ingredients, it becomes a superb dish!

 

Ingredients (5 pax share):

- A packet of fresh beansprouts, about 800grams.
- 1 Japanese Cucumber (of average size), sliced.

- 1 young carrot, cut into strips.

 - 4 pieces dried beancurd (or known as "tau pok"), sliced.
- Garlic, chopped finely
- 1 tablespoon of cooking oil
- Water
- Salt to taste

How to cook:

- Heat the wok with cooking oil.

- Add in the garlic once the wok is heated.

- When garlic turns slightly brownish, add the carrots and little bit of water (2 tablespoons). Stirred fried for short while.

- Then add beansprouts, tau pok and some water (enough to cover half of the vege will do as don't intend to make this too watery). Again, stirred fried for short while to ensure that its evenly cooked.  

- Lastly, add the cucumber and stirred fried for another minute. 

- Add salt to the dish before serving.