Moroccan Lamb with Asparagus Salad

Today on Menu was the Moroccan Lamb after my husband learnt the recipe from his colleague in UK. Believe me, it is one of the best salad that I ever tried !! It doesn't take long time to cook yet it satisfies my taste bud!

Ingrediants
1. Morrocan Spice (You can make your own spice to marinate the lamb chop, but to make thing easier, I bought the pre-mix spice from hypermarket - look for "morrocan")
2. Lamb Chop/ Ribs
3. Asparagus - cut diagonally
4. Chic Peas - at your preference.
5. Garlic - chop fine
6. Onion - cut fine
7. Tomato - cut cube
8. Salt and Pepper - pinch
9. Avocado Oil and red wine vineger - at your preference
10. Mayonaise
11. Sage - chop fine


Steps
Salad
1. Boil the asparagus until it cooks. (Not overcook please)
2. Add in the chick peas into the asparagus pot.
3. Place the asparagus and chick peas onto mixing bowl, add in the garlic, sage, onion, tomato, avocado oil and vinegar, salt and pepper, mayonaise - mix well.
4. Adjust the taste to suit your taste bud ;)
5. Place them on the plate, awaiting Moroccan Lamb to be placed above.

Lamb
1. Clean and trim excess fats from the lamb chop.
2. Season the lamb with pinch of salt and papper and the Morrocan spice. (Morrocan spice mix itself contains salt, therefore do not put too much salt otherwise it will be way too salty)
3. Leave it for 20 mins
4. Heat oil in the pan and fry the marinated lamb for 3 minutes with big fire. (Note that it is best to cook red meat with big fire for fast and tender meat, otherwise slow cook turns the meat harder)
5. Once it is cooked, place them on the salad plate and serve immediately.

Look at the picture and you can tell straight away how delicious it is going to be.

甘香鸡 Kam Hiong Chicken

I missed the M'sian 煮抄 flavour, especially the Kam Hiong crab that I used to have in Puchong. Well I don't know how to handle crabs, neither do I want to handle them. So I change the crab with chicken and they went quite well and taste just excellent.

Ingrediants:
1) Chicken
2) Starch
3) Pepper

Kam Hiong Source
1) Garlic x 3(chopped)
2) Small Red Onion x 5(Chopped)
3) Curry leafs (half bowl)
4) Small Chili (2 - 3 pieces).
5) Curry Powder (2 - 3 spoonful)
6) Oyster Source (2 - 3 spoonful)
7) Sugar (pinch)
8) Black Source (bit)
9) Soya Source (1 Spoonful)

Steps:
1) Marinate the chicken with pepper, bit of starch (to make sure the chicken meat is tender), and bit of soya source. Leave it for 20 mins
2) While waiting, prepare the Kam Hiong Source. Add in oil into wok, fry the garlic and small onion until fragrant. Add in the small chili and curry leafs. Then add in the rest of the ingrediants (Oyser source, soya source, black source, curry powder) and continue stiring until they mix.
3) Scope it up ready to be used later.
4) Once the chicken is ready, add the oil in the wok and fry the chiecken until it is almost cooked. Stir in the Kam Hiong source that you've prepared just now, add a bit of water and starch and adjust your own taste. It is then served perfectly.

比萨饼 Pizza

I made my own Pizza for the first time after I got my pizza maker.

Pizza
1) Pizza base x 3(available from hypermarket)

Pizza Source
This is optional, you can grab the ready-made pizza source from hypermarket, but it is simple to make. I made my own source and it taste good!Here's the ingrediants for the pizza source:
1) Oyster SOurce (3 spoonful)
2) Thai Chili (3 spoonful)
3) Water (a little)
4) Salt and Sugar to taste (pinch)

Topping Ingrediants:
You can put as much ingrediants you want and customise at your own preference. As I have lots of ingrediants found in my fridge, I basically use them all and they tasted great !!
1) Corn
2) Ham/ Bacon
3) Shreded Cheese
4) Tomato
5) Pineapple
6) Mix Vegetable
7) Union
8) Pickles
9) Mushroom

Steps:
1) Place the pizza base, spread the pizza source on the pizza base.
2) Sprinkle some shreded cheese on to the pizza base where you have coated the source on. (This is to ensure when you add in the topping ingrediants, the cheese can "hold" the toppings better after it is melted in the oven)
3) Now you can add in the prefered toppings ingrediants on to it. I found this is the most fun part of makign pizza as this really makes you feel like a real chef!!
4) After finish all the toppings, spread the cheese again as the last layer on the pizza. when it is melted by heat, it really makes the whole pizza looks nice and cheesy !

To me, I put them into oven maker and it turns out really nice and moisture. ALternativelym put them into oven if you do not have a pizza maker. It tastes nice still except that it appeared to be a little bit dryer.

寿思卷 Classic Sushi Roll

Sushi is something easy and simple to prepare yet it fills your empty stomach with satisfaction if you chosen the right sushi stall.

So I decided to make my own sushi this time, just thought to get some exposure of how people makeing theirs.

First Step, essential tools and ingrediants collection:

1) Bamboo mat
2) Japanese Rice Wine
3) Japanese Sushi RIce  - 2 cups
4) Nori Sheets (a.k.a laver)
5) Avocado/Cucumber/ Carrot - up to your option
6) Tuna/ Salmon/ Crabsticks - up to your option

Now the processing steps:

1) Boil the sushi rice in a pot, remember not to put too much water, otherwise it will become sticky rice instead of sushi rice. Let the rice boil with big fire, and the water is boiled, turn down to small fire and close the lid. Let it boil for about 5- 8 minutes depending on the amount you have. Once the rice is cooked, turn off the fire and let the rice cold down.

2) Add in Japanese rice wine and pinch of salt and sugar into the rice. For 2 cups of rice, amount you need is approximately 1/4 cup of rice wine. Rice wine making the rice taste "sour", so adjust to your preference.

3) Place the bamboo mat on the cook top, followed by Nori ontop of the bamboo. The shining part face down.

4) Get your hands wet, and make about a handful of rice to a ball of rice. It's important to keep your hands wet while working with sushi rice because it is sticky. When you work with the nori though, you should keep them as dry as you. Then spread them ontop of Nori with some spaces left at each of the edge to accomodate the rolling spread out.

4) Place your preferred ingrediants (Tuna, Avocado, Cucumber etc) at the edge of the sushi.

5) Roll them with the bamboo mat.

6) Then finally cut them!!

That's my first sushi roll and it tasted yum !!

How did I find all this information? This website gives very detail basic technique as of how to make your own sushi for those who has no idea at all how to start !