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  CHICKEN RICE BALLS  Inspired by that video that was shot on an iPhone featuring my sister, and not having chicken rice in ages, I decided to make that for today's dinner. If u follow all the steps, you'll be rewarded with chicken rice you won't soon forget. Normal chicken rice balls uses a mixture of jasmine and pulut, but since I have calrose rice, and it's sticky enough, I used it. These are what u need...... Ingredients  2 chicken thighs, deboned  4 red chillies  150g ginger  10 cloves garlic  1 whole garlic, sliced into two  Pandan leaves Some spring onions, some corriander leaves  Chicken stock  4 tablespoons lime juice  4 tablespoons white vinegar  Sesame oil  Soy sauce  Salt Water  To make the chilli sauce..... Cut up half the ginger, all the chilli and 5 cloves of garlic and put it in a blender with the lime juice, vinegar one tablespoon chicken stock and half teaspoon of salt. Blend till fine, pit it i...

  BEER BATTERED FISH   These are the only two pics I have...... Didn't expect the fish to turn out this good! Nice and crispy batter, well cooked fish, what else can one ask for?! Just look at that! The batter's perfect! I used a combination of the western and asian techniques, which is, cold beer batter and double frying the fish. This results in a light and crispy batter and a fish cooked to perfection! The beer needs to be ice cold. Leave the can in the freezer till ice crystals form in the beer. The next thing to prepare is the oil. Keep it really hot and reduce the heat to low heat. Everything needs to be done real quick as u want the batter to be as cold as possible when it hits the oil. So u need to prepare the oil, prepare the fish and lastly the batter. The ingredients are simple. These are all u need. Ingredients  Fish, cut to size. I used a tilapia fillet. U can use any fish u like.  4 heaped tablespoons of wheat flour  4 heaped tablespoons of rice fl...

  SAYUR LODEH  This is another of those "clear my fridge" dish that tastes excellent! Whatever vegs u have, fishballs, fishcakes or toufu, u can chuck everything in and in a couple of minutes u have a one pot dish that all will love. If u have ketupat or nasi impit, some dried desiccated coconut and sambal lying around, this would make a bloody good lontong! Just had this for dinner and since this is the season of Lent, it's also a Lent-friendly meal too!  Ingredients 2 teaspoons tumeric powder  Half a garlic, minced  1 inch galangal, minced  8 shallots, minced  250ml coconut milk  Two tablespoons granulated balachan 5pcs candlenuts  1 stalk lemongrass, bruised Cabbage, brinjal, chili, long beans all cut to size  1 tow Kwa deep fried and cut to size  Some fishballs, fish cake and crab sticks  Two litres of water  Salt to taste Method  Blend the onions, garlic, candlenuts, belachan and tumeric powder into a paste and s...

  FISH SOUP  Lately it's been raining so much flash floods appeared all over the place. The weather has been really cool these couple of nights and this is the perfect soup for the dinner table. Keeps you warm on the inside, perfect for this kind of weather. Good with rice or rice noodles, it's the perfect dish for tonight's dinner! Ingredients  1 whole garlic, finely chopped and fried till crispy  Some spring onions  Some corriander leaves  250g red snapper fillets, sliced  Some ginger, sliced  Some salted vegs, sliced  1 tomato, quartered  1 teaspoon sugar  1 teaspoon corn flour  1 teaspoon salt  Some Chinese rice wine  4 tablespoons evaporated milk  1 ikan bilis cube  1 tablespoon flounder powder  1.5L water  1.5 tablespoons fish sauce Method  Marinade the fish with salt, 1 tablespoon Chinese rice wine, sugar and corn flour and let it sit for 30mins  With the oil used to fry the garlic...

  BAKWAN KEPETING Bakwan kepeting is a southern nyonya dish...... The star of the show is the meatballs that's made with minced pork, prawns, crab meat and bamboo shoots....... Bakwan means meatball, kepeting is crab in the peranakan language...... This was something my grandma used to make, and I've not had this since she passed, so I decided to give this a shot and buy, it didn't disappoint! It's a pretty tedious job, peeling the crab for its meat, but done correctly, this is a dish made in heaven! Here's what u need....... Ingredients  1. 150g minced pork  2. 150g crab meat  3. 150g prawns, peeled and chopped into small pieces  4. 70g bamboo shoots, diced  5. 2 teaspoons soy sauce  6. 1 teaspoon white pepper  7. 100g turnips, cut to strips  8. 100g bamboo shoots, cut to strips  9. 5 cloves Minced garlic  10. 1 small egg 11. Corriander leaves to garnish  Method  Boil the crabs and prawn shells. Save the water as it will ...

  CHINAMAN'S SALAD  Gained a lot of weight during CNY, so I'm going on a low carb diet for a month or two to try to lose a couple of kilos..... This recipe was inspired by a meal I had in a cafe a few months ago..... Ingredients  2 eggs  Carrot  Cucumber  Baby butterhead lettuce  2 tablespoons Crispy pork lard and oil  1 tablespoon Spicy black bean paste  1 tablespoon Oyster sauce  1 tablespoon Sesame oil  1 tablespoon black rice vinegar 100g minced pork Method  In a pot of hot salted water cook the eggs for 7mins and dunk it into cold water...... Peel the shell off and cut into halves  Cut the carrot and cucumber into thin strips and dress with the black bean sauce, vinegar and pork lard  Marinade the minced pork with sesame oil and oyster sauce.  In a pot of hot water, cook the pork till it changes colour...... Do not overcook it..... Drain the water and put it aside..... On a plate, line it with butterhead let...

  MEE YOKE / PRAWN MEE  Not difficult to make, but if do it properly you will be rewarded with this excellent bowl of Mee Yoke! It helps when u have some of my multi purpose sambal in the fridge. If u don't, this is the link.....  https://thatbloddybotak.blogspot.com/2021/08/multi-purpose-sambal.html?m=1 I usually save all the heads of the prawns I use to cook other dishes, so whenever I have a big bag of prawn heads, this is one of the dishes I'll make...... This is what u need....... Ingredients 1kg prawn heads  1 egg 500g pork belly  Some fried onions  Some deep fried pork fat  500g small prawns, peeled  5 heaped tablespoons of my multi purpose sambal  Some towgay  Some kangkong  Enough noodles for 1  Enough mee hoon for 1 3 litres of water  20g rock sugar  Some salt to taste  Method  Soak the Mee Hoon in water till soft  Boil some water and make the hard boiled egg In a pot with some oil, stir fry t...