I love to cook simple but delicious food. When you are busy with work and you will (very possibly) search for something quick and easy (junk) food from the supermarket. I know it too well...! But you can make fresh meals from home if you have only 20-30 minutes time for cooking. Try these!
It's been quite a long time since I have wanton soup. This is one of the childhood food memory moments. There was a well-known wanton noodle restaurant in my childhood hometown - Kulai. I remember every week, my parents would take us to have breakfast at the restaurant at least once a week. Sometimes with few of my childhood friends, we venture there without our parents. We were all so young then (around 10 years old!). I am sooo old now, and since lost contact with most of those childhood friends....
Sometimes, I think I cook and eat as the acts of remembrance...Different food reminded me of different events and/or people in my life.
To make this wanton soup (which the taste is very different from the "childhood" restaurant), you will need the following ingredients (you can add more or reduce any of the listed ingredients depend on your own taste - all very flexible!):
Prepare the wanton first of all. In a large bowl, mix the pork, spring onion, ginger, soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt and pepper together and set it aside to marinate for at least 30 minutes.
Next, prepare the stock, use a deep heavy pot, add the water, white radish, mushroom and Chinese leaves and bring it to a boil over high heat. Turn to lower heat and simmer the stock for at least 30 minutes or so.
Once the meat has been marinated, wrap about a teaspoon of meat with wanton skin (there is no rule of how you should wrap the meat with the wanton skin, place the meat in the middle of the skin and just close the edges of the skin towards the centre, it will all stick to the meat!). Repeat the process until you have used up all the marinated meat.
To cook the wantons, a lazy way is to just put them directly to the boiling stock and cook for few minutes until the skin is soft and the meat is cooked.
Or do it properly, you need a separate pan with plain boiling water, put the wantons and cook until the skin is soft and the meat is cooked. It should be under 5 minutes or so. Then drain and put them to the stock and cook for further few minutes before serving.
Serves the wanton soup hot. Just before serving, add a few dashes of fish sauce and a squeeze of lemon to over the soup. Garnish with chilli and coriander. Done. Yum!
This is especially a nice and balanced meal to have during Winter months.
It's been quite a long time since I have wanton soup. This is one of the childhood food memory moments. There was a well-known wanton noodle restaurant in my childhood hometown - Kulai. I remember every week, my parents would take us to have breakfast at the restaurant at least once a week. Sometimes with few of my childhood friends, we venture there without our parents. We were all so young then (around 10 years old!). I am sooo old now, and since lost contact with most of those childhood friends....
Sometimes, I think I cook and eat as the acts of remembrance...Different food reminded me of different events and/or people in my life.
To make this wanton soup (which the taste is very different from the "childhood" restaurant), you will need the following ingredients (you can add more or reduce any of the listed ingredients depend on your own taste - all very flexible!):
- Minced pork (amount depends on how many wantons you intend to make!)
- Wanton skin (from Chinese supermarket)
- Some spring onion (thinly sliced)
- Minced fresh ginger (to taste - the more the better I think!)
- Light soy sauce (to taste)
- Salt and white pepper (to taste)
- Oyster sauce (to taste)
- Chinese leaves (as much as you like!) (sliced - for making the stock)
- White radish/ Mooli (as much as you like!) (cut into sticks for making the stock)
- Few dried Shiitake mushroom (for stock)
- Enough water to make the stock
- Coriander (for garnish)
- Few fresh chilli slices (for garnish)
- Fish sauce (few drop or to taste for final touch)
- Lemon (few squeezes for final touch)
Prepare the wanton first of all. In a large bowl, mix the pork, spring onion, ginger, soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt and pepper together and set it aside to marinate for at least 30 minutes.
Next, prepare the stock, use a deep heavy pot, add the water, white radish, mushroom and Chinese leaves and bring it to a boil over high heat. Turn to lower heat and simmer the stock for at least 30 minutes or so.
Once the meat has been marinated, wrap about a teaspoon of meat with wanton skin (there is no rule of how you should wrap the meat with the wanton skin, place the meat in the middle of the skin and just close the edges of the skin towards the centre, it will all stick to the meat!). Repeat the process until you have used up all the marinated meat.
To cook the wantons, a lazy way is to just put them directly to the boiling stock and cook for few minutes until the skin is soft and the meat is cooked.
Or do it properly, you need a separate pan with plain boiling water, put the wantons and cook until the skin is soft and the meat is cooked. It should be under 5 minutes or so. Then drain and put them to the stock and cook for further few minutes before serving.
Serves the wanton soup hot. Just before serving, add a few dashes of fish sauce and a squeeze of lemon to over the soup. Garnish with chilli and coriander. Done. Yum!
This is especially a nice and balanced meal to have during Winter months.
Pork Wanton Soup
When you are busy and tired - all you want, I suspect, is something sweet with deep flavours! (That's all I want!)
This Coconut milk sago dessert is quite easy to make. Other then some effort to prepare the sago, you can make this in less then 5 minutes!
Ingredients:
In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients together and serves them in a small bowl. You may add more coconut milk or sugar to give it a richer taste. Nice dessert to serve cold during Summer.
This Coconut milk sago dessert is quite easy to make. Other then some effort to prepare the sago, you can make this in less then 5 minutes!
Ingredients:
- About 1 cup of white sago pearls (soak the sago in cold water for 5 minutes and then put them in boiling water to cook until they turn transparent. Add more water as necessary during the cooking process. Once cooked, drain and wash the sago in cold water few times and drain completely)
- Few large tablespoonful soft dark brown sugar (to taste)
- Coconut milk (at least few large tablespoonful) (to taste)
In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients together and serves them in a small bowl. You may add more coconut milk or sugar to give it a richer taste. Nice dessert to serve cold during Summer.
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