Delicious Fried Mee

Few weeks ago, I've fried curry mee + kuey teow. Hubby and my in-laws liked it so much. It has been on Hubby's mind for weeks. I finally decided to cook it again.

It tastes a lot better than what it looks, trust me.

It's fried curry mee. Before putting in the mee, I fried garlic, onion, curry powder and curry leaves with oil until fragrant. Then I added tomatoes, carrots, water, soy sauce, sugar, pepper, salt and a little bit of tomato. Haha. This is why I can't come up with the recipe. A lot is based on my instincts. This is really good. I should include some crispies and it'll be just like fried mamak mee.

Yummy!

Deep-fried Bitter Gourd

Few days ago, hubby and I went to grocery store right before dinner to get something to cook. We've always been a big fan of deep-fried bitter gourd from Indian restaurants and I thought of trying those. I bought a few young bitter gourd and that's all I need.

I have no idea how I was going to cook this but I try to put in as much spices as possible.

Ingredients:
6 young bitter gourds sliced

For batter:
Self-raising flour
Corn flour
Tumeric powder
Coriander powder
Cumin seed
Salt
Sugar
Five Spice Powder
Water

A dish full of spices. It turned out really yummy although not as good as those in Indian restaurant. Next time, I will try to check with my Indian friends how to perfect it.

Fried Mushrooms

Oyster mushrooms were on sale in Tesco and I bought a few packs last week. After using a pack for my mamak mee, I decided to try frying the second pack for lunch. I used self-raising flour with corn flour, salt, sugar and a little bit of pepper for the batter.

It was very crispy and delicious. However, I've learnt a lesson this round. I should dry the mushrooms with towel before I mix them in the batter next time. There were water in the mushroom causing the oil to burst.

Oh well, it's still very delicious. Also, next time I'll add some fermented red bean curd (nam yee) to spice it up.

Mamak Mee

For lunch today, I fried some yellow noodles and it turned out tasting like Mamak Mee. It was savory with some hint of spiciness. Absolutely fantastic! Here's how I did it:

Ingredients:
1 cup of garlic and onions chopped finely
a bag of oyster mushroom
1 carrot cut into smaller thin pieces
1 big tomato cut into wedges
some tofu pok
mustard green cut in smaller pieces
bean sprouts
yellow noodle
turmeric powder
chilli flakes
olive oil

(Feel free to measure how much you need above. I didn't keep track of it. Sorry)

1) Fry garlic and onion in a wok of olive oil. Add in turmeric powder and chili flakes and fry until fragrant.
2) Add in carrots, tomato and oyster mushroom. Also, put in some water, salt, pepper, sugar, dark soy sauce, light soy sauce until you're satisfied with the taste. Simmer for a few minutes.
3) Add in tofu pok and yellow noodle. Fry until the water is almost dried up.
4) Add in mustard green and bean sprouts.
5) Continue to fry for a few minutes. Do your tasting test and add in more salt/pepper/sugar/soy sauce/chilli flakes/turmeric powder if need be.

I was happy that it tasted like Mamak Mee. This is my first time getting it sooooo right.

Sweet and Sour Vege Fish

Three nights ago, hubby and myself were too lazy to go out for dinner after a long day of work. I checked my fridge and cook up something with anything left. There were tomatoes, lemongrass, laksa leaf, ginger, big onions, garlic, green vege and half piece of vegetarian fish.

Guess what I came up with?

Stir fried mustard green with garlic and shallots

Sweet and sour vege fish

Both dishes were taken with rice.

The sweet and sour fish was really nice and simple. Here's how to do it:

Ingredients (rough estimates)

5 cloves of garlic chopped finely
2 lemongrass chopped finely (only the end of the lemongrass used - the whitish part)
5 laksa leaves
1 big onion (cut into rings)
10 pieaces of vegetarian fillets
3/4 cup self-raising flour
1/4 cup corn starch
olive oil
black pepper
salt
sugar
tomato sauce
dried and fine basil leaves (optional)

1) Make a batter with self-raising flour, corn flour and water.
2) Dip all the vegetarian fish fillets into the batter.
3) Add some olive oil into the non-stick pan and fry the fish fillets. Remove from pan when golden brown.
4) Leave the remaining oil in the pan and fry garlic, lemongrass and laksa leaf until fragrant and add big onions.
5) Add in tomatoes, tomato sauce, black pepper, salt, sugar, basil leaves, add some water and let it simmer for a few minutes
6) Taste the sauce and adjust accordingly.
7) When you are satisfied with the taste and the tomatoes are soft, add in the fried fish fillets and turn off fire.
8) Mix the fish fillets in the sauce evenly and transfer to plate.


This dish actually turned out to be very delicious. Next time, I will try adding in some chili flakes, pineapple and capsicum.