To Cook
Saute garlic and red chilli in oil. Add prawn meat, Lee Kum Kee Fine
Shrimp Sauce and stir-fry until prawn meat is cooked.
Add rice and stir-fry until heated through. Remove from heat and stir in lettuce. Serve hot.
Rice
Korean New Year Rice Cake Soup (Tteok Guk)
To Cook
Wash meat with cold water and then place in a pot of cold water, about 2lt. Bring this to a boil then skim for any impurities that float to the top of the stock. Reduce heat and add garlic and 1 whole green onion. Simmer the stock for about 1½ hrs or until the meat pulls apart easily.
Take out the meat and discard the garlic and green onions. Skim off any fat that may float on top of the stock.
Soak sliced rice cakes in a bowl of cold water, drain water when the rice cakes have softened.
Thinly slice or pull apart 1/3 of the meat. Season sliced beef with salt and pepper and combine with 1 green onion (sliced), sesame oil and minced garlic.
Bring the stock to a boil and add the rice cakes and soy sauce. Cook until the rice cakes are really soft, season with salt and pepper.
Ladle rice cake soup into individual bowls and top with seasoned meat, eggs, sliced green onions and shredded kim (nori). Sprinkle more pepper on top of the soup.
For the Quicker version of Tteok guk
In a heated saucepan, add 200g of thinly sliced scotch filler and cloves of garlic (minced). Cook meat until just cooked, add 1 tsp soy.
Sauce to the meat. Add 2lt of cold water. Bring this to a boil and skim stock for impurities. Simmer the stock for about 15 mins.
Soak sliced rice cakes in a bowl of cold water, drain water when the rice cakes have softened.
Add the sliced rice cakes and cook until rice cakes are soft. Season the soup with 2-3 tbsp soy sauce, salt and pepper. Add in 2 beaten eggs in ribbons into the hot soup and 2 green onions (sliced). Ladle soup to individual bowls and sprinkle with extra ground black pepper.
Avocado and Cucumber Brown Rice Roll
To Prep
To begin, cut the avocados in to halves, pit and then peel off the skin. Pour the lemon juice over avocados to prevent browning and then cut in to thick strips.
Cut the cucumber in to thin long strips, and slice to remove cucumber seeds.
To assemble the sushi
Wrap the bamboo mat used to fold sushi with cling film to make cleaning easier and to stop rice granules from getting stuck on the mat.
On the mat, place one seaweed sheet down and spread about 1 cup of rice evenly onto the nori sheet. Use your fingers to press and push to rice to form an even layer of rice.
Turn the sheet over so that the rice now faced down on the bamboo mat.
Arrange the avocado and cucumber in a row, close to the bottom of the sheet.
Then, pull up the bottom edge of the mat, while using your fingers to roll and tuck the fillings in.
Lift the mat slightly to go over the roll, and continue rolling forward while keeping a firm hold.
Remove the roll from the mat and place on to a section of cling wrap and sprinkle the rice with the sesame seeds. Roll the cling wrap over the roll to full coat the rice.
Remove the roll from the cling wrap and the use a sharp knife to cut the roll into equal portions.
Japanese Wasabi Yakiniku Beef on Rice
For the Sauce
Bring cooking sake to the boil. Remove from heat and add remaining sauce ingredients. Whisk well, set aside.
Sprinkle beef with pepper. Heat oil in frying pan over high heat, brown both sides of beef. Add 5 tbsp sauce, toss well and remove from heat.
Arrange beef over rice, top with remaining sauce, garnish with spring onions.
Golden Chicken Balls
To Prep
Combine the chicken mince, cooked rice, ginger, garlic and coriander together in a bowl.
Shape mixture into small balls and refrigerate.
Cut the yaki nori sheets into four squares, spray each square with a little water to soften and wrap around a chicken ball. Repeat with remaining chicken mixture and nori.
Dust the balls in the cornflour and dip into the beaten egg; then roll in the panko crumbs. Refrigerate until required.
To Cook
Cook balls in hot oil for 3-4 mins or until cooked; remove and drain on absorbent paper.
Serve hot with mayonnaise and pickled ginger.
Your Golden Chicken Balls are ready!
Note: Canned tuna can be used in place of chicken.
Malay Compressed Rice (Ketupat)
To Cook
Cook all in a rice cooker.
Press hot rice into a square container.
Press with waxed paper/cling wrap until the rice are all tight. Wait till it cool and put in refrigerator.
Serve when cool, cut into squares.
Garnish with cut cubes of red onion and cucumber. Alternately, serve with barbeque satay sauce.
Your Ketupat is ready!
Pineapple Fried Rice
To Prep
Cut prawns into small pieces and coat with ½ tsp fish sauce. Cut chicken fillet into small cubes and coat with ½ tsp fish sauce.
To Cook
Brown chicken meat over medium heat until cooked. Set aside. Stir fry prawns until cooked, set aside.
Stir fry onion in heated oil over medium heat until fragrant, combine cooked rice and stir through. Add fish sauce, sugar and pepper, mix well.
Combine pineapple, chicken meat, prawns and pineapple juice, mix through raise up the heat, add capsicums and stir fry until well cooked. Remove from heat.
Omelette strips: Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan over medium heat. Pour 1 well beaten egg in the middle and move the pan to spread out the egg thinly. Place the pan over the heat until the egg is set and slightly brown. Roll the egg and remove from heat, thinly sliced when it cools down.
Top this Thai pineapple fried rice with omelette strips when served.
Honey and Soy Stir Fried Rice with Tofu
To Cook
Heat oil in a wok over medium heat.
Stir-fry the garlic and tofu for 2-3 mins or until well browned.
Add spring onions, carrot and corn, stir-fry 2 mins.
Stir in Oriental Honey & Soy and mix well.
Add rice and continue to stir fry 3-4 mins until sauce and rice are well combined.
Add the omelettes and stir through.
Serve on a large platter and garnish with fried shallots.
Teriyaki Salmon on Rice
To Prep
Combine the teriyaki sauce ingredients in a bowl and mix well until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Season the salmon fillets with salt and pepper on both sides, then coat with plain flour. Remove excess flour by patting gently.
To Cook
Heat the oil and butter in a fry pan on medium, place the salmon fillets, skin down, in the pan. Pan fry until the bottom side is browned, about 3 mins, then flip.
Pour in the sake and cover the pan with a lid. Cook for another 3 mins or until the fish is cooked through. Remove and set aside.
Pour the teriyaki sauce into the pan and bring to boil.
Place the salmon fillets back into the pan and baste the fillets with the sauce until the sauce thickens. Turn off the heat.
Place some rice into a serving bowl, place a salmon fillet on top and pour half of the sauce over the fish and rice. Sprinkle some sesame seeds on top. Repeat for the other fillet, serve.
Traditional Fried Rice
To Cook
Heat oil in a large wok over a medium heat and brown onions for 2 mins.
Add the spring onions to the wok and stir fry for 1 min, remove and set aside.
Beat eggs and water together. Return the wok to the heat and pour the egg in to make a thin omelette, remove and cool on a plate; then slice.
Return the wok to the heat along with the onions, diced pork and rice, then stir fry for 4 mins; add in oyster sauce and soy sauce and mix well..
Toss through the sliced omelette and serve garnished with fried shallots.
Fried Rice Deluxe
To Cook
Heat a fry pan or wok over medium-high heat. Add 1 tbsp of the oil and stir-fry sausage (pork or ham) and mushrooms until fragrant, for about 3 mins. Remove from pan and set aside.
Return pan to heat, add egg and cook until firm. Remove and cut into strips.
Add remaining 1 tbsp oil to pan and add rice, mushrooms, green beans (or peas), spring onion, bean shoots, egg strips, Chinese sausage (ham or pork) and XO sauce. Stir until heated through, then serve at once.
Yellow Curry Fried Rice
To Cook
Stir-fry yellow curry paste with hot oil until fragrant.
Add meat, stir-fry over high heat, and then add fish sauce and sugar. Stir-fry until the meat is cooked before adding onion.
Add cooked rice and stir through, sprinkle spring onion just before removing from heat.
Tips: for balanced diet, some peas or paprika can be added with onion. For better fried rice results, cook rice 1 day ahead and refrigerate.