Beef Hor Fun

Occasionally, the family gets quite sick of the usual dishes my helper does. So, I have to get into the kitchen and dish out something that they would like.

Recently, I have tried this recipe out from YouTube (channel from Spice N' Pans).

INGREDIENTS :
1) 350g beef (for stir fry)
2) 1kg thick hor fun
3) 4-5 cloves of garlic
4) vegetables (Xiao Bao Chye)
5) 2 eggs
6) 1 Chicken stock cube
7) 1.2litre Water

Condiments :
- Hua Diao WIne
- Dark soya sauce
- Light soya sauce
- Black bean paste
- corn flour
- baking soda
- salt
- pepper

PREPARATION :

Beef
1) Cut the beef into thin slices the 'tenderise' the slices with the back of the knife
2) Marinate the beef with

• 1 tbsp Hua Diao wine
• 1 tbsp. light soya sauce
• 1 tsp corn flour
• 1 tsp of baking powder
• generous amount of pepper

3) Leave to marinate for at least 20 min

Hor Fun
1) Put 1.5 tbsp. dark soya sauce and 1 tbsp of light soya sauce to the hor fun and mix well so that the hor fun is coated
2) Set aside for use later


METHOD :

1) Add oil to the wok, Fry the hor fun till abit charred. Dish out
2) Add oil to the wok again. Stir fry the beef till about 60-70% cooked. Dish out and set aside.
3) With oil in the wok, fry the garlic till fragrant. Add 1 tbsp of black bean sauce and stir fry for a while
4) Add 1.2litres of water and a chicken stock cube. Wait for the water to boil, add in 1.5 tbsp of dark soya sauce, 1 tsp of sugar and salt to taste.
5) Put in the desired vegetables. Leave to cook for a while and then add the beef slices
6) Prepare corn starch solution. Thicken the gravy.
7) Add in the 2 beaten eggs and stir the mixture
8) When ready, pour about 1.5 tbsp of hua diao wine at the sides of the wok for the final fragrance.
 

Kueh Bangkit

I have been making these for several years, on an on-and-off basis, during the Chinese New Year. This is one of the family's favourites, but the process is quite tedious and it always makes me hesitate to make these.... :)

INGREDIENTS :

350g tapioca flour

350g sago flour

3 egg yolks

250g thick coconut milk

220g icing sugar

6-8 pandan leaves

METHOD:

1) Stir fry the tapioca flour, sago flour and pandan leaves together using very small fire, until the mixture is very very light. Leave to cool and keep in a container (preferably airtight) if not be used immediately.

2) Put the egg yolks into the mixer. Add coconut milk and sugar. Beat mixture till light.

3) Blend in the flour mixture in Step(1) into the egg mixture in Step(2). Knead into a dough.

4) Preheat the oven to 140deg

5) Roll the dough out and cut out the desired shapes using the cookie cutter.

6) Grease the baking paper and place the cookies on it. Remember the "pinch" the cookies foe the "Kueh bangkit" look

7) Bake for about 20 minutes

Notes :

1) Use about 500g coconut to produce about the required milk. Use the first time milk

2) Pandan leaves have to be stir fried first prior to mixing with flour to fry. Cut the leaves into small potions so that the fragrance can be fully disbursed.

3) To cover the unused dough with damp cloth to prevent drying up easily.

4) Roll the pastry till quite flat (maybe 5mm or less), so that when the cookies are baked, the 'expansion' will not be too large    

Another Banana Cake

Going by how many times I have uploaded a recipe for Banana cake, you would realise that this is one of my favourite cake !

I thought I lost my recipe for banana cakes and searched up the internet for another one. Voila ! I found one on this website.

I omitted the chocolate chips from this recipe as I ran out of them but still, with this recipe, the cake still turned out FINE! GOOD! Just how I wanted my banana cakes to be - full of banana flavour and moist.... mm mmm .... :)

The recipe from the above mentioned website is here :

INGREDIENTS : 

185g butter

250g cake flour

200g caster sugar

250g banana 

4 eggs

2.5g salt

6g baking powder (1 1/4 tsp)

45g chocolate

METHOD :

1) Preheat the oven to 175deg.

2) Dice the butter into smaller cubes. Cream the butter and sugar in mixer at high speed.

3) Put the eggs into the mixture and continue at high speed until homogenous.

4) Add in the bananas and mix at low speed.

5) Add in the flour, salt and baking powder and continually mix at low speed until no visible lump.

6) Bake in oven for 60 minutes.

Notes : 

1) For my oven, I set the temperature at 165deg and baked at 50min instead.