Recipes from Eugene's Kitchen

Fried Banana with Chocolate Ice-cream

2011-12-18T16:56:00.000-08:00

I love to eat bananas, and enjoy my ice-cream. Then I thought, why not mix them together? The result is a harmony fusion of hot and cold, a perfect delight in the mouth.

Ingredients

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/4 tablespoon vanilla powder
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon rum flavoring
4 ripe bananas
2 cups oil for frying
2 scoops chocolate ice cream
Optional: Chocolate Sauce

Time Taken: 30 mins

Directions

1. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar and vanilla powder.

2. Make a well in the center, and pour in milk, egg, melted butter and rum flavoring. Mix until smooth.

3. Evenly coat the banana in the mixture.

4. Heat oil in a wok or deep-fryer and wait 5 mins until oil is hot.

5. Drop banana into hot oil. Fry until golden brown and crispy

6. Remove bananas from oil, and drain on paper towels.

7. Remove paper towels, add the ice-cream and chocolate sauce
8. Serve hot.

Pork with Celery, Yellow and Red Capsium, and Tomato

2011-12-18T16:45:00.000-08:00

I love it when meat and vegetables stir fry combines together in a harmony of taste. This is one winner with lots of cruchy vegetables.

Ingredients

2 stalks of celery, cut into pieces
1/2 red capsium, slices into pieces
1/2 yellow capsium, sliced into pieces
1 tomato, sliced into cubes
200 g pork slices.
1 cup water
1 cube of Knorr vegatable stock cube.
a pinch of salt
a pinch of pepper.
1 tablespoon of oil
1 tablespoon of soy sauce.

Time taken: 20 mins

Directions:

1. Marinate the pork with salt, pepper and soy sauce.

2. In a wok, add the oil and turn fire to high.

3. Fry the pork for 3 mins, ensuring that the pork is cooked.

4. Add the water and Knorr Vegetable stock cube - ensuring that the vegatable stock cube dissolve in the water.

5. Add the celery, red and yellow capsium and tomatoes into the wok and stir fry for 3 mins.

6. Serve hot.

Sweet and Sour Fish

2011-12-18T16:27:00.000-08:00

I love it when when I got hold of a small jar of sweet and sour sauce. It is so much easier to cook when you got ready made sauces - and it enables even amatuers to make superb food with minimum effort:

Ingredients:

1 whole fish (small), degutted and descale
1 cup flour.
4 tablespoons fish sauce
1 egg
1/2 jar sweet and sour sauce.
6 pieces of pineapple cubes
2 cups oil for deep frying
1/2 cup of water.

Time taken: 30 mins

Directions:

1. mix the fish sauce and the egg together.

2. coat the fish with the mixture in step 1.

3. Cover the fish with flour.

4. If there are any leftover mixture from step 1, repeat steps 2 and 3 once more.

5. In a large saucepan, add the oil and wait for 5 mins for the oil to be hot.

6. Deep fry the fish until fish is golden brown.

7. In a separate saucepan, add the water, pineapple cubes with the sweet and sour sauce and turn the fire to medium. Stir the mixture and let it turn hot.

8. Pour the sauce over the fish and serve hot.

Honey Black Pepper Crab

2011-12-18T16:07:00.000-08:00

A receipe that I made for my wife while in Australia, this is a favourite dish of ours.

Ingredients

2 mud crabs, cut into pieces
5 cm ginger, minced
5 cloves garlic, minced
2 pieces onions, diced
3 tablespoons oyster sauce
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tablespoon sesame oil
4 tablespoons honey
2 eggs beaten off
2 tablespoons black pepper, crushed
1 leek, sliced
Cooking oil to taste

Time Taken: 1 hour

Directions:

1. Heat oil, fry the crab until it changes color and ripe, lift

2. Heat a skillet, saute garlic, onion, ginger until fragrant. Enter the crab, oyster sauce, sesame oil, soy sauce, honey. stir well

3. Thicken with beaten eggs and stir well. Add black pepper, sliced ??scallions. Stir well, remove

4. Serve Hot

Deep Fried Button Mushroom with stuffed crab stick

2011-12-18T15:55:00.000-08:00

Having tasted the lingering, tender stick of fried mushrooms from a korean food stand, I decided to experiment and create my own fried mushrooms - with a small twist of having crab sticks as topping. To my surprise and delight the food turn up to be very tasty!

Ingredients

4 button mushrooms (or more if you desire)
1 crab sticks
1 cherry tomato
1/2 teaspoon of butter
1 small shallot
1 egg
1 cup of flour
1 teaspoon of salt
A pinch of pepper
A slice of cheddar cheese
Some oil for frying.
BBQ sauce (optional)

Time Taken:1 hour

Directions:

1. In a small bowl, beat the eggs.

2. Cut the mushroom stems out from the mushroom

3. Toss the mushroom caps into the bowl with the eggs.

4. In another small bowl, mix the flour, salt and pepper together

5. Scope out the mushroom caps and cover the mushroom with the flour mixture

6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 once again to ensure that the mushroom are well covered by the flour mixture.

7. Slice the crab sticks, tomatoes, mushroom stems and shallot into small pieces and set aside.

8. In a small saucepan, add some oil for frying. Turn the heat to hot and wait for 5 mins for the oil to be hot.

9. Deep fry the mushrooms. When the mushrooms are golden brown, scope out the mushrooms and place them on the serving plate.

10. In another small saucepan, melt the butter. Then add the mixture used in step 7 to the saucepan and fry for 3 mins.

11. Scoop the food on top of the mushroom.

12. Serve the mushrooms.

Honeydew and Mango pudding

2011-10-02T21:47:00.000-07:00

I knew that my wife love to eat jelly and pudding, and was thinking of a desert dish that combines the best of mango and honeydew pudding. To make the food faster and easier, I opted to buy some instant pudding mix. The result is a mix of mango and honeydew pudding that is healthy and delicious. :)

Ingredients

1 mango - cubed
1/4 honeydew - cubed
1/2 packet honeydew jelly mix
1/2 packet mango pudding mix.

Time taken: 3 hours.

Directions:

1. Add some water to the honeydew jelly mix and bring to boil, stirring the mixture slowly.

2. Leave it to cool for a bit, before spooning the mix to a container.

3. Add some honeydew cubes into the mixture so that when the jelly hardens, there will be some honeydew inside the jelly.

4. Put the honeydew jelly into the fridge and leave it alone for 1.5 hours. This should solify the jelly

5. Once the jelly has solified, prepare the mango pudding by bringing some milk, water and mango pudding mix to a boil, stirring the mixture slowly.

6. Add the cubed mangoes pieces into the mango pudding and pour the mango mixture on top of the jelly.

7. Put the mixture into the fridge and wait 1 hour for the pudding to solify.

8. (optional. Add

a. a thin layer of condensed milk
b. a thin layer of chocolate sauce
c. the remaining fruits on top
d. some whipped cream and cherry)

Prawns in white wine sauce

2011-10-02T21:30:00.000-07:00

Well, I believe that seafood goes well with white wine and experimented on a new dish concept using white wine as a sauce. I thought of cooking the prawns in white wine, and to bring the favour out even more, to have garlic, oinions and tomatoes. The result is a dish that is superb.

Ingredients:

8 large prawns
3 cherry tomatoes, diced
Some white cooking wine.
2 tablespoons butter
1 clove garlic, finely diced
1 stalk spring onion leaf, diced
2 button mushroom, diced
1/2 onion diced.
Salt and Pepper to taste.

Time Required: 20-30 mins

Directions:

1. Peel the prawns but leave the prawn head.

2. In a large saucepan, add the butter and garlic. (optional - add 2 tablespoon olive oil). Cook until the butter melted.

3. Add in the onion, cherry tomatoes, mushroom and spring onion leaf and cook for 2 mins, until the mushroom becomes soft.

4. Toss in the prawns and add in the white wine and cook for 3 mins. allowing for the alcohol to evaporate from the wine, and until the prawns are reddish / white in color.

5. Add in salt and pepper to taste.

6. Serve the prawns.

Sweet Chilli Crab

2011-06-01T18:14:00.000-07:00

Preamble

My wife does not like too spicy food. This makes it more difficult for me to treat her to chilli crabs - a local favourite. To this end, I decided to create a chilli crab that is not so spicy in hope that she will enjoy it.

Ingredients

1 Mud Crab
2 shallots (or 1/4 onions) diced.
1 clove garlic, diced
1/2 knob of ginger, diced
2 cups of water
3 tablespoons of oil
1 can tomato paste
2 tablespoons Thai Sweet chili (add more if you desire a more spicy taste)
1 egg (beaten)

Time needed: 40 mins

Preparations:

Remove the crab pincers by breaking them from the body.
Cut away the legs and back fins and toss them away.
Remove the top shell from the crab and wash it.
Cut the fresh into quarters and crack the princers.
In a wok, turn the fire to high and add in the oil.
After the wok is heated, add in the ginger, garlic and shallots and fry for 2 mins.
Add the tomato paste, chilli and water into the wok and mix well.
Add the crab into the wok and mix with the mixture.
Cover the wok, cooking until the crab has turned red.
Remove the cover and add in the egg, stirring all the time (for 1 min)
Serve hot.

Baked Crab Cakes with Grated Cheese and Mushrooms

2011-05-26T18:38:00.000-07:00

Preamble:

I have always wanted to try baking crab cakes ever since I tried one at a japanese restuarant. This recipe details my attempt to create a better tasting crab cake.

Ingredients:

1 mud crab
2 cherry tomatoes
1/2 onion
4 pieces button mushroom
1/2 slice of bread
2 tablespoons grated cheese
1 clove garlic
2 stalks asparagus
2 tablespoon butter.

Time needed: 45-55 mins

Directions:

Remove the crab pincers by breaking them from the body.
Cut away the legs and backfins.
Remove the top shell from the crab and wash it.
Steam the crab for 10-15 mins.
Slice the cherry tomatoes, asparagus, garlic, mushroom and onions into tiny pieces and set aside with a bowl
Scope out the crab meat from the body and shell and add them to the mixture as in part 5.
In a frying pan, add the butter and cook on high until the butter melted
Add the ingredients in part 6 into the frying pan and stir fry for 5 mins.
Spoon the mixture back into the crab shell.
Sprinkle the top with breadcrumbs and grate over a little parmesan and add a grind of black pepper.
Place a few dots of butter on top.
Put it in the oven for 10-15 minutes to crisp the bread and melt the cheese.
Serve hot.

Post ramble:

The crab cakes taste great with the mushroom, tomatoes and aspargus. The melted cheese add a very tasty texture to the baked crab.

Steam Pomfret with mushroom, ginger and asparagus

2011-05-25T18:58:00.000-07:00

Preamble:

There are many ways to cook fish, but it is my personal opinion that steamed fish is the best way to cook as the fresh will be very tender and it is a healthy alternative to other ways of cooking fish.

Ingredients

1 silver pomfret
1 stalk asparagus
1 small ginger
1 button mushroom, sliced.
15 ml Hua Tiao Wine
10 ml Light soy sauce
500 ml water.

Time to cook: 15 to 30 mins.

Directions:

Rub the ginger all over the fish.
Add the Hua Tiao Wine and light soy sauce to the fish.
Add the mushroom and asparagus on top of the fish
Add the water to a steamer.
Cover the steamer and steam the fish for 10 mins
Serve hot.

Post ramble:

The water that has evapourated during the steaming process will mix together with the soy sauce and Hua Tiao Wine to create a simple but tasty soup base.

Baked Squid (Calamari) with Cheese

2011-05-24T18:15:00.000-07:00

Preamble

I was thinking of what I could cook with the ingredients in my fridge when I noticed that I have some squid and cheese. Thinking that cheese would taste good with almost every ingredient, why not try baking the squid with cheese? This experiment was thus created.

Ingredients:

3 Cherry Tomatoes
3 stalks of Asparagus
3 button mushroom
1 piece of crab stick
1 large squid
2 tablespoon of grated cheese
2 slices of cheddar cheese
2 tablespoons of butter
1 tablespoon of light soy sauce

Time Required: 1 hour 15 mins to 1 hour 30 mins

Directions:

Cut the cherry tomatoes, asparagus, button mushroom and crab stick into tiny pieces and mix in a big bowl.
Remove head from squid body, and cut away all tentacles from the head.
Discard the head.
Cut the tentacles into small pieces and add it to the bowl as in step 1.
Remove the cartilage and skin from the squid body and wash the squid.
On a baking tray, add aluminium foil.
Cut the squid body into squid rings and place it on the baking tray.
In a frying pan, add the butter and wait for the butter to melt.
Add the mixture in step 4 into the frying pan, and fry for 5-10 mins on medium heat.
Then add the soy sauce to the frying pan.
Place the contents of the frying pan into the baking tray.
Add two tablespoons of grated cheese on top the contents.
Bake the food in oven for 30 mins on hot until the grated cheese has melted.
Take the food out and add two slices of cheddar cheese on top for a firmer cheese texture.
Bake the food in the oven on hot for another 10 mins until the cheddar cheese slices has melt.
Serve hot.

Post ramble:

To my surprise and delight, the dish turns out to taste wonderful. The indegredient blended well together to create a unique taste, and my wife said that was the best squid dish she ever tried.

Baked Papaya with Coconut Milk

2011-05-23T21:08:00.000-07:00

Preamble:

I noticed that my wife has not been having fruits recently and decided to surprise her with a fruit dish for dessert. Having tried some papaya in coconut milk before, I thought I will try making it as it seems simple enough.

Ingredients:
Some papaya, sliced
2 tablespoon Sugar
2 tablespoon Honey
1 packet coconut milk
1/2 cups water

Time required: 1 hour 45 mins -1 hour 55 mins

Directions:

Preheat Oven to the hottest
Place the papayas, cut side up, in a shallow baking dish.
Sprinkle with the sugar and add the water.
Bake uncovered in the middle of the oven for 45 mins, or until the papayas are tender but still keep their shape.
Every 15 mins, pull out the oven rack and baste the papayas with the liquid from the dish.
For the last 5 minutes of baking raise the heat to 400°F and bake until the syrup gets thick and becomes the color of caramel.
Pour the honey on top of the papaya
Turn off the heat and pour the coconut milk into the center of the papayas.
Leave the papayas in the oven until the milk gets warm, about 5 minutes.
Refrigerate for 1 hour and serve cold.

Post ramble:

Well, the papaya taste heavenly when combined with the rich aroma of coconut milk. This is one recipe I growth to love. Perhaps I could substitute the sugar, honey and water with condensed milk to get a richer favour of milk next time. ;)