Simplee Dinner Ideas : Dory in Marinara Sauce

 

Preparation : 3mins

Cooking : 10mins

What will be more promising than a good dinner your children enjoy eating? I always believe that a yummy home cook meal is good enough to tell your children how much you love them. Even a simple one that comes put from your kitchen.

Ingredients 

100gm Dory fish fillet (sliced and season with salt & parley flakes)

1/2 cup Spinach (chopped)

1 1/2 cup water

3 tbsp Prego spaghetti sauce

Simplee Dinner Ideas : Oriental Chicken Chop

Olivia loves chicken chop very much specially those with crispy batter. But I'm trying something new today. Chicken Chop without batter, cooks with gravy. This is an Oriental Style Chicken Chop, weel known among Malaysia & Singaporean Chinese. Some said it's similar to Hainanese Chicken Chop.

Preparation time: 5 min
Cooking time: 20 min

Ingredients

1 Chicken Whole Leg (you may debone)

3 tbsp cooking oil

1/4 tsp Salt & 1 tsp Corriander Powder to marinate the chicken.

100g Brocolli (steam)

Simplee Ideas : Teriyaki Salmon Cake

Salmon is a popular food in Japan and now it has become the favourite among us because of its high protein, high omega-3 fatty acids, and high vitamin D content. Salmon can be eaten raw and cooked, and I love both.

I have a left over salmon in the freezer, not much. Approximately 150gm, a small piece of fillet. But with the right combinations, this could ended up to be a delicious snack.

Simplee Idea Dinner : Teriyaki Salmon Cake

Preparation time: 10min
Cooking time: 10min

Made : 5 Pieces

Ingredients 

100gm Salmon Fillets (chopped)
1 medium size potato (shredded, squeezed out excessive water)

3 tbsp Olive Oil

Salt, pepper & chinese 5 spices powder 五香粉 (to marinate salmon)

1 egg

3 tbsp breadcrumbs

1/2 tsp salt to taste

Teriyaki Sauce

1/4 cup soya

1 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp balsamic vinegar

2 tbsp mapel syrup/honey (optional)

Methods

1) Mix all ingredients in a big mixing bowl.

2) Heat pan with olive oil, scoop a small amount of batter with a soup spoon and gently place it in the pan and fry each side for 4 minutes or until brown, flip side and fry for another 4 minutes.

3) Serve with rice. Bon-appetite.

Simplee Ideas : Butterless Orange Cake

Ingredients:

1 orange
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 sunflower oil
1 1/2 cups flour (sieve)

Methods:

1) Cut orange in half and extract juice with a hand juicer. Use the flesh and the juice.

2) Put sugar & oil into a bowl and beat on medium speed for 5minute. Add in eggs and beat for 2 minutes then add in flour batches by batches beat for 2 minutes. After flour is well mixed, add in orange juice & flesh beat for another minute.

3)Pour into a greased and floured round springform pan.

4)Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes or until skewer inserted in middle comes out clean. It's OK when top starts to crack. You'll flip it over when it's done. Don't overbake or cake will be dry.

5)Sprinkle with icing sugar and grated orange peel or mix some orange juice and icing sugar to make a glaze.

Simplee Snack : Zucchini Bites

Preparation Time : 10 minutes

Cooking Time : 15 minutes 

Made : 9 bites

This afternoon I have an appointment with the fiber optic cable guy and the installation takes so long, more than 4 hours. So instead of sitting there watching him, I planned to kill time with some baking, snack perhaps. Searching in my fridge for ingredients and guess what? A Zucchini! Lets cook something out of this plain vegetable.

Ingredients

1 cup zucchini, grated

1 large egg

1/4 medium onion, diced

1/4 cup reduced fat sharp cheddar cheese, grated

1/4 cup seasoned breadcrumbs

salt and pepper to taste

Dash of mixed dried herbs

cooking spray.        

Methods

1) Preheat oven to 300°.  Spray a mini muffin tin with cooking spray.

2) Grate the zucchini into a clean dish.  Wring all of the excess water out of the zucchini. In a medium bowl, combine all of the ingredients and season with salt, pepper and mixed herbs to taste.

3) Fill each muffin section to the top, pushing down on the filling with your spoon so it's nice and compacted so they don't fall apart when you take them out of the tin.

4) Bake for 15-18 minutes, or until the tops are golden.

5) Use a rubber spatula around the edges of each bite to remove them from the muffin tin. Bon appetite!

How to clean raw prawn

There are many ways to clean prawns. And there is no right or wrong way of doing it. But I particularly like to maintain the tail and shell. 

 1) Rinse prawns with tap water.

2) Trim off the spear above its head.

3) Trim off the eyes.

3) Trim off its legs.

4) Clean body.

5) Trim off the pointy part at the bottom.

6) Lastly, cut along the back of the prawn's shell, remove the vein.

You are done..

Simplee Kiddy Meals : Creamy Spinach Millet

Preparation time : 5 min

Cooking time : 30 min

Holiday is around the corner, and kids are asking for something new for lunch. Oh well, mummy is definitely not in the mood of kneading and frying on a lazy Raya eve. What is easy and simple will be mummy's first option. (Giggles)

Ingredients:

1 cup millet

1 medium potato (shred)

1 cup chopped baby spinach 

3 cups water

50g dory fillet (cut small)

2 slices of cheese

Dash of parsley flakes

Salt to taste

Methods:

1) Mix millet, shredded potato & water, bring to boil. Keep stirring.

2) When content turn thick, add in cheese keep stirring till cheese melt. 

3) Add in parsley flakes, spinach and fillet, cook for another minute, add salt to taste, turn off flame.

4) Bon Appetite.

What is STIR FRYING?

what is STIR FRYING?

Stir frying is a pair of Chinese cooking techniques for preparing food in a wok: chǎo (炒) and bào (爆). The two techniques differ in their speed of execution, the amount of heat used, and the amount of tossing done to cook the food in the wok. 

(source from Wikipedia)