Dec 30, 2008

Scallop dumplings with bean film

Ingredients:

Dumplings
Scallops
Chinese cabbage
Celery
Dried bean's film
Salt
Pepper

Sauce
Soy sauce
Mirin (sugar and grinded apple instead)
Sesame oil
Chili pepper

Direction:
1. Shred Chinese cabbage and put into the bowl with salt, and let it dehydrate.
2. Wash the Chinese cabbage in the water. And wring out them as possible as you can by your hands.
3. Do direction # 1 and #2 again.
4. Shred celery.
5. Cut scallops into cube size.
6. Mix Chinese cabbage, celery, and scallops with salt and pepper (the filling of dumplings).
7. Put dried bean's film into boiled water. Keep boiling until the bean's film gets soft.
8. Fold the filling of dumplings by bean's film.
9. Steam dumplings until the color of bean's film turn to whitish.
10. Mix ingredients of the sauce.
11. Souse the sauce on dumplings before eating.

*** Another alternative of cooking ***
* You can use shrimps or mashrooms instead of scallops.
* You can fry dumplings instead of steaming.

Cheese and tomato omlette

Ingredients for one serving:
2 eggs
Milk
Cheese (whichever you like)
Tomato
salt
pepper
Vegetable oil

Direction :
1. Peel tomato's skin.
2. Cut tomato and cheese into small cube size.
3. Mix eggs and milk, add salt and pepper in it.
4. Put vegetable oil into the pan and put egg.
5. When egg looks cooked a bit, place tomato and chees at the center of egg.
6. Fold egg and turn it. Heat until it looks cooked.

Fried chicken Japanese style

Ingredients :
Chicken
Soy sauce
Mirin (sugar or apple instead)
Rice wine (white wine instead)
Sesame oil 2 tablespoon
Ginger  1 tablespoon
Garlic  1 piece
Onion  1/4 of regular size of onion
Flour
Vegetable oil

* the proportion of Soy sauce, Mirin and Rice wine would be 1 : 1 : 1, however, adjust by your preference

Directions :
1. Cut chicken into one bite size.
2. Grind onion, garlic and ginger.
3. Mix Rice wine (or white wine), Mirin (or sugar/grinded apple), Soy sauce,
and one table spoon of Sesame oil, and put grinded onion, garlic and
ginger in it.
4. Put chicken into mixed sauce and wait for twenty to thirty minute.
5. Dredge chicken in flour before fry.
6. Heat vegetable oil with one tablespoon of sesame oil and fry chicken.
7. Take away chicken from the oil and put it on the kitchen paper
for five minutes at least.
8. Fry chicken again.

* frying time would depend on the size of the chicken. If you see smaller less bubbles around the chicken, that’s the sign that chicken is cooked.