Oden 关东煮

Ingredients:

- 1500ml of water
- 2 strips of konbu
- 1 pack of dashi
- 1 tablespoon mirin
- 1 tablespoon sugar

- 1 daikon, skin and cut into slices
- 4 eggs, hard boil and shell
- 1 carrot, skin and slice
- 1 packet of konnyaku, cut into chunks
- 1 packet of japanese fish cakes from supermarket

Method:

1) Put the daikon into a saucepan and cook in low heat till the center of the daikon is soft.
2) Bring the konnyaku jelly into the saucepan and bring to boil, drain after boiling for a min.
3) Bring the pot of water to boil, blanch the japanese fish cakes, to remove the oil.
4) Rinse the konbu and tie a knot.
5) Put the konbu, dashi, mirin, sugar, and water to make the stock.
6) Place the daikon, eggs, carrot, konnyaku to cook at low heat for about 2-3hours
7) Add the fish cakes and cook at low heat for another half an hr.

Air fried lemongrass chicken wings

Ingredients:
500gms of chicken mid wings. 
5cloves of garlic, minced. 
3 stalks of lemongrass. 
3 tablespoons of thai fish sauce
2 tablespoons of honey

Method: 
1) chop the lemon grass finely and pound it 
2) season with all the ingredients overnight
3) place in airfryer temp 160 for 10mins, flip in between
4) turn temp to 190-200 for 3mins on each side if u want a darker or charred kind of look.

Stir fried crocodile meat with black fungus

Little Si en's been down with croup for 2weeks, it's time to 补 her lungs.

Crocodile meat and black fungus has been well known to be good for the lungs, so this round instead of boiling crocodile meat soup. 

Presenting my new creation........ 

Ingredients: 

- one packet of crocodile flank meat about 250grams

- 2 tsp baking soda

- 1knob of ginger sliced

- 2/3 stalks of spring onion- cut into  long strips. Separate the white and green parts

- 4 cloves of garlic, minced

- half a carrot, cut into strips 

- a handful of black fungus about 5-6, soak to soften and slice into strips 

- 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce

- sesame oil 

Marinade for crocodile meat:

- 1/4 tsp salt

- 1/4 tsp sugar

- a dash of white pepper

- 1 tablespoon of shao xing wine

- 1 tsp of light soya sauce

- 2 tsp of cornflour

- 1 tsp of light soya sauce

Method: 

1- mix the crocodile meat and baking soda. Leave for 15 mins to tenderize meat and rinse clean. Leave it to drip dry. 

2- mix the marinade together with the meat for another 15mins.

3- heat up the wok, add oil, and add the ginger, garlic and white part of the spring onion. Stir fry till aromatic.

4- add carrots and black fungus, stir fry till it's half cooked.

5- add the crocodile meat and continue to stir fry till the meat is cooked

6- add the remaining spring onion and season with oyster sauce.

7- drizzle sesame oil before dishing up.