Another version of Stewed pork belly

Another version of stewed pork belly...equally delicious...even my girl can't wait to get her hand on to it....

The share market is down down and down and the weather is wet almost everyday....so this dish is definetely my comfort food today....


Ingredients
500g mini pork belly
20 cloves of garlic peeled
2 tablespoon of sugar
3 tablespoon of dark soya sauce
3 tablespoon of light soya sauce
2 clover of star anise
3 cups of water


Methods
1. Cook pork in boiling water for 5 minutes, discard the water and wash the pork with cold water. discard the cold water as well. Put aside.

2. In a separate pot, dissolve sugar in medium heat and wait for sugar to caramelised.

3. The caramelised sugar will harden once water is added. Just scrap off the harden sugar to melt into the water.

4. Add garlic, pork belly light soya sauce, star anise and dark soya sauce and allow water to boil in high heat.

5. Turn to low heat and let it simmer for 1 o 2 hours or until meat is tender. Add more water if the liquid is getting too dry.

6. Turn off heat. Serve hot with rice.

Stewed Pork Belly

Ingredients
500g pork belly cut into cubes
20 cloves of garlic peeled
2 tablespoon of sugar
3 tablespoon of dark soya sauce
3 cups of water

Methods
1. Cook pork in boiling water for 5 minutes, discard the water and wash the pork with cold water. discard the cold water as well. Put aside.
2. In a separate pot, dissolve sugar in medium heat and wait for sugar to caramelised.
3. The caramelised sugar will harden once water is added. Just scrap off the harden sugar to melt into the water.
4. Add garlic, pork belly and dark soya sauce and allow water to boil in high heat.
5. Turn to medium heat and let it simmer for 1 o 2 hours or until meat is tender. Add more water if the liquid is getting too dry.
6. Turn off heat. Serve hot with rice.
















So simple yet so yummy.....too bad cannot eat it too often...

Homemade Pan Mian(板 麺)

Picture of dried "Pan Mian" and the kick ass sambal belacan in Masak-Masak's blog just made me want to go back to KL to have my fix. But I just have to cook my version of "Pan Mian" here as there is no dried "Pan Mian" in Singapore.

Maybe I should try to buy the "Pan Mian" from the hawker stall and save me the trouble and time in making the "Pan Mian" by myself. Hehe....cannot imagine the expression of the stall owner when I say "Auntie, I need "Pan Mian" for two persons but not the soup, take away please?"

My first attempt is a success as K asked for one more but I ran out of "Pan Mian" and substituted with wanton mee noddles instead which turned out to be very good too.

Ingredients: (Serve 2)
Small Onion chopped thinly
Garlic chopped finely
200 g minced pork
100g minced chicken meats
50g dried anchovies (Ikan Bilis)
4 dried black mushrooms soaked in water and cut into smaller strips when soften
Black soya sauce to taste
Soya sauce to taste
Oyster sauce to taste
Corn starch
1/4 white pepper powder
500g Flour
1/2 cup of Water
Salt
Cut chilly and coriander roots and leafs for garnishing

Methods :
1) Mix corn starch, soya sauce and white pepper powder into minced pork and chicken. Let it marinate for 5 minutes.
2) Fry small onion until crispy. Set aside.
2) Fry dried anchovies until crispy. Set aside. Discard some of the cooking oil if you think is too oily.
3) Heat pan, sauteed garlic and minced meats for 5 minutes. Then add mushrooms and continued to sauteed for 5 minutes. Add water and leave the minced meats and sauce to simmer for another 20 minutes.
4) Add soya sauce and black soya sauce to taste. Add water and let the sauce simmer in low fire.
5) In a glass, add a pinch of salt into water. Add salted water into flour and start kneading into a dough.
6) Keep kneading dough until hand is not sticky with dough.
7) Pinch some dough and press until quite thin. Use a knife to cut into strips that look like noodles. Repeat this process. Add more flour to the cutted strips in order to retain the shape of the cutted dough strips. This cutted dough strips is called "Pan Mian" in mandarin.
7) Boil a pot of water. Cook the cutted dough strips for one person portion first in the hot water. Let it boil for 5 minutes.
8) Scoop up the cooked "Pan Mian" and combine with minced meats and sauce. Add chilly and coriander roots and leaf for garnishing.

Asparagus wrap in Bacon

*Non-Halal Post*

This bacon with asparagus is one of my favorite..The smoky taste meet the sweetness of the asparagus. Heaven. And is so easy to make.

Ingredients

200g bacon cut into half
200g thai asparagus cut into 3 stalk
some toothpick

















Method
1. Boil water and dip the cut bacon into the boiling water for 30 seconds. Pour away water and set aside. The purpose for this is to make the bacon less salty.
2. Warp the three or four asparagus into one piece of bacon and bind it using a toothpick.

3. Pour some cooking oil over the bacon to help the baking process. Bake it at 100 degree Celsius for 20 minutes and grill it for another 5 minutes.