Green Shell Mussels

Mussels in lime and coriander breadcrumbs














Ingredients
8 cooked green shell mussels
2 cloves of garlic finely chopped
1 small piece of ginger finely chopped
2 stalks of coriander finely chopped
1 cup of breadcrumbs
20g of melted butter
lemon juice to taste
salt and pepper to taste

Methods
1. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl.
2. Sprinkle the mixture over green shell mussels.
3. Grill the mussels until the breadcrumb mixture turn slightly golden brown. Serve hot.


Mussels in tomato and onion salsa
















Ingredients
8 cooked green shell mussels
1 big onion finely chopped
1 tomato finely chopped
2 stalks of coriander finely chopped
lemon juice to taste
salt and pepper to taste

Methods
1. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl.
2. Spoon salsa over defrosted cooked green shell mussels. Serve immediately.

Tehsee's sweet and sour fish

Cooking fish is never my strong point because of the pain of cleaning the fish, the smell and am not sure which fish can be bake, grill, stream or deep fry. Now I am learning it by trial and error and of course reading though some of the recipe books. So, this time let me try to cook a whole new recipe. Finger cross....

Ingredients
1 toman fish fillet
1 knob of ginger peeled and finely chopped
4 cherry tomatoes finely chopped
1 medium size big onion finely chopped
pinch of salt and pepper
pinch of dried oregano
sugar to taste
2 spoons full of Lea and perrins sauce
2 spoons of mirin
some corn starch

Methods

1. Season fish with salt, pepper and oregano for 10 to 15 minutes.

2. Pat some starch on the fish's skin and meat.

3. Preheat oven to 150 degree Celsius. Heat the pan and cooking oil.

4. Pan fry the fish on both side until fish turn to light golden brown. At this point, the fish is not cook yet at the centre. Which we will continue the cooking process in the oven.

5. Put the fish in a baking tray and place it in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Depending on the size of the fish, you might want to shorten or longer the baking time.

6. While the fish is cooking in the oven, combine the Lea and perrins sauce, mirin sauce with sugar and stir to dissolve sugar.

7.Combine chopped onion, ginger, cherry tomatoes and no.6.

8. Once the fish is ready, let it rest for 5 minutes before combine with no.7.

The colour already made you want to dive into the dish immediately. Luckily it passed K's taste test too. Success..*grin*.

Craving for Fried Mussels

It's rather expensive to pay SGD5 for 6 pieces of fried mussels at one of the fast food chain. Furthermore, I have to share it with another person which made me want to experiment with my own recipe at the kitchen.

Ingredients
10 Green Mussels
1/4 cup of Flour
1/2 cup of iced water
Breadcrumb
Cooking Oil for frying
Pinch of salt

Method
1. Add flour, iced water and pinch of salt to create a batter.
2. Wash and rince mussels. Pat dry with kitchen towel.
3. Heat oil in pan.
4. Coat mussel with flour, batter and breadcrumb in this order.
5. Fry mussel until crispy brown. Serve hot.
















Tataa...the final product. K said is the real deal. Success. Hehe.
















I used this type of breadcrumb for extra crunchiness.

Crab and Mussels Soup

I have been wanting to try cooking flower crab for a long time. Then, when I went shopping in the supermarket and came across this rather large flower crabs. Plus also I have a recipe that I can try out. As usual, I have change the recipe a bit to suit our taste.

Ingredients (Serve 2)
1 flower crab cleaned and chopped into 2
2 hairy gourd (节瓜）peel and cut into smaller pieces
handful of dry prawn
6 Mussels
1 garlic flatten and chopped
2 spoons of shaoxing wine
Salt and pepper to taste
Cooking oil
2 bowls of water

Method
1) Heat the cooking oil and sauteed the garlic and dry prawns until fragrant.
2) Add in hairy gourd and stir fry until soften.
3) Pour in water and bring to boil for 5 minutes.
4) Add crabs and mussels into soup and boil for further 10 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste.
5) Add shaoxing wine and remove from heat. Serve hot.















This photo was taken by using the colour accent function. I did not know camera has this function too until K try it. Nice?