Steam Chicken (Bai Zhan Ji)

Ingredients (Serves 4)

1. Half a Kampong Chicken
2. 1 Tablespoon Soya Sauce
3. 1 Tablespoon Sesame Oil
4. 4-5 pieces of sliced ginger

* You can use any chicken, I prefer mine Kampong.
* Use either soya sauce or salt. I tried both, the soya version turned out nicer and not so salty)

Steps

Marinate the chicken with soya sauce and sesame oil. Set aside in fridge for 30 mins (I left mine for half a day).

Place sliced ginger under the chicken on a plate. Bring to boil 2 bowls of water in a pot. Steam for 30 mins.

Roasted Chicken

Ingredients (Serves 4)

1. Half a Kampong Chicken
2. 1 Tablespoon Soya sauce
3. 1 Tablespoon Ginger juice (taken from grated ginger)
4. 1 Tablespoon Honey
5. 1/2 teaspoon 5 spice powder
6. 1/2 teaspoon pepper
7. 1/2 teaspoon Oyster sauce

Steps

Marinate chicken with sauces and powders (steps 2 to 7) and set aside in the fridge for 30 mins (I left mine for half a day).

Preheat oven at 300 degrees. Place chicken on a baking tray and bake for 30 mins or till cooked (chicken is cooked when no blood comes out when you poke it with a chopstick).

Pulut Hitam (Black Glutinous Rice)

This is one of Michael's fav!!!

Ingredients (serves abt 4)

1. 1 rice bowl of black glutinous rice (depending on the no. of people u're feeding)
2. 2 rice bowls of water (depending on how much rice u put in)
3. 4 pandan leaves (washed n knotted)
4. Coconut milk (Optional) (I'm a health freak so I skip the coconut)
5. Sugar cane block or small block of Gula melaka

Steps

Soak the black glutinous rice for an hour before cooking (this helps speed up the cooking process, the rice gets cook faster). Wash n drain water away. Fill pot with water n glutinous rice. Wash the pandan leaves, tie into a knot n put into the pot. Cook for approximately 3 hrs. Remember to stir, lest it gets burnt. When the rice is almost cook then add the sugar (if u put the sugar too early, it'll slow the cooking process). Bring to a boil then let it sit for about 5 mins before serving.

White Fungus, Gingko nut with Lian zi n logan dessert

Ingredients (Serves 2)

1. 1 piece of white fungus (cut into small pieces n soaked till soft)
2. 15 gingko nuts (de-shelled n peeled)
3. 10 Lian zis
4. 10 dried logans
5. 5 red dates
6. Cane Sugar (according to taste)
7. Pandan leaves (knotted)
8. 2 cups of water

Steps

Soak the Lian zi in hot water for about an hour. In a slow cooker, add in the above ingredients, except the dried logans n cook for approximately 2 hours. When its almost done, add in the dried logans n let it soak for a few mins.

Ondeh Ondeh

Ingredients (makes about 15 balls or more)

1. 1/2 a steamed sweet potato (local or japanese)
2. 6-7 tablespoons of Glutinous rice flour (a flat heap)
3. 1 pandan leaf, soaked in 2 tbsp of warm boiled water (sqeeze out the juice)
4. 7 tablespoons of water
5. 1/2 block of gula melaka (finely chopped)*
6. Food colouring (optional)
7. Grated coconut (mix in a little salt then steam for a minute)

Steps

Steam sweet potato till soft. In a bowl mash the sweet potato till its even (no lumpy bits). Add in the glutinous rice flour, pandan juice n water, food colouring, n mix well into a dough.

Pinch a fifty cent size of dough, roll it into a ball then flatten. Add in the finely chopped gula melaka. Sealed it then shape into a ball. Cook the ondeh ondeh in a pot of boiling water till they float. After its cooked, drained the water then mix well with the grated coconut.

* I used a knife n sliced the slightly soften gula melaka. Then chop into bits.

Mee goreng (May's style)

Ingredients (Serves 2)

1. A packet of yellow noodles
2. 1/2 potato (cut into cubes)
3. 2 eggs (beaten)
4. Bean sprouts
5. 1/2 cup mix veggies
6. Minced beef or mutton (optional)
7. 1/2 tablespoon sambal chilli
8. 1 tablespoon soya sauce

Steps

Cook the noodles in boiling water for a minute, then drain n put one side. Fry the cubed potatoes, put one side, next fry the eggs followed by the bean sprouts n the mix veggies. Dish out n put aside. Cook minced beef or mutton in boiling water for about 1 or 2 mins (not too long. u can also choose to fry it instead).

Put the minced beef or mutton into the frying pan n stir fry for a few seconds. Then toss in the noodles n stir fry for a minute. Mix the cubed potatoes, bean sprouts, eggs n mix veggies then add in the soya sauce n chilli. Mix well n cook for another 2 mins.

Grilled Lime n Honey Chicken Wings

Ingredients

1. One packet of chicken wings (8 pcs from NTUC)
2. 3/4 cup of lime juice
3. 2 Tablespoons of Honey
4. 1 Tablespoon Soya sauce
5. A drop of sesame seed oil (optional)
6. Pepper

Steps

Marinate the chicken wings for at least half an hour (or a day if u wish). Cover with cling wrap n refrigarate. Preheat the oven for 5 mins. Wrap the chicken wings in aluminium foil n bake in oven for 20 mins at 180 degrees. Cook 10 mins for each side.