Healthy Pasta Salad

This is a quite healthy vegetables loaded lunch with Omega 3 from tilapia! I love this simple and easy recipe and would like to share it with you. The nice thing about salad is that you can basically add in any vegetable that you like and mix it with the dressing and it will turned out to be a good meal !

Ingredients
1/4 box macaroni
1 slice low fat cheese
4 tablespoon low fat mayonaise
1 tablespoon yellow mustard
1/2 tb garlic powder
1/2 tb dry parsley
1/2 cup of broccoli florets
1/2 cup corns
1/2 cup green peas
dash of pepper to taste
dash of sat to taste
2 tilapia fillets marinated with salt and pepper
1 ts vegetable oil

1) Bring 2 large pot of lightly salted water to boil
2) Add pasta and cook for 5-8 minutes until al dente in one pot and cook brocolli , corn and peas in another pots for 3-5 minutes
3) Drain brocolli, peas and corns and rinse in cold water. Drain the pasta and stir in one slice of cheese until melted
4) Heat 1 ts oil in a non stick skillet over med heat
5) Sear tilapia about 5 minutes each side or until just cooked
6) Mix mayonaise, mustard, parsley, brocolli, corns, green peas, and garlic powder in a bowl
7) Lastly, add in the fish and if you prefer big chunks, just slightly break the fillet and mix in with the salad
8) Add salt and pepper to taste

Char Kueh Teow

Fried Kueh Teow is one of the food that is commonly seen in the Malaysian restaurant menu and hawker stalls. I don't think i have achieved the ultimate way to fry this noodle , without the "wok hei" , which means the pan fragrant created by high heat, but i think this recipe can cure the craving for char kueh teow for those who are living far from home. As the saying goes, "bo hu , hei pun hor", no fish , prawn is acceptable too .

Recipe

1 bowl of kueh teow

1/4 cup of chives

1/4 cup of bean sprout

1-2 cloves of garlic

1 egg

1/2 tb siracha

1 tb oil

1 ts chicken stock

1 ts of fish sauce

1 ts dark soy sauce

1 tb light soy sauce

1 ts sugar

salt and pepper to taste

1) heat 1 ts oil in the pan

2) break the egg and roughly scramble it

3) dish out and set aside

4) heat the remianing oil , add chopped garlic , and fry till fragrant

5) add the kueh teow, fry fro 1 -2 minutes, add soy sauce, dark soy sauce, siracha , chicken stock , fish sauce , and sugar

6) Add salk and pepper to taste

7) stir fry on high heat and then add bean spout and chives

8)stir fry until the vegetable mix well with the noodle

9) Dish out and serve

Strawberry Banana Smoothies

Recipes
1 cup strawberries
1 tb honey
1 banana
5-8 ice cubes
1/2 cup plain yogurt ( low fat is preferred)

Blend everything together and enjoy

Mango-Apple-Blueberry Smoothies for 2

Is fun to play with your food and come up with something tasty and yummy and nutritious! This is one of the mix and match fruits , blend together and Ta.. Da.... Super tasty and healthy smoothies for lunch .

Recipe

1) 1/2 cup of green apple

2) 1 cup of mango

3) vanila low fat yogurt

4) 1/2 cup of blueberries

5) 6 cubes of ice

6) 1/2 cup of cold water

Blend everything together and there you have a healthy, super good for you smoothies :)

Low Carb Caesar salad dressing and crouton

Yeah , yeah , eating healthy post again ! Crouton + Caesar salad dressing = Great salad. I remember the first time i cooked for my mother, i made caesar salad with a packet of crouton and packet of caesar salad mix. There, is my caesar salad which i claimed to make ! Seriously , why do people have to buy crouton and the dressing. It is extremely easy to make and you can whip the dressing up in 5 minutes or maybe less.

Recipes for caesar salad dressing

1 cloves of garlic / 2 ts of garlic powder

1/2 cup of low fat plain yogurt

1 ts worcestershire sauce

1 ts - 2 ts of white vinegar ( depends on preference)

1/8 ts salt

1 lemon

1 tb olive oil

mix everything together , cover

refrigerate until ready to use

Vegetable mix

* 1 slice of green apple , 1 ts chopped chives, 2 tb chopped red pepper , 1/2 cup chopped napa cabbage, tomato , 1/2 cup chopped brocolli

Crouton

Recipes

2 slices od stale bread

1 tb garlic powder

2 tb olive oil

1-2 tb dry basil and parsley

1)Peheat oven to 350F

2) Cut the bread into 1 inch X 1 Inch

3) Toss the bread with garlic powder, olive oil, dry basil and parsley unitl incorporated

4) Bake in oven for about 10-15 minutes ( until dry and brown)

p/s : this is a low carb version, and of course there is a real version of caesar salad out there in google ! :) enjoy !

Mango Lassi

I have been playing with my food so much lately and my current obsession is mango. We used to have mango lassi in indian restaurant for USD 3-4 per drink. It's so EXPENSIVE ! Thanks to google that we can easily find mango lassi recipe EVERYWHERE, and it is so easy to make.

Recipes , serve 2

1 big mango or 2 small mangoes

1 cup of plain yogurt

1/2 cup - 1 cup of milk ( depending on the thickness preference) cold water

5 cubes of ice

How to make it ? well it is not rocket scientist. Just cube the mangoes , and blend all the ingredients in your blender.

Serve immediately and start enjoying the cold, refreshing , sweet , tasty drink ....