Addictive Crispy Kale

How to make a carnivor eat vegetable ? How to make healthy snack and avoid eating chips? I think i have a good answer for that ! I stumble upon crispy kale recipe in Steamy Kitchen's blog and decided to try it today. It did not disappoint. It was really good and like its name, it's addictive. I guess next time , i will try it with Kai lan ( chinese brocolli)

Recipe
1-2 tb olive oil
Big bowl of kale green
salt to taste
1-2 ts garlic powder
2 ts cayenne pepper

1) Clean kale and remove from stems
2) Break kale into small bite size pieces
3) Dry with paper towel
4) Add olive oil , garlic powder , cayenne pepper and toss to coat
5) Bake in preheated 350F oven for 12 -20 minutes
6) Add salt to taste

ENJOY !

Fry Egg with Minced Pork and Beans

As a Teo Chew descent, nothing makes me happier than a bowl of just right temperature porridge , with fry fish , and eggs.For us , porridge is just our comfort food.

Ingredients
2 eggs
1/2 cup of chopped french beans
1 tb chopped garlic
1/4 cup minced pork
a dash of fish sauce
a dash of white pepper
2 ts salt

1 cup rice
10 cups of water

Instructions

1) Wash one cup of rice
2) Cook rice in rice cooker with 10 cup of water for about 10 minutes with lid closed
3) Then let the lid open halfway ( to prevent the porridge from overflow)
4) Cook about 45 minutes until preferred consistency
5) Heat pan and add 1 tb oil
6) Pan fry garlic until fragrant
7) Add minced pork , pepper, fish sauce and salt
8) Add chopped beans
9) Pan fry until the minced pork turned brown from pink
10) Beat 2 eggs in a bowl and pour it on the mixture of beans and pork
11) Cook about 3-5 minutes with medium heat then flip
12) Cook until set, then plate

Durian Filling Crepe

One of my favourite dessert is durian roll from Angie's Bakery in Singapore. I was so into the durian roll that i would take a taxi purposely to go to the mall just to get that when i was in Singapore. I couldn't figure out what was outside the roll until recently, i realised the roll was actually made from Crepe with durian + cream filling ! That sounds easy ! Here is my version .. :)

Ingredients
2 eggs
1 cup of flour
3/4 cup of milk
3 tb margerine ( or butter)
1/2 cup water
1-2 ts vanilla extract
1 ts salt

Durian filling
1 frozen durian
1 cup of cool whip cream

Instructions
1) Combine all the ingredients for the batter excepts butter/margerine
2) Mix well
3) Melt margerine in microwave with defrost setting for about 10 seconds
4) Mix margerine into the batter
5) Heat pan with 1 tb of butter
6) Remove pan from heat
7) Pour batter into the pan using a laddle and using the back of the laddle to spread evenly
8)Cook with medium heat
9)Cook until some browning seen on the bottom of the crepe
10) Cook the other side for about 10-15 seconds
10) Remove from heat

Filling
1) Defrost cool whip
2) Add durian to the cool whip and mix well

To Assemble
1) Place filing in the middle of the crepe and fold the crepe in a rectangular shape
2) Sprinkle powdered sugar on crepes with strainer( optional)

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

Chicken Tikka Masala

The picture is not doing my chicken tikka masala justice. This chicken tikka masala has the combination of sweetness, sourish , spiciness that just awakened your taste buds! When i decided to blog what i had for dinner, it just show how excited i am with what i made today for dinner. Fun facts: the origin of chicken tikka masala is disputed. Some claim that it is from Glasgow, Scotland and some said it was created in a Bangladeshi Restaurant in England.Learn more about chicken tikka in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tikka_masala

Recipes
Chicken Marinate
A
1/2 cup of yogurt
1 lemon
3 ts ground cumin
3 ts ground pepper
4 ts cayenne pepper
2 ts salt or to taste

2 pieces of chicken breast , cubed
4 skewer

Sauce
1/2 cup sour cream ( low fat)
3 tb tomato sauce
1 ts vegetable oil
3 cloves of garlic
1/2 cup of cubed onion
1 tomato ( cubed)
1/2 cup of chopped cilantro
3 ts paprika
2 ts salt( or to taste)
3 ts ground cumin
2-3 red jalapeno pepper ( less if prefer less spicy)
1/2 cup of chopped cilantro

1) Marinate the chicken breast with A and keep in refrigerator for 1/2 hour to 1 hour
2) Preheat oven to grill mode
3) Soak the Skewer in water for 10-20 minutes ( to prevent the skwer from burning)
4) Thread chicken on skewer and cook each side for 5 minutes or until brown
5) Heat oil in the pan
6) Cook onion for 5 minutes until caramelized, then saute garlic , and jalapeno until fragrant
7) Stir in tomato, tomato sauce, sour cream , and cilantro
8) Cook the sauce until thickened, then season with salt
9) Add chicken and simmer for 5 minutes
10)Serve warm and top it with fresh cilantro

Cream Of Broccoli

Ingredients

1 lbs of brocolli
1 onion
1 carrot
3 cloves of garlic
3 cups of skim milk
1 tb butter
1 ts nutmeg
1/2 cup white wine
2 tb of sour cream
salt

1) Chopped onion , garlic, and carrot
2) Saute onion, garlic until fragrant with butter in a pan , then add broccoli and carrot
3) Add milk and white wine, simmer for 15 minutes
4) Blend the soup in the blender
5) Add milk until desired consistency
6) Add nutmeg and season with salt to taste
7) Divide the soup into 2 bowls and top the soup with 1 tb of sour cream

Tilapia with lettuce salad

I love to eat conch salad. I had that in Nassau, Bahamas and it was one of the best food that ever i had . This recipe is quite similar with conch salad except that it is not conch but is tilapia. It is a very healthy dinner for those who are looking for healthy recipes

Ingredients

1 onion cubed

1/2 cup chinese parsley chopped

1/2 cup of julienned bell pepper

2 lemons

1 carrot julienned

1 jalapeno chopped

2 tomatoes chopped

1/2 cucumber cubed

3 cups of chopped Romaine Lettuce

salt

1 lbs of tilapia

1/2 lemon

salt

pepper

1/4 cup chinese parsley

Instructions

1) preheat oven to 350F

2) Marinate fish with 1/2 lemon juice, salt and pepper and top it with chinese parsley

3) Bake in oven for about 10 minutes-15 minutes

4) To assemble, layer the chopped lettuce in a bowl

5) Then layer with tomatoes, bell pepper, onions and carrot

6) Squeeze one lemon into the layer

7) Top the layer with cucumber, then another 1/4 cup of the chinese parsley and jalapeno

8) Place the fish on top of the salad

9) Squeeze the remaining lemon on top of the fish and top the fish with 1/4 cup of parsley