DiSH 212 : SAMBAL PETAI WITH PRAWNS

 SAMBAL PETAI WITH PRAWNS

Saturday, June 25

Here's how Bryan made an absolutely fantastic sambal petai dish.

It is simply amazing, from color to texture to taste to delight.

Absolutely out - of - this - world perfect. :D

These petai are freshly plucked from a friend's orchard in Kedah.

1.  Peel and Split ...

the petai to ensure there are no 

organic inhabitants (worms) inside.

 shallots, onions, garlic, ginger, fresh chilli, dried chilli, lime juice, sugar, macrobiotic shoyu

2. Blend & Fry Ingredients.

Please click on the link below for the blended ingredients and refer to the steps on how to prepare the sambal paste. He is adding an extra ingredient here : dried chilli

 How to make the sambal paste?

DiSH 192 : Sambal Petai with Ikan Bilis

 3. Fry Fry Fry

Lightly fry the petai in hot sesame seed oil to ensure 

petai remains crunchy and juicy. 

Add the prawns.

Sprinkle shoyu and seasalt to bring out the aroma.


 

Fry Fry Fry.

Add the cooked sambal paste.

 Add a table spoon of assam / tamarind paste.

Bring to boil on medium heat and turn off flame.

 Transfer to serving dish and garnish with 

coriander leaves and chopped chilli.

curry lamb with potatoes, salad and sambal petai

 This is my plate. 

Ooohhhhh ... Yummy!

We ate with our fingers. 

Like cavemen. :D

Bon Appetite !!!

Today, we feast ... Tomorrow, we diet ... :D

DiSH 211 : NO SALT CRABs with GLaSS NooDLES

 NO SALT CRABs with GLaSS NooDLES

Monday, June 13


Today is a special day.  :D

We are celebrating our 19th wedding anniversary and 
Carol's (my sister) birthday. :D

Bryan prepared this dish single-handedly. :D 

Don't get me wrong. I wanted to help. Just that, I fled the kitchen when he brought out the crabs and while waiting for him to put the crabs to sleep, I fell asleep myself.

This dish has absolutely NO salt whatsoever ... sea or otherwise.
 

 The Ingredients

Onions, garlic, ginger, chillis, tomatoes, 

baby corn, carrots, lime and lemon.

1. Kill the Crabs.

Refer to Entry 98 : Crabby Spaghetti

 

on how to put your crabs to sleep peacefully.

DISH 98 : Crabby Spaghetti

 2. Fry Ingredients.

Saute onions and garlic in sesame seed oil until fragrant.

Add garlic, chillis and carrots.

Add coarse black pepper.

Fry Fry Fry ...

 Add crabs. 

Add corn, oyster mushrooms and tomatoes.

Add a mug of water. 

Cover the lid and simmer for about 5 minutes

or until crabs are cooked (turns red).

3. Add Noodles

Transfer the crabs to a dish.

Add glass noodles (pre-soaked) into the pan 

and allow the noodles to soak in the crab juices. 

Toss, stir and simmer to make sure the 

noodles are properly cooked. 

Glass noodles need to be well-cooked to avoid indigestion.

 

Return the crabs into the pan. 

Squeeze lime and lemon juice to give the dish a twang. 

Toss, toss, toss.

 Transfer to a large serving dish.

Garnish with coriander leaves and strips of chilli. 

This is an absolutely DELICIOUS no-salt dish !!!

BON APPETiTE !!! :D

DiSH 210 : SAMBAL PRAWNS

 SAMBAL PRAWNS

This is a kindergarten dish. 

Very simple to prepare. 

So simple that my college-going daughter 

is cooking dinner this evening. :D

1. Prawns are ozonized and de-veined.

 2. Saute garlic in olive oil until fragrant.

 Toss in the prawns.

Fry Fry Fry.

Add carrots and button mushrooms. 

Add one bird's eye chilli (cili padi) (roughly sliced).

Squeeze lemon juice over.

We're scooping a portion out of the pan at this point, for Bryan. He wanted to go on a no-salt diet that day. His blood pressure reading was way over the borderline when he checked in the morning. 

I gave him a handful of Viva's vitamins to take as well as his green shake. He took quaker oats for brunch and 2 green shakes during the day, only this time, he added banana to the first shake, and an apple to the second.

I was so surprised to see that by midnight, his reading had dropped and returned to normal.

Bryan's NO SALT dinner.

Bryan says he can now taste the flavor of the ingredients. He claims that his simple dinner tasted really good. He remarks that he has in fact forgotten how good wholesome foods can taste like. The prawns were especially fresh ... maybe because it was ozonized, according to him.

 3. Add chilli paste.

Justine adds 2 table spoons of homemade 

blended chilli paste that we made 

and kept from the previous day.

We are not adding seasalt here as the chilli paste 

is already mildly salted.

Since my daughter is cooking, I couldn't add any greens to the dish. I would have liked to add some chopped coriander leaves over the prawns but Justine was quick to yell out, "Eeeee Noooo!" Yeah, even the tomatoes I had cut into segments for her to toss in, she deliberately left them out. :D

See DiSH 181 : Chilli-Stuffed Selar Fish for the chilli paste.

 Bon Appetite!!! :D

Hmmm ... finger licking delicious ...

Don't forget the green green glass of super nutrition!

A LiTTLE SHARiNG JUNE 2011