#45 Salmon and Mushroom Cheese Baked Rice

Hello!

Oh wow, when was the last time I used a laptop for blogging? Haha anyway, since I have some spare time after typing out some portfolios today, why not post the recipe of my baked rice today. So apparently, my dad ordered quite a lot of smoked salmon from Emirates catering, and it was pretty salty, so to eat just like that was.. mmhmm.. lol. So I had an idea of making the baked rice I always order at Swensen's. So here goes! There will be 3 parts of cooking by the way. Or was it 4?

Ingredients A (Sauce):
1 French Onion, diced finely
2 tbsp plain flour
1 cup of diluted chicken stock
Pepper for seasoning
3 tbsp butter
2 tbsp dark soya sauce for the colour

Ingredients B (Sauteed Mushrooms):
1 packet Enoki Mushrooms, roots removed
1 tbsp oyster sauce
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
pepper for seasoning

Ingredients C (Rice):
Cooked Rice
2 cloves of chopped garlic
1 tbsp butter
1 egg beaten with a pinch of salt and pepper

Ingredients D (Cheese):
Shredded cheddar and mozarella

Okay here goes. For part A, heat up wok with butter, and fry onions till caramelized (browning slightly), and then add in the flour while whisking to avoid clump. Add in chicken stock bit by bit to avoid clumping while continue to whisk on low-med heat. Once gravy thickens, add in dark soy sauce to darken the colour and then add in some pepper for seasoning. Don't add salt. The stock water is salty, unless u boil your own salt-less chicken stock from chicken bones ah. Taste first before adding in so much stock water okay, it might turn salty. If taste okay already, add water instead of stock water until you get a gravy. I blended the whole thing, and then sieve out any clumps or impurities. Set aside to cool.

Part B, just put in a bit of oil in a pan, sautee the mushrooms with some garlic and add in some pepper and oyster sauce. Just for a while, and then turn off the heat.

Part C, add in butter, then garlic, add in rice and stir well. In a bowl beat your eggs with some salt and pepper, and then add in to the pan, by the side of the pan to half cook the egg first before mixing in with the rice. The rice shouldn't add any salt as the gravy and smoked salmon is already salty.

Part D, Assemble. Put fried rice in a heat-proof bowl, followed by mushrooms and then salmon. Cover everything in cheddar and mozarella, before baking it until cheese melt like 10 minutes later. Done!

Sounds like a hassle with all the parts, but it's actually really fool-proof. Try it for yourself!

Of course, to eat with raw cili padi, deseed, would be the best!

#44 Salmon with lemon buttercream sauce

Hi everyone! It has been a while! I saw this recipe online but it uses white wine, so I had to make some changes. Tagged my fiancé in the post and the next thing I know he asked me to cook it for him. So here is the recipe. (Oh it is also great to eat with my potato salad recipe below)

Ingredients:
1 piece of salmon
100ml full cream milk
1 slice of cheese
1/2 lemon
1 tablespoon mixed herbs
1 shallot (finely chopped)
1 clove of garlic (finely chopped)
1 teaspoon corn starch
Olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
Salt
Pepper

Instructions:

Skin the salmon (so tedious please coz my knife wasn't sharp enough) and make sure there's no salmon on that skin. After which rub the skin with some olive oil, salt and pepper. Place on a parchment paper, cover with another layer of parchment paper, and place in oven or airfryer (like what I did). Place something heavy on top of the salmon skin or else it will roll up, OR SUCKED UP BY THE VENTILATOR IN THE AIR FRYER HAHAHAH (YES IT HAPPENED TO ME) I baked the skin for about 10 minutes, 160°C.

While the skin is baking, I start on my fish. Heat up the skillet, add in your butter. When all the butter has melted, I added in my fish. As the colour has changed to pink, I turned the fish and added in my shallots and garlic. After about 1 minute I added in the lemon juice. Once it started to boil, I added in the milk, and then herbs. I did not stir so much, instead I keep on putting the gravy on the fish. 3 minutes in, I take the fish out while the sauce is still cooking.

With the fish out of the way, I added in my slice of cheddar cheese and then once all of that has incorporated in the sauce, I added in the corn starch to thicken it into a paste. Once it looks like a paste already, turn off the heat.

Place the salmon on a plate, pour some of the sauce on the salmon, before placing your crispy salmon skin on top of it. And that is it. Simple eh? Haha happy trying guys!

Potato Salad

Unsure why this blogger app is being a bitch and doesn't allow me to attach a picture to my post.. so here's the outcome of my potato salad!

#43 Potato Salad

Due to tight schedule, I do cook but I really have no time to update my blog. Currently my body is experiencing some "climate change". Not sure what's going on but I am feeling pretty restless and heaty. So I can't sleep and here I am.

Today's dish is a very simple comfort food recipe. Cooking and prep time about 15 minutes?

Ingredients:
8 potatoes washed, do not peel skin (I bought 3 different colours that was sold in a pack from Mustafa Centre!)
1 cup of blue cheese salad dressing (Can get from Mustafa also)
2 tablespoons of Nando's Herbs Chilli sauce
6 drops of habanero sauce (this thing is crazy hot.. might wanna be careful with it haha)
1 teaspoon chilli flakes
A pinch of salt
1 teaspoon grounded black pepper
1 red onion chopped finely
Some Coriander for additional flavour but optional

Instructions:

First, boil your potatoes for about 10 minutes. Longer if you want it softer. I like mine a little crunchy but cooked. Poke it with a knife to check if it is cooked. If the knife passes through, it's cooked.

While the potatoes are boiling, prepare the sauce in a bowl. Add the onion, chilli flakes, coriander, blue cheese salad dressing, Nando's sauce and habanero sauce into the bowl and mix well. Set aside.

When the potatoes are cooked, drain them and let them cool off before cutting them into small dices. Up to your own preference in size. After that, sprinkle some salt and pepper for seasoning. Done?

Alright, now you add the seasoned potatoes into the sauce you've made earlier and stir well. Yes I added 3 different kinds of chilli, but it wasn't very spicy. You can just feel a tinge of heat that will wear off as soon as you swallow the potatoes. Hehe. But I promise you, it's yummy! Happy trying!

On hiatus

My oh my.. do I feel bad or what for not updating this blog? I'm sorry readers, but I have been very busy lately thanks to my new job. It does not end, and when it does, I am too tired to even cook. Even when I cook, I don't really try cooking new things and keep cooking the same 'ol things coz I just can't crack my brain open for new recipes. On top of that I wasn't as free as I was in my previous job where I got so much time to browse through online recipes and make them halal.

I will try my utmost best to update this blog during my school holidays okay? On the brighter note, I am getting married in 1 year! So I NEED to practice cooking more new recipes so that I can cook for my future hubby! :)

Until then! And HAPPY NEW YEAR! (26 days late)

After steaming

So here is how it looks like after steaming. The last picture in the previous post was after all the preparation. Oh gosh I can't describe to you how delicious this is! Especially the fact that I am craaazzzyyy over steamed fish. Go and try guys! Great to cook for last minute family gathering moments.

#42 Tom Yam Steamed Fish

Hey there readers of my blog (if any lol)! Today will be the first time I am posting an original recipe of mine. Unless there is a similar recipe out there, might be purely coincidental coz I did not refer to any recipes online for this recipe.

I am never a fan of cooking fish as I can be a little bimbotic about the fishy smell. Lol. But when I do, it's fillet dory. No bones, no guts, and no scales. Haha. Got that for $5 for 2 packets, so that's 6 fillets from Giant Hypermart. I wanted to cook something else today but the rain just wouldn't stop. Thus, I had to stay home and use whatever ingredients I can find at home.

Ingredients:
2 Dory fish fillet (or any fish you prefer)
1 Lemongrass (sliced)
2 cloves of garlic (chopped)
2 teaspoons Knorr tom yam paste (1 tsp for each fish)
2 stalks of spring onions (chopped)
4 bird's eye chillies sliced (2 chillies for each fish)
3 inches worth of ginger (sliced)
4 kaffir lime leaves (sliced)
2 teaspoons light soy sauce (for each fish)
1 tablespoon sesame oil (for each fish)

Instructions:

Wash your fish and then smother them with the tom yam paste, front and back. Place the fish in aluminium foils (2 separate ones as the ingredients mentioned are for 2 servings). Take half of the sliced ginger and place it on the fish, and sprinkle half of the chopped garlic. Same for the spring onions, lemon grass and kaffir lime leaves, separate them into halves and then sprinkle them on top of the fish. Last but not least, your chillies. You can use normal red chillies if you do not like spicy food. Ohhh I loveee spicy.

Now pinch the sides of the foil to make it into a boat like structure to ensure the liquids do no flow out of it when steamed. Now you add in the 2 teaspoons light soy sauce and 1 tablespoon of sesame oil in both foils above all the garnishing. Now cover up the foil like a tent and not resting on the fish. Steam it for like 12 to 15 minutes, and it's ready to eat. YES IT IS THAAAT SIMPLE! NOW GO AND TRY ALREADY! :)