Laksa Fried Rice Recipe

A different kind of fried rice, cooked with laksa paste. 

Add zest with the sliced pickled green chillies.

Serves 5

INGREDIENTS:

3 tbsp Olive Oil

5 cups day-old Rice

5 cloves Garlic, pressed

3 Shallots, finely sliced

1 Chicken Thigh, cut into small chunks

1 cup Vegetable Fish Cake, cut into small chunks

1 cup Bean Sprouts

1/2 cup Spring Onion, finely chopped

1/2 cup Laksa Leaves, finely chopped

1/4 cup Carrot, cut into cubes

1/4 cup Green Peas

1/4 cup Corn Kernels

2 to 3 tbsp laksa paste

2 large Eggs, slightly beaten

Salt & Pepper

GARNISHING:

1/4 cup Pickled Green Chillies, thinly sliced

Cilantro 

Heat wok on high heat.

Splash olive oil in the wok.

Brown the garlic.

Caramelise the shallots.

Saute the chicken and vegetable fish cake chunks for 7 minutes.

Add the carrot, green peas, corn, bean sprouts. 
Cook for another 3 minutes.

Add the laksa paste and mix well.

Throw in the rice. Mix thoroughly. Cook for 5 minutes.

Toss in the spring onion and laksa leaves.

Season with salt and pepper.

Slowly pour the slightly beaten egg a little at a time. Stir well.

Cook for another 3 minutes.

Transfer fried rice in a platter.

Garnish with pickled green chillies and cilantro.

Serve immediately.

Almost Naked Prawn Dim Sum Recipe

Serves 6

INGREDIENTS:

Dim Sum Filling:

1/2 kg Prawns, peeled

3 tsp Oyster Sauce

1/2 tsp Sesame Oil

Salt & Pepper

Spring Onion, finely chopped (garnish)

Ginger, julienned, finely sliced (garnish)

Sesame Seeds, toasted (garnish)

Combine oyster sauce, sesame oil, salt & pepper.

Marinate prawns for minimum 2 hours in the refrigerator.

Dim Dum Dough:

1 cup Wheat Flour

2/3 cup Tapioca Flour

1/4 tsp Fine Salt

1 cup Boiling Water

2 tsp Olive Oil

Mix the wheat, tapioca and salt thoroughly.

Add 1/2 cup of boiling water to the flour. Mix with chopsticks. 

Add more boiling water until the dough mixture forms.

Add olive oil and continue mixing.

Knead the dough on an oiled surface.
Use a rolling pin to roll the dough out as thinly as possible.

Cut the dough to fit a prawn for each dim sum.

Put one marinated prawn on the thin dough.

Pinch the dough on edge. Make enough pleats to close the pouch.

Place the dim sum in lightly oiled pan.

Do the same process for the remaining prawns.

Steam for 15 minutes.

Garnish with spring onion, sesame seeds and thinly sliced ginger.

Dim Sum Sauce:

1 glove Garlic

1 Bird's Eye Chilli

Light Soya Sauce

Apple Cider Vinegar

Salt

Pound the garlic and chilli together in a mortar and pestle.

Mix the pounded garlic and chilli with light soya sauce and apple cider vinegar.

Season with salt.