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Friday, December 21, 2007

Curry Powder Chicken wing & potato





chicken wing - preferably marinated overnite with oyster sauce, pepper
potato - cut into cubes
cut onions
curry powder

1. Heat wok , stir fry the chicken wing until golden brown, and add onions,
     fry till fragrant , add in potato

2. Add curry powder , sugar, salt, water

Prawn Pumpkin in Coconut

Ingredients
500g medium or large size tiger prawns
500g pumpkin, cut into cubes
1 large onion, blend
1 garlic, blend
2 fresh chillies, blend
1 tsp tumeric powder
1 stalk lemongrass, bruised
200ml coconut milk
1 - 2 cups of water
a bit of cooking oil
salt to taste

How To:
1 Blend the onion, garlic and chillies in a food processor.
2 Clean prawns, trim whiskers and cut pumpkins into cubes.
3 In a pot, heat a bit of cooking oil. Fry the blended ingredients, tumeric powder
and lemongrass. Fry till fragrant.
4 Add coconut milk and 1 cup of water. Bring to simmer
5 Add the cube pumpkins and cook for a few minutes till pumpkins are just soft.
6 Add the prawns in, if gravy is too thick you may like to add a bit more water.
Bring gravy to a simmer making sure prawns are well cooked.
7 Add salt to taste. Serve hot with steam rice .

Black Pepper Crab

Black Pepper Crab

ingredients
best is sri lanka mud crabs
2 tlb sp butter
2 shallots - thinly sliced
2 cloves garlic - finely chopped
a bit of ginger - pounded
1 tlb sp salted soya beans - mashed
2 tlb sp dried prawns - roasted n ground
2 tbsp black pepper - ground coarsely
1 tlb sp white pepper
1/2 cup curry leaves
10 red bird's eye chilli
2 tlb sp black soya sauce
3 tbsp sugar
2 tlb sp oyster sauce
optional - deep fry some pepper corns n gound a bit
spring onion for garnish

method
1. Coat crabs with corn flour n black pepper
2. Deep fry till 3/4 cook n drain
3. Heat work , melt butter - fry garlic, shallots, ginger
4. Stir in salted soya beans, dried prawns, black pepper, curry leaves & chillies
5. Saltate till fragrant, add crab, stir again & add a bit of water if its too dry.
6. Cover wok for a while. Cook 5-10 mins tilld done.