Name: Thai Yellow Curry with Homemade Thai Curry Paste
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 5
Ingredients: 250g homemade thai yellow curry paste; 300g pork belly; 1 small size potato - cut into small pieces (thin); 1/2 carrot - cut into small pieces (thin); 1/2 onion - sliced; 1/2 red or green bell pepper - cut into julienne; 1 tbsp vegetable oil; 300ml coconuts milk; 300ml water; 1 tsp thai fish sauce; 1 tsp coconuts sugar or brown sugar; a dash of salt to your taste (optional); Steamed rice

March 28, 2021

Thai Yellow Curry with Homemade Thai Curry Paste

Persons

Prep Time

15 minutes

Cook Time

20 minutes

Total Time

35 minutes

Thai Yellow Curry with Homemade Thai Curry Paste

Ingredients

250g homemade thai yellow curry paste
300g pork belly
1 small size potato - cut into small pieces (thin)
1/2 carrot - cut into small pieces (thin)
1/2 onion - sliced
1/2 red or green bell pepper - cut into julienne
1 tbsp vegetable oil
300ml coconuts milk
300ml water
1 tsp thai fish sauce
1 tsp coconuts sugar or brown sugar
a dash of salt to your taste (optional)
Steamed rice

Instructions

1. In a frying-pan, heat 1 tbsp oil and cook the pork belly until both sides are nicely browned. Add carrot, potato and onion and cook for a few minutes. Set aside.
2. In a big cooking pot, heat 1 tbsp vegetable oil and fry the yellow paste from #2 (it will be about 250g) for about 3 minutes or until fragrant over medium heat.
3. Add coconuts milk and mix well, then add water.
4. Add the cooked pork and vegetables (but not the green bell pepper yet). Bring it to a boil. Once it is boiling, add the fish sauce and coconut sugar, then reduce the heat to low and simmer for about 3 to 5 min over low heat with the lid on.
5. Lift the lid, and red (or green) bell pepper. Bring it to a boil. (A dash of salt if necesarry to your taste.)
6. Serve hot with steamed rice!

March 28, 2021

Homemade Easy Ramen

Persons

Prep Time

15 minutes

Cook Time

15 minutes

Total Time

30 minutes

Ingredients

For the soup base

25g weipa or chinese chicken stock powder
2 1/2 tsp hondashi powder
5 tsp kosher salt
3 garlic cloves - grated
2 1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 1/4 tsp [kobucha japanese kelp tea|https://amzn.to/314Gtoh (optional)|]
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Ingredients (for 1 person) :
5g weipa or chinese chicken stock powder
1/2 tsp hondashi powder
1 tsp kosher salt
1/2 garlic cloves - grated
1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
1/4 tsp kobucha japanese kelp tea (optional)
Ramen noodles for 1 person

Instructions

1. In a cooking bowl, add all the soup base ingredients and mix well.
2. Add some soup base in a serving bowl. Set aside.
3. Cook your ramen according to the package instructions.
4. Pour soup stock or boiled water into a serving bowl and mix to dissolve the soup base.
5. Add ramen and your favorite topping. Today I top with char siu, scallion and sesame.
Enjoy :)

February 23, 2021

Salmon Roll – Maki Sushi

Salmon Roll - Maki Sushi

Serving Size

3 Sushi Rolls

Prep Time

40 minutes

Cook Time

30 minutes

Total Time

1 hour, 10 minutes

Ingredients

300g of Japanese uncooked Rice

For the sushi vinegar

50g rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar
18g sugar
7g fine salt
3 sheets of nori

For the filling

1/2 onion - thinly sliced - Soak in water for 10 minutes
1/2 to 1 avocado - sliced
a dash of lemon juice
180g to 200g salmon tartare
some mayonnaise

For the dipping sauce

Soy sauce
Wasabi

Instructions

1. Start by cooking your rice. Meanwhile make the sushi vinegar : In a cooking pot add vinegar, sugar and salt. Cook until almost boiled and sugar and salt are completely melted. Remove from the heat and set it aside.
2. Transfer the cooked rice into a heat-safe bowl, and pour the sushi vinegar from #1 on it. 'Slice' the rice with a rice paddle and let it cool down.
3. Place "Sushi bamboo rolling mat" on your worktop and then a nori sheet (shiny side down).
4. Spread about 180g sushi rice evenly. Leave an about 2cm edge uncovered.
5. Spread mayonnaise along the center line, as much as you want, over the rice. Place avocado, onion and salmon along that line too. Then roll up the maki tightly with a sushi rolling mat. Make 2 more sushi rolls.
6. Cut slices in the sushi roll with a clean and moistened knife. Please clean your knife before each new slice.
7. Serve wity soy sauce and wasabi :)

December 12, 2020

Shio Ramen v2 – Salt Flavored

Shio Ramen V2 - Salt Flavored

Persons

Prep Time

30 minutes

Cook Time

40 minutes

Total Time

1 hour, 10 minutes

Ingredients

For the soup stock :

700g (approx) Chicken breast or Thighs - boneless
1/2 tsp fine salt
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp cooking sake or cooking white wine
2L water (approx)

For the soup base :

50 to 80g green parts of a leek - chopped
1 tbsp sesame oil
60ml vegetable oil
5g katsuo/dried bonito flakes
5g garlic cloves - grated
3 tbsp kosher salt
1 tsp kobucha/kelp powder
2 tsp chinese chicken bouillon powder
150ml boiled water
Ramen noodles for 5 people
1 tbsp sesame oil

Instructions

1. Make the soup stock In a big cooking pot, add about 2L water and bring it to a boil. Once it boils add the chicken.
2. Bring it to a boil again, then remove from the heat. Cover and leave it for 1 to 2 hours.
3. Meanwhile make the soup base
In a heat-safe bowl, add katsuo flake, garlic and kosher salt and set it aside. In a small cooking pot, add leek, sesame oil and vegetable oil. Bring it to a boil and once it is boiling, simmer for 3 minutes.
4. Then immediately pour this oil mixture into a bowl. Mix well.
5. Add kobucha, chicken powder and boiled water. Mix well : the salt should melt completely. Set aside. You can leave it until the chicken is ready.
6. Using a cooking sieve, strain the soup base into another bowl. Press or squeeze well against the sieve.
7. Transfer the sieve residual into another bowl and blend it with your hand blender until it is smooth like a paste.
8. Remove the chicken from the water and cut it in slices. Set it aside. With the soup stock, strain once and add more water to reach a total of about 2.5L (it's about 500ml per person) then bring it to a boil.
9. Prepare the noodles Cook your ramen according to the package instructions. Place 2 to 3 tbsp (or more) soup base into your serving ramen bowl, add the boiled soup stock, then place the cooked ramen into the soup.
10. Top your ramen with chicken, leek, egg etc.....Sprinkle sesame, and enjoy :)

November 1, 2020

Salmon Flakes – Fish Recipe

Salmon Flakes

Serving Size

1 jar

Prep Time

30 minutes

Cook Time

30 minutes

Total Time

1 hour

Ingredients

500g salmon fillets - rinse with cold water and cut into about 2cm slices
a dash of salt
50ml cooking sake or white wine
50ml water

For the seasoning :

3 tbsp mirin
1/2 tsp or more kosher salt
1/4 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp soy sauce

Instructions

1. Sprinkle salt over the salmon fillets (on both sides) and let rest for 10 minutes.
2. Place salmon on a non-stick frying-pan (with no heat), add cooking sake (or white wine) and water. Turn on the heat to medium now. Cover with a lid and steam for 5 minutes.
3. Transfer the salmon to a plate. Take the skin off. Crush it to small pieces using chopsticks, a laddle or a fork.
4. Heat up a non-stick frying pan and add the salmon flakes, mirin, salt, sugar, soy sauce and cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
5. Transfer the salmon flakes into a cup. It needs to have been first sterilised with boiling water.
6. Serve with rice, spaghetti, sushi etc... And store in the fridge.

October 17, 2020

Canned Sardines Spaghetti – Recipe for 1

Canned Sardines Spaghetti - Recipe for 1

Persons

Prep Time

10 minutes

Cook Time

10 minutes

Total Time

20 minutes

Canned Sardines Spaghetti - Recipe for 1

Ingredients

canned sardines in olive oil (half can or 60~70g)
1 garlic clove - grated
1 tbsp olive oil
1 dried chili
50 to 60g mozzarella cheese - cut into small pieces
100g spaghetti
For the garnish :
Leek (cut into julienne) or basil leaf

Instructions

1. Transfer sardines into a bowl (also add the oil from the can) and mash them with a fork. Add grated garlic and mix. Set aside.
2. Cook your spaghetti, according to the package instructions, adding 1 tsp salt. Keep about 1 cup of the boiled water for later.
3. In a frying-pan, heat 1 tbsp olive oil, then place dried chili and sardines mixture. Cook lightly then remove once from the heat.
4. Add the cooked spaghetti and turn the heat back on. Sprinkle a dash of salt, the cup of hot water from the boiling pot in #2 and mozzarella cheese. Mix while you heat it all up again lightly.
5. Serve with a basil leaf or julienned leek on top!