Steamed Jelly Ear Chicken Rice!

This is one of my favourite Chinese dish - Steamed Jelly Ear Chicken Rice! I actually had to look up what jelly ear is in english, as this ingredient is rarely seen used in western food, and I don't think I have ever seen this term used in english context (maybe it's just me?). Jelly ear is probably the only type of fungi/mushroom I eat.. (very picky of me..:P)

You will need:
(2 servings)

3 chicken thighs
10 jelly ears
2 bowls of rice
soy sauce
ground pepper 
sugar
cornstarch
ginger

Steps:
1. Wash the jelly ears and soak in water until it becomes enlarges and softens.
2. Cut away the hard ends of the jelly ears. Prepare the ginger by peeling it then cutting it into strips or mince/grind it like I did.
3. Cut the chicken thighs into small pieces. Marinate with soya sauce, sugar, ground pepper and cornstarch. For better taste, leave it for at least half an hour.
4. Prepare the rice in rice cooker. Use 75-80% of the amount of water you normally use for the rice  because it can get really moist when you add the chicken later as it releases moisture/sauce. Add in the chicken and jelly ears on top of the rice in the rice cooker as soon as the water in the rice disappears.
5.When the rice cooker timer is up, it may not mean the chicken is fully cooked, so leave it in the rice cooker and until it is fully cooked with the remaining heat. 
6. Mix everything up to make sure the sauce gets mixed into the rice thoroughly.

Picture taken straight from the rice cooker

Mix.. Mix.. Mix..

Healthy salad!

Salads are probably one of the easiest and healthiest things to make. Just add in your favourite veggies and ingredients, then finish off with your favourite dressing and there you go!



I am going to share with you what I normally have in my salad.

In my salad:
salad tomatoes
sweetcorn
iceberg lettuce
cucumber
balsamic vinegar

(I don't really like leafy salad veggies, so I only used lettuce:P)

Method:
1. Wash all the ingredients.
2. Chop up all the ingredients.
3. Mix it in a bowl with balsamic vinegar.

Bits and Bobs

As you see from the title, I named this dish Bits and Bobs:P That is because you can literally mix and match any of the leftover ingredients you have in your fridge to do it. I was making pizza the other day, and had some leftover peppers, sweetcorn, onions, so I just combined with a few more other leftover ingredients in my fridge and created this dish.

You will need:

(4 servings)

half bowl of coloured peppers

mince pork (size of your fist x2)

half bowl of squash

half bowl of carrots

half bowl of sweetcorn

half bowl of onions

vinegar

soy sauce

osyter sauce

sugar

corn starch

water

1. Chop up the squash, onions, carrots and colour peppers. Defrost the sweetcorn.

2. Marinate the mince pork with soy sauce, sugar, starch

3. Boil the squash and carrots.

4. In a frying pan, add in some cooking oil and fry the onions, then add in the mince meat. When it is 90% cooked, add in 1.5 tablespoon of osyter sauce, one tablespoon of soy sauce and 2 teaspoons of vinegar. Add in 50ml of water just so the oyster sauce can get mixed in more easily.

5. Add in the peppers, squash, carrots and sweetcorn, and fry it for a 1-3 mins.

Another dish perfect with rice~:) You can also wrap it with lettuce.