Healthy Steamed Chicken

Healthy Steamed Chicken

Steaming food is easy. The steamed food is delicious and healthy. It is quick to prepare, tastes good and suitable for anybody who are health conscious.

Ingredients:
1/2 chicken
1 piece ginger
1 tomato
1 tsp salt
1 tsp light soy sauce
a dash of pepper

Method:
1. Wash and chop chicken into bite-size pieces. Cut ginger into fine strips. Slice the tomato.

2. Season the chicken with salt, light soy sauce and pepper. Spread ginger and tomato on top of the chicken.

3. Prepare the steamer. When it is boiling, add in the chicken.

4. Steam for half an hour.

Steamed Fish With Asam Pedas Sauce

Steamed Fish With Asam Pedas Sauce

2 slices kurau/jenak fish
1 lady's finger (okra) (cut into slices)
1 red chili

Asam pedas paste
2 red shallots
1 cloves garlic
2 red chillies
1 dried chillies
1 small piece shrimp paste (belacan)
1 candle nut (buah keras)
1 tablespoon tamarind juice
1 stalk lemon grass
1/2 cup water
2 tbsp oil
a pinch of salt
a pinch of sugar

Method:

1.Blend chillies, shallots, garlic, candle nut , slice lemon grass and shrimp paste together until very fine.

2. Steam fish slices with lady's finger and slice chillies for 6 minutes.

3.Heat up oil in a pot or wok and fry the pounded ingredients till aromatic. Add in tamarind juice,salt, sugar, water and let it boil for 3 minutes.

4.Pour the gravy on top of the fish. Serve with hot rice.

Steamed Tofu With Oyster Sauce

Steamed Tofu With Oyster Sauce

Tofu is rich in protein. It is low in fats and very suitable for children, convalescent and old people.

Ingredients:
1 piece smooth tofu
1tbsp oyster sauce
1 stalk spring onions
1/4 cup water
1tbsp dried shrimp
1tbsp oil

Method:
1. Steam tofu with some thin slices of spring onions in a wok for five minutes.
2. Heat up a wok, pour oil and fry dried shrimp till fragrant. It will take only a few seconds. Add in oyster sauce and water. Fry for another few seconds.
3. Pour the fried dried shrimps over the steamed tofu. It is now ready to be served.

Steamed Chicken With Salted Fish

Steamed Chicken With Salted Fish

This is a very simple dish to cook when you do not have a lot of time. It is appetizing and yet delicious.

Ingredients:

1 piece chicken thigh
2 pieces salted fish

Method:
1. Wash and chop a piece of chicken thigh into small pieces.

2. Wash and cut salted fish into small pieces.

3. Arrange the chicken pieces and salted fish in a deep plate.
4. Steam the chicken for about 20 minutes.
5. Serve hot with rice.

Steamed Minced Meat With Eggs

Steamed Minced Meat With Eggs

A simple and delicious recipe which can be done in 15 minutes. Mix all the ingredients and steam it in a steamer, wok or microwave. It is very suitable for small kids,convalescent and old people.

Ingredients:

200 g minced meat
2 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
a dash of pepper
1 stalk spring onions

Method:
1. Slice the spring onions finely.

2. Mix minced meat, eggs, salt, pepper and the sliced spring onions together. Mix them well.

3. Cook in a steamer for 10 minutes.

Steamed Pandanus Glutinuous Green Bean Cake ( Angku Kueh)

Steamed Pandanus Glutinuous Green Bean Cake ( Angku Kueh)

This is another Chinese traditional cake. Usually the cake is red in colour. Nowadays there are many different types of colours. This cake is used for offerings in Chinese prayers, celebrating new born babies and even in wedding celebrations. The left-over cake can be fried the next day. After frying the cake will be crispy, chewy and delicious.

Filling for the Bean Paste:

200 g dried split green beans
4 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 pandanus leaves/screw pine leaves
1/2 cup oil

Method:
1. Soak the dried spilt green beans overnight.
2. Steam the green beans for about half an hour until soft.
3. When still hot, mash the green beans until fine.This can be done with a potato masher or in a blender.
4. Cook the beans in a wok with oil, sugar and salt. Fry the mixture until dry and leaves the side of the wok. Put aside to cool.

Ingredients for the pastry:
125g glutinous rice flour
50 ml cooking oil
1 tbsp sugar
125 ml boiling water
1 tbsp pandanus juice
5 pieces pandanus leaves
a pinch of salt

Method:
1. Mix glutinous rice flour onto a bowl with sugar,  Mix well with boiling water and pandanus juice.
Knead until the dough is pliable and smooth. Rest dough for 30 minutes.

2. Divide dough into even portions depending on the mould you are using. For each cake, the quantity of the dough and the filling should be roughly the same.

3. Clean a few pandanus leaves and cut into pieces slightly bigger than the mould.

4. Flatten each piece of dough to form a thin skin and wrap with a ball of the filling.

5. Press the dough ball into the mould, knock the mould gently to dislodge the cake and place it on two pieces of the cut pandanus leaves.

6. Steam the cake over medium heat for about 8-10 minutes. Remove the steamer lid to let out excess steam in between steaming time so that you will have a nicely shaped cake. When cooked, remove from the steamer and let it cool down before serving.

Steamed Sweet Potato Bun

Steamed Sweet Potato Bun

Ingredients for the dough:

 

500 g flour
325 g sweet potatoes
1 pkt instant yeast
3 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp margarine
2 small eggs

Ingredients for the filling:

 

300 g chicken meat

1 tsp sugar

1 tbsp oyster sauce

1 tsp black soy sauce

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp pepper

Method:

1.Clean and wash sweet potatoes. Boil in a pot till soft..When cool, peel off the skin and mash till fine.

Preparing the filling:

a) Debone the chicken meat and cut into small cubes.

b) Season the cut chicken meat with salt, sugar, oyster sauce and black soy sauce.

c) Marinate it for 1 hour.

Preparing the dough:

1. Put flour in a big mixing bowl. Add in sweet potatoes, yeast and sugar,margarine in the bowl.Mix till it resembles bread crumbs. Then add in the beaten eggs.

2. Knead the dough till smooth and spongy.

3.Let it rests in a warm place till double its size.

Preparing the bun:

1. Knock down the risen dough and knead for a few minutes. Divide the dough into about 50 g round balls.

2. Flatten the dough and add some fillings in it.Wrap the dough properly. Make sure no fillings can be seen or else the moisture from the fillings will ooze out.

3. Place each prepared dough on a piece of grease proof paper.

4. Leave them aside to proof for 10 minutes.

5.Put in a prepared steamer and steam for 10 minutes in high heat.

6. When cooked, cool them on a plate.

Steamed Cake With Minced Meat

Steamed Cake With Minced Meat

This steamed cake with minced meat is easy to prepare. If you like to steam cake, you can try this recipe. Make sure you use fresh egg for the cake to rise properly.

Ingredients for the cake:

200 g all purpose flour
50 g sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
3 big eggs
50 ml milk
50 ml oil

Ingredients for the minced meat:

100 g minced meat
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1 tsp dark soy sauce
1 tsp light soy sauce
1 tsp sugar

METHOD:
1. Prepare 16 cm cake tin and line with a piece of greased proved paper.

2. Boil water in a steamer with the cake tin.
3. Beat the eggs and sugar together till it bubbles.
4. Add in milk and beat together for 1 minute.
5. Mix in flour with baking powder and bicarbonate of soda.
6. Add into the blended mixture.
7. Pour out the blended cake mixture into the steaming cake tin.
8. Mix the minced meat ingredients together and spread on top of the cake mixture.

9. Steam about 30 minutes with medium heat.

Note: Make sure the eggs and sugar are beaten till it is thick and fluffy. This will ensure that the cake will rise properly.