Chicken Parmesan Pasta

Ingredients

-4 chicken breast halves
-1 cup soft fine bread crumbs
-1/4 to 1/3 cup Parmesan Cheese, fresh shredded
-1/4 teaspoon dried leaf basil
-1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
-dash pepper
-1/4 teaspoon salt


-1 large egg
-2 tablespoons milk


-1 jar (16 ounces) spaghetti sauce or marinara

-Small onion

-Mushrooms


-hot cooked pasta, drained



Directions

1) Mix bread crumbs, Parmesan Cheese, Pepper, Parsley flakes, Basil leave and salt together

2) Beat egg combine with milk

3) Wash chicken breasts and pat dry

4) Line a baking tray with baking sheet or spray pan with olive oil or non stick cooking spray

5) Heat oven to 250 degrees celcius

6) Dip chicken breast in egg and milk mixture, then coat with crumb mixture

7) Bake chicken breast in oven for about 30mins

8) Heat some olive oil and fry onions and mushroom till fragrant then add pasta sauce and bring to a boil

9) Pour 1/3 of the sauce into a baking dish, place the pieces of chicken breasts onto the sauce then spread the rest of the sauce onto the chicken breasts

10) If you have Mozzarella cheese. sprinkle some onto the sauce and bake for 15 to 20mins or until bubbly or cheese melted

11) Viola! Serve over hot cook spaghetti or other pasta!

Ophe's Braised Spare Ribs

Ingredients
1) 10 to 12 pieces of Spare Ribs
2) Marinate (1 tbsp of dark soya sauce, 1 tbsp shaoxing wine, 1 tbsp of sugar)
3) 1 tbsp oil
4) A few slices of ginger
5) 1/2 onion, sliced
6) 6 cloves of whole garlic, peeled and bruised
7) 2 tbsp sugar
8) 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
9) 1 tsp Shaoxing wine
10)1 star anise
11) About 2cm of cinnamon stick
12) 1-2 tsp light soy sauce
13) 1 tbsp tomato sauce
14) 1 cup water
15) Salt & ground black pepper to taste

Directions
1) Marinate spare ribs with Marinate
2) Heat oil in small pan
3) Fry ginger, garlic in oil till fragrant
4) Add marinated spare ribs, add remaining seasoning
5) Bring to a boil using medium heat
6) Reduce to low heat for cook for about half an hr
7) Cook meat till gravy thickens
8) Serve and granish with spring onion is desire

Seafood Bee Hoon Noodles Soup

Easy easy! Can whip the meal up within 1/2 hr! For those lazy days and when you need something light!
Yields 2 portions



Ingredients for soup stock
1) 5 cups of water
2) 1/4 cup of ikan billis
3) 1/4 cup of dry scallops

Directions for soup stock
1) Rinse ikan billis and scallops
2) Combine all ingredients and boil under medium heat for half an hour

Ingredients for bee hoon noodles soup
1) Yellow Noodles
2) Bee Hoon
3) Different seafood (Prawns, Scallops, Crab Meat, Fish Ball)
4) Cai Xin or tow gey
5) Shallots, chilli padi and pepper to garnish before serving

Directions
1) Blanch and cook yellow noodles and bee hoon
2) Keep aside in a serving bowl
3) Bring soup stock to a boil add seafood, bring to boil for a 3 to 5 mins
4) Pour cooked seafood and soup stock onto noodles and bee hoon
5) Garnish and serve!

Sesame Oil Chicken

INGREDIENTS
2 pounds chicken wings
1 1/4 cups water
10 tablespoons dark soy sauce
5 tablespoons light soy sauce
1 clove crushed garlic
1/4 cup sesame oil
1 dash sesame oil

DIRECTIONS
1) Cut the chicken wings into 3 separate portions.
2) In a large pan, combine the chicken, water, dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, garlic.
3) Stir together and cook for 15 minutes over medium heat.
4) Add the 1/4 cup sesame oil and simmer for another 15 minutes over low heat.
5) Bring mixture to a boil and add dash of sesame oil.
6) Remove from heat, let cool and serve.

Salted Black Beans Minced Pork - Teochew Muay Style

Darling keeps asking if we can have his favorite minced pork for teochew muay and I decided to come up with my very own version. Its pretty yummy, I'm surprised! Goes especially well with sweet potato plain porridge!

So here it is, Ophe's version of Black Beans Minced Pork



Ingredients
1) 250g of Minced Pork
2) 2 tbsp of Chopped Garlic
3) 1 tbsp of oil
4) 1 tbsp of Light Soya Sauce
5) 1 tsp of Sesame Oil
6) Dash of White Pepper
7) 2 tbsp of Lee Kum Kee Black Bean Sauce
8) 1 tbsp Lee Kum Kee Chilli Bean Sauce
9) 2 tsp of Black soya sauce
10) 1/4 cup of water


Directions
1) Marinate minced pork with light soya sauce, sesame oil and white pepper
2) Heat oil in shallow pan
3) Add chopped garlic and fry till fragrant
4) Add minced pork and stir fry for about 20s
5) Add Lee Kum Kee black bean sauce, chilli bean sauce, black soya sauce and the cup of water.
6) Fry till gravy turns thick, serve with porridge

PS: I also serve the teochew porridge with "Cai Poh Egg",

Giam Chye

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Sesame Oil Chicken

One Pot Rice

This is a recipe shared by a dear friend of mine, Lynn.
Instead of Roast pork, I substituted the meat with my Ophe's Char Siu Pork. You can click on the following link for my Char Siu Pork.

Ophe's Char Siu Pork

Ingredients
- 4 to 5 shallots, sliced
- 4 to 5 shallots, chopped
- 8 large Shitake Mushrooms, soaked and sliced
- 300g of dried shrimps, soaked
- 300g of cabbage, sliced into 2cm
- 300g of rice
- 150g Char Siu Pork or Roasted Pork
- 1 tbsp of oil
- 450ml to 500ml of warm unsalted chicken stock or water (I used water just as tasty!)

- (Mixture) 1 tbsp of sesame oil, 1 tbsp of oyster sauce, 1tbsp of shaoxing wine, 1tbsp of light soya sauce, 1/2 tsp of white pepper

-(Garnish) Chopped Coriander leaves

Directions
1. Heat oil in a large frying pan over medium high heat
2. Add dry shrimps and fry until fragrant
3. Add shallots and fry till soft
4. Add mushrooms and garlic and fry for a minute or so
5. Add cabbage and fry till wilted then add sesame oil mixture
6. Add rice, stir to coat the grains with the seasoning.
7. Add char siu pork and mix it well
8. Scoop rice mixture into a rice cooker and pat down gently, add enough water or stock to cover and cook
9. Leave to stand for about 10mins after its cook, then scooped onto plates
10. Top with chopped coriander and serve

Ophe's Char Siu Pork

I don't really enjoy the red coloring on the char siu pork so I decide not to use it for my version of char siu pork... The Japanese ramen type :) Brown ones...



Ingredients
-1 1/4 lbs pork tenderloins
-1 1/2 inches fresh ginger, grated
-2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
-1/4 cup light soy sauce
-1/4 cup rice wine (Mirin)
-2 spring onions, chopped finely
-3 tablespoons brown sugar
-1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
-2 tablespoons soy bean paste
-1 tablespoon vegetable oil
-1/3 cup honey
-1 pinch salt
-1 pinch fresh ground black pepper

Directions
1) Using a sharp knife, make slashes along the top and bottom of the pork fillet.
2) Combine all the remaining ingredients, and marinade the pork for 2-3 hrs or overnight if you can
3) Preheat the oven to 350.
4) Drain the pork from its marinade, and place on a rack set over a roasting pan, half-filled with hot water.
5) Cook the pork for about 15 minutes, then coat with some sauce.
6) Turn the meat over so it colors on all sides.
7) Baste regularly with the extra marinade while cooking.
8) Cook for 15-25 more minutes more, testing at 15 minutes to see if it's done to your liking.
9) Let sit for 10 minutes to distribute juices, then slice into 1/4" pieces, and serve.