Sunday, March 25, 2007

Home Cooking

Here are some of the dishes we enjoy eating and it takes me 30-45 min to prepare both. I put down the recipe now incase Juliet is interested in making them. Chilli pepper can be replaced with bell pepper if you plan to share the dish with kids.

Spicy Salmon Steak

I doubled the recipe here so that we have left over for lunch the next day. It actually taste better when the sauce seeped into the fish overnight.
I tried this recipe with habanero chili once and it was extremely spicy even for hubby who loves to eat thai chilli with every meal.


Ingredients
1) 2 Salmon steaks
2) 1 table spoons cornstarch
3) 1/4 cup of corn oil
4) 2 red chili pepers or Jalapenos depends on how hot you prefer

Seasoning
1) 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
2) 2 table spoons dark soy sauce
3) 1 table spoon of rice wine or dry sherry
4) 1/2 tablespoon of sugar
5) 1 teaspoon white pepper
6) 3 table spoon of water

Instruction
1. Dry salmon steaks with paper towel and dust both side with cornstarch
2. Heat the oil in skillet and add the fish steaks
3. Cook for 2 minutes each side and take fish out of skillet
4. Add chilli peppers, garlic and seasonings along with the water in the surplus oil left in the skillet
5. Bring to a boil
6. Put the salmon back in the chilli sauce and cook for 5 min under low heat.



Stir-fry Gailan (Chinese Brocolli)

Ingredient
1. Chinese Brocolli, 1 bag
2. 2 table sppon of Olive oil

Seasoning
1. 2 cloves of galic crushed
2. 3 thai chilli, thinly sliced
3. Salt or fish sauce to taste

Instruction
1. Heat up the oil and add garlic and thai chilli
2. Add Brocolli in to the wok
3. Add salt or fish sauce for taste
4. Stir fry until the stems are soft enough for your liking

4 comments:

Juliet said...

Thanks fpr posting the recipes. I've been craving salmon lately, especially!

Sam said...

Your welcome Juliet

Anonymous said...

Hi Sam! I was digging your archive and glad to have found again your salmon recipe. I will try it out for dinner. thanks a lot.

Sam said...

No problem. Let me know how it turns out.