Easy Chopsuey Recipe

I absolutely love this dish! Very healthy and very easy to prepare. Here's my pacham recipe of this delectable Chinese dish, Chopsuey! Hope you'll like it.

Ingredients:
1/4 kilo of chicken breast, cut into bite size pieces
1/4 kilo of chicken liver
Shrimp, peeled
1 big Cauliflower
Chicharo / Sitsaro
Cabbage
1 whole Carrot, julienne cut
1 big red bell pepper
Garlic and Onion
Fish sauce or salt
2 tsp. Sesame oil
Mix 2 tblsp. cornstarch and water in a separate bowl


Prepearation:
Blanch the cauliflower first, set aside
Sautee garlic and onion, add chicken then the liver
Add 1/2 cup of water, salt or fish sauce to taste
Add cornstarch + water mixture
Add carrots, sitsaro, cabbage, cauliflower and bell pepper
Add 2 tsp. of sesame oil

Chopsuey tastes better when half cooked so make sure to not over cook your veggies. Enjoy!

Shrimp Tempura and Onion Rings Recipe

This is my first attempt at making TEMPURA, and sadly, it failed. For this one, I used a tempura batter mix that I bought at Japan Japan last week while buying Mimi a gift for her birthday. It didn't help that the instructions were written in Japanese so I had to guess how much water to put in the mix. From what I know, cooking tempura requires ice cold water, I did that, but the batter didn't stick well after frying.

I know where I went wrong. The batter was not thick enough and I also forgot to dry the shrimps (by damping paper towel on them) before dipping them on the batter. Nevertheless, it's still yummy.

The remaining batter, I used for onion rings. It wasn't that crispy.  

Few days after, I tried eggplant tempura and I made sure the batter was thick enough to hold them together. Guess what!? It's still not perfect :( Moral of the story is, before buying tempura batter mix, make sure you understand the instructions at the back!

Maybe, I should just try homemade batter next time.

How To Cook Tikoy

How do you like your TIKOY done?

For years, I always cook Tikoy in old fashion way - dipped in egg then fried. Yummy but the taste is a bit boring, right? So last Chinese NY, I decided to reinvent the tikoy I received from Jun (Ruthie's bf) and came up with Lumping Tikoy.

Ingredients:

New Echague Bakery Tikoy (the best tikoy in town)

Kraft Eden Cheese

Preparation:

Cut tikoy into 4 parts then thin slices (about 2-3 inches long, 1/8inch thick)

Cut cheese into thin long strips

Roll tikoy with cheese in lumpia sheets/spring roll

Deep fry

Serve hot

This tastes really really good. Sweet, sticky, crunchy and cheesy! You can also use langka, Nutella chocolate spread, cheezwiz, peanut batter and strawberry jam instead of cheese. The next day, I dipped the remaining tikoy with Pillsbury hotcake batter then fried it...and it tasted equally good!

A bit late but Kung Hei Fat Choi!  :)