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Sauteed Okra

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Okra or lady's finger is a delicious and versatile vegetable. It can be sauteed, steamed, add into curry and soups, and many more. Young okra are soft and tender when cooked, they add  variety of flavor and texture in your curry and soup. In this entry I add this easy and simple recipe of sauteed okra which you can add as side dish to your rice and curry. I made this to accompany my canned sardine soup dish which I made for lunch that day. Okra usually goes well with fish dish.  In this recipe not much ingredients are used. I used shrimp paste to add more flavor to it. If you don' have shrimp paste you can use fried anchovies or dried shrimp, and even fresh shrimps.  Ready in around 15 minutes.  Ingredients 7 okras 2 shallots 1 pinch or 1/4 teaspoon shrimp paste or dried shrimp 1 bird eye chili 2/3 teaspoon salt A pinch of sugar 3 tablespoon cooking oil Methods Pound shrimp paste or dried shrimp, shallots and chili together. Slice the okras. Heat the oil in the pan. ...

Fried Bitter Gourd With Egg And Curry Flavor

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I eat bitter gourd for health. There is a saying my teacher always told us when I was still studying in school, which is "Bitter things are medicine". Yes for bitter gourd. And my teacher always refer the saying to bitter gourd.  Bitter gourd is a crunchy vegetable. What prevent people from eating it is its bitter taste. I have a tip to reduce the bitterness of this vegetable which I already wrote here .  Sometimes I go to mamak restaurants to eat rice for lunch. Usually I eat their beef curry and this fried bitter gourd with egg. I then learned this recipe and tried cooking this several times. And yesterday I cooked this fried bitter gourd again to partner it with beef curry. And my father said it is acceptable. My father is very critical when criticizing food. So I decided to add it here into my recipe archive.  I ate this dish many times in the restaurants. Some people cook it with the egg crispy at the edges. In some place the egg is not crispy....

Sauteed Romaine Lettuce

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I was cooking fish curry when my mom asked me to cook this green vegetable. It was just recently my family eat this vegetable. It looks like lettuce to me. I even imagine to eat it raw in my sandwich. The packaging wrote Yau Mark Tam. Yau mark tam? A vegetable from China I guess. Then I thought I would just sauté it with anchovies. And today I searched about yau mark tam in the internet and... it is actually romaine lettuce... hahaha... But sauteed romaine lettuce is also delicious. So let's look at the recipe. Ready in 15 minutes Ingredients 1 head of romaine lettuce or yau mak tam 2 shallots (sliced) 2 cloves garlic (sliced) 1 tablespoon anchovies 1 tablespoon oyster sauce 3 tablespoon cooking oil Some drops of white vinegar Salt to taste Methods Heat cooking oil in a pan. Add in anchovies and fry until they become crispy. Take it out from the pan and crush it a little. Set aside.  With the same oil and heat turned on add in shallots and garlic. ...

Fried Canned Sardine (Tumis Sardin)

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Canned sardine is one of the food which I will search when I feel lazy to cook or having appetite loss. It is easy to cook, and can be used to cook many different food. I like to fry or saute canned sardine or make canned sardine sambal. These cooking contain spicy, sweet and sour taste which will make a delicious partner to your white rice.  This is an easy recipe which I always make and eat with rice. It is a simple recipe, and can be eaten with bread. It is also can be used as pizza topping and puff filling, and also bun filling.  Ready in 15 minutes Ingredients 1 small canned sardine in tomato sauce 1 onion (diced) 3 green chili (sliced) 3 cloves garlic (crushed) 1/2 cup tamarind juice from 1/2 tablespoon tamarind 2 tablespoon cooking oil 1 teaspoon soy sauce Salt to taste Methods Heat cooking oil in a pan.  Add in crushed garlic. Stir until become half golden and aromatic.  Add in tamarind juice.  After 1 minutes add in can...

Easy Savory Fried Beef

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Fried beef or daging goreng is a very delicious dish and it is my favorite since I was little. The tender and flavorful beef with added onion and other vegetables do look really appetizing and can instigate hunger. There are many types of fried beef such as turmeric fried beef, soy sauce fried beef, ginger fried beef and the list goes on.  Here I will share a simple recipe of fried beef. I think this is the most basic version of fried beef and it is easy to make. The tender part of beef such as loin and fatty type of beef is suitable for this recipe. This dish is sweet, salty and sour from tamarind juice, and have hint of garlic and ginger flavor. Usually it is eaten with steamy rice. This is my father's version of fried beef. He added dried chili and lemongrass.  Prep time : around 30 minutes (boiling the beef time is not included) Cook time : around 10 minutes Ingredients 300 gram beef cut into flat pieces (about 1 inch x 1 inch) 1 table spoon tamarind...