Braised Vegan Abalone

Meatless Meal tonight....Braised Vegan Abalone with carrots, Shiitake mushrooms, radish and celery 😋

Seriously good....vegan abalone made from Seitan ( gluten) Chewy yet soft, tasty and now I know why vegetarian restaurant dishes are expensive. Gluten flour is expensive . With Gluten flour, there is no wastage and doesn't need washing and rinsing the dough. A keeper for sure. Video link is at the end of post.

Love the texture of these vegan abalone

I don't mind eating such a

delicious vegan dish

Vegan abalone made from Seitan

Seitan dough

Gluten flour, price is 5x more 

than AP Flour

Click here for the video link

Napa Cabbage Rolls With Sticky Rice

First Meatless Meal....testing out to see if my Meat Eater can have Meatless Meal at least twice a week 🤣 Napa Cabbage Rolls with sticky rice. Recipe inspired by instagrammer @woon.heng . I tweaked the filling recipe a bit, mine the fillings is just steamed sticky rice with mushroom,chopped chilli and carrots. Seasoning is oyster sauce. Cooked a light sauce with sliced mushrooms for the Napa Cabbage Rolls. So yummy good. No complaints so far. He likes sticky rice so I supposed he is fine with this dish.

this is seriously so good, I used

cast iron pan to braised the wrapped

Napa cabbage 

the glutinous rice filling is

 flavour packed

blanch the Napa cabbage to soften 

and enable wrapping easier

Click here for the recipe

Chicken Curry With Tean's Gourmet Chicken Curry Paste

Tean's Gourmet has a wide range of Traditional Malaysian Cuisine  ready to cook paste. My daughter in Melbourne first introduced me to their Assam Tumis Fish Curry Paste. Before her introduction, I have never heard of Tean's Gourmet, most probably I am a person who usually cook everything from scratch, that's why I never look at ready to cook paste at the Supermarket shelf. Their Assam Tumis paste was good and I today I tried their Chicken Curry Paste....you will never believe how good it is.  It was really good, tasted so authentic that I am going to buy more of their Chicken Curry paste the next visit to the supermarket.  I have to thank my daughter for introducing me to Tean's Gourmet 😁

I cooked blue Pea flower rice to go with the Chicken Curry

mouthwatering , tasty and spicy

I used my favourite

 enamelled cast iron pot

to cook the chicken curry

Tean's Gourmet Chicken Curry Paste

has made cooking this curry dish so easy

I added curry leaves, lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves for a deeper flavour though it was not required. 

Instructions was just to mix the paste with the chicken pieces and potatoes till well combined and cook over slow fire for 5mins. Add 500 ml water and continue to simmer till chicken and potatoes have soften. Last, add in 250 ml of coconut milk to the curry. Once it boils. Off heat and it is ready for serving. No oil and salt required. 

I discovered this Chicken Curry is great for Nasi Kunyit and Roti Jala. 

Oven Baked Banana Leaf- Wrapped Fish Curry

This is our all time favourite way to prepare a fish dish.  Seasoned with curry paste and wrapped in banana leaf and baked in oven. Firstly saute wet curry paste which we can get from the wet market with curry leaves till fragrant. Add in sliced onions, okra and tomato and stir fry till well combined. Spread the vegetable and curry paste into the paste and wrap with banana leaves. Put into the oven and baked for 30 mins @200c . Easy and a delicious fish recipe for dinner.

Banana leaves from homegrown banana plants

Spread out the cooked curry paste and

Vegetables over the fish fillet ( I used red snapper fillets)

Recipe for the curry paste 

3/4 cup fresh ground curry paste

1tbsp sugar

1/8 cup vegetable oil

2 stalks curry leaves

1kaffir lime leaf

Vegetables

1 large red onion - sliced

1 large tomato - sliced

4 okras - sliced

Saute the above ingredients with oil till fragrant. Off heat, add in the sliced okra, tomato and red onions. Marinate the fish fillet s with the above vegetable curry paste. Prepare banana leaves. Brush oil on the side where you going to place the marinated fish. Wrap and use bamboo skewer to close the edges and put the wrapped fish on a baking tray and baked for 30 minutes @200c. ( Depends on size of fish)

Enjoy!

Crispy Sesame Tofu

Another try out of Woon Heng of woonheng.com 's Crispy Sesame Tofu. Easy to prepare and it's a great vegan finger food. Can be served as a snack for Movie Night. I used frozen firm tofu which gives the tofu a compact spongy texture which we like very much. Crispy on the outside and soft compact spongy on the inside. Tasty as the tofu has been marinated with aromatic sweet marinade. They are baked so they are healthy finger-food.

Crispy on the outside ,spongy texture on the inside

It's freaking healthy, baked and plant based

Place sesame coated tofu on greased liner and dab vegetable oil on

surface of tofu for a crispier top

marinate tofu slices with the prepared

marinade sauce

Freeze firm tofu overnight to get the spongy texture

Click here for the recipe

Finger Food - Roast Wingettes And Drummettes

Roast drumettes and wingettes are best finger food for Whisky and watching movies at home. Marinate with just salt for a few hours, and added Steakhouse Pepper Seasoning before roasting. We had these last night while watching a movie on Netflix. The best and unhealthy finger food but the yummiest. Fingers licking good too.Once a while naughty indulgence.

deliciously good

Goes well with whiskey

Easy to prepare and they are really

 lips-smacking good