Tomato egg drop soup

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Angeline

tomato egg drop soup

Served this together with the minced pork fried rice on Saturday. Though Alicia isn’t much of a tomato lover (like me), we both still enjoy a tomato egg drop soup 🙂

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Tomato egg drop soup
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Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • 4 large ripe tomatoes
  • 1 egg
  • 250g pork ribs
  • 3 chicken carcasses
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 1 handful dried shrimps
  • 10g dried scallop
  • 1L water (if cooking via slow cooker); 2-3L (for stove top)
  • fish sauce to taste
  • coriander or scallions for garnishing (optional)
Instructions
  1. Rinse the dried scallop, garlic and dried shrimps.
  2. Score the tomato skin.
  3. Blanch the tomatoes in boiling water (the skin will slide off easily). Chop tomato into small chunks and remove the seeds.
  4. Blanch the pork ribs and chicken bones.
  5. Put the pork ribs, chicken bones, garlic, dried shrimps into a soup bag. Put the soup bag of ingredients, together with dried scallop, tomatoes and water in a slow cooker and slow cook for 6hours on LOW. [If cooking on stove top, bring soup to a boil then simmer for 2 hours on low heat]
  6. Transfer the soup to a pot suitable for cooking on stove top and bring the soup to a boil.
  7. Add fish sauce to taste and wait for the soup to boil again.
  8. Crack an egg and beat it. Swirl the egg into the soup slowly, bit by bit, in one direction. Turn off the heat and cover the pot for 5 minutes for the egg to set.
  9. Dish and garnish with coriander or scallions.

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Minced pork fried rice

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Angeline
minced pork fried rice

Cooked minced pork fried rice for Saturday’s dinner… these days I try as much as possible to cook dishes that Alicia will eat as well so that I don’t need to make extra effort to cook something else for her.

This is a simple dish that’s sooo yummy! Try it!

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Minced pork fried rice
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Serves: 3
 
Ingredients
  • 1.5 cup of rice grains (the cup I used to measure the rice came together with the rice cooker, hence it's not your usual cup)
  • about 200g minced pork
  • 40g Japanese whitebait
  • 6 cloves shallots (sliced thinly)
  • 4 cloves garlic (minced)
  • 100g frozen mixed vegetables
  • 1 sprig scallions (for topping)
  • ¼ cup Oil
  • Oyster sauce to taste
Marinate minced pork with:
  • 1 teaspoon hua diao jiu
  • 2.5 tablespoons oyster sauce
  • 2 teaspoons sesame oil
  • a dash of ground white pepper
Instructions
  1. Cook rice as per usual. You may prefer to use overnight rice or chill the rice for at least 4 hours.
  2. Rinse the Japanese whitebait and pat dry with kitchen towel.
  3. Heat oil in a wok.
  4. Add whitebait to the wok and fry till golden brown. Strain and set aside.
  5. Add the garlic and fry till light brown. Strain and set aside.
  6. Add the shallots and fry till golden brown. Strain and set aside.
  7. Pour out the extremely fragrant oil and set aside for later use, leaving about 2 teaspoons behind to fry the minced pork.
  8. Add the minced pork and stir quickly to prevent lumps.
  9. When the pork is almost cooked, add the mixed veggies.
  10. Add the cooked rice and mix well.
  11. Add oyster sauce to taste.
  12. Dish and top with the whitebait, garlic and shallots (and scallions).
  13. Drizzle the fragrant oil made earlier over the rice.
  14. Serve.
Notes
!For toddler's consumption:

If particular about seasoning, remove toddler's portion before adding the oyster sauce.

Drizzle the fragrant oil over the rice and serve the crispy whitebait separately (skip the garlic and shallots if your toddler isn't fond of them.

 

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