Prepare a Hearty Meal with These Cantonese Recipes
2013-09-18
It’s such a joy to be eating hearty Cantonese meals at restaurants. But there comes a time when this luxury puts a strain in our pockets that we decide to cut back on enjoying these culinary offerings. Well, eating need not be expensive. In fact, you can become your own chef and prepare your own fancy Cantonese dinner right at your own homes! As for the recipes, we asked some of the best Cantonese chefs in town to provide us with easy but delicious ones. Let’s start with the soup by Chef Sam Leong. Double Boiled Fresh Cordyceps Flower with Dried Conpoy and Chicken Consomme
Ingredients: 50 pcs of fresh cordyceps flower (soak water/quick poached) 3 pcs of chicken drumstick (boneless / quick poached) 5 pcs Conpoy (dried) 5 pcs Chinese dates A dash of Wolfberrries 1 litre of chicken consomme 1 tsp of salt 1/2 tsp of sugar Chinese wine (hua tiew chiew) Directions: 1. Combine fresh cordyceps flower, chicken drumstick, dried conpoy, Chinese dates, and wolfberries into the soup bowl. 2. Bring chicken consommé to boil and season to taste. 3. Pour over fresh cordyceps flower, chicken drumstick, dried conpoy, Chinese dates, and wolfberries. 4. Steam for 45 minutes. Serve. A Cantonese meal won’t really be complete without dim sums, right? For this famous dish good enough for sharing, Cheng Hon Chau of Cherry Garden has gladly shared with us one of his favourites: Pan-fried Radish Cake
Photo courtesy of Cherry Garden
Ingredients 750 gm White Radish 60 gm Chinese sausage 60 gm Dried shrimps 350 gm Rice Flour 60 gm Mushrooms 60 gm Potato Flour 1500 gm Water 10 gm Chicken Powder 20 gm Salt 30 gm Sugar A pinch of white Pepper Powder Directions: A pinch of sesame oil 1. Soak dried shrimps until soft and deep-fry with adequate hot oil. Dice Chinese sausage and mushroom, then sear until fragrant with adequate hot oil, and set aside. 2. Grate white radish coarsely. Lightly poach in boiling water for a minute to remove the earthy smell. Drain, set aside. 3. In a large bowl, mix a batter of rice flour and potato flour together with 750gm water well together with all the fried ingredients. Boil the remaining 750gm water and combine with the flour batter mixture. 4. Next, pour the batter mixture into a square tray and spread it evenly and smoothen with a spatula. 5. Steam for 45 - 60 minutes depending on the thickness of your batter mixture. Leave it to cool in room temperature and keep refrigerated. Cut into desired sizes. 6. The radish cake can either be steamed, pan fried or deep fried depending on your preference. 7. Serve with XO sauce if desired. Fancy some sweets? We all know that the go-to dessert is the Egg Tart! These flaky and oh-so-sweet delicacies are the perfect way of capping off a decent meal. Well, here’s another recipe, courtesy of Happy Call. Hong Kong Golden Egg Tart
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Ingredients: Butter Crust: 220g Flour 40g Icing sugar 1/2 Beaten egg 140g Chilled butter 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract Egg tart moulds Egg Filling: 3 1/2 Eggs 80g Sugar 220ml Water 80ml Full cream evaporated milk Directions: Butter Crust 1. Mix and knead butter, flour and icing sugar 2. Knead egg into dough 3. Wrap in cling wrap and refrigerate the dough for 20 mins 4. Press pastry into mould gently using thumbs (Dab some flour on top of pastry while pressing to avoid flour sticking on thumb) 5. Use fork to gently poke holes onto base of pastry. Egg Filling: 1. Boil water and sugar in low flame till sugar dissolve and let cool to room temperature 2. Add milk and beaten eggs into syrup 3. Sieve mixture twice 4. Pour mixture into flour cups till 90% full. 5. Put the filled cups on Happy Call Pan 6. Use medium flame for about 20mins (move pan around flame occasionally) Tips: Be quick to mould the pastry quickly or else the temperature on our hands will soften the pastry. As the flour doesn't raise much in Happy Call Pans, the flour shouldn't be too thin. For more recipes like these, check out our recipes page now! Special thanks to Cherry Garden's Che Cheng Hon Chau for the dim sum recipe, ToTT's Chef Leong for the soup recipe See Also: Enjoy more Cantonese cuisine using OpenSnap Enjoy more Chinese cuisine using OpenSnap
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