Beef Curry Udon

This is really easy to make and great for kids if they like curry.  I used Japanese curry because Indian curry have a completely different taste to it.
This is a Japanese inspired recipe. Hopefully you will like this recipe!

Portion: 4-6 serving

Ingredients:
1.5-2 lbs beef eye of round cut (it's a really cheap cut! I like using this cut because I will cut the meat thinly, so an expensive cut will not make a difference)
1 bag of enoki mushrooms (optional)
1/2 a small onion (cubed)
2 minced garlic cloves
1 stem of green onion
4 portions of frozen udon or dried udon
4 cubed of curry
1 can of chicken broth (may be replaced with 2 cups of water)

3-4 tbsp of soy sauce (to taste)
1 tsp black pepper
2 tbsp Mirin Japanese Sake sweet cooking wine
4 tbsp butter
1 tsp chicken bouillon
1 tsp lemon juice or 1 tsp rice vinegar

Preparation:
Marinate the thinly sliced beef with soy sauce, black pepper, and mirin.
Stir fry the beef with 4 tbsp butter then set it aside.

Add 1 tbsp oil, and stir fry the mushrooms, onions, and garlics.
Once everything is soften, you can add all 4 curry cubes.
Add the chicken broth, chicken bouillon, and lemon juice.
Cook everything until boiled, then you can add in the beef.
Turn off the heat.

Boil your udon according to the package direction.
Present it on plate and add the beef curry with green onions sprinkle on top.

Enjoy!

Ground Beef, Pressed Tofu & Edamame

I can definitely say this is a lazy dish. :) because there isn't much prepping required if you buy frozen ready to eat edamame.
You can use any tofu.  But traditionally, this dish was cooked with using pressed tofu.  You can find this tofu in any Chinese market.  It is a marinated soy sauce tofu.  

   

Ingredients:

1 lb ground beef
8 square pressed tofu or 2 cups of cubed tofu
1 bag of edamame or 2 cups of edamame

2 minced garlic cloves
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1-2 tbsp oyster sauce (to taste)
1 tbsp rice vinegar + 1 tsp lemon juice or 2 tbsp rice vinegar
2 tbsp shaoxing wine
1/2 tsp black peppers
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes (optional)

Direction:

Add 2 tbsp oil and add the garlic then the ground beef.
Add all the sauces and spices listed above.
Once beef is fully cooked, you can add the pressed tofu and edamame.
Stir fry for about 3 minutes.
Enjoy!

Hawaiian Spam Musubi Fried Rice

3 cups uncooked rice = 9 cups cooked cold rice
2 cups carrots; cubed
1 can sweet corns
1-2 can spam; cubed(I used turkey because I don't eat pork; however, you definitely can use regular spam)
1/2 -1 cup seaweed snack (you can find this in Korean super market; if not you can shred the regular seaweeds paper instead)
1/2 a small onion; cubed
2 minced garlic cloves

3 tbsp sugar total
1 tsp black pepper
3 tbsp rice vinegar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp chicken bouillon

Stir Fried Spam:
Add 2 tbsp oil and 1 minced garlic to wok.
Add in spam, 1 tbsp sugar, 1 tsp black pepper, 2 tbsp rice vinegar.
Cook spam until spam is caramelized and set it aside once completed.

Stir Fried Veggies:
Add 2 cups carrots and 1/2 an onion to wok with 2 tbsp oil.
Add 1/2 tsp salt
After carrot is soften, Add in 1 can of corns.
Add 1 tbsp vinegar.
Stir fried for about 2 minutes and set it aside once completed.

Stir Fried Rice:
Add 2 tbsp oil, 1 minced garlic, and 7-9 cups cooked cold rice.
Add 2 tsp sugar and 1 tsp chicken bouillon.
Minced the rice and make sure the rice is some what browned/crusted hard.
Add in the spam and veggies.  Continue to mix.
Finally add 1 cup seaweed shredded snack.

You are finished!
If you would like, you can add some lemon juice to enhance the flavor!
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Mee Goreng Recipe

Growing up I have always eaten the instant Mee Goreng.
This is my take on the instant Mee Goreng using fresh ingredients.
The traditional instant Mee Goreng doesn't come with veggies, so I have always added fried egg and extra ingredients.  I'm doing the same thing using chow mein noodles.  I found that it is way tastier when you actually mix the ingredients as you are eating it.  Rather than having the chef pre-mixed the ingredients for you.  Also the bean sprouts release a very distinct taste/smell that can often ruin and overwhelm the core ingredients.  That's why I preferred to cook the bean sprouts separately, so all you can taste from the bean sprouts are crispy fresh flavor.

I hope you will give it a try! and leave a comment below of how you like it! :)

Recipe:

1-1.5 lbs chow mein noodles
1 lb chicken things
1/2 lb shrimps
1 bundle spinach
1/4 lb or 2 cup bean sprouts
4 key limes
2 minced garlic cloves
1/2 a small onion chopped cube
4 eggs

2 eggs scrambled and 2 egg cook sunny side up.

Pre-mixed sauce
4 tbsp dark soy sauce
4 tbsp shaoxing wine (optional)
2 tbsp oyster sauce
3 tbsp sriracha (less if you prefer non-spicy)
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp chicken bouillon
2 tbsp sambal chilies
2 tbsp tomato paste
1 key lime juice or 1/2 a regular lime juice

Mix all the listed ingredients above for sauce and set it aside

Boil:
Boil noodles with 1 tsp salt.  Rinse with cold water to prevent noodles sticking to each other. Set aside.
Quickly boil beansprouts for 30 second. Rinse with cold water and set it aside.
Quickly boil spinach for 30 second. Rinse with cold water, squeeze out extra water and set it aside.

Mix beansprouts, spinach and 2 tbsp pre-mixed sauce together.  Set it aside.

Stir fried:
Stir fried chicken thighs with 3 tbsp pre-mixed sauce until fully cooked. Set aside.
Stir fried shrimps with 1 tbsp pre-mixed sauce until fully cooked. Set aside.

Add oil and stir fried with garlics, onions, and premixed sauce.  Then add cold noodles to pan and mix with the ingredients.  Add pre-mixed sauce to your taste.
Then add scrambled eggs to the noodles. You are finished when eggs are fully mixed and cooked.

Present noodles, veggies, meats, and egg as shown above.
Enjoy!

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Black Pepper Steak & Corns with Rice

Marinate Steak
1 lb of grill cut steak
Sprinkle salt and black pepper on both sides of steak
Let it marinate at least 30 min.

Stir fried corns
1 can sweet corns or frozen corns
1 minced garlic
2 tbsp dried shrimps (optional)
1 tbsp butter
1/2 tsp - 1 tsp salt
1 tbsp fish sauce (optional)
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp lemon juice (may substitute with vinegar)
1/4 cup green onions

Additional topping
Green onions
Fried shallots
Red pepper flakes

Stir fried the corns with the ingredients above until fragrant or corns lightly charred.
Add green onions last.

Cook steak according to your liking.
Make sure you have enough oil to make the steak crispy and sizzling.
Let steak rest and cut it into pieces.

Put on a small cast iron and add butter then rice.
Then add steak and corns like the picture above.
Finally, add green onions, shallots, and red pepper flakes.

Enjoy!
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Kung Pao Chicken

Marinating Chicken:
1 lb chicken
1 tsp salt
1 tsp chicken bouillon
1/2 tbsp corn starch
1 tbsp wine (shaoxing wine) this is optional
1 tbsp rice vinegar
1/2 tsp black pepper
1 tbsp soy sauce

Marinate chicken at least 30 minutes
Follow by cooking the chicken with oil and garlic until fully cooked.

For stir fried ingredients:
2 minced garlic cloves
1/4 an onion (chopped)
1 cup celery (chopped)
1/4 cup sweet pepper (or bell pepper)
10 dry chilies
2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tsp sugar

Corn starch liquid:
1 tbsp corn starch
1/4 cup water

Stir fry all the ingredients all together until light soft.
Finally add the chicken and corn starch liquid.

Add in 1/2 cup roasted peanuts & 1 tsp lemon juice


* you can skip salt and just add more soy sauce
*for even lighter version, you can replace oyster sauce with just soy sauce.

Butter Garlic Shrimps and Scrambled Egg Stir Fried

This is the best :) I had this dish at many Hong Kong/Cantonese restaurants.  This is so simple to make and yet so tasty!

1/2 lbs shrimps

6 eggs (scrambled)

2 tbsp unsalted butter

1-2 garlic cloves (minced) depending on how much you like garlic

1/4 tsp salt on shrimps & 1/4 tsp salt on eggs

1/2 tsp sugar on shrimps

1/2 tsp black pepper on shrimps

First, cook the shrimps with 1 tbsp butter. Then add salt, sugar and black pepper.  Set aside the shrimps.

Then on a clean pan, on low heat, add butter and egg.  Scramble egg lightly until egg is fluffy and almost fully cooked. 

Turn off heat and add in the shrimps.

Wahla!  you completed the most simple and delicious dish!

Enjoy!

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