Black Rice Pumpkin Fried Rice

For some of you, black rice may not be commonly used in your kitchen. Well, at least it was the case for me; until one of my good friend introduced this wonderful rice to me two years ago. If you want to know the nutritional value of black rice, please read here.

With no dark sauce added, the rice looks purplish-black when cooked.

An additional okra (lady's fingers) side dish added.

Dinner

This is my first Yee-Fu noodles(伊府面), got the recipe from a friend long time ago and didn't had a chance to try until today (I think I added too much carrot and the colour actually looks more orange in the photo). Frying was very simple as compared to the preparation. Hubby - J is out-stationed and therefore he missed the chance to be my guinea-pig. Everything was fine except that it was slight sweet than saltish... Never mind then...practise makes perfect! I should be able to fry better on my second trial.

Vegetarian Fried Kuey Tiow in Creamy Sauce

Since I have a packet of kuey tiow in the fridge, I decided to try my hand on cooking my favorite fried kuey tiow in creamy sauce for dinner.

Ingredients A
1 tbsp sesame oil
500g kuey tiow
1 tbsp light soya sauce
1/2 tsp dark soya sauce

Ingredients B
1 tbsp oil
some fresh mushrooms
some cut cabbages
some chye sim
a little carrot, sliced

Seasoning
2 tbsp vegetarian oyster sauce
1 tsp vegetarian mushroom seasoning
some pepper
1 tsp sesame oil
600ml water
1 1/2 tbsp cornstarch, mixed with 3tbsp water (for thickening)

Method
1. Heat up oil, stir fry the kuey tiow at high heat until fragrant. Add in the light soy sauce, dark soy sauce and stir-fry until well mixed. Dish onto a serving plate (as shown on above photo). (U may use a non-stick pan where oil can be omitted because kuey tiow are always coated with a layer oil to prevent sticking).

2. Heat up oil, add in ingredients B and stir fry until aromatic. Add in the seasoning and bring to boil. Thicken with cornstarch water.

3. Pour the creamy sauce over fried kuey tiow and serve with green chilies.

I like my version of this fried kuey tiow in creamy sauce, which is not too salty nor oily as compared to what we have at Zhu Chow store (^o^)

Spicy Vegetable Curry With Black-Eyed Peas

I made the second attempt of these black-eyed peas mixed vegetable curry, but... this time is the spicy version.

Instead of broccoli which I used on my earlier post, I replaced it with potatoes chunks which is husband favorite!

The cooking method is similar to the earlier post; I merely added more of the raw mustard seeds, two cut green chilies, one tablespoon of each of curry powder and chili powder.

Somehow... the colors and photos looked the same, but this version was spicy which goes so well with rice or bread!