Food Explorer & Home Chef
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True Aussie beef and lamb can be enjoyed in different meat cuts and in a variety of cooking styles.
Here’s my take on the home-style sweet and salty dishnusually made with long beans and preserved radish, taken up a notch with Aussie beef.
Ingredients
200g True Aussie beef, sliced into strips
3 cloves garlic, chopped small
1/4 cup preserved sweet radish (choy poh)
1 large chili, 2 to 3 bird’s eye chili (you can add or lessen this ), cut small, with seeds removed as much as possible
1 teaspoon bean paste (taucho)
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon dark soy sauce (thick)
1.5 tablespoon sugar
1/2 cup water
1/3 cup of roasted peanuts for garnishing
Method
Marinate the beef lightly with a bit of salt and pepper, and set aside for 10 mins. Heat up some oil in a pan, then pan-fry the beef lightly on each side until it is just about cooked, but still ever so slightly red. You don’t want to overcook the beef as it will be tough. Remove from the pan and set this aside while you make the sauce.
To make the sauce, heat up a tablespoon of oil and add in the garlic and the choy poh. Give it a quick stir, then add in the bean paste, fry a few seconds till fragrant. Next, add in the soy sauce, dark soy sauce, stir a little, then add the chili, sugar and half the water. Then slowly add the rest of the water to thin the sauce if it’s too concentrated. You don’t want to pour everything in all at a go and end up with watery gravy.
When it’s simmering, toss the cooked beef back in, give everything a quick stir, and then turn off the fire.
Plate the beef and garnish with some peanuts, but feel free to skip this if you’re allergic or don’t like peanuts. You should get a nice mix of textures – a sweetish salty flavour from the preserved vegetable, a bit of a crunch from the peanuts, a good bite thanks to the beef, sweet and salty notes from the sauces, laced with a bit of spice to wake you up.
Happy cooking!
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Here’s a recipe which guest chef No. 1 tried out the other day. Feeling adventurous, he decided to make muachee one afternoon – a very simple glutinous rice cake snack, a streetfood usually sold by the vendors who go around on bicycles. These days, nobody does this anymore, but you can still find the occasional stall in the morning or night markets.
Usually, this would be coated in a sweetish gritty peanut mixture but since we didn’t have peanuts at home, the hero decided to innovate and use almonds instead. Not that he knew almonds cost twice the price of peanuts … oh, well. Never mind, as long as the muachee tasted awesome.
I also learnt something new as I had no idea the recipe required fragrant shallot oil. And when it’s someone else cooking for you, it’s always nice.
Ingredients
120g glutinous rice flour
1 tablespoon shallot oil
Dash of salt
2 tablespoons white sugar
180 ml water
70g roasted almonds, chopped fine (conventional recipe calls for peanuts)
30g sugar (you can add more if want this sweeter)
Method
Use three shallot, cut into rings, and fry in oil. Keep this oil aside. You can use the shallots to sprinkle over your other dishes.
Mix the 30g sugar and almonds together until you get a nice, even gritty mixture. Set aside.
Mix the glutinous rice, sugar, water and 1 tablespoon shallot oil together in a bowl. Cook this by steaming the mixture for about 10 to 15 minutes.
Remove from heat, then use a pair of chopsticks or a stirring paddle to stir around this mixture until it gets translucent and sticky.
Then, lift the sticky dough, drop this directly into the almonds, cutting it into small pieces along the way.
And that’s all there is to it! I reckon you can use normal vegetable oil too, but it’ll be less fragrant. Or, even add a dash of sesame oil. It’s pretty hard to go wrong with this recipe.
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