As most of you would know by now, we are Japanese food junkies and The Food Critic especially LOVE the Japanese Sukiyaki soup SO we started cooking our own Sukiyaki soup using chicken breast meat at home instead of spending more $$ on Japanese restaurants.
It is pretty simple to make sukiyaki, actually so, here it is:
Japanese Sukiyaki Soup Recipe
Ingredients
2 large carrots, cut into chunks
3 medium sized tomatoes, quartered
300g chicken breast meat, sliced thinly (and about 1/4 of chicken carcass), all seasoned with salt
Every once in a while, we’ll get really tired of eating rice, rice and more rice each day so sometimes, I’d like to cook noodles for a change. Even my son loves noodles. I usually like to buy organic noodles, especially when there are so many different types of healthy, wholesome noodles to choose from.
Recently, I bought a packet of soya noodles. So, I decided to give it a try in a basic and easy stir-fried noodles style.
This is the soya noodles I bought
It’s soya mixed with wheat. And this is what it looks like:
Compared to the baked mooncakes, making the ping pei mooncakes are much easier and simpler, though it still takes up quite a bit of time mixing the dough, kneading it, wrapping the filling and moulding it. I always preferred the non-bake mooncakes compared to the baked ones, probably because can eat it cold!
We usually cook a lot of chicken dishes and one of the household favourites is the soya sauce chicken (tau eu kay) where my son simply loves the sauce to go with his rice.
Soya Sauce Chicken
I like to cook this dish too because it is quite simple and easy to prepare. It is also quite versatile where you can add different ingredients at different times. So, here’s the recipe:
Amongst my repertoire of soups to cook during the weekends, is the winter melon soup. Winter melon is known to be ‘cooling’ so it is great for hot, humid days. I especially like the clear, refreshing taste that is not too cloying.
I could probably say that this is the only soup using a fruit that I can cook all the time and both the men in my household love it! Yes, winter melon is essentially a fruit although we, Chinese, tend to think of it as a type of vegetable.
