Cooking Adventures Ep. 5

January 15th, 2008 by lynnylchan under Leisure

Once more with mincemeat, this time in a more Chinese-style cooking method of combining it with egg to make an omelette of sorts. At home, I get small semi-circular pieces of pork and egg that are fried until the edges are slightly crispy. Sadly, that could not be replicated here.

Ingredients:

China Choi Sam (also chye sim, chai xin)

Garlic

Soy sauce

Mincemeat

Eggs

Salt, pepper, seasoning

Rice

Instructions:

Chop up garlic. Fry in oil. Throw in veggies with some water so that the steam cooks them (my co-chef’s idea). Add soy sauce. Stir till the thick stems are cooked through.

I don’t have a lot of experience with China choi sam - usually we use the thinner-stemmed local kind. Cooking this vegetable is more like cooking kai lan, actually.

For the eggs: Cook meat. Push it into a pile in the centre of the pan (although a wok is preferred). Pour in beaten egg. Let the egg cook and bind the mincemeat together.

I really need to learn how to do this as it wasn’t even a passable imitation of the one I get at home.

Wash rice and cook in rice cooker.

The final product:

Rice was a bit dry.

Vegetables were fine.

Egg-meat combo was lacking in flavour, but at least it was thoroughly cooked. 4 eggs and 300g of meat is really a large serving for just 2 people.

Not one of our better efforts taste-wise, but at least it’s a balanced meal. No photos of the cooking process as both of us were busy cooking and cleaning.