The purple Red Cabbage Soup

I split the red cabbage to three usages, and chose to post at different times because I just did not want you to have an overdose on red cabbage.


This is exactly like minestrone. Minestrone heavy on the tang and over-generous on cabbage! Ha! Ok, let's call it vegetable soup, then. Purple vegetables soup.

Red Cabbage Soup
Ingredients: shredded red cabbage, minced garlic, sliced onions, cubed tomatoes, water, salt and pepper

Directions: Add some canola or olive oil, add in garlic and onions, then followed by cabbage to allow it to soften. Add in tomatoes, mix well and let it simmer for a while. Add in water accordingly to make soup portions. Salt and pepper to taste.



Red cabbage recipes:
Red Cabbage Salad
Stir Fry Red Cabbage

Tag: soup, vegetable soup, red cabbage

Pepper Pork Chops - white and black pepper, I love!

I don't cook completely new dishes every time. Sometimes, new dishes and recipes mean improvement of older recipes and dishes, such as this Pepper Pork recipe.



Pepper Pork Chop
Ingredients: Pork loin chops, ground white pepper, ground black pepper, dark soy sauce, brown sugar, some oyster sauce

Directions:
1. Rub the slices of pork with ground white pepper and black pepper
2. Add some dark soya sauce, oyster sauce and some brown sugar. Marinate them (leave them in the fridge, at least one hour)
3. Heat up some oil in a frying pan. On medium heat, pan-fry the marinated pieces for a few minutes(~3mins) one one side, then turn over and pan-fry other side until cooked.
4. Place in aluminium foil, seal it if not served immediately (note: this can keep the pork chops warm and retain the juice and moisture in the pork chops. Further, if you are worried that the pork chops may be undercooked in Step 3, the heat which you seal the pork chops in within can allow a little further cooking in the pork chops). This is not another Foil-Cooking but surely, tin foil gives a good neat trick again!



If you find such pork chops boring, you can try this Apple Pork Chops recipe.

Tag: pork chops, pepper pork chops

Steamed chicken - two easy recipes

Foil-steaming is what I turn to when I am really lazy, especially when it comes to poultry. But I thought foil-steaming follows similar concept as roasting/baking in an oven ? No heating a pan of oil, no sauteing different ingredients at different stages, no standing near the stove to "eyeball" the cooking, no washing of greasy pan - sounds almost like idiot cooking. You only need to assemble, seal and cook (steam) - sounds even more like idiot cooking. Other than steamed meat cake, I do it many ways with chicken too.

Steamed Chicken with Mushrooms, Ginger and Green Onions
Ingredients: 6-8 chicken wings (note:chose smaller pieces of chicken so that it takes shorter time to cook), 1tbsp soy sauce, 1tsp brown sugar, 2tsp oyster sauce, 1tbsp rice wine, 1tsp sesame oil, some pepper, mushrooms, strips of ginger and green onion

Steamed Chicken with Carrots and Onions
Ingredients: 8 drumlets (note:chose smaller pieces of chicken so that it takes shorter time to cook), 1tbsp soy sauce, 1tsp brown sugar, 2tsp oyster sauce, 1tbsp rice wine, 1tsp sesame oil, some pepper, 1tbsp coke(optional), carrots and onions (note: they will sweeten the entire dish when cooked)

See how the carrots and onions turn sweet and soft after steaming

For these two dishes, basically what you need to do is assemble then steam for about 15-20 mins (depending on size and amount of chicken used)

Don't even need to wash a plate or greasy wok/pan for your cooking.

Tag: steaming, chicken

Stir Fry Red Cabbage with Tomatoes

I can't be only using all the red cabbage for just the red cabbage apple salad. So, other than the traditional way to make salad, I have also used it the less traditional way. I STIR FRIED IT!
...if I can stir fry napa cabbage or Chinese cabbage, I don't see why I can't stir fry red cabbage. ERrrrmmm...I might be wrong?


And so...I did not deviate too far. I did not add dried shrimps just like how I would do Chinese stir fry cabbage. I added tomatoes instead, just like how I would do minestrone. I think you can follow my logic here. Yes?

Stir Fry Red Cabbage with Tomatoes
Ingredients: sliced red cabbage, minced garlic, sliced onions, cubed tomatoes, salt and pepper

Directions: Add some canola or olive oil, add in garlic and onions, then followed by cabbage to allow it to soften. Add in tomatoes, mix well and let it simmer for a while. Salt and pepper to taste.



Voila! One simple dish done, out of not wanting to make salad!

I have been short of writing spirit recently. And since it is almost weekend, I shall not write any further.

Enjoy your weekend :D

Tag: red cabbage, stir fry, cabbage