Stir-fry Lotus Roots with Sambal Chilli

Back to work for 2 weeks already. New job, new workplace, new people. Everything has been good thus far.

Finally found some time to put up a post and keep my blog alive. This dish is one that I adore alot. Whether it is being cooked in soup or stir-fries, I love eating lotus roots.

This round, I aren't cooking lotus roots in soup but doing a stir-fry with it. If your Mummy gives me a little tub of sambal chilli, put it to good use!

My Mum makes mean sambal chilli sauce!

Love the spicy sweet taste this dish has. Pairing the minced garlic and dried shrimps with the lotus makes this dish very appetising. I could down a bowl of rice with it!

Stir-fry Lotus Roots with Sambal Chilli

500g lotus roots (de-skinned, washed & thinly sliced)
2 Tsp sambal chilli
2 tbsp canola oil
2 tbsp dried shrimps, soakedfor 30min and drained
4 garlics, minced
2 to 3 tbsp water
1 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt

Spring onion bits - Garnish

1. Heat oil in pan and fry garlic, sambal chilli and dried shrimps till fragrant.

2. Add in sliced lotus and stir fry till well mixed.
3. Add in sugar and salt and stir fry well. Stir in water and let it come to boil till gravy is formed. Garnish with spring onion bits and serve immediately with rice.

Stir-fried Sambal Okra 叁巴辣椒炒羊角豆

I have been keeping myself away from too spicy food for awhile now, and had that sudden craving of sambal okra some days back. Had a small tub of homemade dried shrimp sambal chilli from dearest Mummy (Mummy is da best okie!!!), and I had that put to good use!

Yummy spicy dried shrimp sambal chilli from my mummy!!!

With the Japanese Okra I bought from the supermarket some days back, I whipped up a dish in no time. I took the back seat this time with just 1 dish. Hubby did the rest. He cooked stir-fried ginger spring onion beef and made a pot of daikon soup. A lazy wife he has got himself. :P

One Saturday dinner over just like that! It is always nice to have the other half whipping up meals for me once in awhile :)

Our dinner.

A joint effort.

Stir-fried Sambal Okra
Serves 2 to 3

250g Japanese Okra (Lady Fingers)
1 tbsp sambal chilli, washed, stalks cut and removed, sliced
4 pcs garlic, minced
1 tbsp minced dried shrimps
light soy sauce, to taste
1.5 tbsp canola oil
1/2 tbsp sugar
water

1. Heat oil in pan. Add in garlic, dried shrimps and sambal chilli. Fry till fragrant.
2. Add sliced okra and stir-fry till well mixed.
3. Add water, more if you want slightly wetter consistency. Stir well.
4. Add sugar and mix well.
5. Add some light soy sauce, do a taste test and add more if required. Stir well and turn off heat when okra is cooked. Serve inmediately with a bowl of rice!

Sambal Chicken Fried Rice

Mum has been my sole supplier of any grinded chilli sauce and paste. Chicken rice chilli, sambal belachan, dried shrimp chilli (hae bee hiam) are all stashed away in my freezer. I use them carefully. My mum makes seriously good chilli paste and I am always happy to take it when she makes them and give us some!

There was this one weekend evening that I had no idea what I wanna cook. (Yes yes, sorry for yet another overdue post. Hehe!) I had put no effort into thinking what to prep for dinner that day. Ran through my fridge and gathered some ingredients to come up with this sambal chicken fried rice in the end.  Simple meal but Hubby was sweet enough to say that it was good enough for him.

Sambal Chicken Fried Rice

2 chicken drumsticks or thigh meat, deskinned, deboned and cubed

6 to 8 slices of canned pineapples, cubed

8 button mushrooms, sliced

3 tbsp mixed peas

4 garlics, minced

1 egg, beaten

1.5 cup overnight rice (I did not use overnight rice, I cooked the rice an hour before frying the rice)

1/2 tbsp and 2 tbsp olive oil, separated

Seasonings

1.5 tbsp light soy sauce

1/2 tbsp sesame oil

1/2 tsp sugar

1.5 tbsp sambal chilli (more if desired)

1. Heat up 1 tbsp olive oil in wok.

2. Pour in beaten egg and cook, breaking it into smaller pieces. Remove fried egg and set aside.

3. Add in remaining 2 tbsp olive oil and heat up oil.

4. Add in minced garlic and fry till fragrant, add in cubed chicken meat and pineapple cubes and fry till meat is half cooked.

5. Pour in button mushrooms and mixed peas and fry till evenly mixed.

6. Add in rice and loosen rice up with spatula to evenly mix all rice and ingredients together.

7. Add in seasonings and fry till rice and ingredients are evenly coated.

8. Lastly, mix in the fried egg evenly. Serve.