Showing posts with label ginger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ginger. Show all posts

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Popular dessert in Hong Kong - Sweet Potato Sweet Soup (蕃薯糖水)





Ingredients: for 2 servings


1 Sweet Potatoes, medium size

1 cup Water

15 gram Ginger
1/3 cup Brown Sugar




Instruction:

1. Bring the water to boil.

2. Peel the sweet potato.  Slice it into 2 cm slices.  

3. Cook the sweet potato slices and the ginger in a cup of water over medium heat, about about 15 to 20 minutes, or until they are tender.

4. Scoop out the sweet potatoes.  Cut them into any desired shapes with a cookie cutter.  Be careful that the sweet potatoes will be extremely hot.  

5. Continuously boil the syrup until the consistency is slightly thickened.  Remove it from the heat.

6. Discard the ginger.  Place the sweet potatoes into a small serving bowl.  Pour the hot syrup on top.  Serve immediately.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Stir fry Chinese bok choy



Ingredients:
15 Bok Choy, medium size
6 Ginger slices
2 vegetable oil
1/3 Salt


Instruction:
1. Rinse off sand and dirt in the bok choy.  Slice the steams into thinner stalks.

2. Heat up the vegetable oil in a frying pan over high heat.  Add salt and ginger .  Sauté it until fragrant.

3. Add bok choy.  Sauté it for about 10 minutes, or until the steams turns translucent and the leaves shrink.

4. Remove it from the heat.  Serve with white rice.