Carbonara

As requested by Miss How, here's the easy way of carbonara-ing your pasta..


Cheesy Carbonara (pic by unknown)

Ingredients:
Spaghetti (for 2 serving)
1 large egg
1 small pack of whipping cream (around 250ml or 300ml)
Bacon, sliced
Chopped onion
Salt
Black pepper
Parmesan cheese


Whipping Cream

Direction

1. Heat 4 quarts of water in a stockpot.

2. When water comes to boil, add in spaghetti or pasta and a tablespoon of salt, stir.

3. Cook until soft, drain the pasta.

4. Beat an egg in a big bowl, add in hot drained pasta and stir well.

5. Transfer pasta to warm serving bowls or plates, sprinkle well with parmesan cheese.

6. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat until shimmering.

7. Add bacon and stir occasionally until lightly brown.

8. Remove excess oil and add chopped onion to the skillet and fried until fragrant.

9. Pour whipping cream into the mixture, cook and stir well.

10. Season the mixture with salt and black pepper, cook until boil.

11. Pour the mixture onto the pasta.

12. Garnish and serve!

Glutinous Rice

After Lee Lee’s homemade glutinous rice, I decided to DIY my own too. I was trying to get some recipe from the internet; there are various methods which I have no idea which one to follow. Finally I choose the one with the best picture.

The evening itself after work I went to Cold Storage in Ikano Power Center to do my shopping for raw ingredients. Since Ikano is the nearest to my office.


Ingredients

I followed exactly the instructions in the recipe, it turned out to be a total failure. The colour is not dark enough, no taste, and too watery… yiak…


yiak...

The second attempt… I decided not to soak the rice overnight (while the recipe instructed to soak overnight), and not to sprinkle so much water on the rice while steaming. More soy sauce and dark soy sauce needed to make it darker and tasty of course. It works!!! It was so good…


Wow... yummy...

The recipe is as below, modified from the original one:

Ingredients
· 300g glutinous rice
· 6 medium-size dried mushrooms (sliced before cook)
· 1 spring onion, chopped (garnish)
· 1 Chinese sausage (lap cheong)
· 40g of dried shrimp
· 2 to 3 cloves of garlic, chopped
· 1 tablespoon of oil
· 3 tablespoons of soy sauce
· 3 teaspoons dark/thick soy sauce
· Salt
· A dash of sesame oil
· Water

How to make Glutinous Rice
Note: Wash and soak the glutinous rice in cold water for 30 minutes. Also soak the mushroom until soft before sliced.

1. Heat the wok to medium heat and add one tablespoon of oil.

2. Add garlic and sauté until it is aromatic.

3. Add mushroom, dried shrimp and Chinese sausage. Stir for a minute.

4. Add in the glutinous rice and stir for another 2 minutes.

5. Add soy sauce and stir well. Then add in the sesame oil and salt (little bit)

6. Add dark soy sauce. Make sure that the rice is evenly coated with the sauce.

7. Turn off the heat and transfer it to a heat-proof container/bowl/tin. Add enough water to cover one quarter of the rice.

8. Cover and put in a steamer for 30 to 40 minutes. Check the rice at least a couple of time in between cooking to make sure that the rice is not too dry. Sprinkle some water by tablespoon if the rice gets too dry.

9. Garnish with spring onion and serve it up!