golden snapper fillet with mei cai 梅菜
Experimented on some dishes tonight. ^^
first was a golden snapper fillet (ang kueh) with mei cai 梅菜, dry mustard veg.
basically i have been doing whole fish, whereas in fine dining dishes, it is usually served as a fish fillet.
i had a golden snapper in the freezer, so i defrost & fillet it.
i had initially wanted to steam the fillet with mei cai 梅菜, so i prepared the mei cai 梅菜. but the steam oven failed on me. it required descaling, so last minute i switched to poaching/teriyaki.
initially thought of the excellent star garoupa fillet tunglok style
kai garden’s tiger garoupa poached in lobster broth
OR the cai garden style.
i didn’t have lobster broth though, if i poached it lightly like cai garden, the fish maybe quite tasteless, so it’s safer to do teriyaki, with light soy sauce, olive oil, mirin, then coat, cover & reduce. this made sure the fillet was tasty, then i addd chicken stock & thickened with cornflour & added oyster sauce.
golden snapper fillet with mei cai 梅菜
i addd very thinly sliced celery stems & leaves & added the mei cai 梅菜, which in this instance was just an superfluous addition with little bearing on the dish.
prawns with egg tofu
the prawn tofu dish not a new dish.
i have done it several times, always good la! 🙂
prawns with egg tofu
i fried the egg tofu & set aside.
when ready to serve, i fried the prawns just a little with chilli padi & garlic, added 1 cup of chicken stock, cooked the prawns, added cornflour & oyster sauce & reduced. then cracked an egg & used a chopstick to “draw”. then added back the tofu & prawns. voila! ^^
added coriander to garnish. 🙂
prawns with egg tofu
really tasty dish & a beauty to behold!
braised noodles with grilled scallops & prawns
my 3rd dish braised noodles is a variation of my king prawn noodles (in golden braising sauce) 黄焖大虾面.
braised noodles with grilled scallops & prawns
i poached the kailan in boiling water for few minutes. tossed with oil & oyster sauce.
i grilled the scallop. today though scallop was not done well.
the prawns i just portioned out 6 prawns from the tofu prawn dish for 3 of us.
i made a very tasty braise. noodles though were undercooked as i could not estimate the amount & added some new noodles so new ones were not fully cooked. as a result i had to cook the noodles in the braise, so resulting in very less braising gravy, all absorbed by noodles.
kai gardens’ grilled scallops on noodles with steamed egg white
kai garden’s beautiful dish (above) was done with braised noodles on a golden braise sitting on a chawanmushi egg white layer.
i did the thin layer of chawanmushi using egg white. it was quite tasty, but steam oven was temporary out so had to steam 3bowls over 3 times.
braised noodles with grilled scallops & prawns
overall, looks not so nice c/w with kai garden’s dish photo, prawns & kailan was great, scallop was poor, the noodles was quite tasty.
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