Mee Rebus

I cooked mee rebus for lunch today, using Prima Taste's ready-made mee rebus paste.

This is the finished product which some say looked like commercially made/sold mee rebus. *grin*



The pre-packed paste which is sufficient for about 2.5 portions (or 3 small portions).

There are several packs of pre-mixed ingredients in the box, namely, the paste to make the gravy, the powder starch, 3 small packs of lime juice and a pack of sweet soya bean sauce.

Yellow mee not included!



I found the dried shrimps at the market and bought some for 70 cents (cheap!). This is half the lot which I'd toasted in the oven (no need to wash, or else can't get the crunchy texture - lak sup jiak, lak sup tua!).



The gravy bubbling on the stove. The gravy paste came with lots of red chilli oil which I'd managed to remove as much as possible. The cooked product, however, didn't taste spicy hot at all, but was sweet.



The other ingredients are hard-boiled eggs, fried tau gua cubes, chopped Chinese celery, blanched beansprouts and the main ingredient, blanched yellow noodles.



Another shot of the finished product with a better view of the brown yummy gravy.


Verdict: Not bad, can cook it again, although I shall try Hai's brand next time.

Moroccan Vegetable Stew with Minty Couscous

I cooked this dish for dinner tonight, also from the 2nd One Pot cookbook. There is no meat in the dish, and the chief protein comes from chickpeas. The vegetables used are zucchini, butternut pumpkin, carrots and raisins in a base made from canned chopped tomatoes with added spices.

The couscous had chopped mint leaves & butter, seasoned with salt and pepper.



We had some excellent dips left over from last Friday's takeaway snacks which I'd bought from California Pizza Kitchen (Avocado & chicken roll and key lime pie which was a tad disappointing), so I boiled some medium prawns to go with the creamy and fattening dip.

The dips tasted like mayo-based and thousand-island-dressing-based respectively, with an aftertaste of chilli powder or wasbi, but they were really good, and would go very well with fried snacks or seafood platter.


Our TV dinner:


Yum! The vegetable stew was satisfying and best of all, low in fat and thus guilt-free!

:-)

Spanish Chicken & Rice Stew

From the 2nd One Pot cookbook that I own - the recipe calls for arborio rice, the creamy Italian rice, the use of canned chopped tomatoes and too many chicken drumsticks and chicken thighs! Good thing I didn't follow the recipe word by word...as Asians, we don't usually eat so much meat in a meal. Other than that, the dish was easy and simple to prepare.


The unappealing picture shows the leftovers, and I'd deboned the chicken drumstick.

The rice was quite nice, although mine turned out a bit too wet, due to my inexperience with arborio rice (first time cooking it). The rice doesn't take too long to cook, and doesn't need too much water.

Even SO thinks it's nice to eat...which means my sphere of influence on his Asian palette is getting even stronger. May the force be with me. Haha!

(Cook date: Monday, 9 July 2007)