Vegetarian Stir Fried Baby Asparagus

I know the asparagus in the photo look rather thin. These are very young shoots and they are very crunchy. Asparagus is sweet and there are many ways to cook it. One of the easiest ways is to fry them with garlic.

Ingredients
Asparagus, 1 bunch, cut in to bite length
Garlic, 3 pcs, chop finely
Salt to taste
Olive oil or vegetable oil

Heat up pan and saute garlic until fragrant. Put in the asparagus. Stir fry until it is cooked and pour in a little water. Add salt to taste. Serve while still hot.

Simple Chinese Style Stir Fried Broccoli with Snow Peas Vegan Recipe

My kids love broccoli and it is a very easy dish to prepare. Simple stir frying gives the dish a nice aroma and it can be considered a healthy meal too.
I have added garlic and Chinese Wine to this recipe, so if you don’t take these two ingredients, you can exclude them.

Ingredients
Broccoli, portion around 1 rice bowl
Carrot, 1 pc, cut into bite size
Snow peas, ½ rice bowl
Ginger, 4 to 5 slices
Garlic, 3 cloves, minced (OPTIONAL)
Vegetarian Oyster Sauce, 1 table spoon
Salt to taste
Corn flour mixed with a little water
Sesame oil, 1 teaspoon
Chinese Shao Shing Chiew (cooking wine, OPTIONAL), 1 table spoon

Heat up wok and put in a little vegetable oil. Sautéed garlic and ginger until fragrant. Put in the carrot, broccoli and snow peas. Stir fry for a while. Add the vegetarian oyster sauce, salt, sesame oil and Chinese Cooking wine. Add a little water and then thicken the gravy with corn flour water mixture. Serve with white rice.

Simple Recipe – Vegetarian Curry - Halal

Fried Beancurd (Tau Pok)

Vegetarian Curry

Ingredients

1) Lady fingers (okra), 7 pcs
2) Long Beans, 7 pcs
3) Eggplant or brinjal, 2 pcs, cut and fried with oil.
4) Onions, 2 pcs, cut into four
5) Lemongrass(Serai), 2 pcs
6) Fried Bean curd(Tau pok), 10 pcs
7) Curry powder, 50gms (or 5 table spoons); put more if you want the curry gravy to be thick.
8) Salt 2 teaspoon or to taste
9) Curry leaves(optional), 2 stalks
10) Mixed halba (optional), 1 teaspoon
11) Coconut milk, ½ coconut (optional), or you can use butter


Heat up a 3 table spoons of oil in wok. Put in onions, lemongrass, curry leaves and mixed halba. Stir fry until fragrance. Add in curry powder and coconut milk and stir for around 2 minutes under low fire. Add a cup of water and bring to a boil. Then add in the long beans and eggplant. Let it simmer for 2 minutes then add in the okra, fried bean curd (taupok) and salt.

Simple Recipe – Vegetarian Tofu with Mushroom - Halal

Oyster Mushroom, already cut into strips


Vegetarian Oyster Mushroom with Tofu

Ingredients
1) Tofu, 400 gms, cut into 1”x1/2”x1/2”
2) Oyster Mushroom, 7 to 8 pcs, cut into strips
3) Soya sauce, 1 table spoon
4) Salt, 1/4 teaspoon or to taste
5) Sesame oil, 1 teaspoon
6) Shallots, 5 pcs, cut into thin slices
7) Corn Flour, 1 teaspoon mix with a little bit of cold water
8) Oil for deep frying the tofu
9) Vegetarian oyster sauce (optional)

Heat up oil and fry the tofu until golden brown. Put the tofu aside. Leave a little oil in the wok and add the sesame oil. Add in the shallots and stir fry it until golden brown. Add ¼ cup of water, soya sauce, salt, vegetarian oyster sauce(optional) and oyster mushroom. When the water starts to boil add in the corn flour (remember to mix with cold water first) to thicken the gravy. Bring to a boil and then pour the gravy onto the fried tofu.

Simple Recipe (V) – Vegetarian Tofu with Broccoli - Halal

From top left (cw) Chinese cooking wine,
light soya sauce, sesame oil, broccoli,
garlic

Soft fresh tofu

Fried tofu

Tofu with Broccoli Dish

Ingredients
1) Tofu – 500 gms
2) Garlic – 5 cloves, cut into thin strips
3) Broccoli – 200 gms
4) Light Soya sauce – 3 table spoon
5) Salt : ½ teaspoon
6) Sesame oil – 1 teaspoon
7) Corn Flour – 1 table spoon
8) Chinese Cooking Wine – Shao Shing Chiew (Optional - Non Halal)
9) Vegetable oil for frying the tofu

- Cut tofu in to 1x1x2 “and fry until golden brown. Put the fried tofu aside.
- Heat up wok. Add 1 table spoon of vegetable oil and 1 teaspoon of sesame oil
- Fry the garlic until golden brown. Take it out from the wok and put on top of the fried
tofu.
- Leave the leftover vegetable oil and sesame oil in the wok. Add ½ a bowl of water and
when it is boiling add salt (1/2 teaspoon), Chinese wine(Shou Shing Chiew) (1/2 table spoon) and soya sauce.(2 table spoons) Add in the broccoli and stir fried for a while.
Put the corn flour into a bowl and add little bit of cold water and stir well.
Pour this mixture into the wok to thicken the gravy.
- Pour the gravy and brocolli on the fried tofu. The dish is ready to be served.