Vegetarian Stir Fried Bean sprouts with Tofu Recipe

Bean sprout and tofu are good combination. This dish taste good when you cook it the right way. It is quite simple to prepare this dish and it goes down well with steamed rice. Here is my Vegetarian Stir Fried Bean Sprout with Tofu recipe.

Ingredients
Bean sprout, 1 bowl
Tofu, 2 pcs, cut into cubes
Garlic, 5 pcs, remove skins and chopped finely
Sesame oil, ½ teaspoon
Vegetable oil
Salt to taste

Deep fry the tofu in vegetable oil until it turns golden brown. Put the fried tofu aside. Heat up wok and put in 1 table spoon of vegetable oil. Sautéed garlic until fragrant. Add sesame oil. Put in the bean sprout and fry for a short while. Add a little water and salt to taste. Add in the fried tofu. The dish is ready!

Vegetarian Fried Kuih Tiaw Recipe (White Rice Noodles)

I tried to cook a vegetarian Char Kuih Tiaw and the taste is quite good. Kuih Tiaw taste good if it is fried in a wok over a large flame. You must be quick with your hand or else the noodles will stick to the wok.
Here is my Vegetarian Fried Kuih Tiaw Recipe

Ingredients
Wet Kieh Tiaw, 1 rice bowl
Light Soya Sauce, 1 table spoon
Dark Soya Sauce, ¼ teaspoon
Sugar, 1/3 teaspoon
Bean sprout, ½ bowl
Garlic, 5 pcs, minced
Chinese Chives (Kuchai), 5 pcs, cut into 1” length
Egg (optional, some vegetarian do take eggs), 1pc
Salt to taste
Vegetable oil, 2 table spoons

Put 2 table spoons of vegetable oil into hot wok. Sautéed garlic until fragrant. Put in the kuih tiaw, light soya sauce, dark soya sauce, salt to taste and sugar.(You can actually mix the soya sauces with sugar and salt, so that it will be easier to add in when frying the kuih tiaw). Add eggs and fry for a while. Put in the bean sprout. Don’t fry the bean sprout too long, so that it will still remain crunchy.

Vegetarian Stir Fried Cauliflower Recipe

Cauliflower (scientific name, Brassica oleracea) belongs to the family Brassicaceae. The most common type is white in colour. There are also purple and orange cauliflowers. Cauliflower contains folate, fibre and vitamin C.
It can be eaten raw or cooked.
This is my recipe for a Stir Fried Cauliflower.

Ingredients
Cauliflower, 1/2, cut into small pieces
Carrot, 1 pc, cut into thin slices
Ginger, 1”x1”x1”, remove skin and cut into slices
Garlic, 5 pcs, removes skin and chopped into small pieces
Corn flour for thickening, 1 table spoon, mixed with a little cold water
Light Soya Sauce, 2 table spoon
Sesame oil, ½ table spoon
Salt to taste
Vegetarian Oyster Sauce (Optional), 1 table spoon
Chinese Shao Shing Chiew (Cooking Wine) (Optional), ½ table spoon
Vegetable oil, 1 table spoon

Put vegetable oil in hot wok and sautéed garlic until fragrant. Add ginger and sesame oil. Add carrot. Stir fry for a while. Put in the cauliflower, light soya sauce, shao shing chiew, vegetarian oyster sauce and salt to taste. Add a little water. Put in the corn flour (mixed in cold water) to make the gravy thick. Best if eaten hot with steamed rice.

Wheat Dessert with Coconut Palm Sugar (Gula Melaka) – Gandum Tong Sui

I cooked this sweet dessert for tea time using Palm Sugar as the sweetener and it turns our very tasty. Here is the recipe for Wheat Dessert with Coconut Palm Sugar.

Ingredients
Wheat, 225gms
Coconut milk, from one coconut
Coconut Palm sugar, 2”x2”x3”, dilute in hot water and sieved
Water, 5 bowls
Screw pine leaves (pandan), 5 pcs
A dash of salt

Wash the wheat and boil it in 5 bowls of water with screw pine leaves until the wheat turn soft. Add palm sugar and coconut milk. Stir the mixture and bring to a boil. Add little bit of salt. Your sweet wheat dessert is ready! (You can add white sugar to taste)

Related Post on Vegetarian Dessert :

1) http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2009/06/thab-thim-krab-water-chestnut-with.html

2) http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2009/05/pong-tai-hai-light-and-cool-dessert.html

3) http://veganformation.blogspot.com/2008/12/vegetarian-sweet-potatoes-dessert-tong.html

Vegetarian Sweet Potatoes Dessert (Tong Sui) Recipe

Sweet potatoes (scientific name, Ipomoea batatas) belong to the family of Convolvulaceae. Sweet potato plants originated from South America. The young leaves from sweet potato plants can be eaten as vegetable and are popular among Asians. Sweet potatoes are rich in Beta Carotene and are known to be able to stabilize the glucose level in diabetes patients.
I cook this simple sweet potato dessert (Tong Sui) for my family.

Ingredients
Sweet potatoes, 3 pcs (yellow, orange, purple), remove skin and cut into 1x1x1cm cubes
Water, 5 rice bowls
Sugar to taste
Screw pine leaves( pandan), 5 pcs

Boil five bowls of water and add in the screw pine leaves. Put the sweet potato cubes into the boiling water. Add sugar to taste when the potato turns soft. Best eaten hot or you can also chill it before serving.

Related Post on Vegetarian Dessert

1) http://veganformation.blogspot.com/2008/12/wheat-dessert-with-coconut-palm-sugar.html

2) http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2009/06/thab-thim-krab-water-chestnut-with.html

3) http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2009/05/pong-tai-hai-light-and-cool-dessert.html

Simple Recipe - Vegetarian Tomato Sauce Tau Kan (Wet Bean curd Blocks)

Fresh Tau Kan blocks.

Tomato Tau Kan Dish

Tau kan (Wet Bean curd Blocks) is a very versatile bean curd base product and there are many ways of cooking it. My kids love Tomato Tau Kan and we eat them with steamed rice. If you cannot find Tau Kan in your area, you can use dry bean curd sheet. Soak them in water and fold it into blocks and cut into 2”x2” blocks.

Ingredients
Tau Kan, around 8 blocks, Steamed for 20 minutes
Shallots, 5 pcs, cut into thin slices
Tomato Sauce, 6 table spoons
Plum Sauce, 1 table spoon (optional)
Hickory Smoke BBQ sauce, 1 table spoon
Salt to taste
Sugar, 1 teaspoon

Sautéed shallots until fragrant. Add tomato sauce, plum sauce, BBQ sauce, salt and sugar. Pour this sauce over the steamed Tau Kan and serve.

1) http://veganformation.blogspot.com/2009/06/vegetarian-sambal-goreng-fried-chilli.html

2) http://veganformation.blogspot.com/2008/09/simple-recipe-vegan-sambal-petai-tau.html

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Pomelo Raisins Salad

Check out the above recipe at http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2008/10/pomelo-raisins-salad.html

Simple Recipe – Vegetarian Japanese Soft Tofu with Soya Sauce

I love soft tofu cooked this way. It goes down well with steamed rice

Ingredients
Soft Tofu, 1 block, 1”x 5”x 3”
Light Soya Sauce, 3 table spoons
Sesame Oil, 1 teaspoon
Garlic, 3pcs, chopped and sautéed until golden brown
Spring Onions, 1 stalk, for garnishing

Put the soft tofu into a plate and add soya sauce and sesame oil. Steam for 15 minutes under high heat. Garnish with garlic and spring onion and serve.

Simple Recipe - Veg Kut Teh (VKT) , Vegetarian Herbal Soup (Halal)

Factory pre packed BKT herbs & spices
or you can also use.........

This one is from a Chinese Medicine shop
You can use either one but the freshly packed
herbs from Chinese
Medicine shop has stronger herbal taste.


Delicious and healthy Veg Kut Teh

Veg Kut Teh is the vegetarian version of Bak Kut Teh. You can either use factory pre packed Bak Kut Teh herbs (A1 Brand in picture above) or get the local Chinese Medicine Shop to pack the herbs for you. Bak Kut Teh is a favourite herbal soup in Malaysia.

Ingredients
1) Pre packed Bak Kut Teh spices, 1 packet (A1 brand comes with 2 sachets, Use 1 satchet for 5 bowls of water)
2) Bean Curd Strips, 5 pcs, soaked in water to soften
3) Fried Fluffy Bean Curd (Toufu Pok), 10 pcs
4) Oysters Mushroom, 10 pcs
5) Carrots, 1 large, cut into cubes
6) Young Corns, 10 pcs, cut half
7) Garlic, 1 bulb (cook with skin intact)
8) Vegetarian Oyster sauce, 2 table spoons
9) Light Soya Sauce, 7 table spoons
10) Thick Soya Sauce, ½ teaspoon
11) Vegetable oil, 2 table spoon
12) 5 bowls of water
13) Salt to taste
14) *Lycium berries (Kei chi), around 1 table spoon (optional, added for extra flavour)
15) *Tong Kwai, 2 pcs (optional, for extra flavour)
*Note, I add this two herbs if I am using Factory pre packed BKT spices.

Note: You can add in mock vegetarian meat and vegetables in to the Veg Kut Teh.

Put 5 bowls of water into a pot and bring to a boil. Add in the pre packed spices, Kei chi (optional), Tong Kwai(optional) carrot and garlic. Boil for around 20 minutes. Then add in light soya sauce, thick soya sauce, vegetable oil and vegetarian oyster sauce. Put in the bean curd strips, corns and toufu pok. Add salt to taste.

VKT is best eaten with steamed rice and Chinese crullers (You Char Kwai). For extra kick, use bird eye chili in soya sauce as dipping sauce for the VKT.

Simple Recipe – Vegan Sambal Petai Tau Kan (Chili Petai Wet Bean Curd Blocks) - Halal

Wet bean curd blocks- Tau Kan


Petai- Still in pods


The petai beans


Yummy vegan sambal petai Tau Kan

You can buy Tau Kan (wet bean curd blocks) from vegetarian specialty stores. If you cannot find Tau Kan, you can actually use dry bean curd strips (soak in water) for this recipe. I let my imagination ran wild a bit and came out with this recipe which the non-vegan version normally uses prawn. I use Tau Kan because of its springy texture which is a bid similar to prawns. Your can also replace the pungent petai (Scientific name : Parkia speciosa; aka twisted cluster bean or stink bean), with cucumber if you don’t like petai.

Ingredients
Tau kan(Wet bean curd blocks) – 4 pcs, cut into strips
Tamarind – 1 table spoon, add water, and use only the juice.
Sugar – 1 teaspoon
Salt to taste
Turmeric (kunyit) powder – ½ teaspoon
Petai (optional, you can also use cucumber)
Chili paste – 1 table spoon
Vegetable oil – 3 table spoons

Blend
Shallots 5 pcs
Lemongrass (serai) 2 stalks

Heat up oil in wok and put in the blended ingredients, turmeric and chili paste. Sautéed until fragrant. Add tamarind juice, sugar and salt to taste. Stir the mixture for a short while. Then add in the Tau Kan. Cook for 1 minute and then add in the petai and serve.

Related Post on Tau Kan Recipe :
1) http://veganformation.blogspot.com/2009/06/vegetarian-sambal-goreng-fried-chilli.html
2) http://veganformation.blogspot.com/2008/11/simple-recipe-vegetarian-tomato-sauce.html

Simple Recipe – Vegan Soya Sauce Potato - Halal

Simple and delicious

I think you must have heard before that potatoes with eyes (sprouts) are poisonous as it contains Solanine (very toxic even in small quantities). Anyway, you just have to remove these sprouts. Better throw away the potato if it has turned bad, green underneath the skin and has too many sprouts. Although some research has shown that you have to eat at least a whole bag of potatoes to actually be poisoned but it is better to practice some caution. Better be safe than sorry!
There are many ways to cook potatoes. One of my favorite is soya sauce potato.

Ingredients
2 potatoes, skinned and cut into slices
3 shallots, skinned and cut into slices
2 table spoons of light soya sauce
½ teaspoon of dark soya sauce
Salt to taste

Deep fry the potatoes in hot oil until it turn brown. Take out the potatoes and put aside.
Leave around 2 table spoon of oil in the wok. Put in the shallots and sautéed until crispy. Add in the potatoes, light soya sauce, dark soya sauce and salt to taste.