Glutinous Rice with Chicken in Bamboo

Ingredients :

150g glutinous rice

150g chicken fillet

50g bamboo shoot

2 Chinese dried black mushrooms, soak until soft

2 salted egg yolks

2 sections bamboo

1 tsp chopped shallot

Marinade

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp sugar

1/4 tsp cornflour

1/2 tsp light soy sauce

1 tsp oil

Sauce

1/2 cup water

1 level tsp cornflour

1/2 tsp sugar

1 tbsp oyster sauce

1 tsp light soy sauce

Method :

Rinse and soak glutinous rice in water for 1 hour. Drain and steam over high heat for 20 minutes. Season the rice with 1/2 tsp of sugar and 2 tsp of light soy sauce. Set aside. Dice chicken fillet. Mix well with marinade and leave it for 5 minutes. Dice bamboo shoot and soaked mushrooms. Steam salted egg yolks for 15 minutes until done. Dice. Rinse bamboo sections well. Heat 2 tbsp of oil in wok. Sautee shallot with chicken until done. Mix in bamboo shoot and mushrooms. Stir in the sauce. Cook until it thickens. Put rice and chicken filling in alternative layers into the bamboo sections. Press well before putting on another layer. Cover with foil. Steam for 20 minutes. Serve hot.

Bamboo is very good for steaming rice. Bamboo can give a unique flavor to the rice and retain heat to keep the food hot.

Dragon Fruit

Also known as the Dragon Fruit, the Pitaya is a stunningly beautiful fruit
with an intense colour and shape, magnificent flowers and a delicious taste.
The fruit, apart from being refreshing and tasty, contains a lot of water and
minerals with many different nutrition ingredients.
It tastes light sweet and it's good for liver, laxative, supplementing fiber
and very suitable for diet.

Besides, dragon fruit is also good for person who has a high blood pressure.
According to popular experience, obese person who has eaten dragon fruit
regularly canreduce his/her weight naturally and have a beautiful balanced
body but it does not influence on his/her health.
Moreover, eating this fruit can stop and reduce diabetes.
Hence, dragon fruit is a favorite fruit of many people especially Asian customers.

Benefits of eating the Dragon Fruit
1. Enhance the body metabolism (Protein)
2. Improve digestion (Fiber)
3. Reduce Fat (Fiber)
4. Improve memory (Carotone)
5. Maintain the health of the eyes (Carotone)
6. Strengthen bones and teeth development (Calcium)
7. Tissue development (Phosphorus)
8. Help to metabolise carbohydrates and produce energy (Vitamine B1)
9. Improve appetite (Vitamine B2)
10. Moisturise and smoothen skin and decrease bad cholestrol level (Vitamine B3)
11. Improves the immune system and promotes healing of cuts and bruises (Vitamine C)

USEFUL TIPS:
How to Select and Store 
They should be full-colored and free of moldy spots. Dragon Fruit should be refrigerated, unwashed, for up to 5 days. Serve chilled. 

Dragon Fruit Pizza
Ingredients needed : 

1 package of ready to use pre-made sugar cookie dough
8 ounces cream cheese
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
3 dragon fruit, peeled and sliced
3 kiwi, peeled and sliced
1 cup strawberries, hulled and cut in half
1/4 cup apricot glaze

Directions 
Rolled out cookie dough into a 12 inch round.
Bake 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned.
Allow to cool completely.
Meanwhile, prepare fruit by washing and slicing it into 1/4 inch slices.
Cream together the cream chees, powdered sugar and lemon jucie.
When the crust is cool, top with the cream cheese mixture.
Lay fruit in a circle on top of the cream cheese mixture.
Spread apriot glaze over fruit.
Chill until ready to serve.

HEALTHY JUICES

Carrot + Ginger + Apple - Boost and cleanse our system.

Apple + Cucumber + Celery - Prevent cancer, reduce cholesterol, and improve stomach upset and headache.

Tomato + Carrot + Apple - Improve skin complexion and bad breath.

Bitter gourd + Apple + Milk - Avoid bad breath and reduce internal body heat.

Orange + Ginger + Cucumber - Improve Skin texture and moisture and reduce body heat.

Pineapple + Apple + Watermelon - To dispel excess salts, nourishes the bladder and kidney.

Apple + Cucumber + Kiwi - To improve skin complexion.

Pear & Banana - regulates sugar content.

Carrot + Apple + Pear + Mango - Clear body heat, counteracts toxicity, decreased blood pressure and fight oxidization .

Honeydew + Grape + Watermelon + Milk - Rich in vitamin C + Vitamin B2 that increase cell activity and strengthen body immunity.

Papaya + Pineapple + Milk - Rich in vitamin C, E, Iron. Improve skin complexion and metabolism.

Banana + Pineapple + Milk - Rich in vitamin with nutritious and prevent constipation.

Siew Mai

Ingredients
200g of chicken meat (chop)
100g of prawn meat (chop)
3pcs of salted eggs-yolk (蛋黄)
5pcs of dried mushrooms (shock n chop)
5tbs of Ghee Hiang Sesame Oil
5tbs of Soy Sauce
1tsp of salt
1tsp of paper powder
3tsp of topioca flour
50pcs of watan skin（云吞皮） (can buy at morning market)

Steps
1) Mix all the above ingredients, accept 50pcs of water skin.
2) leave for 1 hour at frige.
3) Use watan skin (云吞皮) to wrapping the mixture at step (1).
4) The method for wrapping the mixture with the Watan skin, please refer to the picture above.

Nasi Lemak

Ingredients of Nasi
2 cups of rice
2 pcs of chop small onions
1cm of ginger
50g of coconut milk

Steps
1) Clean the 2 cups of rice water plain water.
2) Pour all the clean rice and chop small onions and ginger.
3) Pour Water with coconut milk.
4) Let Cook like normal rice.

Ingredients of Sambal Ikan Bilis
200g of Ikan bilis
20g of dried chilis
15pcs of small onions
3pcs of garlics
1 tsp of fried (until fragrant) belacan
2pcs of big onions (cut into sliced)
3tsp of cooking oil
Sugur (own taste)
Salt (own taste)
Asam water

Steps
1) Blend dried chilis, small onion, garlic.
2) Fried ikan bilis (let it cool)
3) Pour 3tsp of cooking oil into hot pot then pour all the blended (dried chilis, small onion, garlic)
Let cook until fragrant.
4) Pour fried ikan bilis at step (2). Let cook about 3 minutes.
5) Add sliced big onions.
6) Remember to add a bit more sugar
7) add salt to taste la..
8) sure u need to add some water(asam), just a little bit of asam will do.

Durian Jam

Ingredients
500g of Durian meat
100g of sugar
80g of coconut milk

Steps
1) Hot pot with pour in the 100g of sugar, let cook until golden yellow.
2) Pour the Durian meat into hot pot, stir evenly until the durian meat become golden yellow.
(it taken about 10 to 15 minutes)
3) Pour 80g of coconut milk, and keep on stir to avoid pot sticky.
4) Let cook and stir about 15 minutes.

Sago and Corn Soup

Ingredients
200g of Sago (big size)
200g of Sugar
1 can of sweetcorn (Ayam brand)
60g of topioca Starch
Steps
1) Boil a pot of water, flame less and mixture with sago & boil water (better leave overnight)
2) steam the sago with a little of water, until the sago become transparent.
3) Boil 3.6litter of water.
4) Pour a can of sweetcorn and cooked sago into boil water.
5) Let cook for about 6 to 8 minutes.
6) Get ready the 60g of tropical flour with 100ml of plain cold water, mixture.
7) Slowly pour and stir into step (4).
8) Let cook for about 5 minutes.