Made shrimp chive dumplings for dinner today! Joe said that it's yummy so you guys should trust him.
I bought ready-made dumpling wrappers/skins to wrap the filling in, so the recipe contains only ingredients for the filling and steps on cooking.
Ingredients for Filling (makes about 22-25?) (Estimated amount) 400g Prawns, shelled and diced (1 large prawn = 5 pieces) 1/2 bunch Chives, chopped into short pieces
1 Egg White 1.5 tbsp Fish Sauce 2 tbsp Sesame Oil 2 tbsp Cornflour 1 tsp Chicken Bouillon Powder 1 tsp Sugar Salt & Pepper to taste
Steps: -Mix all above ingredients in a bowl and set in fridge to marinate for about 15 minutes -Fill the centre of each dumpling wrapper with about a tablespoon of filling, wet sides and fold in half forming a semi-circle. Press sides to seal. -Heat a pan with vegetable oil to high heat -Place dumplings in pan and fry for about 1 minute -Add about add a splash of water into the pan, cover and 'steam' the dumplings for about 2-3 minutes -Remove cover, and continue pan frying over medium heat till one side is golden brown -Remove from pan and serve either plain or with dipping sauce
*For dipping sauce, combine soy sauce, chili oil, vinegar and sugar. *You can also boil, steam or deep-fry the the dumplings instead of pan-frying. *Cooking times are an estimate, I don't time when I am cooking...>.>
Ingredients (estimated amount) for patty: Handful of Lamb Mince Splash of Red Wine Chunky Garlic Blend (1.5 tbsp) 1/2 onion chopped Breadcrumbs (1.5tbsp) Salt & Pepper to taste
-Mix up all ingredients and form a loose patty, about an inch thick -Heat up a grill pan or a normal frying pan with some oil till hot -Sear both sides of the patty for about 2 minutes each, then turn heat down and cook for about 4 minutes. -Remove from heat
Ingredients for toppings: 1/2 Onion, sliced 3 Cup Mushrooms, sliced Salt & Pepper to taste Honey, optional (1 tbsp) Lettuce, either whole pieces or shredded. I use whole baby cos lettuce pieces Honey Mustard, optional
-Saute onions and mushrooms till soft, season with salt and pepper -Add honey to onion and mushrooms and stir to coat, let it cook till honey caramelises (this helps to mimic "caramelised onions") -Remove from heat
Assembly: (I am sure you don't need this) -Slice a burger bun in half or use 2 slices of bread of your choice -Place lamb patty on a slice of bread, top with onion and mushrooms -Top with lettuce and a dollop of honey mustard -Place other slice of bread ontop~
And voila! You have a yummy lamb burger.
*Other variations can be made to the patty like adding herbs or leaving the wine out if you don't take alcohol. *Searing the patty on both sides on high heat helps retain juices so you don't get a dried out patty
I just took this Horoscope Analysis on Facebook, and it's so accurate it's creepy! It's in Chinese and I took some time to read through it as it's so long, but I won't translate it. =D
Highlighting the parts that I think are too accurate.
Yes yes, I know I haven't been updating the blog. >.>...Twitter reduces the incentive for proper blogging.
Anyways, check this video out, it's instrumental, mainly guitar and it's awesome.
Yan Hao's got me hooked onto Depapepe! And cause I am using blardy Vista, I can't record the songs via Audacity, which is plain annoying.
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Celebrated Phoenix's birthday at Yuki's place yesterday! Dinner was awesome and Yuki also baked an awesome sponge cake topped with cream, peach slices and blueberries. Yummeh~
Hmmm, been busy with pracs at Gatton on Fridays! Had a Pig Handling Prac which was pretty boring cause we weren't allowed into the Piggery as they were afraid that WE might give the pigs there Swine Flu, I don't mind cause then I didn't smell like pig for 5 days afterwards. Did a post-mortem on a sow which died that morning and it was totally messed up. It had stomach ulcers and one made a hole in the stomach so when we opened her up, the whole abdominal cavity was overflowing with brownish red liquid. Stank to high heavens too~ And other details, I shall not provide~
Had Cow Handling prac the Friday that just passed, and it was pretty cool! Except that it was really tiring. Got a ride from Andrew there and back! =D Stevo drove us back from Pig prac the other time. =d
Friday was awesome. XD Was so damn tired, and then go pissed off by people and fell asleep after dinner. Joe got home and asked me to drink with him, that kuku bought a case (2 dozen) bottles of Coronas! =.="...Downed 2 cause I was in a bad mood and got a little tipsy in his room.
Headed down to the city for pool, and Geon was staring at me while I just grinned like some idiot and he said "Are you drunk?!" I am not DRUNK! I am only tipsy, then I fell asleep there for an hour while Joe and Hao played. Joe kept on going about how I am a lousy drinker cause I was pissed after 2 bottle of Coronas. =.="...I WASN'T DRUNK! Only tipsy~
Hmm...I don't think there's much to update. No photos either.
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I bought ready-made dumpling wrappers/skins to wrap the filling in, so the recipe contains only ingredients for the filling and steps on cooking.
Ingredients (estimated amount) for patty:
