AnnaCookingRecipes: Slimming Food

Golden Chicken Cheese Ball

Source: Good Food Fun Cook 餐餐宝, 餐餐好 Episode 1

Serves ~8 as part of a shared meal

Ingredients:
Chicken breast meat, without skin and minced
Water chestnut, 6 pcs
Spring onion, chopped, 1 stalk
Cheddar cheese
Eggs, ~60g size, beaten, 5 units
Breadcrumbs
Cooking oil, for use in deep frying

Sauce:
Water
Brown sugar
Tomato sauce

Garnish:
Coriander leaves

Method:
1. Placed minced chicken breast meat in freezer, so that it can be cut more easily later.

2. Cut frozen minced chicken breast meat into strips, then into small bits.

3. Deskin water chestnut. Cut both ends, then peel off skin in centre with peeler/knife. Smash peeled water chestnut with knife. Place smashed water chestnut on a clean towel and squeeze off excess water, else it will interfere deep frying result later.

4. Mix chopped spring onion and smashed water chestnut well into minced chicken breast meat.

5. Similar to fishball making process, squeeze well mixed chicken through opening between pointer and thumb into a ball and scoop with help of a spoon.

6. Insert one small piece Cheddar cheese into each chicken ball.

7. Dip chicken ball into beaten egg, then cover with breadcrumbs before deep frying till golden brown.

8. Dissolve brown sugar in water over fire, then add tomato sauce. Turn off heat when boil.

Serving:
1. Place 1 tbsp sauce, then the chicken cheese ball. Decorate with coriander leave on top of the cheese ball.

Red Juicy Tomato Appetizer

Source: Good Food Fun Cook 餐餐宝, 餐餐好 Episode 1

Serves ~8 as part of a shared meal

Ingredients:

Red tomatoes, 6 similar size

Sauce:
Haw slices (山楂片, can buy from Chinese medicinal hall), 1 palmful
Honey, 2 tbsp (or to own sweetness liking)
Light soy sauce, 2 tbsp
Plum powder (酸梅粉), 1 tbsp
Tomato sauce, 1tbsp
Juice from 1 quarter lemon

Garnish:
Coriander leaves

Method:
1. Remove tomato skin and cut each one into 4 quarters. Please refer to tip below on how to remove tomato skin.

2. Blend all ingredients for sauce.

Serving:
1. On a plate, place some coriander leaves, follow by a quarter of deskinned tomato, and lastly, add 1 tsp of sauce on top of tomato.

Crunchy Zucchini with Prawn

Source: Good Food Fun Cook 餐餐宝, 餐餐好 Episode 1

Serves ~8 as part of a shared meal

Ingredients:

Zucchini, 8 pcs
White Shell Prawn (白壳虾), medium size, 8 pcs
Cai Xin pickle, 8 pcs
Cooking oil, for use in deep frying

Sauce:
Red Chillies, cut into halves, 2 pcs
Spring onion, cut into 3 sections, 1 stalk
Old ginger, ~2 inches length, sliced, 1 pc
LIght soy sauce, 2 tbsp
Water, ~300ml (sufficient to cover sauce ingredients)

Garnish:
Coriander leaves
Toothpicks, 8 sticks

Method:

1. Prepare zucchini. Remove skin and cut into ~1½ cm thick disc.

2. Prepare prawn. trim the rostrum, antenna & antennules (as illustrated below), but keep the head and shell intact.

3. Cook prawn. Add juice from a quarter lemon to boiling water before introducing prawns. Once colour of prawn turns red, transfer prawn to iced water to maintain firmness of the seafood. Remove prawn shells, tails and heads in iced water, but keep the heads for later use.

4. Heat all ingredients for sauce. Once boiled, turn off heat and allow sauce to cool down before use.

5. Deep fry prawn head. Shake off excess water, coat with flour and deep fry till golden brown.

6. Stack Cai Xin pickle and deshelled cooked prawn on each zucchini disc as illustrated.

Serving:

1. Plate as illustrated and add 1 tsp sauce on zucchini stack.

Winter Melon Scallop Slimming Soup

Source: Good Food Fun Cook 餐餐宝, 餐餐好 Episode 1

Serves ~8 as part of a shared meal

Ingredients:
Winter melon, ~3 inches thick of middle section, 1 unit
Lean pork meat, cut into 1x1x1 cm3 cubes, ~300g
Carrot, 2 pcs
Barley (preferred China origin), 1 palmful
Dry scallop, 1 palmful
Dry red dates, 4 pcs
Wolfberries (枸杞子), 1 palmful

Method:
1. Soak barley, dry scallops, red dates and wolberries in cold water.

2. Cut lean meat as illustrated. Set aside for later use.