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Advanced Food Preparation!

Here's a guide to cooking restaurant food as easy as ABC!

Today,I will be demonstrating the methods to cook Thai Seafood Fried Rice and Stir-Fried Thai Baby Kailan.



Thai Seafood Fried Rice


Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Cooking Time: 3-4 minutes

Serves: 2 servings

Ingredients
1) 2 tbsp of vegetable oil

2) 5g of diced french onions

3) 15g of baby kailan, end trimmed and halved

4) 1 tbsp of garlic, chopped

5) 1 beaten egg

6) 10g of mix vegetables

7) 30g of white prawns, de-veined and peeled

8) 30g of finely chopped squid meat

9) 5g of fresh tomatoes

10) 1 tbsp of sugar

11) Pinch of salt and pepper

12) 1 tbsp of soy sauce

13) 1 tbsp of MSG

14) 2 cups steamed rice


Garnishings

• Small cucumbers, sliced
• Lime wedges
• Fried spring onions

Methods

1. Steam the rice, then spoon it out onto a plate and let it cool.
2. Prepare the seafood.Peel the prawns, removing the heads and legs, and de-vein them. Blanch all the seafood briefly in boiling water, then drain well.


3. Heat the vegetable oil in a wok. Add garlic,stir until golden brown and then add the beaten eggs.


4. Add the baby kailan,tomatoes,french onions,mixed vegetables and stir for half a minute, then add the seafood


5. Add the steamed rice followed by the soy sauce, MSG, sugar, salt and pepper.Stir well on high heat for 3 minutes.

6. Transfer to a serving dish and garnish with crispy sliced cucumber, fried spring onion and lime wedge.

*Note, when cutting a lime, don’t cut vertically through the core. Cut vertically a couple of millimetres to one side of the core, otherwise you won’t be able to squeeze juice from it.


Stir-Fried Thai Baby Kailan


Preparation Time: 5 minutes

Cooking Time: 3-4 minutes

Serves: 2 servings


Ingredients
1) 200g baby kalian, end trimmed and halved
2) 1 and 1/2 tbsp of garlic, chopped
3) 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
4) 2 tbsp of oyster sauce
5) ½ tsp of salt, or to taste
6) ½ tsp of sugar, or to taste
7) 1 teaspoon cooking rice wine
Garnishings
• Fried garlic

Methods
1. Blanch the kailan for about 30 secs.



2. Add the chopped garlic, oyster sauce, salt, sugar and rice wine into the the baby kalian



3. Heat oil in a wok


4. Add the ingredients to the hot wok,add abit of water and fry for 2-3 minutes.


5. Transfer to a serving dish and garnish with fried garlic.


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