Buttered Pork Ribs

We always have our dinner outside on Sundays. During one of these dinner, we ordered a dish called buttered pork rib. It was very nice. So, I thought of making it at home. While eating it, I have to somewhat figure out the ingredients used in the dish so that I can make it at home sometime later.

I made this dish during middle or end of November and it turned out very delicious. The taste matched about 90% of the taste of the dish that we eat at the restaurant. I believe I have used all the ingredients that they used. The exception is only the quantity of the ingredients.

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This is the recipe for my version of the Buttered Pork Ribs:

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Buttered Pork Ribs

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Ingredients:

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300g pork ribs

1 to 2 sprigs curry leaves

3 tbs butter

1 tbs sweetened condensed milk

1/2 tbs curry powder

salt to taste

some bird eyes chillies

enough oil for frying

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Marinate for pork ribs:

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2 tsp sesame oil

salt to taste

1/2 tbs Chinese rice wine
dash of pepper

1 tsp soda bicarbonate

2 tbs tapioca starch

4 tbs flour

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Method:

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Marinate the pork ribs for a few hours. Then fried the pork ribs until golden brown. Remove the pork ribs from the wok and discard the oil. Add in butter in the wok. When the butter has melt, add in the curry leaves. Then add in the bird eyes chillies and curry powder. Finally add in the condensed milk and salt before adding back the pre-fried pork ribs in the wok. Coat the pork ribs with the sauce. Dish out and serve.

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Note: The property of milk will be destroyed by high flame cooking. Always ensure that milk is added last if used in any cooking. Immediately remove from fire once milk is added.

Frozen Roti Paratha

I always have some reservations in buying fozen packaged food. I have the thinking that frozen food is generally not nice. I remember last time when we were young, mum had bought frozen mantou from the supermarket before. She will sliced it and then steamed it and served it for breakfast with kaya. I actually like those mantou and have been looking for them in the hypermart. One day, I saw it when I went to Tesco to buy my weekly groceries. They are very soft and fluffy. However, unlike mum, I eat it plain without any jam or kaya. Since then, I always have a packet of frozen mantou in my freezer. I like them as they are not only nice but convenient to prepare. Mornings are always very rush for me. I need to prepare fast breakfast. These are just so convenient as you can directly steam them in their frozen state.

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I think I have strayed very far from my subject matter. Okay, back to the original subject matter. I wanted to blog about the fozen roti paratha that I've recently tried. My neighbour recommended me to try this frozen roti paratha very long time ago. But I did not do it because of the reservation I have for frozen food. After I bought the frozen mantou, I told myself, why don't I just try the roti paratha that my neighbour recommended. Maybe they can be just as nice. So, I picked up the frozen roti paratha from the frozen food shelf when I went to Tesco 2 weeks ago. Luckily I still remember the brand that my neighbour told me.

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I observe vegetarian diet on the 1st and 15th day every month of the lunar calendar. So, I have these roti paratha for my lunch during the last time I observe vegetarian diet. I was thinking of dipping the roti with sugar but I ended up eating them plain. They taste so nice and crispy and fluffy at the same time. I eat the first roti while I was pan-frying the second one and so I ended up finishing the 2 roti paratha that I took out from the freezer just when I finish pan-frying them. They taste so much better than those sold in most of the mamak stall outside. They are also very convenient to prepare and fast too. If you are running short of time, you can also try these. They are to be pan-fried without defrosting.

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Homemade Fish Sauce

I was quite busy during the past few weeks. I have many interesting things to share but was unable to do so. I finally have some time to do it today. During early of November, I tried cooking a large batch of spicy sauce which I intend to use to make my own grilled fish/ikan bakar. This is the first time I tried making this kind of sauce without referring to any recipes and to my delight, it turns out great. I stored them into few small containers and put them in the freezer.

I tried my hand on grilling fish for the first time using the homemade sauce. What I did was I used aluminium foil to wrap the stingray. Before I put the fish on the aluminum foil, I scooped a spoonful of the home-prepared sauce on the foil. Then only I placed the fish on top of the sauce. I poured in all the remaining sauce on top of the fish and then wrapped the fish with the foil. But I had trouble with the grilling process. Maybe the foil is too thick or because of other reason, the fish is still not fully cooked after 45 minutes. Since we are already very hungry, so I decided to remove the fish from the oven an just steam it instead. We are able to enjoy the fish after 10 minutes of steaming. I squeezed some lime juice on the grilled/steamed? stingray before serving it. Despite all the trouble, we really enjoyed eating the fish. The sauce is just sooo yummy!

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Since I still have the sauce in the freezer, I tried it on a dory fish fillet after 2 weeks. This time around, I just steamed the fish for about 7 minutes. I think I prefer steaming to other method as it is hassle-free and healthy. It turned out just as yummy....