Famous Asian Recipes Blog

Lack of sleep has recently been linked to the rise of obesity. Sleep loss drives down the growth hormone which controls the body’s proportions of fat and muscle, as well as the hormone,leptin.
With lower leptin levels your body will crave carbohydrates even though you have had enough to eat. That’s why some people get really hungry and find it difficult to avoid high-fat and carbohydrate food when they have built up about one night’s worth of sleep.

This is a simple Malay snack that made from flour, sugar and water. I am not too concern about how it taste but I like the way they made this snack. The utensils used is so simple and the cooking process is so relax. Just pour the flour mixture into the coconut shell puntured with few small holes that hang over the wok fill with warm oil. Swing the coconut shell gently in circle and the flour mixture will drop into the hot oil and form into piece of thin crispy noodle like wafer.

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Chili oil – Add few pieces of dried chilies to a bottle of cooking oil and leave it to infuse for about 2 weeks. If the flavor is not up to the mark, then leave it for another week. Keep the chilies in the oil as it will enhance the color of the oil and give a decorative effect.

Garlic oil – Add a few cloves of whole garlic in a bottle of cooking oil and leave it to infuse for about 2 weeks before using. Straint the oil into a clean bottle and store in a cool place away from sunlight.

These oils can use for cooking or use as seasoning sauce.

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Ingredients
450 g cauliflower
2 eggs
1 tbsp chopped carrot
Salad dressing
1 tbsp salad oil
2 cloves garlic
2 tbsp vinegar
pinch of pepper and salt
Method
Hard-boil eggs , remove shell and dice egg white and egg yolk separately. Trim and rinse cauliflower, blanch in boil water with little bit of oil and salt for 3 minutes. Drain cauliflower well and place it in a big bowl. Spread diced egg and chopped carrot into the bowl and add salad dressing. Shake to mix well and serve.
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The spices that make Indian cooking so distinctively aromatic lies in the the right combination of many spices. In some dish, one of the spices may be made to stand out. Cumin, aniseed, nutmeg, fennel and cardamom are digestive acids. Chilies are holistic, beneficial to phisical and spiritual weel being.

Do not confuse by the word masala and curry, curry and masala are really one and the same. Curry powder added to any liquid especially water or coconut milk, becomes a wet masala. Dry masala means curry powder without any additives.

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Ingredients
2 cups of red bean
1 small piece of dried Chinese orange peel
400 g rock sugar
200 g lotus seeds (soak for 10 minutes and remove the green bitter shoot)
6 cups of water
Method
Wash red beans and place in a deep sauce pan. Add lotus seeds, orange peel and 6 cups of water. Bring to a boil and continue to simmer for 30 minutes until red beans are half cooked. Add rock sugar and continue to simmer for another 15 minutes until red beans are well cooked and soften. Serve hot.

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1. Golden syrup – This is a clear, golden colored sweetener that made from syrup obtained from the first boiling of sugar cane. It is a very rich, sweet flvor and is excellent for making cake and desserts.
2. Blue agave sweetener – Made from the blue agave cactus, this light and natural liquid is almost 3 times  sweeter than sugar but has much lower calories. The mild taste is  best for sweetning beverages.
3. Molasses – This is the thick residue extracted from the process of boiled sugar cane juice. Its sweet and strong flavor is ideal for baked food.
4. Honey – There are many varieties of honey which are different in color, sweetness and flavor. This is very much depending on the type flowers that produce the nectar collected by honey bees.

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A rich sauce of lycopene, tomatoes help prevent cell ageing. Cooked tomatoes release five time more lycopene than raw tomatoes. Increasingly research is suggesting that, of the many types of carotenoids found in food, lycopene is the most beneficial for protecting against coronary heart desease and cancer, especially cancer of the lung, stomach, mouth, colon, rectum and postate gland.

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Dark green leavy vegetables such as spinach and broccoli are a rich source of vitamin C, which is great for the skin. On top of that, they have carotenoids and anti-cancer substances such as sulphoraphane and geistein. They contain a variety of caroteroid pigment which help to prevent age-related eye problems such as cataracts and mucular degeneration.

Ingredients
1 chicken (about 1.5 kg)
1 tsp chopped ginger
1 tsp chopped garlic
1 tsp chopped shallot
2 tsp light soy sauce
2 tbsp oyster sauce
salt and pepper to taste
150 ml water
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp cornstarch solution
Mehtod
Marinate chicken with 1 tsp of light soy sauce and litter bit of salt for 15 minutes. Deep fry in hot oil until chicken is browned and cooked. Set aside to cool and cut into serving size.
Heat up 1 tbsp of cooking oil and saute chopped ginger, garlic and shallot to fragrant. Add water, oyster sauce and 1 tsp of soy sauce and bring to a gentle boil. Add sugar and corstarch solution, when sauce become thicken, dish up and spread over chicken and serve.

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