Tau Eu Chicken – Black Soy Sauce Chicken

This dish has been a favorite to many, from young to old for many generations. Many people would never get bored with this dish for lunch and for dinner. If you use kampong chicken, you will have to boil for almost 2 hours else the meat would be too hard. If you use normal chicken, boil 1- 1.5 hours max else your chicken will be too soft. This delicious Tau Eu chicken may take some time to cook but you could just have this one dish with everything in it and need not cook another dish for the day. All in one pot.

While boiling the chicken, I was already thinking about the Tau Eu (Soy sauce) mixing up with my white rice! Absolutely delicious!

If you plan on adding more side dishes like the following:-

Potatoes – add in 30 minutes before serving,

Lettuce – add in 2 minutes before serving.

Boiled Eggs – 30minutes before serving.

Pick one? Pick all? Suit yourself.

Ingredients

½ kampong chicken (village farm chicken)

2 whole garlics unpeel

6 tablespoon light soy sauce

2 tablespoon thick black sauce

2 dash pepper

6 baby carrots

1 egg

1 spring onion

Prepare & Cook

Boil water. Cook egg. Full boil. Peel shell. Put aside.

Clean baby carrots

Wash chicken,

Fill pot with water about 1 inch above chicken

Parboil chicken 2 minutes, remove impurities

Add garlic, Add more water about 2 inches, boil 1hour

Add 6 tablespoon light soy sauce

2 tablespoon thick black sauce

2 dash pepper

Add carrots and egg

Boil low heat for another 30 - 45 minutes

Ready to serve

Add spring onions

Best served with white rice

Bacon Egg Sandwich

There are times we go to cafes for brunch, might probably cost MYR30 a plate. They would serve us two slices of bread, two bacon, scramble eggs, mushrooms and two big tablespoons of bake beans. Sounds delicious? Yeah, I would take everything except bake beans. It is just not my favorite, I would probably take 1 or 2 out of a spoonful of beans. Let’s just say, 5 items means MYR6 for each, there goes the 6 for the bake beans. Since I have just bought some bacons from the supermarket, it would be our simple brunch without bake beans. Yummy!

Ingredients

4 slices bread

4 eggs

4 slices bacon

Prepare and cook

Put bread on pan heat it for about 2 minutes

Fry Bacon without oil -2 minutes

Scramble eggs x 2

Ready to serve

You could also add a slice of butter on the pan before you heat your bread to make it smell better, but not for me because I would feel a little bit greasy on my fingers. So it is just personal preference. I like it dry. 

 

Long Beans with Dry Shrimp Paste aka Belacan

Long Beans, need I say more?  

What is Belacan? Fermented shrimp paste but not the cincalok type.

How is it made? Small Shrimps are dried then smashed and ground to a paste form together with salt. So you can’t see any shrimp anymore. The paste will be place into a mould shaped into round or square. Then they will be dried in the sun for 2-3 days until its harden. So you will have to cut it out to smaller cubes or pinch it out yourself. Remember to keep them in dry places or keep in refrigerator once the packet is opened to avoid mold or worms.

These days belacan can also be found in powder form packed and sold in supermarket.

Unfortunately they are not as tasty as the cube types. Those cube forms paste smells more fishy then the powder type. So it is definitely more tasty.

It kind of stinks before it is cook but once it is in the pan, you will smell it, the smell will change from the fishy stinking smell to an aromatic smell. This condiment is used mostly in many vegetable frying dish but sometimes also some meat dishes. Let us start cooking and enjoy this delicious mouthwatering long beans.

Ingredient

1 tablespoon dry shrimp (har mai)

3 tablespoon dry shrimp paste or belacan powder

3 baby carrots sliced

Long beans cut to size of 4 cm

Cook and prepare

Fry carrots, remove to plate

Add 2 tablespoon

Fry dry shrimp until caramelized

Add dry shrimp paste or belacan powder

Add a table spoon water if it dries out

Add long beans fry for 5 minutes

Garnish with carrot

Ready to serve

Express Cod Fish

I love pan fry cod fish, it does not just smells good but it taste delicious. Fry till the skin is a little Crispy but not totally crunchy.

Done in 7- 10minutes

Ingredients

3 cloves of garlic, 2 shallots

1 spring onion,

3 table spoon soy sauce

2 birds eye chilies

Prepare and cook

Fry garlic, shallots till turns yellow gold

Remove from pan

Fry the fish for 5 minutes

Remove from pan

Add 3 table spoon of soy on top of fish

Add in the fried shallots and garlic with spring onion

Add the cut bird eyes chilies

Ready to serve.