Deep Fried Mini Honeyed Squids

Portion: for 3-4 adults
Preparation time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 10 mins
Cost: SGD 40

Ingredients:
1 kg mini squids cleaned and blanced
1/4 cup tablespoon sugar syrup
Fried Sesame seeds


Special Sauce:
1 medium shredded carrot
100g premium bean sprout
1 cup premium sweet and sour sauce
1 cup honey mixed with 1/4 fresh lemon juice



What's Special:
The innovated sweet and sour sauce freshen the heavily sweet deep fried squid, leaving an appetitizing after-taste from the dish.

Method:
1) Deep fry the squids for 5 mins under high flame in a boiling pot of premium oil. Remove and drain the oil. Add the sugar syrup to the squids in a frying pan and fry till golden brown.
2) Heat up the ingredients for the sauce in a pan for 5 mins. Pour on the squid in the serving bowl. Garnish with sesame seeds.
3) Dig in with steamed rice or wraps best by the ocean.

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Hokkien Fried Laksa

Portion: for a family of 4
Preparation time: 20 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
Cost: SGD 40

Ingredient:
250g premium Laksa Rice Noodles
250g premium cooked Yellow Noodles

Sauce
150g high quality deep-fried dried shrimps
1 cup coconut cream
50g char siew cubed
100g fresh shrimp shelled and de-veined.
2 cups chicken broth
1 packet Laksa paste

What's Special:
Hokkien Fried Laksa is less spicy, sweet and more creamy.Unlike other Laksa which is soup based, Hokkien Fried Laksa is dry and fried with dried shrimps giving a rich flavour that makes one yearn for the typical traditional nostalgia of Grandma's cooking.

Method:
1) Boil the ingredients for the sauce on a pan under covered lid for 10 minutes.
2) Mix in the noodles and fry till dry and well mixed, with the rich aromatic choky fragrance going up in slow moving thick smoke.
3) Remove immediately from heat and "Laksa" with the family.

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Chili Prawn Otah Barbecue in Banana Leaf

Portion: for 3 adults
Preparation time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 10 mins
Cost: SGD 30

Ingredients:
Paste:
500g premium shrimps shelled and de-veined
1/2 cup premium sambal chili
500g premium shrimp paste
500g premium mackeral fish paste
1/2 cup salted low starch solution
1/4 cup sugar
1/10 cup lime juice
1/10 cup coconut milk
Wrap:
2 banana leaves cut into 6 pieces
12 toothpicks
Dip:
Sambal Chili paste

What's Special:
Add whole shrimps in the Otah adds crunch to the normal soft paste. Having lime juice balances the overly heavy and spicy Otah, making it an appetizer more than a hunger cure.

Method:
1) Mix in a bowl all the ingredients for Paste.
2) Separate into 6 portions and Wrap up the Paste.
3) Steam under high heat for 10 mins. Cool it down.
4) Barbecue the Paste in Wrap. Remove Wrap before serving Paste .
5) Serve with dip, baked hot dog buns, tea and salad for a family fiesta picnic.

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Cherry Shandy Brownies with Flavoured Nuts

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Bigger Brownies

One and Only Biggest..............................

Portion: for a family of 4 adults only
Preparation time: 50 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
Cost: SGD 35

Ingredients:
200g branded heavy chocolate syrup
1 teaspoon Brandy
1 cup premium Cocoa powder
1/4 cup coarse sugar
1 cup self raising flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 tablespoon baking soda
1/4 cup butter unsalted
1/4 flavoured nuts

What's Special:
The essence that is the cherry shandy that gives the spirit of the brownies an overwhelming warmth on the cheeks. The flavoured nuts makes the brownies less sugary and gives a more chunky feel.

Method:
1) Mix all ingredients well. Bake in a pre heated oven of 200 degrees celcius.
2) Serve the family sweet and hot!

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Garlic Special Spread Swiss Bake

Portion: 3 Adults
Preparation time: 10 mins
Cost: SGD 12

Ingredients:
1 loaf toasted sliced Swiss Bake multi-grain bread

Spread:
1 whole garlic minced
1 finely chopped cilantro
1 stalk finely chopped parsley
Dashes of rosemary powder
1 bottle premium garlic spread
Premium butter spread
Premium cheese spread

What's Special:
To introduce a refreshing taste of this heavy spread, fresh parsley are used to balance the greasiness of the spread, hence the family will feel light after a heavy stomach. If a heavier meal is expected, try a mushroom soup to dip in.

Method:
1) Prepare the spread by mixing all the ingredients in a serving bowl.
2) Spread or dip in!

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Prawn Noodles Seafood Soup

Portion: for 3 adults
Preparation time: 20mins
Cooking time: 15mins
Cost: SGD 25

Ingredients:
500g premium prawns shelled left the last section and de-veined
Prawn Stock from the cleaned prawn heads and shells
2 slabs premium fish cake
Deep fried shallots
2 balls of boiled cooked yellow noodles
2 balls of boiled rice thin noodles
Premium Chili Powder

What's Special:
The fine touch at the end of Premium Chili Powder and Deep fried shallots gives the thumb up for prawn noodle lovers for spiciness and fragrance. Remember when everything is washed clean, the prawn broth would be the fragrant and sweet reward.

Method:
1) Cook in 3 soup bowls of water, prawn shells and head for 15mins and remove them.
2)Stir in the fish cake and fresh prawns for 5 mins. Remove everything from heat.
3)Put in the final touch of shallots and chili powder onto the boiled noodles and rice noodles.
4)Pour the broth and ingredients over.
5)Celebrate under a cooling fan the piping hot cuisine.

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Minty Breakfast English Tea

Portion: 5 cups
Preparation time: 10mins
Cost: SGD 10

Ingredients:
3 premium English Breakfast tea bags
Mint powder
Hot water
5 cube sugar
Skimmed milk
Condensed milk

What's Special:
For a smooth, fragrant and medium flavoured minty drink that will leave you just settled and satisfied to spend plainly sipping tea the whole Saturday morning, remove the tea bag after 5 mins or else things may turn bitter. Most importantly, what's special is the family.

Method:
1) Heat water to boil and sterilized the Pot and cups.
2) Add skimmed milk, condensed milk, sugar cubes and mint powder into the pot suited to liking.
3) Stir, steep and remove tea bags after 5 mins. Bottoms up.

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Extra Spicy Chicken Curry

Portion: for 3 adults
Preparation time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 15-20 mins
Cost: SGD 20

Ingredients:
2 whole garlic pounded
2 whole onions pounded
1 set quality curry paste
1 set quality chilli paste
5 big washed potatoes quartered
1 small pre-packed quality coconut cream
1 whole skinless chicken washed and separated into 10 parts

What's Special :

This is a deliciously spicy and sweet dish that keeps 2 lovers and their love child on fire the whole night. What makes this dish special is the mashy curry the potatoes are responsible for and the equal portion of chilli paste as that of the curry paste that flames up the heat. Rest assured that peace still prevails in the family for I sure did with my spouse and child apart from much tear shedding. Bon appetit !

Method:
1) In a metal pot, fry till brown the garlic, onions and potatoes and add the 2 pastes fried till
fragrant.
2) Under mid flame, add the chicken and constantly stir the mixture for 5 mins, at which empty
the packet of coconut cream. Stir for another 5 mins.
3) From here onwards, keep stirrring till mixture becomes mashy, your potatoes should have
reduced to half the original size to indicate this.
4) Call your spouse and child to dished out the steamed rice or cut hard loaves .

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