Wednesday, June 24, 2009

COOKING ON THE CHEAP SIDE #4: CENTURY EGG CHOOK



Century Egg ($1.80), 1 Cup Rice (50¢), Diced ½ Carrot (20¢), 150 gm. Beef ($1.50), Chicken Bullion Granulate (20¢)

The century egg is expensive, but the duck egg is huge compared to the ones available in Malaysia. I usually buy a piece of around 300 gm. plus of chuck beef, which is good for 2 meals when cooked with other ingredients.

Method of cooking porridge can be found here. The measuring used is the small one that comes with the rice cooker. For us, 1 cup is good for 2 plates. The ratio of rice to water is 1:7.

When the porridge is cooked for a good 10 minutes, I put in the chopped up century egg and chicken
granulate. Remember to keep stirring to prevent the bottom from sticking. By a half an hour, the porridge should be done. Then dump in the marinated beef (usual cornflour, white pepper,sugar, soy sauce and cooking oil), stir and separate them. Once the beef is no long pink, you can remove from the fire and serve. Adjust the taste with salt or fish sauce. Garnish with green onion and julienned egg omelette.

3 comments:

albusperi said...

Aiyo... yum yum. I like century egg chook a lot. But I'll substitute beef with pork lah. This one looks good.

Kong-Kay said...

beef (not minced though) is the way to go.
i'll let you know before i go and get the book. i've checked at dymocks and they don't carry that title, and the others in the series are $3 more expensive.

albusperi said...

Aiyo... now I'm craving for some minced pork with century egg moi oh. Thanks very much, Kong Kay.

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