Seafood Fried Rice

Sorry that I have not been posting regularly here as I have too much to handle! I have quite a few photos lined up and are just waiting for me to finish up the recipes.

I love to do fried rice when I have extra left over rice from the night before. Sometimes I will even purposely cook more rice if I have ingredients for fried rice the next day.

One of the days, I managed to get some baby octopus from the afternoon market behind my house and was excited to cook them. PiggyBeng cooked some and I still have about half which I ended using them to cook Seafood Soba and this yummy seafood fried rice on a separate day.

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Ingredients

• 4 bowls of Cooked rice (refrigerated)


• 150g Prawns (shelled)


• 150g Baby octopus (cut into small chunks)


• 100g French beans (cut into 1/2" long)


• 2 Eggs


• Chopped garlic (optional)


• Bonito flakes for garnishing


• Salt/light soy sauce/pepper for taste

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Methods

1. Heat up wok with some oil and gently stir fry the French beans till soft, lift up and set aside.


2. If you like to have garlic in your fried rice, using the same wok but add more oil and saute the chopped garlic until they are fragrant.


3. Break the eggs and continue to stir until eggs are 'fried'.


4. Toss in the prawns and baby octopus and stir until they are half cooked.


5. Toss the French beans back into the wok and mix them well with the rest of the ingredients.


6. Add in a few dash of salt/light soy sauce and pepper for taste.


7. Sprinkle some Bonito flakes as garnish.

Seafood Soba

I've always love noodles. In fact when I have nothing better to eat I will first think of cooking a packet of instant noodles to nurse my hunger. That means, I have a huge stock of instant noodles nestling in my kitchen. :mrgree:

Besides instant noodles, I will buy other types of noodles occasionally. One of my latest craze is Korean and Japanese noodles. I bought a packet of Soba sometimes back from Daiso during my last trip to Singapore. I have wanted to cook the cold version but my hubby is not a fan of cold noodles so I decided to make it hot instead.

During a visit to the afternoon market near my place, I found some baby octopus and bought a kilo. At home I found some frozen prawns my hubby bought and the idea hit me... why not some seafood Soba? This is definitely a healthier choice! My boy love his bowl of Soba too. Without the baby octopus of course...

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Ingredients

• 2/3 packet Buckwheat Soba


• 200g Prawns (shelled and leave tail unshelled)


• 200g Baby octopus (clean and cut into 4 sections)


• 150g Hong Kong choy sum


• 2tbsp Wakame (Japanese seaweed)


• 1.5L Water


• Fish sauce + pepper for taste

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Methods

1. Boil water in a medium large pot. Throw in the prawn shells and let it boil for 20 minutes so the soup will have a good aroma.


2. While waiting for the soup to be ready, heat up another pot of water in a medium saucepan. Add a little oil and sugar. When the water boil, blanch the Hong Kong choy sum till 90% cook and remove from pot. Using the same pot of boiling water, blanch the Soba till springy soft and set aside. Do the same to the Wakame.


3. Remove the shell from the soup.


4. While the soup continue to boil, toss in the prawns and the baby octopus till they are cook. Remove them from the soup and put aside. Add fish sauce and pepper


5. In a bowl, place some Soba and top with Hong Kong choy sum, prawns, baby octopus and Wakame. Pour enough soup to cover Soba before serving.