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Saturday, October 17, 2009

Steamed Minced Pork with Water Chestnuts

Gosh! It has certainly been a loooong while since my last post here. I hardly go into the kitchen when my morning sickness started to kick in in early May. It was so bad that my hubby has to take over the cooking for almost 4 months. In those months we only have simple meals with steamed fish and soup only. The rest of the time I only munch on bread and dry biscuits as anything that has weird taste/smell made me feel like throwing up.

Now I am 32 weeks along and things has certainly got better. In fact I have been feasting quite a bit about 2 months... yeah, getting back! I've also took back the kitchen for a while but due to some traveling the past 2 months, I did not cook as much but rather enjoying all the unhealthy outside food... :P

Though I took back the kitchen, I did not do much new dishes or have the interest to experiment with new ingredients. And my Darrius is also not so cooperative and has been a little pain as he refused to eat by himself. Thus, I have to feed him almost every meal. So, to make life easier, I only can think of doing all the simple yet healthy dishes.

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Ingredients

  • 200-300g Pork meat (use pork belly) - minced

  • 3-4 Water chestnuts - coarsely chopped

  • 2" strip of Dried cuttlefish - coarsely chopped

  • 3 Chinese mushrooms- coarsely chopped

  • 1tsp Oil

  • 1tbsp Corn flour

  • 1.5tbsp Light soy sauce

  • Dash of pepper

  • Water

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Method

  1. Mix minced meat with water chestnuts, dried cuttlefish and Chinese mushrooms  together with corn flour, oil, soy sauce and pepper. When well mixed, put it in a light curve dish and flatten the surface.

  2. Pour some some water to nicely cover the top, add some light soy sauce to give some color and put into the steamer on medium heat for about 12-15 minutes or till cooked.