Man fan is rice covered with cooked meat and vegetable. It makes light my work in the kitchen; instead of cooking three to four dishes of meat and vegetable to go with rice, the meat and vegetable are cooked together and poured onto the rice, covering it.
The first step to cook man fan is to cook the rice. Once cook, scoop the rice onto a shallow plate.
While waiting for the rice to cook, the next step is to cook the meat and vegetables to be poured onto the rice:
- Chop a few cloves of garlic.
- Soak the shitake mushroom. When they have soften, cut them into pieces, lengthwise.
- Peel and cut some carrots.
- Wash and cut up the mustard (sawi), the amount depends on one's appetite for them.
- Wash and cut up the napa cabbage.
- Wash and slice up half of a piece of chicken breast. (If pork is preferred, then cut and slice the pork.)
- Beat up an egg.
- Get ready some water or chicken stock. I use only water.
- Put a tsp of cornflour in a bowl and mix it with some water (for thickening).
- Get ready the seasonings - white pepper, salt and thin soy sauce. Dark soy sauce is optional.
- Heat up a wok.
- Put in a tablespoon of sesame oil.
- Saute the garlic till fragrant.
- Add in the mushroom and fry till fragrant.
- Add water or chicken stock into the wok and let it simmer for a while.
- Add in the carrots, mustard and napa cabbage. Cook them for a while.
- Add in the egg when the water or chicken stock is boiling, stirring to break up the egg.
- Add in the seasonings of white pepper, salt and soy sauce. You may add some dark soy sauce if you prefer the sauce to be darker.
- Let the sauce boils. Once it boils, pour the cornflour water, stirring the sauce so that it thickens evenly. Let the sauce boil.
- Scoop up the ingredients and the sauce and cover the rice.
- Serve while it is hot.