Steamed Egg with Po Choy

Steamed Egg with Po Choy is a simple dish which can be cooked speedily. Preparation takes a short while most of the time is spent on waiting for the egg to be steamed. But more important is that this dish is tasty and will surely appeal to most people. 

Ingredients:

• 4 eggs
• 100 g - 120 g po choy
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• 1/2 tbsp light soy sauce
• 4 cloves garlic
• sesame oil for greasing the glass baking dish
• glass baking dish 18 cm x 12 cm

Instructions:

• Wash the po choy and cut them into 6 cm length.

• Boil a pot of water and blanch them for about 7 minutes.

• Scoop them out with a stainless steel food strainer and let the water runs through the strainer.

• When the po choy has cooled down, use your hands to squeeze out more water from them. Set the po choy aside.

• Beat the eggs and add the seasonings.

• Grease the baking dish with sesame oil.

• Pour the eggs into the baking dish and add the po choy to it.

• Put the baking dish into the steamer and steam the eggs for about 10 minutes over high heat or until they are cooked.

• While waiting, mince the garlic and sauté them till they are golden brown. Set them aside.

• Once the eggs are cooked, remove the baking dish from the steamer. Let the eggs cool down.

• Overturn the steamed eggs onto a flat plate.

• Sprinkle the sautéd garlic onto the steamed eggs. Slice them up or cut them into diamond shape and serve.

Tofu Omelette

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As we know an omelette is a dish made from eggs. The fillings that can be included are up to our imagination - chives, potato long beans, spinach, onion, prawns, etc. One day I ran out of idea of what to cook and finding a piece of tofu in my refrigerator I decided to try making tofu omelette. It turned out to be so delicious that I have cooked it a couple of times, the first time with just chilli padi and the second with coriander and chilli padi. I will try to add other fillings later.

Ingredients:

• 1 piece of tofu
• 1 egg
• 1 piece chilli padi
• 1 small sprig coriander or green onion (only green part)
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp light soy sauce
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• 3 tbsp cooking oil

Instruction:

• Half the tofu horizontally and slice the tofu into 4 mm thickness or just slice the tofu into 4 mm thickness. Set aside.

• Cut the chilli padi into small pieces and roughly mince them.

• Cut the coriander and mince it. (Or, cut the green onion into small pieces.)

• Crack the egg into a bowl and beat it with the salt, soy sauce and pepper.

• Add the chilli padi and coriander (or green onion).

• Add the tofu to the bowl of egg and coat all pieces with the beaten egg.

• Heat up a frying pan with cooking oil.

• Use a spoon to scoop the tofu, piece by piece, into the pan. Arrange the tofu anyhow you like.

• When the bottom is cooked, turn over the omelette and cook the other side.

• Once the omelette is done, slide it from the pan to a serving plate.

• You may decorate it with some coriander or green onion on top of the omelette.