Home made dim sum

Steamed lemon chicken and spring onion coriander wontons:

Season chicken with , salt, curry paste and ginger. Add a pinch of Tumeric for color. Cook chicken and set aside to cool. Crumble chicken and add chopped spring onions, coriander and squeezed lemon juice. 

Place filling in centre of wonton wrapper and then wet two adjacent sides with water. Fold into a triangle and the fold over two corners to one. 

Steam wontons in a bamboo basket until wrappers are translucent. 

Serve with different dips- soya sauce mixed with fish sauce, sweet chilli sauce or plain chilli sauce

Barbecue chicken Spud

Next time you throw some chicken on  the braai, bake some potatoes too. Shred chicken once cooked. Assemble spuds by adding mayonnaise, grated cheese, tomato onion salsa, chilli sauce , chicken and more mayonnaise. 

Salmon salad

Spicy salmon, avo and sesame seed salad

Happy 30th to hubby

Exactly the same as my henna cake except the middle frosting is fresh cream caramel treat and peppermint crisp 

Funghi Bianco

Melt two table spoons butter in a wok

Add two teaspoons crushed garlic (less if you prefer)

Add 1 tablespoon cake flour

Ensure its not too dry. If it is add a bit more butter. Should make a paste.

Cook until it just starts to brown

Add about two cups coarsely chopped mushrooms and coat in flour mixture 

Add seasoning, salt, black pepper, origanum, crushed chillies and Italian herb mix. Continue  stirring on high heat for another  3- 5 minutes and but avoid mushrooms burning.

Add half a cup of fresh cream and about a cup of low fat milk. You can add more milk if you prefer more sauce.

Bring sauce to the boil and keep stirring. 

Add al dente cooked pasta ... Linguine works well. Coat in sauce and dimmer for about 3 minutes. 

Add fresh coriander or parsley. Serve with slices of Parmesan cheese. 

Quick Sunday dinner - pizza bread

Recipe courtesy of our brother in law...

Toast bread in a pop up toaster 

Mix some chilli and garlic in a ready made tomato salsa and spread on the bread. We used Woolies spicy tomato salsa.

Add your choice of toppings like satueed mushrooms, chicken, peppers, onions etc 

Top with grated cheese and a good sprinkle of origanum. 

Grill in oven until cheese melted.

Everyone's favourite snack... Paaturi

Batter made with

1 cup Inkomazi

1 cup Chana/chickpea flour

1 and half cup water

Green chillies

1/2 tsp Tumeric

1/2 tsp salt 

1 Tsp Sugar

Dash of lemon juice to taste

Steam batter until cooked. See below for pictures on how to roll 

Sprinkle coconut before rolling into mini Swiss rolls

Topping: heat two tablespoons oil, add mustard seeds and sesame seeds. Wait until they pop and pour over Paaturi rolls. 

Garnish with coriander