Sunday, January 10, 2010

Simple dinner


This is a pretty typical meal at home in a Cantonese household.  The beans are simply sautéed with garlic.  The tofu is first browned  and then cooked with left over roast pig pieces seasoned with a little ginger, garlic, scallion, shaoxing wine, sugar, salt, soy sauce and sesame oil.  The oysters are parboiled for a minute first then lots of ginger and garlic are first sautéed before the dried oysters are added to the very hot pot, add a little shaoxing wine and then a sauce of oyster sauce, sugar, soy sauce and cornstarch is added.  The oysters are usually quick fried in oil when you have this dish in a restaurant and that brings out the nice fragrant of the dish; this way though has the advantage of health as well as the creamy tenderness of the oyster fully intact (provided you don't overcook it).

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