Cooking Lab - Winter Beauty Pot (山藥美容鍋)

Take heed! This is the soup that will fight aging. 

天冷就是火鍋日。今晚做道養生美容火鍋湯。加入了山藥，枸杞，讓大家青春無敵！

熱熱的湯，直接溫暖到心頭。今年的冬天真是寒。

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This is a comforting winter seafood soup filled with grated yam, assorted fish balls, tofu, leek, cabbages and goji berries. The ingredients used are essentially beauty-booster to add lustre and glow to your skin, plus it tastes so much better than a vitamin pill.

Ingredients:

- 100g pipi 
- 50g red goji berry 
-100g yam 
-150g silk tofu 
-250g assorted fish balls 
-1 medium leek 
-1/4 cabbage 
-2 cups seafood stock 
-Salt and pepper 
-1/4 teaspoon satay paste 
-1 teaspoon soy sauce

Methods:

1. In a large saucepan, add in 2 cups of seafood stock and 6 cups of water. Bring it to a boil.

2. Add in the pipis and chopped cabbage. Cover and reduce heat to low, and simmer for 10 minutes until all the pipis open.

3.Season with salt and white pepper.

4. Add the sliced leeks into the pan.

5. Bring the pan back to a boil.

6.Add in the tofu and the assorted fish balls.

7.Lastly, add in the grated yam.

8.Top with goji berries.

9. Serve immediately.

You can have this soup as often as you want and it is quiet nutritious and healthy.

Optional: Mix some satay paste with some soy sauce to intensify the soup flavour.

Published Recipe: Seafood Soup wit Leek & Goji Berry

Cooking Lab - Vegetarian Foie Gras Freekeh & Quinoa with RoastedVegetables

We need to eat well and live healthy at the same time. It is not enough to trim the fat from meat and reduce salt content. It also means serving up a dish packed with nutrients. So I've decided to introduce 'superfoods' into my ordinary diet.

A superfood is defined as ''a food that is supercharged with vitamins, minerals or anti-oxidants with health benefits." 

現代人越來越講求養生，這道自創料理的靈感來自怎麼兼顧健康跟美味。😊

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If I am serious about changing my diet, it will start at home. 

Today, I am cooking with freekeh, organic black quinoa and vegetarian foie gras. 

這道沙拉加入了號稱糧食之母的藜麥。因為藜麥是現有糧食中，唯一沒經過基因改造的物種，所以也被聯合國封為「超級食品」的健康食材。

Ingredients:

- 1 cup of freekeh 
- 1/2 cup organic black quinoa 
- 200g sweet potato 
- 100g capsicum 
- 2 tomato 
- 100g cherry radish 
- 100g button mushroom 
- 100ml extra virgin olive oil 
- 3 tablespoon vegetarian mushroom foie gras 
- 1 can chick pea 
- 50g gourmet salad 
- 50ml plum salad dressing 
- 30g shaved parmesan cheese 
- Sea salt and black pepper 

Instructions:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C.

2. Cook freekeh in 4 cups of stock water until softened.

3. Cook the black quinoa separately in accordance to packet instruction.

4. Meanwhile, drain the chick pea and spray with olive oil.

5. Line the chick peas on baking paper and roast for 10 minutes until golden and crispy.

6. Season with salt. Remove and set aside.

7. Lightly spray olive oil on the sweet potato, cherry radish and tomato and roast in the oven for 20 minutes.

8.In a medium bowl, place the roasted sweet potato cubes, cherry radish and tomato, plum dressing, salt and black pepper. Mix well and season to taste.

9. In a fry pan, lightly sauteed the button mushrooms.

10. Combine the freekeh and the vegetarian mushroom foie gras together.

11. Place foie gras freekeh into serving dish and top with quinoa.

12. Then top with sauteed mushrooms.

13. And the rest of the roasted vegetables.

14. Scatter the roasted chick pea around.

15. Garish with freshly shaved Parmesan cheese.

16. Serve with any main dish; or it is delicious on its own.

This is a delicious nutty, grainy meal. It is freekeh delicious. 

Cooking Lab - Miso Yaki Salmon Dinner (日式小缽碗養生餐: 一)

 

Cooking Lab - Roasted Dutch Baby Carrot w Quinoa Salad (高纖輕食: 焗烤甜蘿蔔|有機黑藜麥|優酩乳沙拉)

**Best**Salad**Ever!

This is not one of those 'loose-salad-leaves-salad-that-is-unsatisfying-and-makes-you-feel-like-a-rabbit-and-compel-you-to eat-something-naughty-afterward-and-then-you-are-convinced-no-diet-will-work'.

Oh no. This salad is different.

Let me tell you, if all salad is this tasty, there is no need to diet at all.

A totally delish salad!

大魚大肉吃多了，爽口瘦身沙拉自然而然就會成為我家的上上之選。
今天的沙拉是用低脂希臘優酪來代替沙拉醬。加入檸檬的自然清新口感，熱量低又超好吃的。



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This is a fabulous wholesome carrot and quinoa salad that is perfect with your Sunday roast. 

I absolutely adore this salad of mine. It is bursting with flavour, healthy and low in calories; and above all, it is super delicious filled with nutritious gems like chickpea, black quinoa and pine nuts. 

西方料理近年來總是強調有機，高纖的健康取向。

Let's call it the 'Super Food Salad'!

聽過quinoa藜麥嗎? 是現在廣受推崇的潮流的健康聖品。雖說近年才吹起它的神奇健康魔力，但其實它已是歷史悠久的原住民農作物之一。

古代人早己知覺藜麥的營養價值，並有神聖的「印加之金」(Gold of Inca) 之稱。

最受矚目的營養亮點：

-高纖維，幫助消化，增加飽足感，降低膽固醇，控制血糖和補全人體內的完整安基酸 (essential amino acid)。

-雖是植物，但蛋白質和肉類相似。

趨之若鶩了嗎？

藜麥是主食一類的材食，今天我就直接做成沙拉，口味清淡爽口。

It all started when I saw these beautiful baby dutch carrots at  the market. 
They looked so tender and luscious, I could not resist and got 3 bunches.

If I was Bugs Bunny I would be content.
What's Up Doc!

看看這些特殊品種的迷你甜紅蘿蔔，超吸睛的。

這些細長的小蘿蔔，甜度高，洗淨後不用削皮就可以生吃。(3把$5.00.) 這...價格也太親民了吧！平常價格可高囉!。今天不買不行了，先買再想要做什麼料理...

Ingredients:

- 3 bunches of baby dutch carrots 
- 1/2 cup black quinoa 
- 1 can of chickpea 
- 1 cup Greek-style yoghurt 
- 1 cup vegetable stock 
- 100g mixed silvered and pine nuts 
- 1 spanish onion 
- 1 lemon 
- 100g mint 
- 100g coriander 
- 1 red chili 
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder 
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil 

清洗過後表皮很有光澤，嬌豔欲滴。很新鮮的蔬菜。

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 200C.

2. Wash and trim the dutch baby carrots.

3. Drain and rinse the chickpea from the can.

4. Pat dry on paper towel.

5. Place carrots on baking trays and drizzle with extra virgin olive oil.

6. Season with salt.

7. Roast for 20 minutes or until the carrots are tender soft.

8. Turn once.

9. Place chickpea in a separate baking tray and roast for 10-15 minutes until golden.

10. Rinse 1/2 cup of black quinoa. Leave them in the vegetable stock for 15 minutes.

11. In a small milkpan, bring the vegetable stock & quinoa to a boil.

12. Stir frequently and let it simmer.

(Note: Quinoa will absorb all the stock and they should look plump and glistering. Fluff them up with a fork. )

14. Toast the silvered almond nuts and pine nuts on a dry hot pan. Toss frequently.

15. Remove and set aside.

To make the Greek yoghurt dressing: 

17. Finely dice the spanish onion.

18. Roughly chop up the mint and coriander leaves.

19. Combine the Greek yoghurt, chopped mint & corander, diced spanish onion and some chili together.

20. Add lemon juice.

21. Add cumin.

22. Season with salt.

23. Mix well to combine.

You should get a rich creamy yogurt dressing with a lovely tangy taste. 

    25. Remove the roasted carrots from the oven.

 26. Plate the carrots on a large plate.

27. Add chickpeas, roasted nuts and quinoa on top.

28. Drizzle the yoghurt salad dressing mixture on top. Toss to combine.

29. Season with salt & pepper (optional - I didn't bother, it is so tasty au naturel!) 

30. Serve warm.

超級好吃，當午餐剛剛好！

由於它的纖維含量高，所以吃起來也非常耐餓。

細長的迷你甜蘿蔔加上潮流的健康食品「有機黑藜麥」,淋上低脂希臘優酪乳。高纖，健康又爽口。

簡直是健康聖品集聚為一餐！

A salad to be repeated for sure. 

非常推薦~