Smoor/Kedgeree smoked fish

 

Ingredients.

320g of flaked smoked fish (Snoek or Angelfish)

2 Onions sliced or chopped

1 Green Pepper diced

3 cloves of Garlic, chopped

1 3cm piece of Ginger, diced

2 large tomatoes, chopped

3 Birds Eye Chili's or to your taste, chopped

1/2 cup Sultana's

2 large potatoes, peeled and diced

Olive Oil

Butter

Parsley, chopped

Spring Onions, sliced

Lemon wedges to serve

Method.

Put some butter and olive oil in a pan or pot and saute the onions until soft.

Add the potatoes, green pepper, garlic, chili's and ginger after a while and carry on cooking until the potatoes are soft. Add Pepper and salt to taste

Add the sultana's and tomatoes, reduce the heat and put a lid on the pan and carry on cooking until the potatoes are cooked.

Remove the lid and add the flaked smoked fish and combine. Carry on heating gently to warm the fish up.

Add the parsley and spring onions and serve with lemon wedges

Enjoy.

One of the great things about this recipe is that it's very flexible and can be adjusted completely to your taste and availability of ingredients. 

Beef and Onion Stir Fry with Oyster Sauce

I got this recipe from an English chef who lives in Thailand and posts video's on YouTube almost daily.

I once had a very nice Chinese tour group for a few days and we went to lunch at a Chinese restaurant and this was one of the dishes served and I enjoyed it very much.

Ingredients.

300g of steak with the fat removed.

1 tsp Baking Soda

2 Tbsp water

2 Onions cut into segments and separated.

1 tsp White Pepper

3 cloves of Garlic finely chopped.

A piece of ginger, peeled and finely chopped.

1 Tsp of Sesame Oil

For the sauce.

1 Tbsp Soy Sauce

2 Tbsp Oyster Sauce

1/2 Tbsp Rice Wine

1 tsp Dark Soy Sauce

1 tsp Sugar

3 Tbsp Water

1 tsp Cornflour.

Method.

Slice the steak into coin thickness slices and place in a bowl

Add about 1 teaspoon of Baking Soda and a bit of water and work it into the steak.

Leave to rest for 15 minutes. This tenderizes the steak. 

Rinse the steak off to remove the baking soda

Add white pepper, a splash of Soy Sauce and a teaspoon of cornflour plus1 Tbsp of Sunflower oil. The oil helps prevent the steak slices from sticking together.

Mix all the sauce ingredients together and whisk to remove any lumps of cornflour.

Heat a Wok up to a high heat, add a bit of oil and brown the steak slices, stir frying all the time. Remove and set aside.

 Add a bit of Oil to the wok and add the onion segments and stir fry.

When they are translucent after a few minutes, add the garlic and ginger. Stir fry for just a few seconds so that the garlic does not have time to burn and quickly return the steak to the Wok and add the sauce and quickly stir fry as soon as the sauce starts bubbling.

Add about 1 Tsp of Sesame Oil and combine.

Serve with White Rice.