Baked Garlic Shrimps

Recipe by: SH

Prep Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 25 min
Serving Size: 2

Tools: 9" x 9" baking dish

Ingredients:
1/2 lbs shrimps (head-on shell-on)
2 tbs minced garlic
2 tbs butter
1 tbs rice wine
1 tsp salt

Steps:

1. Cut off the pointy edge on shrimp heads and clean shrimps thoroughly.
2. Put shrimps in baking dish.
3. Mix all ingredients into shrimps.
4. Bake for 25 minutes.
5. Serve with rice.
   

Nasi Lemak

Recipe by: SH

Prep Time: *15 min
Cook Time: 40 min
Serving Size: 4

Tools: Rice Cooker, frying pan, medium pot

Ingredients:
Rice:
4 cups of rice
1.5 cups of coconut milk
1 tsp of salt

Assam Prawn:
20 Head-on, shell-on shrimps/prawns
2 tbs of tamarind thick tamarind juice
3 tbs of light soy sauce
2 tbs of sugar
2 tsp of white pepper

Sambal Anchovies (Ikan Bilis):
1 cups of anchovies (halved length wise and gutted)
4 tbs of sambal oelek

4 hard-boiled eggs
1 cucumber

Steps:

1. Rice: Wash rice thoroughly. Add coconut milk and salt. **Top up rest of liquid measurement for rice with water.
   
2. Assam Prawn: Marinate shrimps with tamarind, light soy sauce, and white pepper for at least 2 hours. Leave in fridge. Heat up pan with oil. Stir fry shrimp and marinate sauce for 6 minutes. Sugar will caramelize.
   
3. Sambal Anchovies (Ikan Bilis): Wash the anchovies thoroughly. Place them on plate. Microwave for 3 minutes or until crispy. *Low fat cooking ;)*
4. Halve hard-boiled eggs length wise.
5. Cut cucumber in rings for garnishing.
6. Serve as in picture when ready.

Notes:
* Excluding marinading time of 2 hours
** I did not add water and used all coconut milk instead. Rice cooker pitch a fit and I added water after to the appropriate measurement line in the rice cooker. It turned out A-Okay!

Hokkien Mee (Prawn Noodle Soup)

Recipe by: SH

Prep Time: 1 hr
Cook Time: 1 hr
Serving Size: 4

Tools: Strainer, blender, pots, pan, egg slicer

Ingredients:
1 packets of rice noodles
1 small packet of beansprout
2 lbs of shrimps (shell-on, head-on)
1 lbs of pork ribs
6 shallots
1 bulb of garlic
2 tbs of oil
8 eggs
8 tbs of fried red onions

Shrimp Marinate:
1/2 cup of light soy
2 tsp of white pepper
1/2 tbs of chili powder

Seasoning:
1/2 tbs of chili powder
1/2 tbs of msg
1/2 tbs of sugar
1 tbs of salt

Steps:

1. Soak rice noodles in water.
   
2. Boil shrimps in 2 quarts of water for 15 min. Keep broth.
   
3. Let it cool. Shell shrimps and keep both shells and shrimps.
4. Devein and halve shrimps.
5. Marinate shrimps.
   
6. Blend all shells and thicken broth with another 2 quarts of water.
7. Remove shallots and garlic skins.
8. Blend shallots and add it to broth.
9. Add pork ribs and all seasoning to broth.
   
10. Cook broth for 45 min.
11. Cook rice noodles for 20 min (or per packet instructions). Strain.
    
12. Cook beansprout for 3 min. Strain.
    
13. Boil eggs for 20 min. Slice them with an egg slicer.
    
14. Heat up 2 tbs of oil in a pan and stir fry the shrimps for 5 minutes.
15. Serve broth with noodles. Top it with shrimps, egg slices, beansprout, and fried red onions.

Shrimp Cake

Recipe by: SH

Prep Time: 15 min
Cook Time: 45 min
Serving Size: 24 cakes

Tools: Pan

Ingredients:
A:
2 1/4 cups of all purpose flour
2 tbs of soy sauce
2 tbs of fish sauce
2 tbs of white pepper
1 tbs of rice wine
1/2 tbs of salt

B:
1 egg
1 cup of panko (japanese bread crumb)
Shrimp - Remove the shells. A lot of work but it is all worth it. Be really careful peeling off the heads and the tails. There are some sharp pointy needles on them. After removing the shells, slice the shrimp in half and devein them.
Big frozen head-on, shell-on shrimp are highly recommended for places where fresh shrimp is a rare commodity.

Steps:

1. Mix A in a mixing bowl along with 2 1/4 cups of cold water using a whisk. Mix them well.
   
2. Add in the egg and whisk it into the batter.
3. Add panko and mix well. Check the consistency of the batter (close to the consistency of waffle batter). You may adjust it by adding more cold water or flour to achieve it.*Sorry about this :P* I usually visual inspect it by using a whisk to drip some of the batter back into the mixing bowl. Good consistency is a smooth continuous flow from the whisk down to the batter. If it drips, you have added too much water.
   
4. Heat up some oil in a flat pan, enough to cover 1/4" of the pan. The intend is for surface frying, not deep frying.
5. Using a quarter cup as measurement, dish out some batter and include one shrimp (2 halves).
6. Pour this into the heated pan and fry each side until golden brown.
7. Drain access oil from the cooked shrimp cake on a cookie rack.
8. Eat it! If it is good, CONGRATULATIONS! If not, you did not see this recipe.