Category — Free Recipes
Shrimp on the Barbie
Remember Crocodile Dundee? Well, here is the recipe for the popular “Australian Shrimp on the Barbie”:
Cooking time: 4 minutes
Serves: 8
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, melted (1 cup = 250 ml)
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup minced fresh herbs (parsley, thyme and cilantro)
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice ( 1 tablespoon = 20 ml)
3 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tablespoon minced shallot
1 kg of medium to large shrimp (prawns), unpeeled
Spinach leaves and lemon slices
Procedure:
1. Combine first 6 ingredients in large bowl. Mix in shrimp. Marinate at room temperature for 1 hour or refrigerate for 5 hours, stirring occasionally.
2. Prepare barbecue with medium hot coals.
3. Thread shrimp onto skewers and grill until just opaque (about 2 minutes per side)
4. Line platter with spinach.
5. Arrange skewers on platter and garnish with lemon.
Serve.
September 14, 2009 No Comments
Lugaw
Easy to cook, but sometime we tend to forget.
Ingredients:
1 cup of rice
3 cups of tap water
3 cloves of garlic
1 medium sized yellow onion
1 small ginger cut into strips
3 stalks of green onion
3 tbsp vegetable oil
salt and ground pepper
fish/soy sauce
lemon juice
Procedure:
1. In a medium-sized sauce pan or pot, saute garlic, ginger and yellow onion in vegetable oil over medium heat. Add salt and ground pepper to taste.
2. Add 1 cup of rice and stir for 10 mins. Add 3 cups of water to the mix and let boil for 15 minutes until rice is cooked.
3. Add green onion into congee.
4. Serve immediately and add a few drops of fish/soy sauce and lemon juice.
September 14, 2009 No Comments
Almond Biscostees
This is a recipe shared with us by a Singaporean friend. We like to share this with you too.
Ingredients:
3 egg white
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup plain flour ( sifted )
200g almond
Procedure:
1. Beat egg whites with sugar till it peaks
2. Add flour & almond. Mix well.
3. Pour into tin. Bake at 150 C till firm ( 10-15 min.)
4. Keep overnight; wrap in foil. Refrigerate.
5. Cut with serrated knife.
6. Bake at 130 C (10-15 min.) til crisp.
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September 13, 2009 No Comments
