Sunday, January 13, 2008

Glutinous Rice Wine

Can imagine how busy I were for the pass 1 week, I have tons of pictures of my cooking, but no time to “decorate” them. So sad ~

So keen and wanted to share with you all about my cook books!!! Still every time I turn on the computer… Start with going up to blogger friends’ comment box, when I got those comments done nicely, that would be about time for me to rest already!

2 weeks ago, 1 of my ever good friend called me up and told me about her mom was making their own Home Made - Glutinous Rice Wine, and she reserved a bottle for me! Before I got the Wine home, again… the “CLOUDsss” came out from my mind, picturing myself in the kitchen again…cooking Chicken, Beef and etc with the Glutinous Rice Wine…
*This remind me of my mom, she always do that whenever she is free and start to chit chat with me about dishes and cooking at home.

Mom is a very sincere Buddhist, she never take Beef cos of the religion. Remember Mom’s Cook Book, and she has a lot of way to cook Pork and Chicken with the Glutinous Wine. But just not beef…

I’m bit different from mom, my family giving us 100% freedom to choose on our religion. Since very young, parents sent me to a Kindergarten under a Church in Sabah (my home town). That was the reason I became a Christian since that. I respect her as I don’t take Beef at home, but outside home… I have my 100% freedom to choose on whatever I wanted to have. Hehehee…

Learn from my Mom’s Cook Book, I’m going to try my BigFish Cook Book cooking the Beef with Glutinous Rice Wine.

Surprisingly, result was unexpected too GOOD…
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Beef with Glutinous Rice Wine

Ingredients:
1. 200g Lean Beef (sliced)
2. Carrot (sliced)
3. A few pcs Curry Leafs
4. 1 stalk Spring Onion (cut 1 inch)
5. 1 stalk Parsley (chopped)
6. 3 tbsps Glutinous Rice Wine
7. 4 cloves Garlic (minced)

Marinate the Beef~
1 little pinch of Salt, Pepper and Brown Sugar.
1 tbsp of Glutinous Rice Wine, Chopped Parsley and 1 tsp Sesame oil.
* At least 20min.

Methods:
1. Heat up frying pan with medium heat, and pour in 2 tbsps cooking oil.
2. Pour in Minced Garlic and curry leaves fry until fragrant.
3. Add in Marinated Beef and Sliced Carrot stir fry until cooked.
4. Mix 3 tbsps Glutinous Rice Wine and mix with 2 rice bowl of water.
5. Add in Spring Onion, use medium heat to cook for 10 min.

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Chicken with Glutinous Rice Wine

Ingredients:
1. 1 whole chicken tight (sectioned)
2. 50g Ginger (fine sliced)
3. 1 stalk Spring Onion (cut 1 inch)
4. 1 stalk Parsley (garted)
5. 3 tbsps Glutinous Rice Wine
6. 4 cloves Garlic (minced)

Marinate the Chicken~
1 tbsp of Oyster Sauce, 1 little pinch of Salt and Pepper.
1 tbsp of Glutinous Rice Wine, Grated Parsley and 1 tsp Sesame oil.
* At least 20min.

Methods:
1. Heat up frying pan with medium heat, and pour in 2 tbsps cooking oil.
2. Pour in Minced Garlic fry until fragrant.
3. Add in Marinated Chicken and Grated Parsley stir fry until cooked.
4. Mix 3 tbsps Glutinous Rice Wine and mix with 2 rice bowl of water.
5. Add in Spring Onion, use medium heat to cook for 10 min.

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~Parsley is not only for Decoration~
You will love it to cook the Beef and Chicken together with Parsley. Chinese rarely use Parsley as cooking ingredient. Most of the time, we use Parsley only for decorating and make the dishes look nicer.

I got this idea from a guy friend who loves cooking and his wife doesn’t know how to cook at all. He used Parsley to cook Fish with Star Fruit. Then he told me Parsley smell lovely after grated and cook with anything.

7 comments:

Sue Sue said...

Beef with the glutinous rice wine? I haven't tried but I think it is certainly taste good.

Little Corner of Mine said...

Looks delish! Not sure whether people sell glutinous rice wine here?

Anonymous said...

glutinous rice wine is different from the normal rice wine? Mom usually use the chinese red wine that tasted abit sweet-ish for cooking chicken. But never tried with beef before. Maybe will try them soon..

Big Boys Oven said...

oh do save some wine for me!

tigerfish said...

I usually just use rice wine. All your dishes sounds so delicious :)

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Rose world said...

Hmm, never try cooking beef before!! Like yourself, I am also from Buddhist family, never take beef before. Only after met my current husband, I started to acquire to its taste! So far, havent try my hand on cooking beef dishes yet.

bigfish_chin said...

sue sue,
the Beef with Glutinous Rice Wine really taste good! Try it!

little corner of mine,
This is home made from a friend's mom too. I think may b some of the Chinese Friends there know how to make it leh~

jenjen,
This is different from Normal Chinese Red Wine, we call it "Lo Mai" Rice Wine. This is the First time i tried with Beef too! Never regret!!!

big boys oven,
hahaha here come and take it!

tigerfish,
Thanks for visiting my blog too! Will have more and more up coming recipes on BigFish Cook Book!

rose,
I just started to learn about cooking beef lately too.
Now is the time for me to choose which part of Beef is better... shoulder or lean?!