Saturday, December 29, 2012

Swiftlet's Nest with Pumpkin


Ingredients
- 113 g swiftlet's nest
- 300 g pumpkin (flesh only)
- Chinese parsley
- 3 cups stock
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp caltrop starch
- 3 tbsp stock

Method
1. Bring 1 cup of stock to the boil.
2. Add swiftlet's nest and wait until it became tender.
3. Drain it.
4. Cut pumpkin into pieces and steam it until it became tender.
5. Put into a blender and wait until the mixture is smooth.
6. Pour pumpkin mixture into a pot.
7. Add stock and swiftlet's nest, salt and caltrop starch.

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Swiftlet's Nest with Rock Sugar


Ingredients
- 113 g soaked swiftlet's nest
- 113 g rock sugar
- 3 1/2 cups of water

Method
1. Wash rock sugar.
2. Boil the 3 /12 cups of water and add the rock sugar.
3. Wait until it melted, then add syrup.
4. Stewed it for 20 minutes.
5. Add the swiftlet's nest and stewed it for another 10 minutes.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Swiftlet Nest with Crab Meat and Winter Melon Soup


Ingredients
- 113 g soaked swiftlet's nest
-  450 g winter melon
- 38 crab meat
- 2 cups stock
- 1 egg white
- 1 slice ginger
- 1/3 tbsp salt
- 1 tsp caltrop starch
- 2 tbsp stock

Method
1. Wash the swfitlet's nest and remove peel from winter melon.
2. Remove pith and cut it into pieces.
3. Bring stock to the boil.
4. Add ginger slice and melon.
5. Stew it for 10 minutes.
6. Cover for 10 minutes then discard the ginger slice.
7. Add winter melon to the blender and process it into winter melon puree.
8. Add swiftlet's nest to the winter melon puree and bring to the boil.
9. Add crab meat, salt, caltrop starch, stock and egg white.