Homemade Bah Kwa Recipe

The Chinese New Year is just around the bend. And this is the time of the year where Singaporeans cue up one after another just to get some bah kwa in their table.  Prices would range from S$45 to S$60.  That is quite expensive for this piece of meat.  But it's not just meat, its Bah Kwa!

The best way to beat this price is.... making your own bah kwa in your own home. Here is a simple recipe.  Enjoy!

Homamade Bah Kwa Recipe

Ingredients:
500g minced pork (slightly fatty)
2 Tbs five spice powder
150g sugar (more sugar will caramalise the meat more, but less with be tasteless)
2 Tbs shaoxing wine
1 Tbs fish sauce (this is very important)
3 Tbs light soy sauce
red food colouring – optional, it turns out brownish otherwise. I do not use this

Singapore’s Nasi Lemak Recipe

Nasi Lemak is originally a Malay food.  It has been adapted by Singapore as one of its own.  In local hawker centers, you can have a Malay version or a Chinese version.  There is only a small difference though.

A complete Nasi Lemak consist of the Coconut Rice, Sambal Chili, Ikan Bilis, Fried Chicken Wings and sometimes with a Fried Fish and Fried Eggs as well.  Among these, the coconut rice and the sambla chili is the soul of this great dish.  Hence, here are the recipes for these two.

Singapore’s Nasi Lemak

COCONUT RICE


Ingredients :
370g rice, rinsed
625ml water
10tsp thick coconut milk
3g salt
4g ginger, sliced
3 pandan leave, knotted

Chai Tow Kway Recipe (Singapore Carrot Cake)

Here is a simple Singapore Carrot Cake Recipe - a white version.  I believe you might have seen a golden brownish carrot cake.  Well, the one ingredient that made the difference is the fish sauce.  If you use dark sweet soy sauce instead, then the chai tow kway will be golden brown.

Chai Tow Kway Recipe

(White version)

Ingredients:

Ingredients A
500ml Water
200g Raddish Shredded
200g Rice Flour