Sticky Pork on Broccolini

 Ingredients:

2 bunches of broccolini, cut into half, crossway
100g minced pork (marinade with 1/2 tsp cornflour, pinch of pepper and dash of light soy sauce)
1 slice of ham, diced finely
2 cloves garlic, minced finely
3 kaffir lime leaves, shredded
20g walnuts, toasted and chopped coarsely
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp fish sauce
1 tsp grated palm sugar
1 chilli, sliced
1 tbsp cooking oil

• Heat oil in a wok and saute garlic until fragrant.  Then add in marinated minced pork and stir-fry until lightly browned.  
• Add sugar, fish sauce, lime leaves, lemon juice and chilli.  Cook for about 2 minutes.  
• Meanwhile, steam broccolini until just tender.  Transfer broccolini onto a plate and top with the pork mixture and chopped walnuts.  

Estonian Egg-White Cake (Munavalgekook)

I stumbled upon this interestingly hard-to-pronounce Estonian cake - Munavalgekook - which is an egg-white cake.  Like the Angel Cake, it only uses egg whites.  Unlike the Angel Cake, it contains butter which makes this cake moist, spongy and soft with a hint of buttery taste.  

Recipe adapted from Nami-Nami

Ingredients:

200g egg whites (about 6), room temperature
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
150g caster sugar
160g plain flour
10g rice flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
100g butter, melted and slightly cooled

• Sift together plain flour, rice flour and baking powder.  Set aside.
• Whisk egg whites until foamy.  Add in cream of tartar and whisk until soft peaks form. Gradually add in sugar and whisk until stiff peaks form.
• Gently fold in sifted flours.
• Finally add in melted butter and fold gently.
• Pour batter into a buttered and floured bundt pan and bake in a preheated oven at 180 deg C for about 45 mins or until cooked.
• Leave the cake to cool in the pan for about 10 - 15 minutes before turning out onto the wire rack.  

A Simple Rice Vermicelli Soup

Happy 2015 everybody! 

After a long break overseas, I am back with my first post for the year.  I know it is a very simple bowl of noodle soup - nothing to shout about - but I just wanted something plain and simple for lunch today.  It is so easy, you don't even need a recipe for this.  

I am linking this post to Little Thumbs Up January 2015 : Pasta / Noodles 
hosted by Anne Regalado - My Bare Cupboard  & 
organised by Zoe of Bake for Happy Kids and Doreen of My Little Favourite DIY.