Hong Zhao/Red Yeast Paste Fried Rice 紅糟炒飯

 

Fried rice is my usual clean-out-the-fridge meal particularly on the day before my grocery delivery. My ingredients are simple, but this time I added Hong Zhao(紅糟醬)/Red Yeast Paste to stir fry, and the fragrance of red glutinous rice wine just perfectly enhanced the aroma of fried rice. Also I feel the colour of this red yeast paste fried just looked so Christmasy, don’t you think ?

 

𝐈𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 :

-Hong Zhao/Red Yeast Paste.

-Short grain rice, cooked.

-Eggs, beaten.

-Sweetcorn.

-Frozen edamame beans.

-Salt to taste.

-Chopped spring onions and crispy fried onions to garnish.

-Sesame oil for finishing.

 

𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝 :

-Heat oil in a large pan over medium high heat, once it’s hot, add beaten eggs and stir well to scramble, then transfer to a plate.

-Use the same pan to stir fry red yeast paste over medium high heat for about 30 seconds, add cooked rice and stir well until rice is coated reddish colour evenly.

-Add sweetcorn, edamame beans, and fried eggs back to the pan, keep stirring fry everything together.

-Add salt to taste, sprinkle chopped spring onions and crispy fried onions, finish with a drizzle of sesame oil.

 

之前用過的紅糟醬還剩下一點份量一直冷藏在冰箱，因為只剩兩大匙也不夠拿來醃豬五花，今天便決定拿它來做紅糟炒飯。不得不說紅糟的酒香真是特殊且迷人，而且這盤明明是清冰箱料理，但意外地炒出來有種聖誕節的感覺啊。(靈機一動：如果把紅糟炒飯做成一球一球的飯糰，然後疊成聖誕樹的樣子如何？)

Christmas Treat Idea : Strawberry Santa Hat

 

I believe this isn’t a new thing, have had made it for Christmas a couple years ago, you can simply slice strawberries and decorate these Santa hats at different ways, swap with other ingredients, these would all give them different looks. It’s simple and below is how I made it. I also advised some substitute ingredients so you can easily create your own version at home.

 

𝐈𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 :

-Strawberries.

-Whipping cream, here I used Arla Lacto free cream.

-Sugar.

-Pastry tartlets : you can bake by yourself from the scratch or use pastry ready rolled sheets to make it. I used Sainsbury's the butter sweet pastry tartlets which saved me a huge amount of time. Alternatively, you can use banana cubes, marshmallows, or brownie cubes as substitute. As long as strawberries can stand up on the plate, you can even choose not to have any base.

-Sugar balls and snowman sugar decoration both from Sainsbury's (optional.)

 

𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝 :

-Slice the leaves end of strawberry to make it able to stand up on the plate, then slice the tip off to make a hat and set aside.

-Place sugar, whipped cream in a mixing bowl, whisk until the cream reaches stiff peaks. (The cream should be very cold, chill the mixing bowl if you have time.) Do not over-whip, otherwise it will turn to butter.

-Spread the whipped cream on pastry tartlet, place strawberry base, add more whipped cream for Santa’s face and beard, put on strawberry tip, then finish with a sugar silver ball as hat’s pom pom.

-Decorate with sugar snowman.

 

今天來分享一道很簡單的聖誕甜點，基本上只要草莓跟鮮奶油就可以完成，依複雜程度可以自行用塔皮當底座，我是直接在超市買現成的，省去了很多烘培時間，如果還是覺得麻煩，用香蕉或棉花糖當底座也是可以。然後我本來自己有調了巧克力醬 (而且還參照了妞仔的擠花小紙袋技巧)，想要裝飾聖誕老公公的五官，但試畫了兩個覺得看起來太災難，決定還是直接放現成的糖雪人就好。

National English Breakfast Day : Full English Breakfast

 

Speaking of well-known British dishes, what would you think of ? I think English Breakfast, sometimes called a ‘’fry-up’’, is one of the most famous and popular British foods that most people would love. And today on December the 2^nd is actually 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐲 to celebrate the heritage and tradition of this iconic British dish, so I’ve made myself a proper full English breakfast and tried to included nearly everything an English breakfast needs on the plate except black pudding. (I am totally fine with black pudding, I just didn’t get this ingredient from my online grocery shopping.)

 

Here is my full English Breakfast :

-Caramelised onion sausages from The Jolly Hog.

-Smoked streaky bacons & mushrooms from Waitrose.

-Cauliflower hash browns from Strong Roots Uk.

-Baked beans from Heinz.

-Cherry tomatoes from Sainsbury's.

-Fibre sliced loaf from Hovis.

-Egg from Clarence Court.

-Milk tea from Nittoh.

 

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭 ? 𝐎𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 ? 

You can also go to my instagram Reel page to see how I arranged everything on this pan.

 

說到英國代表食物，你會想到甚麼呢？英式早餐絕對可以排在名單中的前幾名吧，我記得以往每每去住英國鄉間的B&B，最期待的就是隔天早上B&B主人現做的英式早餐；因為發現12月2日是National English Breakfast Day，於是也在家裡給自己做了一套英式早餐，我必須要承認我沒有很愛茄汁豆(血布丁跟茄汁豆讓我選的話我應該會選血布丁)，但為了這個英式早餐的完整性我還是加了！即便已經買了最小罐的豆子，但現在還剩有約半罐的份量在冰箱不知道該拿它怎麼辦，可能到時煮韓式部隊鍋時再把它消滅掉吧。