Most Decilious Recipe For Diabetic Part 4

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IKAN GARAM ASAM (SERVES 4 - 6)

Ingredients

400g of ikan kurau or snapper steaks
1 tbsp of tamarind paste
5-6 cups of water
1 tbsp salt to taste
1 tbsp sugar to taste
2 brinjals, thickly sliced

Spice paste - to be ground

1tbsp of berlachan or prawn paste
5 red chillies
10 shalots
1/2 thumb-size piece of tumeric
4 slices of galangal/lengkuas
5 candlenuts/buah keras
1 stalk lemon grass - crushed

Method

1) Clean the fish, season with salt. Keep covered untill needed.

2) Grind chillies, prawn paste, shallots, candlenuts, galangal and fresh tumeric into paste.

3) Heat 1 tbsp canola oil into a pan, fry the spice paste and lemon paste till fragrant, sprinkling some water time to time to prevent burning.

4) Add water to tamarind paste, strain jiuces into the pot. Bring it to a boil and add fish steaks and brinjal slices Cook gentlly till brinjals are tender and fish is just done..

5) Serve with rich.

HEALTHY CHICKEN RICE (SERVES 6 PEOPLE)

Ingredients

1 spring chicken - whole(remove skin after cooking)
2 stalks of celery - cut
1 carrot - cut
1 tbsp of sesame oil
1 dtbsp of light soya sauce
1/2 of salt
3 pandan leaves#
1 thumb size ginger - slice
1 cup Basmati rice (uncooked)

Method

1) Wash the chicken thoroughly - Bring to a boil a pot of water. Place the whole chicken in the boiling water. Turn the fire to the smallest and turn it off after 5 minutes. Do not open the pot. Let the chicken simmer for another 30 minutes.

2) Take the chicken out. Remove the skin, chopped the chicken into serving portions. Sprinkle it with light soya sauce and sesame oil. Garnish with parsley and sring onions.

3) Skim off the fats from the chicken stock. Bring the soup to boil again and add celery and carrots. Boil the soup for another 20 minutes.

4) Place the rice and 4 cups of the soup in the rice cooker. Add the pandan leaves, garlic, ginger and salt and start the rice cooker.

To prepare the chili

3 red chillies
2 small limes
6 pips garlic
1/2 tbsp of salt

Blend the chillies, garlic together and squeeze the limes on the blended items

To prepare the ginger sauce

1/2 palm size giner
1/2 tbsp of salt
3 tbsps chicken stock (made earlier)

Blend the ginger, add the salt and pour the chicken stock over the blended ginger.