Vegetarian Guide

Pumpkin Soup for health

Ingredients:
400 gm pumpkin
2 tablespoons butter
1 onion sliced
2 garlic pieces crushed
3 1/2 cup of water mixed with vegetable stock
1/2 teaspoon pounded ginger
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 bay leaves
1 1/4 cup of fresh milk
salt and pepper to taste
6 tablespoons of natural yogurt

Method:
Cut the pumpkin into cubes. Melt butter in the pan at medium heat. Fry garlic and onion slightly, add the pumpkin and stir for 5 minutes in medium heat.
Pour in the vegetable stock and let it boil over medium heat.Add in the ginger, salt and pepper to taste.Pour in the lemon juice and stir the soup to well mix. Then add the bay leaves to the soup and let it to cool down. Once the soup has cool down, strain the soup or blend it until smooth. Add the milk to the soup and reheat it in slow heat. Finally garnish with a swirl of yogurt and serve.

Suggestion:

Replace pumpkin with carrot if not familiar with pumpkin taste but only add 1/4 cup of milk and 2 tablespoons of natural yogurt.

Yin (spinach) and Yang (corn) Soup

Ingredients:

1. A bundle of Spinach.
2. 1 tin of Sweet corn.
3. 2 table spoon Starch flour.
4. 2 table spoon Corn flour.
5. Salt to taste.
6. Pepper to taste.
7. 2 table spoon of cooking oil.
8. 1 table spoon sesame oil.
9. Yin and Yang mould.

Method:

• To prepare Yin, boil hot water which is sufficient for 2 servings on the stove, add the chopped spinach into the water and reduce the heat of the water. Add in 1 tablespoon of cooking oil and sesame oil. After that, add in 2 table spoon of starch flour and stir. Finally add in the salt and pepper to taste. Pour it into a separate bowl, while preparing the corn.
• Now to prepare Yang, boil hot water which is sufficient for 2 servings on the stove, add in the corn from the tin and reduce the heat of the water. Add in 1 tablespoon of cooking oil. After that, add in 2 table spoon of corn flour and stir. Finally add in the salt and to taste.
• Place the yin and yang mould in the middle of the bowl. Pour in the yin soup at 1 side and the yang soup at the other side. Remove the mould slowly and the Yin and Yang soup is ready to be savoured.

Suggestion:

Replace the spinach with celery and corn with carrot.

Soy Vegetarian Chicken

Ingredients:

1. 2 pieces of soy vegetarian chicken.
2. 2 tablespoon grinded Sarawak black pepper
3. 3 tablespoon dry breadcrumbs
4. 1 teaspoon salt

Ingredients for fruit sauce:

1. 1 riped tomato - chopped
2. 1 orange without skin - chopped
3. 1/2 ripe mango - chopped
4. Some corriander leaves
5. Some mint leaves
6. 1 tablespoon lemon juice
7. 2 tablespoon olive oil
8. Salt and pepper to taste

 Method:

• Mix all the fruit ingredients and chill in the refrigerator.
• Marinate soy vegetarian chicken with salt,pepper and breadcrumbs. Fry in fire with light fire till golden in colour.
• Finally mix together all the other Ingredients for fruit sauce and serve it with the soy vegetarian chicken.

Suggestion:

Replace the soy vegetarian chicken with other soy vegetarian meats.

Fruit Trifle

Main Ingredients

1. 500 gm butter cake
2. 1 tablespoon of 2 types of fruit flavouring essence
3. 2 cans of mix fuit in syrup
4. 2 types of jelly flavour different than fruit flavouring essence

Custard Ingredients 

1. 200 ml full cream milk
2. 1 tablespoon custard powder
3. 2 tablespoon sugar
4. 1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method:

• Cut the butter cake into pieces and arange them neatly in a bowl. Arrange 1 can of mix fruit on top of the cake. Cook the jelly as per instruction on the packet and pour it on top of the mix fruit. Add on the 2 types of fruit flavouring essence on top of it.
• Then spread custard on top of it. Finally pour the next flavour of jelly and arrange the last can of mix fruit on top. 

Suggestion:

Can assemble trifle in layers or mix them. In addition can mix fruit can be substituted with fresh fruits.