Category Archives: cheap recipes 便宜食譜
Rice Ball
Rice Ball is a tradition food item which you can find in food cart on the street in Taiwan during breakfast hours.
It is a hardy, healthy and delicious choice for breakfast.
- 1 -1.5 cup of cooked short grain rice
- 2 tbsp of chopped scallion
- 2-3 tbsp of shredded pork
- 1 egg
- 3 tbsp of dry Daikon (optional; you can find this in Asian super market dry goods area)
- 1 sliced of sushi seaweed
- 2 tbsp of Crispy oriental noodle (Use in salad sometimes )
- some black sesame
- 1 piece of Plastic wrap (around 6X6)
- Fry the egg.
- Flatten warm rice on plastic wrap.
- Place seaweed first than egg, pork, scallion, noodle finally dry diakon in the center of the rice. Make sure the rice is bigger than all other ingredients.
- Both hands hold the plastic wrap. Fold the rice towards center until rice close together. Continue to squeeze and fold the rice until the rice is in a ball shape.
- Sprinkle sesame seeds on top of the rice.
- Enjoy your rice ball.
Okra Salad
- 3 cups of Okras
- 2 cups of Tofu
- 1 tbsp of chopped Cilantro
- 2-3 tbsp of soy paste
- some sriracha chili sauce
- 2-3 tbsp of katsuobushi (dry fish flakes)
- Clean and cut okras in half.
- Boil okras in water for 5 minutes.
- Rinse okras in cold water.
- Cut tofu into bit size.
- Place okra and tofu in plate.
- Top with cilantro and katsuobushi.
- Drizzle soy pasta and sriracha on top.
Naan Sandwich
This is a fun version of my sandwich. Easy, fast, delicious and fun.
- 1 piece of frozen naan
- 2 tbsp of hummus
- 1 tbsp of chopped green scallion
- some roast beef
- Bake naan at 375 degree oven for 5 minutes or until the bread softened.
- Spread hummus on naan.
- Sprinkle scallion.
- Finally place roast beef on top.
- Bake the sandwich for additional 10 minutes.
Salsa Rice
A quick easy meal in under 10 minutes.
- some cooked rice
- some ground meat (chicken, pork, beef which ever you prefer)
- some salt & pepper
- some sliced onion, pepper and mushroom
- store bought salsa
- some shredded cheese
- half avocado
- some oil
- Stir-fry onion in oil until fragrant.
- Add meat and salt and pepper.
- When meat is cooked, add vegetables. Cook until the vegetables soften.
- Put warm rice in a bowl.
- Add meat, vegetable stir-fry and avocado.
- Sprinkle salsa and cheese on top.
- Eat with tortilla chips if desired.
Asian Noodle Salad
Salad ingredients:
- 1 package of thick egg noodles
- some fresh ginger
- some scallions
- some cilantro
- some soy bean sprouts or bean sprouts
Sauce ingredients:
- 1 tbsp of soy sauce
- 1 tbsp os sesame oil
- 1 tbsp of rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp of black vinegar
- 1 tsp of sriracha sauce
- olive oil
- pepper and salt
- Boil noodles with some salt and olive oil.
- When noodles are cooked, add sprouts. Cook until the water is boiling again.
- Drain and rinse noodles and sprouts in cold water.
- Finely chop ginger, scallions, cilantro.
- Mix all sauce ingredients together with herbs.
- Mix sauce and noodles together.
- Add salt and pepper as needed.
Baked Rice
- 2-3 cups of cooked rice (short grain) $0.5
- 2 links of Kielbasa or hot dog $1
- 1 cup of broccoli $1
- 1/2 cup of red pepper $0.5
- 1/4 cup of red onion $0.5
- 1/2 cup of chicken stock $0.5
- 1/2 cup of milk $0.5
- 1 cup of shredded cheese $1.5
- salt and pepper $0.1
Serve 2-4 people, total price $ 6
- Cut red pepper, onion, Kielbasa and broccoli into bit size.
- Mix milk and chicken stock in a sauce pan, cook until boil. Add salt and pepper to season.
- In a baking dish, place rice on the bottom and pour milk mixture in.
- Layer kielbasa, and vegetables on top.
- Sprinkle shredded cheese.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until cheese turns golden brown.
- Allow the rice to sit for 10 minutes before serving.
Chicken Salad Sandwich
- 1 leftover rotisserie chicken
- some boiled potatoes
- some chopped onion and cucumber
- black pepper, salt
- 5 tablespoons of mayonnaise
- some canned corn
- sliced bread
- Pull meat from the leftover rotisseries chicken
- Cut potato into bite sized pieces
- Mix chicken meat with corn, mayonnaise, onion, cucumber, potato and add pepper, salt to season
- Place chicken salad in fridge for 10 minutes
- Serve salad in two slice of bread and enjoy
Seaweed salad
- 1 bag of seaweed
- some dry chili
- some sesame oil
- some white sesame
- some chopped cilantro
- some white vinegar
- Wash seaweed in cold water.
- Boil a pot of water, cook seaweed for 5 minutes.
- Drain seaweed and cut it into bite sized pieces.
- Mix dry chili, sesame oil, white sesame, cilantro and white vinegar with seaweed.
- Refrigerate until chill.
Seaweed Jelly salad
- 1 bag of seaweed jelly
- some thin sliced seedless cucumber
- some thin sliced carrot
- some chopped cilantro
- 1-2 tbsp of mayo
- some salt
- Mix everything together.
- Refrigerate until chilled.
Fennel salad
- 1 Fennel
- Some red onion slices
- 1 tbsp of fennel seed
- 1 lemon
- 2 tbsp of vinegar
- some salt
- 2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil
- Slice Fennel into thin slices.
- Mix with lemon juice, vinegar. fennel seed, salt and olive oil.
Enjoy!