SOUP

French Onion Soup

Ingredient:

1/2 cup                        Unsalted butter

4 num              onions, sliced

2 cloves           garlic

2 num              bay leaves

2 num              thyme

3 tbsp               all-purpose flour

¼ cup               Beef broth

1 num              sliced baguette

How to make French Onion Soup:

1.         Melt the stick of butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onion, garlic, bay leaves, thyme, and salt and pepper and cook until the onions are very soft and caramelized, about 25 minutes.

2.         Discard the bay leaves and thyme springs. Dust the onions with the flour and give them stir. Turn the heat down t medium low so the flour doesn’t burn, and cook for 10 minutes to cook out the raw flour taste.

3.         Now add beef broth, bring the soup back to a simmer, and cook for 10 minutes. Season to taste, with salt and pepper.

4.         When you’re ready to heat, preheat the broiler. Arrange the baguette slices on a baking sheet in a single layer. Sprinkle the slices with the Gruyere and broil until bubbly and golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes.

5.         Ladle the soup in bowls, top each with 2 slices of bread and top with cheese. Put into the oven to toast the bread and melt the cheese.

Cream of Mushroom with Garlic Bread

Cream of Mushroom ingredient:

400gm             Sliced button mushroom

20gm               Butter

40gm               Chopped onion

40gm               Sliced leeks

25gm               flour

1 liter               white stock

20ml                Fresh milk

Tt                     salt and white pepper

How to make cream of mushroom:

1.         gently cook the onions and leek in the butter.

2.         add in the mushroom and stir well.

3.         add in white stock and bring it boil.

4.         add in milk and season the soup, and blend all together to make it cream.

5.         after cream the soup, strain using maslin cloth and bring back the liquid to heat and add some cream to thicken a bit.

6.         Serves soup with Garlic Bread.

Garlic Bread ingredients:

5 slices             baguette

2 cloves           garlic

50gm               butter

10gm               chopped parsley

How to make Garlic bread:

1.         Preheat the oven at 180oc .

2. mix together garlic, butter and chopped parsley in a bowl.

3. season it with salt and pepper if necessary.

4. spread on top of the slices baguette.

5. bake the baguette about 5 – 10 minutes until it becomes crispy.

EASTERN RECIPE

Oxtail Soup

Ingredients :             :

500 gm                 Oxtail                                                  

2 lit                       Water                          

500 gm                 Mirepoix

3 gm                     Cumin Powder

5 gm                     Coriander  Powder

1 num                   Bouqet Garni

2 pcs                     Kaffir Lime Leaf

5 num                   Lime (for juice)

3 num                   Crushed Garlic

3 cm                     Crushed Ginger

6 num                   Crushed Lemongrass

10 pcs                   Crushed Bird Eye Chili

2 num                   Sliced Onion

1 stalk                   Sliced Celery

1 num                   Wedges Tomato

As needed             Fried Shallot

As needed            Spring Onion

Methods:

1. Heat the oils and saute’ cumin powder and coriander powder until fragrant.

2. After that,put a water,oxtail,mirepoix and bouquet garni and bring it to boil.

3. After boil,slow the temperature and simmer until the oxtail become tender.

4. After that,strain the stock.Just take the oxtail and stock.

5. Put stock and oxtail in the same pot,let it simmer again for a few minutes.

6. Add in kaffir lime leaves,lime juice,garlic,ginger,lemongrass,bird eye chili and      

    onion.Simmer for 10 minutes.

7. Put celery and tomatoes.Season and ready to serve.

8. Garnish with slices of spring onion and fried shallot.

Seafood Tomyam

Tomyam Ingredient:

5 nos                Mussels

2 nos                Squid

3 nos                Lemon grass

5 cm                galangal (blend)

3 cloves           Garlic (blend)

10 nos              bird eye chilli (blend)

1 nos                onion (blend)

1 nos                tomato

30gm               coriander leaves

10 pcs              kaffir lime leaf

100 gm            floret cauliflower

½ num             Rondelle carrot

100 gm            oyster mushroom

300 gm            Tomyam Paste

1 liter               Water

100 ml             lime juice

2 nos                fresh lime juice

2 stalk              celery

2 tbsp              fish sauce

2-3 tbsp           evaporated milk

Tt                     salt , sugar

How to make Seafood Tomyam:

1.                  Saute Tomyam paste and blend ingredients until fragrant.

2.                  Bring the water to the boil in a pan over a high heat

 3.                  Add the chillies, coriander root and galangal and brew for a minute or so on a high-heat.

4.                  Add the chilli paste, fish sauce and lime juice and stir for a minute

5.                  Add the prawns, mussels and squid and cook on a high heat until the they are cooked through.

6.                  Add celery, tomato and seasoning and taste.

7.                  Plate up and serve in a hearty-sized bowl