Hello! I’m terribly, terribly, terribly sorry for not posting the past 2 months. If you’ve been following my other blog, you’ll know that I’ve just had a baby.
Of course, I’ve also had my Mum cooking dinner almost every night thus I didn’t need to dig up recipes or slave in the kitchen for home-cooked food LOL
Anyway, my Chinese confinement lady (who is with me for 2 months) will be leaving soon. She has been an amazing woman – one because she’s a whiz at whipping up delicious dishes!
What’s more, she’s not selfish about sharing her recipes.
For lunch today, she cooked a simple fishball soup made of 100% fish, which Hubby mentioned growing up with because my mother-in-law is another super housewife.
This blog post is to record this simple but yummy recipe. I’m one of the most terrible housewives but I hope that I’ll be able to try this out some day because both Hubby and my boy love fishballs.
INGREDIENTS
3 medium sized tenggiri (Hokkien=beh kah) fish
1 bowl of salt water (with 1/2 tsp salt added)
1 tbs cornflour / tapioca flour
1 egg white
1 stalk spring onion
METHOD
1. Make fish fillet: Remove the fish from the bones. Using a spoon, scrape the fish off the skin to produce a plate of fish meat.
2. Put fish meat into a food processor to make fish paste. Add the salt water and the egg white to form a smooth paste as smooth as this:
(If you’re chopping the fish by hand, chop until the fish meat doesn’t stick to the cleaver. Add the salt water and egg white alternately and gradually. Mix the paste using a scoop-and-toss method until you get a smooth fish paste)
3. Form fishballs according to preferred size. Make chicken soup (boiling water with a chicken carcass). Put mustard leaves in and then add fishballs to the soup when bubbles rise.
Fishballs are cooked when they float to the top. Serve and watch everyone tuck in 
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Now I’m drooling… hmmm… not a good thing at 12 midnight
My MIL does this without the blender, just using the back of the knife to chop chop chop.. and good that she taught my maid how to do it.
Yums!
Boey Joey – Hahaha, midnight snacking is definitely a no-no hehehe
ZMM – 100% manual? *faints*