Nunu's Kitchen - Come into my parlour...

Curious about what dinner at my house is like? read on. Excuse the disgusting colour of my veggies, they were from the day before xD

Beer and garlic mussels

You will need:

• 500g Frozen or fresh cleaned mussels
• 3/4 cup beer
• Dash of Tobasco sauce or however much you want depending on your tolerance.
• 2 cloves of garlic - minced
• 1/2 tsp salt
• Pinch of dried chilli flakes depending on tolerance
• Small bunch of fresh coriander - finely chopped

Le Methode:

• Mix together the beer, Tobasco, garlic, salt, and chilli flakes.
• Heat up a sauce pan, throw in your mussels.
• Pour the beer mixture over the mussels.
• Cover pan with lid, cook for 4-5 minutes or until mussels begin to open and turn opaque.
• Sprinkle with coriander and serve with the juices.

Cream corn soup

You will need:

• 1 can cream style corn
• equal parts water to cream corn
• Approx 70g chicken breast - diced into small cubes
• 1 small piece of fresh ginger approx 1" in size - julienned
• 1 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp vegetable oil
• 1 tsp corn starch
• 1 egg - lightly beaten
• 1 stalk green onion - finely minced
• OPTIONAL: mushrooms or other veggies

Le Methode:

• Mix together soy sauce, salt, sugar, sugar, oil, ginger, and corn starch to make a marinade. Add your diced chicken to this marinade. Allow to sit for 15-20mins.
• Empty cream corn into pot, add equal parts water.
• Once the cream corn begins to boil, add the chicken including its marinade.
• Once soup returns to boil, turn heat down to low, allow to simmer for 5 minutes or until chicken is cooked.
• Take pot off heat, add beaten egg and green onion. Stir.

Black Bean Steamed Cod

You will need:

• 1lb Black Cod steak
• 1tbsp preserved black bean
• 2 cloves garlic - minced
• 1" piece of fresh ginger - minced
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tsp vegetable oil
• 1 tsp corn starch

Le Methode:

• Clean and pat dry cod. Rub with corn starch and set aside in a heat resistant dish.
• Mix together preserved black bean, minced garlic, minced ginger, and oil.
• In a wok with heat on high, sauté the black bean mixture until garlic becomes fragrant.

• Coat cod thoroughly with the sautéed black bean mixture
• Steam the cod for approx 10mins or until cod is fully cooked.

• Remove cod from steamer, pour out excess juices, pour soy sauce over cod.

And that is how dinner is served at La Chez Nunu