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
