Steamed broccoli

Ingredients:

1 bunch of broccoli

Method:

1) Rinse out well the broccoli, and cut into small, bite-size florets. Cut off the stem and peel off the thick skin around the stem. Quarter or halve the stem lengthwise.

2) Soak them in the water until you are ready to placed them into the food steamer.

The broccoli is now ready to be placed into the food steamer. Steam about 20 min.

Note:

1) You may choose to add salt, butter, pepper, olive oil to the broccoli. But I prefer it to be plain.

Steamed Prawn

Ingredients:

10-15 pieces of medium size of prawn (you can add more/less)

4-5 slices of garlic (smashed and chopped to small pieces)

1 teaspoon of brown sugar

1 tablespoon rice wine

3 tablespoon of soy sauce

salt and pepper to taste

Method:

1) Trim and wash the prawns. Arrange prawns nicely in a medium size porcelain/glass/stainless steel bowl (as long as it can fit your food steamer rack)

2) Season the prawns with salt, pepper, soy sauce and rice wine

3) Sprinkle the brown sugar on top of the prawns (just to enhance the sweetness of the prawn).

4) Top the prawns with the chopped garlic evenly.

The prawns are now ready to be placed inside the food steamer. Steam for about 20 min.

Steamed Fish Grouper (Kerapu)

Ingredients:

1 x grouper fish (about 400g)

3 inches ginger (peeled and cut into thin pieces)

1 tablespoon of rice wine

4 tablespoon of light soy sauce

salt and pepper to taste

Method:

1) Clean the fish (remove scales, gills, guts, etc). Rub the fish with some flour for a few minutes to remove the strong fish smell. Then washed the flour off from the fish with water.

2) Season the fish with salt and pepper.

3) Place the fish into a semi folded aluminium foil.

4) Pour the soy sauce and rice wine on top of the fish.

5) Top the fish with the cut ginger.

The fish is now ready to be placed onto the food steamer. Always ensure that fish/meat is placed below other type of food (e.g. vegetables). Steam it for 15-20 min.

Note:

1) I didn't preheat the water in the water container. Therefore, although fish can cook roughly between 1-15 min, I gave some 5 min time allowance with this food steamer.

2) I placed the fish on the bottom rack, followed by the prawn, and broccoli on the top rack.