Japanese Cucumber (Cucumis sativus), Yau Char Kwai (Chinese Cruller) and Turnips (Sengkuang) Salad Recipe

This salad has all the ingredients that I love. It has a good mix of crunchy turnips and Japanese cucumber. Instead of topping it with the usual croutons, I used some of the leftover Yau Char Kwai (Chinese crullers) that I bought for breakfast. The Yau Char Kwai has already turned soft, so I fried it without oil at low heat in my non-stick pan to make it crispy again.

Ingredients
Japanese Cucumber, 1 pc, cut into bite size
Turnips, 1 small, cut into bite size
Tomato, 1 pc, cut into cubes
Yau Char Kwai, 1 pc, cut into 1cm width
Salad Dressing Thousand Island Salad Dressing, 5 tablespoons
Extra Virgin olive oil, 1 tablespoon
Cream Cheese (optional), 2 tablespoons, break into small pieces
A dash of pepper

Mix all the salad dressing ingredients thoroughly. Put Japanese cucumber, turnips and tomato in a salad bowl. Pour the dressing into the vegetables. Place the yau char kwai on top of the salad.

Cream Cheese Salad with Crouton Recipe

Cream cheese helps to enhance the flavours of a salad dish. I would add cream cheese to my salad dressing which consists of mainly lemon juice, honey, salt and pepper. Sometime, when I am a little lazy to prepare the salad dressing, I would just use Thousand Island salad dressing that I bought off the shelf. My daughter loves crouton, so I would make some using day old bread.

Ingredient
Cream Cheese, 2 tablespoons
Thousand Island Salad dressing or Mayonnaise, 3 tablespoons
Crouton from 2 slices of bread, spread with butter and toast in oven until crispy
Romaine Lettuce, 5 leaves, cut into thin strips
Tomato, 2 pcs, cut into bite sizes
Carrot, 1 pc, cut into thin strips
Onions, 1 pc, cut into rings
Corn, ½ cup, steamed until soft
Pepper, a dash

Combine cream cheese and Thousand Island salad dressing. Add a dash of pepper. Put the rest of the ingredients in a salad mixing bowl. Pour the salad dressing over the vegetables and mix well. Serve chilled.

Pineapple Sunflower Prawn Fritters Salad Recipe

This is the first time I tried roasting pineapple and I was not really sure how the taste would turn out to be. I was quite surprised to discover that roasted pineapple has nice aroma, is sweet and juicy as well. For a little crunchy texture, I added prawn fritters to the pineapple salad. Then I used some carrots as branches and lettuce as leafs for my pineapples sunflowers theme salad. I used a blue and white plate to give the dish a little contrast. After adding all the final touches to my Pineapple Sunflower Prawn Fritters Salad, it looked like an oil painting! LOL!
Ingredients
Pineapples, 5 pcs, cut into round shapes (Ray Flower)
Carrots, 1 pc, cut into strips and five into round shapes to decorate the flower (Disc Flower)
Lettuce, 4 to 5 small leaves
Sugar, 1 table spoons
 Olive oil, 2 table spoons
Pepper, a dash
Thousand Island Salad Dressing, 3 table spoons
Prawn Fritters, you can use this link to my prawns fritters recipe

Sprinkle the sugar on the pineapples. Add a dash of pepper and olive oil. Heat up oven to 200 Dec C and roast pineapple for around 5 minutes or until the sugar caramelised. Cut the pineapple into bite sizes and arrange them back into the round shape on a plate. Decorate the plate with the carrot, lettuce and prawn fritters as the flower bed. Put the thousand island salad dressing on the pineapple flowers and the whole dish.

Pomelo Raisins Salad

Pomelo (Citrus Maxima) is a fruit from the citrus family and it normally grows to a size of a soccer ball. The pomelo is a native fruit of South East Asia; also known as Limau Bali (Bahasa Malaysia & Indonesia), Buoi In (Vienamese), Som O (Thai), youzi (Chinese) and Suha (Tagalog, Philippines). I bought this pomelo from the market and it was a bit sour. Since it was not tasty there were some leftovers. I used it to make pomelo raisins salad. The pomelo taste good when mixed with raisins. Ingredients Pomelo, remove skin and break flesh into large chunks Raisins, 1 small box Thousand Island Salad Dressing or Mayonnaise Put the salad dressing onto the pomelo and raisins mixture. Mix well and serve. Pomelo fruit with outer skins removed. The pomelo and raisins salad

Simple Recipe - Chinese Crullers (Yau Char Kwai) with Cucumber Salad

Chinese crullers are made from flour and deep fried until crispy. It is normally eaten with porridge or Bak Kut Teh (Chinese Meat Herbal Soup). I have some leftovers crullers that I bought for breakfast and I used it as one of the ingredients for my salad. Ingredients 1) 1 pc Chinese Crullers (Yau Char Kwai) 2) 1 cucumber, cut into 4cmX1cm size 3) Thousand Island Salad Dressing or Mayonnaise. (Note: These salad dressing contain eggs, so if you a do not take eggs, please don’t use this dressing) If the Chinese Cruller is not crispy, just heat it up in oven at 150 Deg C for 15 minutes. Cut it into small pieces and let it cool down. Mix it with cucumber and add the salad dressing. For Chinese Crullers Recipe check out these links: http://chinesefood.about.com/od/desserts/r/crullers.htm http://foodcrazee.blogspot.com/2005/10/chinese-crullers.html