Another Quick Recipe

This is another one of my novel creations borne out of sheer desperation to cook just one dish and have everything inside instead of 3 separate dishes. It goes well with porridge or just steamed rice. For carnivores, you can add in marinated chicken breast cubes or sliced lean pork to replace the tau kwar. I read in a recipe book that bean products are the best vegetarian protein that can be found so consume at least one serving of bean products (beancurd, toufu, bean cakes) a day if you're not a meat lover.

Mixed Vegetables with Tau Kwar (Beancurd)


Ingredients

1 medium sized piece of tau kwar cut into rectangular cubes
1 packet of french beans cut into 3cm lengths
1 packet of baby corn (fresh, not the canned versions)
4-5 fresh white button mushrooms (or fresh shitake)
1 carrot cut into 3cm lengths
finely chopped garlic
a dash of olive oil/canola oil


Method

1. Heat up the skillet over a hot fire, then add olive or canola oil & some fine salt
2. Add in the tau kwar cubes to fry till slightly golden on one side then flip over to the other side to repeat
3. Remove from pan and drain over paper towel
4. Add the finely chopped garlic and stir
5. Add in the french beans, carrot, mushroom and baby corn
6. Stir and then add some water
7. Cover the skillet, add additional salt if necessary (remember that there is some leftover salt in the pan after frying the tau kwar)
8. Add in the fried tau kwar cubes
9. Keep the cover on and leave for about 8 minutes
10. Serve hot