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| Asian Savory Spaghetti served in one of my favorite childhood vintage enameled tin plates |
Cooking is an 'adventure' for me where I can explore as far as I like to. There's a zillion of recipes to experiment with and so many ingredients and spices to explore. In the end you can always come up to something that fits your standard and appetite. Your own recipe!
However, I have a big issue. I hate to spend tons of money shopping ingredients just to learn or cook one new recipe and not sure of when I will be using the leftover ingredients! Instead, I like to invent my own recipes with ingredients I have in my fridge! I'm sure some of you can identify with it! :-)
So this morning, again, I am making breakfast for my family. And today I'm going to make an 'East meets with the West' kind of recipe, of course with all the dry and fresh ingredients I have at home and in the fridge! Yay!!
It's a fried spaghetti and I call it "Asian Savory Spaghetti" because I'm using a couple of ingredients that are specifically from Asia and mostly used by the Chinese and Indians: Cumin powder and Bakwa (Chinese Sweet and Salty Pork Jerky). I am glad with the fact that I still have some more Bakwa in my freezer. It's just as good for fried rice and fried noodles as it is slightly fried with a little oil and served with steamed rice! So, let's start cooking!
Ingredients:
1 cup of Sugar Peas Pod, whole
1 cup of red/purple cabbage, shredded
2 cups of mixed-color Paprika/Bell Pepper (green, yellow, orange and red), chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
2-3 cloves of garlic, minced
10 hot red pepper
6 small spring onion
1-2 pieces of Bakwa, cubed
500 mg of Spaghetti
1/2 cup of vegetable oil or olive oil
11/2 Tbs of Cumin Powder
Salt
Water
How to:
1. Boil the spaghetti until all dente, set asside and continue to heat the oil in the skillet. Sauté garlic until brown and fragrant. Stir ini onion.
2. Then, add the hot pepper, Bakwa and Cumin Powder. Stir until the meat is slightly crisp and fragrant.
3). Put the cabbage and bell pepper.
4) Stir until slightly cooked.
5) Because sugar peas pod only takes a while to cook and best when it's still crunchy, make sure you add it after the other veggies are tender.
6) Add in the spaghetti and a little water to help making all the ingredients blended.
7) Sprinkle salt, adjust it to your own taste but make sure it's not over, so it won't overwhelm the taste of other ingredients. Stir until all ingredients are well blend.
8) Done!
