Caramelized Succulent Asian Rib Stew With Egg Photo Recipe

Estimated per serving cost $1.50

Hello my Socialites! Today's delicious hearty recipe is an Asian caramelized rib stew that is cooked in brown sugar. This is a simple but yet succulent tender dish. This dish is similar to neighboring SEA countries as well and just as delicious! Lao tradition make this type of stew with pork fat and skin along with the meat but I am out of pork so I found family style boneless ribs in the freezer instead. It's perfect for someone starting out and don't want a lot of pork fat in their diet since this dish is caramelized in sugar anyway. 

The key in this dish is perfecting the caramelizing because it is so easy to burn the pan quickly if you are not attentive. Serve this with any type of rice. I prefer mine with sticky rice. This is a great dish for a pot luck or a gathering. This is my own take on a sweet Asian dish and it's very easy on your wallet! Let's get started! 

Ingredients (Serving 4)

• 2 tbsp oyster sauce
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1/4 cup of fish sauce
• 2 tbsp garlic minced
• 1 tbsp black pepper
• 2 or 3 tbsp slices of ginger
• 2 lb of family style boneless ribs
• 1/4 cup brown sugar or sugar if you don't have brown sugar
• 2 or 3 tbsp cooking oil

Garnishments

• Chopped cilantro
• Chopped scallions

Step by step photo instructions below. Enjoy!

Boil 4 eggs for 12 minutes. Rinse and leave in cold water and then peel eggs. Set aside until later.

Get ingredients ready

Cube boneless ribs into pieces

Combine oyster sauce, soy sauce, fish sauce, garlic, and black pepper into cube ribs in bowl.  Mix well with hand.

Heat up medium pan with cooking oil. After it's nice and hot, add brown sugar in pan. Stir and making sure heat is low to medium. Let it caramelize. If it's too hot it will burn.

Now add the meat mixture in and stir for a minute.

Now add the ginger in and stir.

Stir until the meat is brown but not all the way cook. Browning should only take 2 minutes after ginger is added in.

This is how it should be browning.

Now add at least  4 cups of water into the pot

Stir for a few seconds

Now place lid on the pot and reduce heat to low/medium for 10 minutes.

Place peeled boiled eggs into the pot and gentle stir to coat eggs in juice. Place lid of pot back on and let it cook for an0ther 15 or 20 minutes in low heat

Garnish

Serve with white rice. Enjoy!

5 Minute Asian Style Omelet For Any Time of Day

Estimated cost per serving $1.50 including homemade pork sausage. So without the sausage this serving only costs $.50

Hello my Socialites! Today's dish is an easy breezy Asian Style omelet that will take less than five minutes to cook. I went back to all my previous recipe posts and included an estimated cost per serving for each recipe to remind you that it doesn't have to be expensive to eat, cook, or entertain guests. The goal of this blog is to help you find creative ways to live inexpensively without compromising your budget, your eating,  your style, and your entertainment.

The recipe below is only the omelet and the pepper sauce. I made the Asian pork sausage a month ago and froze it. I will post a recipe for the homemade sausage in a later post when I am out of the frozen ones that I stored so I can document a step by step photo recipe for you. Let me know how it goes! Enjoy!

Ingredients for Omelet

• 2 Eggs
• 1 or 2 tbsp Chopped Cilantro
• 1 or 2 tbsp Chopped Scallion
• 1 Clove minced Garlic
• Dash of Msg
• 2 tbsp Fish Sauce
• Dash of Black Pepper
• 1 tbsp oil for cooking

Ingredients for Pepper Sauce

• 3 Chopped Thai Peppers
• Chopped Cilantro
• Chopped Scallion
• 3 tbsp Fish Sauce

Step by step photo recipe below

Heat frying pan in 1 tbsp oil.
Crack two eggs in bowl. Add chop garlic, cilantro, scallions, black pepper , fish sauce, and msg. Whisk well.

Add egg mixture in heated pan on med/high heat. Leave it cooking for 2 minutes.

Then flip with a spatula and let it cook for 2 minutes. Turn off stove. I heated my sausage up with the same pan that is why you notice dark marks in the middle of the omelet.

Now chop up the Thai peppers. Mix it in fish sauce, cilantro, and scallions. Set aside. Now cut up omelet to your preference. 

I eat this meal with sticky rice. I will show you how to cook sticky rice in a later post.

I will also show you how to make homemade pork sausage in a later post as well.

Enjoy!

Never Eat Ramen Noodles Ever Again With My 12 Minute Noodle Photo Recipe Series

Estimated serving cost $1.50 for a bowl full of food.

Hello my Socialites! I know many of you have eaten ramen instant noodles during your college years or even after college when you were poor or living out on your own and not knowing how a stove works. I just can't believe that Maruchan is America's top selling ramen noodle soup brand. It produces over 3.6 billion packages a year.  Personally I find it disgusting and tried it once in my life and never again. I've been so poor for so long but I still would not think to actually get into my car and go to the grocery store to pick up ramen noodles to survive off of. There are cheaper yet better ways to eat better than ramen noodles. I'm not knocking anyone who loves it but for those who rather find a more fulfilling alternative, I got it for you. No one has told you about Mama noodles. It comes in different flavors such as chicken, shrimp, and beef . They even have different styles of noodles such as Tom Young Gonng and Pho soup. I stick to the regular flavored pork soup. You can buy it individually for as cheap as ramen noodles or you can buy it in a box for like $7 at your local Asian Market. The box lasts you for at least a month. 

So I am going to do a series of Mama noodles creation for you and this is the first. I promise it taste nothing like ramen instant noodles. It is hearty and just one package is plentiful for one person. I used to make this all the time for my friends. I will be showing you in my upcoming series how to cook Mama noodles in different ways that is fast and easy and delicious! Remember, you can always substitute different vegetables or proteins. Cooking is not about following a recipe that someone gave you to the exact ingredients and measurements. It's about being inspired to put your creative skills to use and make do with what you have in your pantry. You might end up creating something better or totally different! Let me know how this worked out for you! See step by step photo instructions below~ Enjoy!!

Ingredients:

• Chopped Celery
• Shredded Cabbage
• Sliced or julienne Cucumbers
• Sliced Carrots
• Chopped Cilantro
• Sliced of Lime
• Chopped Jalapeno Pepper
• Sliced Polish Sausage
• 1 Egg
• 2 tbsp Fish Sauce
• 1 tbsp Oyster Sauce
• Sriracha Sauce for spice
• Packaged of Mama Pork Flavor Instant Noodles

Step by Step Photo Recipe

Step 1: Chop cabbage, celery, cucumbers, scallions, cilantro, jalapeno peppers, carrots, and sausage up.
Step2: Boil 3 cups of water  in a small pot and throw in carrots and an egg for 10 minutes. Remove boil egg and place in cold water. Do not turn off the pot. Peel the boiled egg and slice and set aside.  *When boiling egg, don't overcook it. 10 minutes is perfect.

Open the Mama noodles. It contains the noodle and 3 small season package. There is a pepper package attached to the bigger size dried seasoned package at the bottom right of this picture. If you don't want red peppers in your noodles, leave it out of the equation. Open the the 3 seasoned package and place contents in boiling pot. Put two dashes of fish sauce and a dash of oyster sauce in pot as well. Now add the polish sausage in the pot. Break the uncooked noodles in half and then place in pot. Let noodles soften and break down and stir. After you put the noodles in the boiling water, it will only take two minutes to cook. Turn off the stove.

Now pour the noodles  in a bowl and place the vegetables and eggs on top. Garnish with a slice of lime on the side. Add Sriracha chili sauce if you want it spicier.

Now mix the vegetables up with the noodles. Taste to see if you need more fish sauce or chili sauce.

Enjoy!