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!

My Laotian Egg Rolls Photo Recipe For Your Next Party

Estimated cost per serving $.25 per eggroll

Hello my Socialites! Eggrolls are a traditional appetizer in our culture. I am not much of a fan of eggrolls at Chinese restaurants because it's bland and they are never generous on the meat. Usually I just end up with a big chunk of fried cabbage and oil. Our Lao eggrolls are tasty and full of generous portions of variety of ingredients. Every Asian culture makes their eggrolls differently but the concept is basically the same. Yes, no two household will ever make the exact same egg rolls. I used ground pork in this recipe but you can always substitute it with ground chicken or veal if you prefer.  This is a great party appetizer for your guests. I hope you experiment and let me know how it goes! Enjoy!


Vegetable Mixture Ingredients: Makes around 50 eggrolls

• 2  cups Carrots shredded
• 2 cups Cabbage shredded
• 2 cups Onions chopped
• 1 cup Shittake mushrooms chopped (optional. I didn't use any in this recipe bc I was out of mushrooms)
• 1 package Vermicelli Cellophane Noodles soaked in hot water and then cut into 2 or 3 inch long.

Pork Mixture: (combine below ingredients)

• 2 lb Ground Pork
• 8 eggs
• 2 tbsp Salt and Pepper
• 2 tbsp MSG
• 2 tbsp fish sauce 
• 2 tbsp of oyster sauce 
• 3 Garlic cloves finely minced
• 1 tbsp ginger powder (optional)

For Rolling Mixture

• 2 package Spring roll  wrapper shell (comes in sheet of 25) It comes frozen so thaw at room temperature before attempting to fill and roll.
• 1 egg for sealing the ends 
• Vegetable oil for frying

* *You can make these and freeze it to use later for parties or to give away to friends. When you do decide to freeze it for later use, do not defrost the egg rolls. Just cook it in oil in high heat and add extra time for it to cook.

Step by Step Photo Instructions. Now let's get started!

 *Pardon my mom's bad manicure. Looks a lot better than mine if I were the hand model in these pictures! I hate rolling egg rolls.