one bowl Lup Chong
February 18th 2007 03:23
One Bowl Rice and Lup Chong
With the necessity of one pot cooking on my boat I have found it easy to adapt as a student “living in” at the Maritime College by using the skills I found on board. At the college we have our evening meals cooked and provided as part of the rent we pay except on weekends. On weekends we can use a huge commercial kitchen in one of the other buildings, (which the staff sometimes forget to unlock, so I have adapted microwave recipes for one pot or bowl. We share a microwave between six men so we can’t be too fiddly with what we do. Everyone is trying to eat at more or less the sane time.
One bowl rice and Lup Chong.
Lup Chong is available amongst the Asian grocery sections of most supermarkets. It is a dried Chinese pork sausage. It is mostly fat and has a sweet smoky taste. It is dried similar to jerky and is sold in vacuum sealed bags and needs no refrigeration until opened. I use three sausages for a meal or one for a snack.
Set up your rice in a bowl covered by water. The water is going to be absorbed by the rice so you need about the same amount of water as the volume of rice plus a third again. Add salt and any stock if you have it at this stage. Set it on high in the microwave and when it begins to boil cover with a plate or something. Check after five minutes and the water should almost be absorbed. Loosely distribute the sliced Lup Chong over the rice along with some chopped Buck Choy or Chinese green vegetable. Cover and continue cooking another two or three minutes. The sausage only needs heating through and the vegetable will not take long if the steam from the rice is doing its job. Remove and eat. I like to use a little light soy sauce mixed with a couple of drops of sesame oil to put extra flavour in the rice and I am a sucker for also adding a table spoon of butter as my big belly will testify!
Breakfast eggs:
In a bowl ad some chopped cooked or processed meat such as Polish salami, ham or chicken. Half a chopped tomato then two eggs on top. Add some salt, pepper chopped dried oregano and half a cup of milk or better still cream. Mix it up with a fork and cook uncovered in the microwave for three minutes on about 750 or so. Each nuke is different. Stir to mix in the uncooked mixture and cook on for another one and a half minutes (or so). I cook this in a large soup bowl and so there is just the one bowl to wash up!
Bon Appetit!
With the necessity of one pot cooking on my boat I have found it easy to adapt as a student “living in” at the Maritime College by using the skills I found on board. At the college we have our evening meals cooked and provided as part of the rent we pay except on weekends. On weekends we can use a huge commercial kitchen in one of the other buildings, (which the staff sometimes forget to unlock, so I have adapted microwave recipes for one pot or bowl. We share a microwave between six men so we can’t be too fiddly with what we do. Everyone is trying to eat at more or less the sane time.
One bowl rice and Lup Chong.
Lup Chong is available amongst the Asian grocery sections of most supermarkets. It is a dried Chinese pork sausage. It is mostly fat and has a sweet smoky taste. It is dried similar to jerky and is sold in vacuum sealed bags and needs no refrigeration until opened. I use three sausages for a meal or one for a snack.
Set up your rice in a bowl covered by water. The water is going to be absorbed by the rice so you need about the same amount of water as the volume of rice plus a third again. Add salt and any stock if you have it at this stage. Set it on high in the microwave and when it begins to boil cover with a plate or something. Check after five minutes and the water should almost be absorbed. Loosely distribute the sliced Lup Chong over the rice along with some chopped Buck Choy or Chinese green vegetable. Cover and continue cooking another two or three minutes. The sausage only needs heating through and the vegetable will not take long if the steam from the rice is doing its job. Remove and eat. I like to use a little light soy sauce mixed with a couple of drops of sesame oil to put extra flavour in the rice and I am a sucker for also adding a table spoon of butter as my big belly will testify!
Breakfast eggs:
In a bowl ad some chopped cooked or processed meat such as Polish salami, ham or chicken. Half a chopped tomato then two eggs on top. Add some salt, pepper chopped dried oregano and half a cup of milk or better still cream. Mix it up with a fork and cook uncovered in the microwave for three minutes on about 750 or so. Each nuke is different. Stir to mix in the uncooked mixture and cook on for another one and a half minutes (or so). I cook this in a large soup bowl and so there is just the one bowl to wash up!
Bon Appetit!
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