Baby Kailan In Pictures

Just to let some know, I love to cook at home. It's not to say that I'm great at cooking, but I can say that it's edible. At least there's no complaints so far from my wife. 2 nights ago, we went out to buy some Vegetables and some Chicken meats for dinner. What we bought were some eggplants and some Baby Kailans. I'n not sure what's it called in English though I'm pretty sure the baby part is in English. And while cooking, I decided to take some pictures to walk you through some of the steps in preparing the ingredients and cooking it. So, without further a due, here goes.


1. Ingredients.

4 piece of Garlic, 2 piece of Red Onions and some chillies (depending on taste. not compulsory). All Sliced.

And Not Forgetting 200gm of Baby Kailan!

2. Cooking.

1st off, we heat up the wok. To dry it up.

Then, Pour some roughly 1 ml of cooking oil and heat it up. Not too hot, or it will overcook the ingredients.

When the cooking oil is nice and hot, pour in the ingredients. And cook it till you can smell the onions and garlic cooking.

Then, put in the Baby Kailan. Stir it and mix it with the already cooking ingredients and then when you can start to smell the Kailan cooking, pour in about 1/2ml of hot/warm water to slow cook it and let the flavor seep into the Kailan. 

After that, add in 5-6ml of Oyster Sauce for the yummy oyster sauce flavor.

Then, give it a little taste, and if the flavor is not enough, just add in some Salt and Ajinomoto to add to the flavor. Then leave it to cook while keeping it closed for roughly 3-5 minutes. You don't want to cook it too long because then the Kailan would be soft and mushy. After 5 minutes, give it another taste test. And when the flavor is good enough FOR YOU, then, it's ready to be served! :D

A reminder though, the ingredients I've mentioned earlier are depending on your own taste. It's not by any means exact. And remember to have fun while you're cooking! :D I always do.

BJS