Eastern style Recipes

SEAFOOD RECIPES

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:50:00 +0800

Fish and mussel kebabs recipe

To create these succulent mini kebabs, marinated cubes of fish and fresh mussels are threaded onto skewers with a selection of colourful vegetables, then lightly grilled. They make an extra special hot nibble to hand round at a celebration party or present on a buffet table.

MAKES 16 KEBABS

Preparation time: 20 minutes, plus 1 hour marinating

Cooking time: about 10 minutes

Ingredients for fish and mussel kebabs

finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon

juice of 1 lime

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

2 teaspoons honey

1 clove garlic, crushed

1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano or marjoram

1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley

salt and pepper

200 g firm white fish fillet, cut into 16 small cubes

16 shelled fresh mussels, about 125 g in total

1 small yellow capsicum, seeded and cut into 16 small chunks

1 zucchini, cut into 16 thin slices

16 cherry tomatoes

lime or lemon wedges to garnish

Preparation for fish and mussel kebabs

1 Put the lemon zest and juice, lime juice, oil, honey, garlic, chopped oregano or marjoram, parsley, and salt and pepper to taste in a shallow non-metallic dish. Whisk together, then add the fish cubes and mussels. Turn the seafood to coat all over with the marinade. Cover and marinate in the fridge for 1 hour.

2 Meanwhile, put 16 wooden skewers in warm water and leave to soak for 10 minutes. Drain. Preheat the grill to moderately high.

3 Onto each skewer, thread 1 cube of fish, 1 mussel, 1 piece of capsicum, 1 slice of zucchini and a cherry tomato. (Reserve the marinade.) Leave the ends of the skewers empty so they will be easy to hold.

4 Place the kebabs on a rack in the grill pan and grill for 8–10 minutes, or until the fish is cooked and the vegetables are just tender, turning occasionally and brushing frequently with the marinade. Serve hot, garnished with lime or lemon wedges.

Each kebab provides 126 kJ, 30 kcal, 3 g protein, 1 g fat (0.1 g saturated fat), 2 g carbohydrate (2 g sugars), 0.5 g fibre.

Health tip

Mussels provide several minerals, in particular iron, zinc, copper and iodine. They are also an extremely good source of vitamin B12, needed for the maintenance of a healthy nervous system.

Indonesian Food

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 5 Mar 2012 04:59:00 +0800

Indonesia's 17,508 islands have attracted traders, pirates, and adventurers from all over the world throughout its history. Located among ancient trading routes and rich with botanical resources, these remote islands quickly became a global interest. Spices were valued not only for their flavor, but also for their ability to disguise spoiled foods, freshen breath, and remedy health problems. Though eastern Indonesia's "Spice Islands" received most of the attention, the country's cuisine, as a whole, developed largely as a result of spice-seeking immigrants.

Rice, the country's staple food, dates back as early as 2300 B.C. Ancient meals consisted of fish, fruits, and vegetables, including bananas, yams, coconut, and sugar cane. Trade with the Chinese, which

first began around 2000 B.C., influenced Indonesian cuisine and is still evident through the use of tea, noodles, cabbage, mustard, soybeans, and the method of stir-frying. The Chinese dish, nasi goreng (fried rice), is one of Indonesia's national dishes.

By 100 A.D., curries (spicy sauces), cucumbers, onions, mangoes, and eggplant were brought over by traders and Hindu missionaries from India. Ginger, cumin, cardamom, coriander, and fennel were also introduced, adding to the wide variety of spices. Around the 1400s, Muslims from the Middle East began incorporating goat and lamb dishes into the Indonesian diet, as well as yogurt-based sauces (though coconut milk is now used in its place).

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to significantly affect Indonesian cuisine. They took control of trade routes to and from the islands, bringing with them cassava (a tropical root crop) and sweet potatoes. Cauliflower, cabbage, and turnips were brought to the islands about a century later by the powerful Dutch East Indies Company, which gained control of the trading routes. Though the Spanish contributed peanuts, tomatoes, corn, and the widely popular chili pepper, they were unable to defeat the Dutch, who ruled until the mid-1900s.

Thai Food Recipes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 11 May 2011 21:19:00 +0800

Thai food recipes are perfect for the busy cook, or those who are new to cooking thai food.
Stir-frying is a wonderful way to cook, as it allows all of the nutrients to remain in the pan. And thai stir-fries are among the best in the world - flavorful, fresh, and zinging with taste. Give one of these delicious stir fry recipes a try for dinner tonight.
Thai food recipes are quite straightforward (provided you can get the proper ingredients or suitable substitutes. " although many thai ingredients may be difficult to obtain outside of thailand, many recipes indicate substitutes and with some experimentation you may find a creative substitute that makes the dish a unique creation of your own. " armed with the ingredients and a recipe, the only other things you should have are the proper instruments, such as a wok and a mortar and pestle
You just have to type in your keywords and thousands of recipes will be available for you in minutes. You will find a lot of recipes online from different countries, you just have to make a selection which you would like to try out. Reviews are also available for additional information. Thai food recipes are available on the internet and these recipes are often easy enough to make. The ingredients are listed and if they are called differently, you can simply make a google search to find their english meaning and surely it is now a lot easier for you to find what you need. You will find different thai food recipes online from those that are easy to make and those for advanced cooking. Of course, depending on your culinary skills, it is still best to start making those easy ones. You can first try out the tom yum soup or the thai cucumber salad. You can also try the thai red curry chicken, heavenly pineapple fried rice or the chicken pad thai noodles. Most of these thai food recipes are easy to make and requires little knowldge in the kitchen.
Romanian food recipes are very delicious and filling. 7 nights of easy food recipes for hungry, busy college students and other non-cooks.
Thai food recipes are a lot of fun for people that like to cook, and you can get used to them to your own tastes.
Thai food recipes are delicious and easy to make at home. My favorite thai food recipe is the vegetable pad thai but i also enjoy making other easy thai recipes.
â although many thai ingredients may be difficult to obtain outside of thailand, many recipes indicate substitutes and with some experimentation you may find a creative substitute that makes the dish a unique creation of your own. A armed with the ingredients and a recipe, the only other things you should have are the proper instruments, such as a wok and a mortar and pestle{if you wish to make your own chili paste or spicy salad.]
Thai food recipes are in the main pretty spicy, but balance is equally important. Influenced by the chinese and the curries of india, these recipes are truly an experience. Thailand food guide and the allure of thai street food. You can't compare eating thai dishes in your local restaurant to discovering it in its homeland.
Each dish should feature a blend of 4 fundamental elements: hot, sour, sweet, and salty. . Thai chicken recipes and thai cuisine in general are known for being at once spicy and delicate, featuring a number of fresh herbs and spices and a balance of hot, sour, sweet, and salty flavors..
Thai food recipes are lime juice, lemon juice and coriander. Thai people prefer strong flavors and curries are usually eaten in thai food recipes. Many of these dishes have a slight mix together of spices and coconut. The ingredients needed for home thai food recipes are easily available at supermarkets and stores. Salmon should appear on your menus often if you enjoy fish and would like to comprise the goodness of the omega 3 fatty acids that the fish have in them in abundance. Salmons are now very easily available in the markets and salmon recipes are easy to prepare too. Watch for sales on the whole fish when buying salmon. Then you can split the salmon into meal-sized portions. Flash chill them on a cookie sheet in the freezer and then bag the elements in freezer bags. There can be a number of salmon recipes that you can prepare which are not only healthy but very flavorful too

how to make SOTO MADURA

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 2 May 2011 01:05:00 +0800

Ingredients: 500 gr beef or internals, 100 gr bean sprouts, 80 gr rice noodles, 60 gr Indonesian parsley, 60 gr scallions, 60 gr ginger, 1 lime, salt and pepper.

Directions:

* Boil meat until done. Drain and cut into bite-sized slices.
* Remove the tails of bean sprouts, boil until half done
* Boil rice noodles separately
* Keep these in separate plates
* Cut Indonesian parsley and scallions
* Grind shallots, and brown it for a little bit
* Skin and cut ginger
* Make beef stock using beef bones boiled in water for about an hour. Remove bones, and put in salt, pepper, ginger, and shallots.
* Serve the soto by putting the beef, bean sprouts, noodles into a bowl. Pour soup into it.
* Sprinkle with Indonesian parsley and scallions.

Indonesian Soto Ayam Recipe (Chicken Noodle Soup)

Since discovering the taste of real Indonesian food at Java Spice in Rowland Heights, I have had no less than 5 Indonesian meals (eat-in, take-out, and home cooking included) in the last two weeks: dishes such as Ayam Kalasan, Soto Ayam, Gado-Gado, Nasi Goreng, and Sate.
This is not my first mad cuisine crush. I will spend an obsessive amount of time researching a new (to me) cuisine when I fall in love with it. I have been similarly smitten with Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Sichuan cuisines. So yes, I became a food stalker and searched everywhere for Indonesian recipes, food pictures, blogs, restaurants, and cookbooks.
It was like being back at school and Indonesian food was my graduate course. I burned the midnight oil for an Indonesian Food exam. I went to local libraries, Borders, Barnes & Noble’s religiously and holed up in the ethnic cookbooks section reading and ogling beautiful Indonesian cookbooks (unfortunately, there are only a handful of them!). I just have to cook Indonesian food in my kitchen, with my own hands, to satisfy and get over my current obsessive-compulsive behavior…
And before the restraining order goes into effect.
Finally I got myself the long list of ingredients and spent hours cooking up the following Soto Ayam.
I am never a huge fan of Soto Ayam in Malaysia but the Indonesian version of Soto Ayam won me over. To kick up the flavor of the traditional Soto Ayam, this variation is infused with coconut milk and more spices. In Indonesia , this dish is called Soto Resah. It tasted very good and my native Malaysian palate favors this more complex and richer rendition.

Recipe: Indonesian Soto Ayam
Ingredients:
1/2 chicken breast meat, skinless and deboned (cut into small cubes)
1 stalk of lemon grass (cut into 3 strips)
1 can of coconut milk
1 can of chicken broth
1 glass of water
Spice Paste:
1 teaspoon of coriander seeds
1 teaspoon of cumin seeds
4 shallots (chopped)
3 cloves of garlic (chopped)
2 pieces of turmeric (peeled and chopped) or 1 tablespoon of turmeric powder
2-inch piece of galangal (peeled and sliced)
2-inch piece of ginger (peeled and sliced)
1 tablespoon of fresh lime juice
Other ingredients:
2 cups of sliced cabbages
2 cups of bean sprouts
1/2 pack of vermicelli or 1 small package of glass noodles
2 limes, cut into wedges
2 hard-boiled eggs (cut into wedges)
1 stalk of spring onion (chopped)
Method:
Blend the spice paste in a food processor. Add some water if needed. Pour some oil in a pot and add in the spice paste. Stir the spice paste and wait for it to turn light brown. Add in chicken broth, coconut milk, lemon grass strips, and water. Once the broth starts boiling, add in chicken breast cubes. Cover the pot and lower the heat and simmer for 30 – 40 minutes. Add salt to taste.
Blanch beansprouts, pre-soaked vermicelli / glass noddles, cabbages in another pot of boiling water and transfer them into a bowl once they are cooked. Add in toppings of hard-boiled eggs, chopped spring onions and pour the hot chicken broth into the bowl. Serve hot with lime wedges.

EATING LIKE THE SPANISH

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 2 May 2011 00:04:00 +0800

Bored of cooking every day the same meals, the same recipes, and want to try something different and exotic?

You can choose any culture, any country you want and you will find specific traditional food for each and every one of them. But there is something different about the way the Spanish cook, they just make food enjoying it and this is what matters and offers such tasty results.

First of all you have to know Spanish people like to eat a lot of eggs. But they never, or almost never, eat boiled eggs like we do. The traditional egg preparation method is to scramble them and fry them, obtaining a delicious omlette with potatoes and lots of onions added in the frying pan. The Spanish tortilla, as it is called is an exceptional and nutritional way to feed your family for lunch.

Another wonderful dish is the paella. The paella means that you will pretty much throw in the frying pan everything you have in your fridge. Everything that goes with each other, of course. The base for the paella is usually obtained out of boiled chicken wings of legs and to it we will add vegetables assorted to our taste. It is important that we fry everything together in olive oil for a better taste. We can even add fruits in the pan and after everything is done, just a minute before turning off the fire, we pour in the pan an assorted natural juice or liqueur or wine, whatever we want as long as we think we will like it. And the result will be an absolutely extraordinary dish made to fit our every taste and desire.

Spanish deserts are often a dream, but they can be rather difficult to prepare and they usually contain lots of calories. Spanish cooking in generally is for people that really have time to spend in the kitchen and enjoy doing it. Most Spanish dishes take a log time to complete and a regular Spanish meal can require up to 3 or even 4 dishes to serve.

If you are willing to try but don’t really have that much time on your hand them you can just go to a Spanish restaurant near you an d see for a change how Spanish people eat. But if you experience weight problems you must be careful on how much you eat, Spanish food can be addictive and it contains many calories to give you lots of benefic energy.

Nasi Lemak- Famous and Tasty

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:04:00 +0800

Nasi lemak is Malaysian Coconut Milk Rice with Anchovies Sambal. Nasi Lemak is one of the favourite foods of any Malaysian and there is no doubt about that. Tourism of Malaysia has recognized "Nasi Lemak" as the National dish. A national heritage of Malaysia consume by all races. Even though it is a Malay dish, but it is so popular that the Chinese and Indian also have their own version of Nasi Lemak. Nasi Lemak is wrapped in banana leaf and served as breakfast.

You are able to buy Nasi Lemak almost everywhere in Malaysia. Today, Nasi Lemak is available throughout the day for breakfast, lunch, dinner and even supper. Nasi Lemak can be easily found in any restaurants and roadside stalls. The price of Nasi Lemak in Malaysia starts from RM0.50 to RM5.00 per packet.

So, what is Malaysian Nasi Lemak and why it is so addictive for Malaysian? Generally, basic "Nasi Lemak" just only combination of rice, coconut cream, salt to taste and screw pine leave, ginger or a stalk of lemon grass for fragrance and served with good spicy sambal. This comes as a platter with cucumber slices, small dried anchovies (Ikan Bilis). Prefer head off and cleaned, deep fried and roasted skin-on peanuts.

Nowadays, besides the basic components for Nasi Lemak, you can also add on with some luxury choices of varieties side dishes like fried chicken, chicken rendang, tender beef, crispy fried cuttlefish or prawn. For those who are vegetarian, there is vegetarian Nasi Lemak that comes with spicy sambal, vegetarian mutton, cucumber, fried crispy tofu and fried peanuts.

Nasi Lemak is so popular that Malaysian airlines like Malaysian Airlines and Air Asia also have their own version of Nasi Lemak. It does take great effort to redesign a dish that is so popular to Malaysian and yet you want to introduce to those who is going to taste it for the very first time. It has to look attractive, not too spicy and maintain the quality and standard of the food. So the next round when you travel by Malaysian Airlines or Air Asia, don’t forget to try out their version of Nasi Lemak. It might taste better at 39, 000 feet on air.Recently, The Ministry of Tourism has launched its ‘Fabulous Food 1Malaysia Trail 2009’ booklet featuring ten best and must try food in three different categories – nasi lemak, laksa and Bak Kut Teh (meat bone tea). Tourist can use this food guide to go around Malaysia and try all the must eat food in Malaysia especially the best Nasi Lemak. You can also find out how to cook Nasi Lemak and design your own Nasi Lemak recipes.

History Behind Cake Making Course

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:04:00 +0800

This definitive Cake Making Course sprung to life after constant requests from my family and friends wanting me to show them how to bake the same cakes I used to make for them. To show everyone wanting to learn, I soon realised that I would be baking cakes every day and night... I love baking cakes, but I do have a life outside of the kitchen! So, I went searching for a better solution. A friend then asked me if I had thought of using the Internet to teach people, and then I knew that that was the only way... you see, what better way to let friends now living overseas bake the cakes I used to make for them.
Cake Making Course was then born!
If you love to bake, or ever wanted to learn how to make delicious cakes that your friends and families will love GUARANTEED, then this course is definitely for you. It cannot be easier, as I show you every minute of the process!
MANDDY PEARSON

Uniquely indian food

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:34:00 +0800

THE UNIQUE INDIAN FOOD
Around the world, every person had a special thoughts regarding Indian food. This India food is so much interesting and sophisticated food in world wide. If you are very much savvy about food, then the Indian food is right choice for your. The flavor in India food is passionate and the spices are so rich. If you come from western part of globe or eastern part of the globe, no matter all kind of people are so much interested in India cuisine.
The India restaurants around the world are providing the delicious food recipes and tasting the world. If you want to prepare these foods, you must have all the local spices from the subcontinent. Some people around the Indian country are ordering their recipes from restaurants rather than making. Some times it is good, because preparing these recipes are hectic work to do. Especially preparing the ingredients for goof is quite a rough to do.
However, the truth is preparing Indian recipes are so easy when you compare with other countries recipes. For preparing Indian food you need not be an expert in recipes or big hardcore fan. The Indian spices will create your delicious food what you expected. You can find an alternate method for Indian passion of cooking every time.
In Indian cooking you will observe that basic ingredients are essential to prepare recipes, please make sure that you have all the basic ingredients with you while preparing this food. Red Onions are one of basic ingredients in Indian recipes. This ingredient will create exotic taste you food. And Ginger, Garlic and Green chilies are other basic ingredients. If you are interested about taste, you need to add some coriander leaves to the food. These important ingredients will give an enormous taste to the Indian recipes.
The main ingredient, red chili powder, is used as the strongest spice in preparations. And in some area around the country are using various spices like coriander seeds, cardamom and cumin seeds black pepper to add taste to the flavor.
Preparing the Indian food in your home is not a hectic issue, if you have these ingredients with you. You can plant these trees around you home.