The Indonesian Kitchen

Fettucine A La Indonesian Cook

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:33:00 -0700

celery made this so tasty

In Indonesia there is a dish called "Mie goreng" and in Malaysia it is called "Mee goreng". Both are almost from the same ingredients. Mie / Mee goreng literally means fried noodles (imagine Nasi Goreng or Fried Rice). Here I am going to cook Mie / Mee goreng but I am replacing Mie/Mee/Noodle with Fettucine ... so it is like a different cultures marriage ... he he he

Ingredients
200 Grams Fettucine, cook according to the package instruction, set aside
2 Garlic cloves, finely chopped
Salt to taste
1/2 Teaspoon white powder pepper
1 Tablespoon Finely chopped celery
1 Tablespoon butter / margarine / cooking oil to saute.
1 Sausage, cut into whatever size you want
1/2 Teaspoon sugar (just to taste)
10 Meatballs, cut into whatever size you want
1 Onion, finely sliced.
1 Tablespoon water

Directions
1. Melt butter in a big wok, saute garlic and white pepper until aromatic.
2. Add water, salt and sugar, stir-fry.
3. Add sausage and meatball, stir fry.
4. Add fettucine, stir-fry untill ingredients are thoroughly mixed.
5. Add onion and celery, stir fry until all mixed well.

served hot ..

Note : Servings for two.

Add shrimp and green peas if you like.

Happy Cooking !

Caramel, Milk, And Egg Puding

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:52:00 -0700

Hmmm love the taste of the caramel

This puding texture is so soft like silk as consists of milk, sugar and eggs only. I love to eat cold caramel puding in a day time in summer (anyway in my country it is always summer he he he). It is very easy, moist and simple to make.

Ingredients For Caramel Sauce
100 Grams sugar
100 Ml water
A bit salt just to taste
1 Teaspoon of rhum (optional, due to your taste).

Direction
1. Spread sugar evenly in a nonstick skillet. Cook over low medium heat until sugar melted and caramelized. Stir slowly until the caramel is smooth (in the meantime bring the water into boiled).
2. Pour the boiling water gradually into the caramel, keep on stiring slowly. After all mixed well, strain the caramel into a big ceramic bowl, set aside.

Ingredients For Puding
100 Grams sugar
6 Eggs
400 Ml milk
A bit salt (just to taste)

Directions
1. Whisk eggs, sugar and salt to blend.
2. Gradually pour milk into eggs mixture and whisk until mixed well.

Steaming
1. Pour the puding batter into the caramel sauce bowl.
2. Steam for 30 minutes (Puding and the caramel will be separated automatically while you do steaming).

3. Serve hot or cold .. hmmm.

Actually you also can do baking besides steaming, try both methods and see which one you like the most.

Happy cooking !

Cheesy Garlic Bread A La Sinta

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Wed, 6 Apr 2011 22:11:00 -0700

love it when toasty

If you don't find any Italian or French bread, then go with sliced plain bread/loaf... you still can have your garlic bread ^_^ ..

Let's start.

Ingredients

Sliced plain bread/loaf

Butter (in some places it is not easy to get butter, then use margarine)

Cheese, grated

Celery, chopped finely

Garlic clove, smashed and minced finely.

Directions

1. Spread butter. garlic, celery and cheese over the bread.

2. Heat in the oven of 200 degrees C for about 15 to 20 minutes or depending upon how you like it, either toasty or soft.

Happy Cooking !

Indonesian Chicken Curry (Ayam Bumbu Rujak)

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Tue, 5 Apr 2011 05:11:00 -0700

this is how I like it ..

If you know and like RENDANG, you may like Ayam Bumbu Rujak (In our language, Ayam means Chicken) as well.

Ingredients

500 Grams chicken, cut into pieces

100 ml water

50 Ml coconut milk

10 Red peppers (or due to your taste)

6 Shallots

1 Garlic clove

1 Cm turmeric root

1 Cm ginger root

1 Lime leaf

1 Lemon grass, smashed

1 Cm blue ginger / galanga / galanga / lengkuas, smashed

1 bay leaf

Salt to taste

Brown sugar to taste

1/4 Teaspoon shrimp paste

Cooking oil to saute

Directions

1. Red peppers, shallots, garlic, turmeric and ginger, blended

2. Saute the blended ingredients in cooking oil until aromatic.

3. Add chicken, stir-fry.

4. Add water, coconut milk, lime leaf, lemon gras, blue ginger, bay leaf, shrimp paste, stir frequently untill the chicken tender.

5. Add brown sugar and salt. Stir fry untill the gravy almost dry or dry up.

spicy and hot ..

Serve hot with rice or if you love the barbeque taste and smoky flavour, you can do grilling right after the gravy dry up. If you do not have an outdoor grill you can do on stove top grill pan.

Happy Cooking !

Simple Chocolate Cake

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:25:00 -0700

Easy to make

This time I will share with you a chocolate cake recipe using margarine instead of butter, but later I will add the recipe using butter so you could enjoy the cake as much as us.

Ingredients
300 Grams sugar
9 Eggs
300 Grams margarine, melted and cool to room temperature.
190 Grams flour
50 Grams cocoa
1 Teaspoon emulsifier

Directions
1. Brush margarine on the cake pan, drazzling with flour. This is to avoid the chocolate cake sticking to the pan while you flip the cake over. Set aside.
2. Mix together on a plate, flour and cocoa, set aside.
3. Beat together in the mixer, sugar, eggs and emulsifier for about 15 minutes on a high speed.
4. Lower speed, add margarine until well mixed.
5. Add flour and cocoa. Mix the cake batter until no more dry ingredients visible.
6. Pour the cake batter into the cake pan and place it into pre-heated oven of 180 c degrees for about 30 to 35 minutes or until the cake test done using a toothpick.

Happy cooking !

Macaroni With Minced Beef And Mushroom Sauce

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:20:00 -0700

Pasta with cheese ... yummy

My daughter is very fond of Italian food especially with this bolognese (Italian), bolognaise (French) sauce. I know Italian authentic Bolognese need hours of cooking time and I don't have that much time ^_^ so this version is a QUICK one.

Ingredients

150 Gramms macaroni (sea shell type), cook until just tender, set aside.
250 Gramms minced beef.
100 Gramms mushroom (there are great variety of mushroom, just pick up your choice), thickly sliced or chopped.
Cheddar cheese, grated.
1 Garlic clove, finely chopped.
1 Onion, finely sliced.
Salt (to taste).
White pepper or black pepper (to taste).
1/2 Teaspoon oregano.
1/2 teaspoon white sugar (to taste)
1 Big red tomato, finely chopped or use your food processor.
100 Ml cold water.

Directions

1. Melt butter into medium high heat.

2. Add garlic, stir-fry until aromatic.

3. Add meat, salt, sugar, oregano and white pepper, stir-fry untill the meat lightly brown.
4. Add tomato, mushroom and onion and reduce the heat into a gentle simmer and leave to cook for about 25 minutes (if liquid evaporate too fast, just add more water)

6. Increase the heat so the sauce begins to thicken.

7. Spoon macaroni into your plate, top with sauce and then a sprinkling of grated cheddar cheese.

Happy cooking !

Indonesian Meatball Soup

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:59:00 -0700

... kids will love this colourful soup ..

Homemade meatball soup with so many colour will atract kid's attention. Suggest all vegetable and chicken are cut in small pieces, easy for kids to spoon.

Ingredients

1 Carrot, cubed

1 Potato, cubed

1 teaspoon sliced celery

1 Cocktail sausage, cubed

10 Small meatball

200 Grams chicken, cut into small pieces
100 Grams spiral macaroni, cook according to the package instruction, set aside

1 Onion, thinly sliced

1 Garlic clove, smashed

500 Ml cold water

Salt and white pepper, to taste

Directions

1. Pour water into a soup pot and bring to boil.

2. Add chicken, garlic, salt and white pepper untill chicken meat falls off the bones.

3. Add carrot, sausage, meatball and potato, simmer until vegetables are tender.

4. Add onion, macaroni and celery, stir together and serve.

Happy cooking !

Indonesian Celery Omelette

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 05:49:00 -0700

Carrot & cheese mixed..

I love dry omelette especially with cheddar cheese ..... hmmmm .. I think I love this because of the smell of celery and burnt cheese. It is not an omelette without celery and cheese .. hehehe. Try this simple and quick one.

Ingredients

3 Eggs
2 Tablespoon sliced celery.
2 Tablespoon shreded carrot.
Salt (due to your taste).
3 Tablespoon cheddar cheese, grated.
2 Tablespoon butter
1/2 teaspon white pepper.

Directions

1. Combine eggs, celery, carrot, salt, white pepper and cheese in a bowl. Lightly beaten untill well mixed.

2. Melt butter over medium high heat.
3. Pour the egg mixture into the frying pan (skillet).
4. As the eggs begins to set, flip the omelette using the spatula or if you are expert enough flipping the omeltte in the air ^_* (never done this so far) it is all up to you as long as you do it in your own kitchen ^_*. Cook for about half minute or see underneath skin, due to your liking.

Anybody can teach me flipping the omeltte in the air ? I think I will learn from you. Don't worry I am a fast learner ... :-)

Happy Cooking !

Fried Chicken With Red Pepper Sauce

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:04:00 -0700

Sometimes we have to forget our diet ... ^^

As you know in Indonesia, we eat rice and we eat more when there is a hot spicy food like this fried chicken with red pepper sauce (later we call red pepper sauce as 'Sambal Balado' ... wooooo ... we'll get sweat for sure while eating. For those who used to travel to Asia, you may like hot spicy food, try this one.

Ingredients

1 Chicken, cut into 8 pieces
Cooking oil for deep frying
Green bell pepper, thickly sliced

Red Pepper Sauce (Sambal Balado)

15 Red peppers (If you do not want it too hot then reduce the red pepper)
2 Garlic cloves
10 Shallots
1 Tomato
1/4 teaspoon salt

Get all Sambal Balado ingredients blended, set aside.

Directions

1. Deep fry chickens till just tender or untill golden brown colour, set aside..

2. Heat a small amount of cooking oil in a wok. Add Sambal Balado, stir fry, add green bell pepper, stir fry untill mostly dry and aromatic.
3. Add fried chicken, stir fry so both fried chicken and Sambal balado mixed well.

Don't forget a glass of water because your throat will get burnt.

Happy cooking !

Nasi Kuning With Omelette

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:19:00 -0700

This is another dish of Indonesian food besides Nasi Goreng (Nasi means rice, kuning means yellow). Generally we have this for breakfast. Easy to prepare ^^

Ingredients
1 cup long grain rice, rinsed,
1/2 tablespoon salt

1 Daun salam (peace leaf, indian bay leaf), rinsed

1 Lemon grass (oil grass), rinsed and thickly cut
50 ml coconut milk
1 cm turmeric, smashed

Directions
1. Cook rice together with salt, daun salam, lemon grass, coconut milk and turmeric until just tender (follow the rice packaging instruction), stir in between so the ingredients mixed well.
2. Serve with omelette and shrimp cracker on top.

Crispy Chicken

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:39:00 -0800

Crispy .. this is how my kids love it

Children love crispy chicken. When taking them out is too tiring... then you better cook ! Oh no, it is a big job, isn't it ? Nooooooooooo .. it is as simple as you are signing in facebook .. he he he . Just try, kids will be happy when this crispy 'things' made by you... ^_^

Ingredients

Chicken, rinsed, cut into pieces, and set aside.
Flavoured Flour
1 Egg, lightly beaten

Direction

1. Dip each chicken in the flavoured flour, egg then back to the flavoured flour.

2. Drop chicken into hot oil and deep fry for about 15 minutes or untill deep golden color.

That it's ! Now you can sign out... ^_*

Flavoured Flour

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Thu, 3 Mar 2011 23:27:00 -0800

Flavoured flour

This flavoured flour will work for any tempura from vegetable, mushroom to shrimp and even chicken or Tuna Fillet.

Ingredients
250 grams all-purpose-flour
1 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoon corn-flour

Direction
Mix all the ingredients

That's it ! Your flavoured flour is ready.

Crispy Tuna Fillet

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Thu, 3 Mar 2011 23:08:00 -0800

Kids love when crispy

Ingredients

100 Grams tuna fillet

Cooking oil for deep frying

Flavoured Flour

1 Egg, lightly beaten

Direction

1. Dip each fillet in the flavoured flour, egg then back to the flavoured flour.

2. Drop fillet into hot oil and deep fry for about 10 minutes or untill deep golden color.

My daughter always says "hmmmm yummy"

This is my kids' favourite dish that makes me keep some flavoured flour in stock. This will work not only for fish but any other tempura like shrimp, mushroom and even chicken.

Avocado With Raisin

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Thu, 3 Mar 2011 02:18:00 -0800

hmm love the mixed taste of fruits

I love avocados very much and this become one of my good diet favourite.
Why ?
1. Besides it contains fiber, Vitamin C and Vitamin E, I love the taste.
2. They don't require cooking so I can save my cooking time lol.
3. No cholesterol. It is good, isn'it ?

How to prepare ? It is as easy as switching on my PC. Just wash the avocado thoroughly before peeling and mash with a fork. Served with raisins on top. That's it ^_^

My kids love to drizzle chocolate condensed milk and chocolate chips on it .... oh my !

Steamed Oyster/Hiratake Mushroom

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:02:00 -0800

Before steamed

Since oyster mushroom is rich in iron, proteins, minerals and vitamins, it becomes a good diet to so many people. Do you have high blood cholesterol ? Try this recipe ! or if you don't have problem with it, try another recipe .

Ingredients

100 grams oyster/hiratake mushroom, rinsed and thickly sliced

1 garlic clove, finelly chopped

Salt to taste

1 Red pepper (optional)

1 Green pepper (optional)

1 Thin slice ginger, peeled and finely shreded

Directions

1. Place the mushroom into a bowl.

2. Add garlic, red pepper, green pepper, ginger and salt

3. Steam for 15 minutes.

That's it. I call this healty food ^^

After steamed

SAVE THE WORLD ..... GO GREEN

Green Chineese Mustard With Paprika

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:25:00 -0800

Hmm love the taste of paprika

This food made my day because of the colour of paprika besides you know paprika is rich in vitamin C, one of an antioxidant.

Ingredients

100 Grams green chineese mustard, rinsed and thickly sliced

1 Paprika / bell pepper, thickly sliced

1 Tofu, cubed and fried

1 Garlic, finely chopped

3 Shallots, finely chopped (if you like the taste)

Salt, due to your taste

Sugar, just to taste
Olive oil

Directions

1. Heat up a small amount of olive oil into a wok
2. Add garlic and shallots, stir-fry untill aromatic
3. Add green chineese mustard, stir-fry
4. Add fried tofu, salt and sugar, stir-fry
5. Add parika, stir-fry

That's it ^^

Fish Curry With Sliced Chilli

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:37:00 -0800

Smell good mmm ..

In our language, we call this Gulai Ikan, Gulai means curry and Ikan means Fish. Fish fillet we use to cook is Tuna.

Ingredients

200 grams white fish fillet

1 garlic clove

5 shallots

1 red pepper / red chilli

1 green chilli

1 cm ginger

1 cm turmeric

2 cm turmeric leaf

1 lime leaf

50 ml coconut oil

50 ml water

1/4 teaspoon salt

Preparations

Fish fillet, rinsed

Garlic and shallots, thinly sliced

Red pepper and green chili, thickly sliced

Ginger and turmeric, smashed

Directions

1. Heat a small amont of cooking oil in a wok

2. Add garlic and shallots, stir-fry until aromatic

3. Add water and coconut oil, stir untill boiled

4. Add red pepper, green chilli, ginger, turmeric, turmeric leaf, lemon leaf and salt, stir.

5. Add fish, stir occasionally untill the gravy almost dry up.

Fried Corn Noodles With Shrimp

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:24:00 -0800

Love this ... spicy ..

In our language, we call this Bihun Jagung Goreng. Bihun jagung is kind of noodles made of corn just like rice vermicelli that is made of rice. Goreng means fried. If you don't find any corn noodles in your area just buy rice noodle/rice vermicelli ... hmmm if you still can not fine .. then pasta will be fine .. no worry ^^

Ingredients

100 grams corn noodles

3 red pepper / red chillies

1 garlic clove

3 shallots

1 tomato (small one) or half tomato

1/4 teaspoon white pepper

1/4 teaspoon salt (due to your taste)

1/4 teaspoon sugar

100 grams shirmp

Celery
1 onion

Preparations

1. Corn noodles, soaked in warm water for 1 hour, drained and set aside.

2. Blend red pepper, garlic, shallots and tomato

3. Celery, finely chopped

4. shrimps, rinsed
5. Onion, thinly sliced

Directions

1. Heat up a small amount of cooking oil into a wok.

2. Stir-fry shrimps, red pepper, garlic, shallots and tomato until aromatic.
3. Add white pepper, salt, sugar and celery, stir-fry.
4. Add onion and corn noodles, stir fry until mostly dry

Crispy Mushroom

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:52:00 -0800

Raw Mushroom

I love mushroom especially when it is fried and crispy .... hmmm I can't hardly avoid to be in my favourite place, KITCHEN

Ingredients

100 grams Oyster Mushroom (Hiratake)
1 egg, lightly beaten
Flavoured Flour
Cooking oil for deep frying

Directions

1. Mushroom, rinsed.
2. Dry mushroom on paper towels.
3. Dip mushroom in flavoured flour, egg then back to flavoured flour.
4. Immediately deep fry mushroom on medium high heat until crisp and turn into deep golden color.

This flavoured flour will also work for any other tempura from vegetable to shrimps and even chicken and tuna fillet.

Indonesian Nasi Goreng With Shrimp Paste

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:28:00 -0800

Shrimp paste ! Oh my God ...

Ingredients

1 Cup long grain rice, rinsed

Eggs, make an omelette

Cucumber, thickly sliced

1 Teaspoon shrimp paste

1/4 Teaspoon sugar

2 Tablespoon Vegetable oil

1/2 Teaspoon Salt

Chillie Sauce

2 Garlic cloves

6 Shallots

5 Red peppers / chillies

1 Tomato

Directions

1. Cook rice untill just tender

2. Transfer the rice to a tray and cool to room temperature.

3. Garlic, shallots, red peppers / chillies, blended (Chillie Sauce)

4. Heat vegetable oil in a wok over high heat.

5. Add chillie sauce and shrimp paste, stir fry until aromatic.

6. Add sugar and salt, stir fry

7. Add rice, stir fry until rice is heated through.

Serving

1. Spoon nasi goreng onto serving plate

2. Serve with omelette and cucumber
3. If you like, top with fried shallots

Smashed Sweet Potato

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:47:00 -0800

Ready for unforgetable breakfast ? Try this simple recipe

Love this so much .. yummy

Ingredients

1/2 kg Sweet potato. steamed

Cheese (any cheese you like), shredded

Chocolate chips

Directions

1. Smash sweet potato.

2. Serve with shredded cheese and chocolate chips on top.

It's that easy ..... ^_^

Nasi Goreng With Soya Sauce

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:59:00 -0800

Look... the shrimps ... hmmmm

Ingredients

1 Cup long grain rice

200 grams prawn

2 Garlic cloves

6 Shallots

5 Red peppers / red chillies

1 Tomato

1 Teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce

2 Tablespoon Soya Sauce

1/4 Teaspoon ground white pepper

1/4 Teaspoon sugar

2 Tablespoon Vegetable oil

1/2 Teaspoon Salt

Directions

1. Cook rice untill just tender

2. Transfer the rice to a tray and cool to room temperature.

3. Garlic, shallots, tomato and red peppers, blended (chillie sauce)

4. Heat vegetable oil in a wok over high heat.

5. Add chillie sauce, stir fry until aromatic.

5. Add prawns, stir fry until prawns tender.

6. Add worcestershire and soya sauce, ground white pepper, sugar and salt, stir fry

7. Add rice, stir fry until rice is heated through.

Serving

1. Spoon nasi goreng onto serving plate

2. Top with a fried egg

Bon appetite !

Pancake With Brown Sugar Sauce

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Mon, 7 Feb 2011 00:34:00 -0800

Ingredients

150 grams all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon white sugar
200 ml milk
30 grams butter ---> melted
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon backing powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Direction

1. In a bowl, sift together all-purpose flour, white sugar and salt.
2. Pour milk, egg and melted butter, mix.
3. Pour the batter onto the litghly oiled frying pan over medium high heat.
4. Let it brown on both sides
5. Served hot

We love eating pancake with brown sugar sauce.

Brown Sugar Sauce :

1. 100 grams brown sugar and a screwpine leaf, boiled in 150 ml water

2. Add 50 ml coconut milk and add abit salt, and vanilla extract if you like, stir well.

3. Add 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour, cook untill thickened and smooth.

Rendang With Potato

noreply@blogger.com (Sinta Rahmi) — Sun, 6 Feb 2011 17:40:00 -0800

Rendang

Been to Indonesia and ate Rendang ? If you miss this spicy food, try to cook for just yourself. I'll make it simple (not too spicy) for you.

Ingredients

1/4 kg beef, cubed
1 potato, cubed (optional)
100 ml coconut milk
3 shallots
1 garlic
5 red peppers or red chillies (due to your taste)
1/2 cm (or less) ginger
1/2 cm (or less) lengkuas/blue ginger/galanga/galangal)
1 lime leaf
1 turmeric leaf
1 lemon grass
Salt
Sugar (due to your taste)

Directions
1. Shallots, garlic, red peppers and ginger, blended and put into a pan.
2. Add the beef, coconut milk, blue ginger, lime & turmeric leaf, lemon grass, salt and a bit sugar over low medium heat
3. Stir frequently untill the meat really tender.
4. Add potate and stir untill the gravy dry up
5. Serve hot with rice

Save The World ..... Go Green