Free Food Recipes

Steamed Salmon with Mustard Dills Sauce and Broccoli

2012-02-11T06:23:00.001-08:00

Steamed Salmon with Dills Sauce and Steamed broccoli apparently to be a core menu at Ikea Alexandra Singapore. The reason is its always featured evey time I visit the store for shopping. However, the dish is fairly nice and good in taste .
Salmon filet to be used as main ingredient for dish. Portion size is around 6-7oz per serving. It quite small for me but in term of price, it's quite reasonable.

Steamed Salmon Filet also served with cubed steamed potatoes and sprinkle with chopped parsley. All ingredients are cooked by steaming, it's healthy!

To perfect serving, an accompaniment of steam broccoli gives its colour in presentation. Of course, along process of preparing salmon, topped with mustard dills sauce for perfection.
It's recommendable to try!

Three Essential Steps Cooking Great Pastas

2011-08-30T11:12:00.000-07:00

Preparing great pasta is not difficult. All you need to do is to ensure that you are ready with all tools, ingredients, recipe and cooking procedures. A three essential steps cooking great pasta will guide you on how to prepare any pasta dishes easily and you will enjoy your pastas cooking for your own or serving them to your friends in any occasions.

Select ingredients for Sauce
Cooking pasta can be done in minutes. But you need to prepare some basic component such pasta sauces. Selecting right ingredient before cooking is mainly success of whole process of cooking. Commonly, there are two different kind of sauce, basic red and white sauce. Basic red sauce usually made from tomatoes and white sauce is made from cream. Pasta sauce with oiled base is also quite popular especially for those who in diet programs. In this point, you need to ensure that preparing ingredients for sauce can be done in advance prior to the execution. Tomato based pastas can be last up to three days kept in refrigerator, but for the best quality, use it no longer than two days.

Boiling of Pastas
Pasta should be cooked al dente. That's what Italian say. AL dente means, don't overcook. Boiling pasta take about eight to ten minutes for two lbs of weight (spaghetti and fettuccine) in five litres of water. When boiling pasta, add a bit of oil and salt into water. To prevent from sticking, stir pasta frequently and cook in medium heat. When pasta cooked, immediately soak into ice water for about two minutes to stop it from continuously cooking. Drain and sprinkle with oil to prevent sticking and ensure that pasta also should stand individually.

Cooking Procedures
So, the last stage of preparing great pasta is performing cooking procedures correctly. When you are ready with the sauce and pastas, no matter what kind of pasta you are making, this stage is determining the result of your overall pasta cooking. In this point, I take an example on how to make Shrimp pasta marinara. So, heat sauté pan and add olive oil. If you like some garlic in your recipe, you always can add in and sauté. Before adding garlic, sauté shrimp until the colour turn into pink. Add the sauce and bring to boil. Finally, add pasta and toss it. Add a bit of water if necessary. Cook for two minutes or until pasta is completely hot. Transfer to pasta bowl or serving plates. The optional is sprinkling Parmesan cheese and fresh basil leaves as garnish.

As mentioned, cooking pasta is easy. I can say the most easily cooking item ever, yet the taste is delicious. Pasta can suit for any occasions such as family gathering, outing or children birthday. If you intend to make it as business, you always can put and sell it in your menus. Three essential steps of cooking pasta might be considered whether preparing pasta for personal consumption or commercial purposes.

Pan Fried Lemon Chicken

2011-08-07T23:30:00.001-07:00

Pan Fried Lemon Chicken

There are many ways to make Lemon Chicken. You might have your own recipe and have different ways in cooking. But if you want to try this recipe, you might compare or at least for it can be in your recipe collection.

Ingredients:
4 each chicken breast, flatten
1/3 cup of flour
Salt and pepper to season the chicken
2 Tablespoon of butter
1 cup of Chicken broth
1/4 of lemon juice
1 tablespoon corn starch
2 tablespoon cut green onion

Cooking methods:
Season chicken with salt and pepper and get it coated in flour.
Heat frying pan and melt the butter. Pan fried the chicken until cooked or until no pinkish color inside.!
Meanwhile, combine stock, corn starch and lemon in skillet and bring to boil. Stir consistently until liquid form into sauce. Add cut green pepper.
Arrange chicken breast in suitable serving dish and pour the sauce over. Garnish with lemon slices on top of the dish (optional)

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Hainanese chicken rice recipe

2011-05-10T10:37:00.000-07:00

Hainanese chicken rice recipe 1

Ingredients:
1 whole chicken (3.5 lbs, 1.8kg), preferably organic
kosher salt
4'' section of fresh ginger, in 1/4'' slices
2 stalks green onions, cut into 1" sections (both the green and white parts)
1 teaspoon sesame oil
FOR THE RICE
2 tablespoon chicken fat or 2 tbsp vegetable oil
3 cloves garlic, finely minced
1'' section of ginger, finely minced
2 cups long-grain uncooked rice, washed and soaked in cool water for 10 min or longer
2 cups reserved chicken poaching broth
1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon kosher salt
Source: http://steamykitchen.com/5068-hainanese-chicken-rice.html

Hainanese chicken rice recipe 2

Ingredients:
• Chicken:
• 1 whole chicken, about 3 pounds
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cloves garlic, peeled
• 4 slices fresh ginger, peeled
• 4 scallions, trimmed
• about 12 cups water
• 2 tablespoons sesame oil
• sliced tomatoes (garnish)
• sliced cucumbers (garnish)
• cilantro sprigs (garnish)
Source : http://chinesefood.about.com/od/poultryreceo/r/hainanchicken.htm

Hainanese chicken rice recipe 3

Ingredients for Chicken:
• 1 Chicken, preferably Kampong Chicken
• 8 clove Garlic, lightly smashed with skin intact
• 5 slices Ginger
• 1 - 2 teaspoon Salt
• Water

How to do it:
1. Stuff garlic and ginger in chicken and seal with toothpick.
2. Blanch chicken.
3. Boil a pot of water and add salt.
4. Simmer the chicken for about 20 - 25 minutes or till cooked.
5. Retain broth for use on rice, chilli sauce and soup.
6. Plunge chicken in ice water for about 15 minutes or till chicken is no longer hot.
7. Remove from water and drip dry.
8. Cut chicken into pieces.
Source: http://wokkingmum.blogspot.com/2007/05/hainanese-chicken-rice.html

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Very Simple Cocktails Sauce

2011-03-25T08:37:00.001-07:00

Make Very Simple Cocktails Sauce | Cocktails sauce usually good is served with shrimp salad. But other seafood salad also can go with cocktails sauce. Even, one of my costumer always request the sauce everytime he orders fried Calamari.

Even though there are many style and version of making cocktails sauce, basically Cocktails sauce sensitivity is tomato with slightly hot and sour.

If you want to make yourself at home, you can use this very simple recipe.

Ingredients:
1/2 cups tomato ketchup
1/4 cups horseradish,
2 Tbs lemon juice

Methods:
Gather all ingredients, measure tomato ketchup and horseraddish combine in mixing. Using wire whip,
mix well the sauce. Add lemon juice and mix again, taste it and serve.

Cocktails sauce should be slightly sour and hint of horseradish and lemon.

Dessert Recipe – Make Chocolate Pudding

2011-03-16T21:44:00.000-07:00

Dessert Recipe – Make Chocolate Pudding.

Its always good time your meal finished by dessert.Chocolate pudding is one of my popular pudding dish ever. Its soft, cold and saucy. Yes, it must be cold serving! Hence, the best ways to obtained authentic pudding flavor is always cold! Here is the recipe of Chocolate pudding and how it been made.

Ingredients:

100 gm chocolate powder
1.5 liter fresh milk
200 gm white sugar
2 package agar-agar powder [swallow brand]
4 each eggs yolk, beaten

Cooking methods:

Dissolve agar-agar powder with a bit of milk. Boil remaining milk and sugar in medium sauce pot, then add dissolved chocolate into milk and bring to boil.
Take little of milk and add into eggs yolk, beat it and return to pudding mixture, stir consistently.
Remove from heat and stir continually until warm. Pour into individual pudding mould and keep in refrigerator. Serve when pudding is completely cold with accompaniment of vanilla pudding sauce.

Source recipe: Kumpulan resep masakan Indonesia

How to make scramble eggs for yourself

2011-03-15T19:11:00.001-07:00

How to make scramble eggs for yourself

Scramble eggs is a common eggs dish during breakfast time. Usually, the scramble eggs is served with sausages, pastrami, bacons and toasted bread. Baked beans are also good as other accompaniment for breakfast meals.

This time i just want to show you how to make easy scramble eggs, in case you need one.

You need 2 pieces of eggs. If you serve more then one person just multiply the ingredients. You will also need 1/4 cups of fresh milk, 2 tbs of butter and salt pepper to season.

Here is the methods:

Crack eggs and place into bowl.
Add milk, salt pepper and beat.
Melt butter on medium sauté pan over medium heat. Pour eggs mixture into pan and cook for 2-3 minutes, stir using spatula and scramble the eggs. Remove from heat and serve. Thats it! Have a great scramble eggs to start a great morning.

Poached Salmon - Green Been with Cheesy Dills Sauce

2011-03-12T07:39:00.001-08:00

Poached Salmon - Green Been with Cheesy Dills Sauce

This is amazing Salmon dish! It look like
Poach salmon with black peppercorn or maybe it was steamed.

Accompanied with steamed green bean and potatoes. Finalized by cheesy dills sauce pour on top the dish! Hmmm, yummy.

If you look into presentation, it might be very costly and only served at stared hotel but I need to pay it $8. It cheap right?

Yes, quite cheap....

I only can eat at Ikea, Alexandra road...

Let go!

Stuffed-Eggs Bean Curds

2011-03-11T08:33:00.000-08:00

Stuffed-Eggs Bean Curds

Ingredients:

1 piece of white tofu
100 grams of shrimp, chopped
20 grams of corn starch
1 egg
1 teaspoon salt
1 / 2 teaspoon pepper
3 red onions, finely chopped
1 leek, sliced
2 stalks celery, sliced
12 hard boiled quail eggs, peeled
As needed oil, for frying

Dipping Sauce:
50 ml soy sauce
1 tablespoon shrimp paste

Blended ingredients:

2 cloves garlic, sliced, fried
5 pieces of red chilli sauce
1 / 4 teaspoon salt

Cooking Method:

Mash bean curds, mixed with shrimp, corn starch, eggs, salt, pepper, red onion finely, green onions, and celery and stir well.
Heat the oil, spoon the dough one at the time and form into balls. Stuff the balls with quail eggs, round and fry until cooked, remove from heat.
Dipping Sauce: Mix spices with shrimp paste, stir, add soy sauce and stir well.
Serving: Serve warm with dipping sauce.

Cooking Spaghetti Carbonara - Serving for 5 peoples

2011-03-10T07:29:00.001-08:00

Cooking Spaghetti Carbonara - Serving for 5 peoples

Ingredients:
500 grams of spaghetti-I in order fettuccine
3 Tbs olive oil or cooking oil
1 large onion, diced
3 cloves crushed garlic
1/2 cup mincemeat
1 each Eggs
1/2 bottle Heinz mayonnise
100 grams of grated parmesan cheese
Basil leaves for garnish
Mix Vegetable
Black Pepper Powder

How to cook spagheti Carbonara
Boil spaghetti in hot water with oil and salt for about 8 to 10 mins.
Saute a large onion and add 1/2 cup minced meat with mix veg. Let the Juice dried out and yellowish.
Combine eggs, mayonnise, parmesen and also black pepper powder. Mix well.
When the spaghetti is cooked, toss and the sauce. Let the eggs cook evenly slang by heat of spaghetti.
-Pour spagheti into sauce pan and continue to cook over low heat.

Remove from heat, garnish with parmesan cheese and Fresh basil leaves.

Indian Fish Curry Recipe

2011-03-09T17:13:00.001-08:00

Indian Fish Curry Recipe

Indian-style fish curry is delicious especialy for those who love Indian cuisine! They would like to enjoy these dishes.

This time I wanted to share a recipe on how to make Indian-style fish curry. The following ingrediants and directions:

Ingredients:
2 tsp conola oil
2 pieces of onion, chopped
2 cups zucchini
2 gm ginger, peeled and chopped
1 / 2 tsp turmeric, crushed
1 / 2 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp coriander powder
2 pieces of halibut, cut into 2 cm
1 chopped tomato, canned

How to cook Indian style fish curry
Heat oil and saute onion for 2 minutes then cook zucchini with an additional 2 minutes.
Add other spices cook for 20 seconds. After that, drop the fish. Stir slowly and gently. Pour the canned tomatoes and season with salt and pepper. For those of you who like spicy, chili can be added to recipe. After fish curry cooked, remove and garnish with coriander leaves ...

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Making Crabs Omelette

2011-03-08T13:04:00.000-08:00

Making Crabs Omelette

This recipe will show you recipe how to make crabs omelette.

Ingredients:

2 Tbs cooking oil or butter
1 each yellow onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
200gm crabs meat
3 each eggs, beaten
2 stalk leek or green onion, chopped
50 ml chicken stock
1 tsp corn flour, dissolve with water
1 tbs sesame oil
Salt pepper to taste

How to make recipe crabs omelette:

Heat oil in over medium skillet, sauté onion until aroma comes out. Add crabs meat and continue cooking.
Add leek, chicken stock, corn flour and sesame oil, stir evenly. Add beaten eggs and cook until both side completely cook and golden colour.

Remove from heat and serve.

Very Simple Cheese Sauce Recipe

2011-02-22T17:43:00.000-08:00

Very Simple Cheese Sauce Recipe

Cheese Sauce Recipe is perfectly served with steamed vegetables such as broccoli or cauliflower. Here is how you can make such a great simple cheese recipe by your own.

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
1 / 4 cup grated cheddar cheese

How to make:
Heat the butter using a medium-size saucepan over low heat. Slowly, put the flour and stir in butter until boiling. After that add milk and stir consistently. When the sauce begin to thicken, add cheese and bring back waiting to boil than remove from heat.

Cheese sauce may be added with other spices to taste such fresh dills, fennel and basil leaves.

Grilled Salmon Teriyaki Salads

2011-02-20T18:02:00.001-08:00

Grilled Salmon Teriyaki Salad

I had tried this grilled salmon teriyaki salad last week when I had my dinner. My colleague said it's awesome as he took small bite of fishpond tasted it. He didn't took any salad as he had ones.

So I put grilled salmon basted japanese teriyaki sauce and place it next to salads which tossed with Thai chili sauce on large dinner plate. It's looking good and pretty good color combination dish and its great dinner meals.

I used to have salads meals on my dinner at most. Usually it came with some fried breaded chicken finger or fish. Its make me bored sometimes. Grilled salmon teriyaki was a good meal variation.

It's common Garden salads or mixed salad comes with 1000 island dressing as more people like it. But I have to try Thai chili sauce instead and it's really good. I used small medium bowl to toss the salad.

So, here is how I prepared the whole meals. Season 225 gm salmon fillet and cook in medium sauté pan with 1oz butter, cook each side for 5-8 minutes. Meanwhile prepare green salads - romaine lettuce, iceberg lettuce, roma or cherry tomato,
Dice cucumber - and toss in Thai chili sauce. Please salads on large dinner please on side. Remove salmon from heat and place on plate next to salads, drizzle with teriyaki sauce. Garnish with lemon wedges and serve!

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Basted Grilled Squids with Oriental Soy

2011-02-17T09:40:00.000-08:00

Basted Grilled Squids with Oriental Soy - This recipe tells you how to make A Delicious Simple Grilled Squid.

Ingredients for Basted Grilled Squids with Oriental Soy
750 gm large squid with tentacle or tube only
1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Marinating:
75 ml fish stock
4 tablespoon Kikkoman sauce
1 tablespoon Sweet Soy Sauce
2 tablespoon Oyster sauce
1 tablespoon BBQ Sauce
1 tablespoon White wine
1 teaspoon white wine
2 teaspoon shredded ginger
Salt and pepper to taste
Sprinkle with chopped green onion

Cooking Method:
Peeled squid tune and removed the outer thin skin, discard ink bag. Clean and wash squids and drain after that using knife’s edge, make it into diamond shapes on both sides.
Combine all marinate ingredient put squids into marinate and let it stand for about 4 hours before grilling.

Heat the skillet and cook squid together with marinating and cook with low flame until tender.
So now you can enjoy delicious grilled squid in few simple steps. Grilled quid is served with rice or noodles and any others accompaniments.

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The Secret of Cooking Spaghetti Dishes

2011-02-13T17:48:00.001-08:00

If you are currently looking for great cooking ideas for spaghetti, these cooking tips might help you. I am pretty sure all of you know what is spaghetti. It's a kind of noodle originated from Italy and it is traditional and signature dish.

To enjoy a spaghetti dishes, you can easily visit Italian restaurants scattered in your place. Nowadays, many Italian restaurants have been spread in almost every places all over the world.

If you know the technique, great cooking spaghetti is not very difficult. Furthermore, cooking spaghetti is less time-consume compare to many other pasta dishes. Another important part of cooking a great spaghetti dishes is to consider in choosing high quality ingredients and spaghetti itself.

To find a good quality brand of spaghetti, you can go to store and approach merchants and ask them for recommendations. Make sure that you check expiry date before buying. Sometimes, you will get very cheap material as it's in promotion. My advice is not to buy them as they might be last stock and expire soon.

Once you get spaghetti, bring it to boil in five liters of water using medium sauce pot. This amount of water is good to boiled two pounds of raw spaghetti. Add a little olive oil or vegetable oil to prevent sticking. Boil for about 8-10 minutes depending on the type and size of spaghetti until al dente. Remove from heat and rinse right away with running water and pour into ice water. Drain water and transfer spaghetti into appropriate containers. Put a bit of olive oil and spaghetti is ready to use.
Making sauce is important part to obtain a delicious spaghetti dish. Suppose you want to cook spaghetti with marinara sauce or tomato sauce. The combination of sauces and other ingredients such as fish, shrimp, squid or other seafood mix is a distinctive technique. Basically, cooking spaghetti is about choosing raw material such as brand, making a good sauce and blending both with other supporting ingredients.

It is time to cook spaghetti. Use your own recipe; show your expertise by creating and blending the perfect combination between spaghetti, sauce and other ingredients such seafood, chicken and meat by start heating up sauté pan. Pour a bit of olive oil and sauté garlic, spaghetti sauce. Wait for minutes minute or until sauce is boiling then remove from heat. Place on suitable pasta bowl and Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese if your desire.

Easy Recipe Baked Potatoes

2011-02-09T04:47:00.001-08:00

Easy Baked Potato Recipe

Jacket Potatoes or 'Baked Potatoes' is a substitute for rice and supplementary food is usually served with menu of steak, chicken and fish.

If you go to western restaurants, more menus will be served with baked potatoes ad they mostly serve baked potatoes during dinner time.

How to make baked potatoes? The equipment used to cook baked Potatoes is 'Oven' where the temperature can reach up to 35O degrees Celsius.

Various recipes and how to make Baked Potatoes easily gain a lot from books and internet. This time I also like to share to you how to make simple recipes of baked potatoes.

To make a good quality of baked poratoes, First you need to select good quality ones. The best potatoes used for baked potatoes are grown in Idaho, USA. Fluffier and potatoes are very tender when eaten. As in the West Java area, Idaho proverbial sweet 'Cilembu' which is very famous for its sweet honey taste. Size of baked potatoes suitable is no more than 4 pieces a kilo. Making baked Potatoes, peeling skin is not necessary as long as it cleanly washed.

Baked potatoes will have a good, taste before baking by basting once with butter after being washed and dried. Bake on pan for an hour with a temperature of 350 degrees. After cooking removed potataes from the oven.

In order to split the presentation [by using a small knife but does not break] and load it with grated cheddar cheese, butter, sour cream and sliced scallion. If you want you can add chopped bacon beef. Serve with main dish as I mentioned above.

Mutton Soup Recipe Johore Style

2011-02-06T17:32:00.001-08:00

Mutton Soup Recipes Johore Style

Warning! This recipe is not recommended for those who have a problem with cholesterol or in diet program.

Frankly speaking, I rarely cooking mutton soup at home. I would normally buy mutton sop and mutton satay outside. It seemed that eating outside is nicer than cooking by self. Moreover, eating mutton sop is the right time during cold whether.

This time I wanted to share a mutton soup recipe by using ingredient that are not difficult to get. Here is the recipe, ingredients and how to cook it:

Ingredients:
2 liters of water to boil
1 kg mutton (which there are more good bones), boiled until tender and water to 1 liter of boiled water
1 liter of liquid milk
6 pieces cloves
1 cinnamon stick (about 10 cm)

Spices:
4 cloves garlic
8 cloves red bwg
1 / 2 tablespoon nutmeg powder
1 teaspoon pepper
1 cm galangal,
2 cm ginger
oil for sauteing
Salt to taste
2 bay leaves
1 stalk lemongrass
1 tbs sugar

How:
Boil mutton until tender with cinnamon, cloves ginger galangal.
Stir-fry ground ingredients until fragrant and then add into the stew meat
After that add remaining ingredients into stock pot and simmer until taste completely blend.

Serve white rice or rice cake.

Source: Ida Arimurti

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Tips Preparing Good Quality Spaghetti Dishes

2011-01-30T06:26:00.001-08:00

Tips Preparing Good "Spaghetti Dishes"

If you are looking for ideas preparing good quality spaghetti dishes, this article might help you.

I am sure all of you have already know what it is spaghetti. In case you not know, spaghetti is a type of noodle that originated from Italy and is the typical food of the country.

To enjoy a spaghetti dish, you can easily find him in Italy restaurants scattered in big cities. Even now the villagers like me can enjoy food this type of pasta.

Actually cook spaghetti is not difficult as long as know the technique. The time needed for cooking is also not for long. All you need to consider is choosing a quality spaghetti.

To find a quality brand of spaghetti, you can approach merchants and ask for recommendations.

Once you get spaghetti, boiled with water that has been given a little salt and oil. Use the 5 liters of water to boil 1kg spaghetti. Boil for about 8-10 minutes or depending on the type and size of spaghetti. Cook it until al dente. Remove and enter the depth of ice water then drain and add a little olive oil or vegetable oil to prevent sticking later.

Making sauce is also a role that is very skelter to get a delicious spaghetti dish. Money kitchens write some recipes for the past sauce. please search using the search field. Suppose you want to cook spaghetti with marinara sauce or tomato sauce.

The combination of sauces and other ingredients such as fish, shrimp, squid or other seafood mix is a distinctive technique. How to cook spaghetti basically three main ingredients of spaghetti, sauce and mix other ingredients for flavor variations.

How to cook is very simple. If all ingredients are all ready, to cook delicious spaghetti dish can be made less dar 5 minutes. By heating the oil in a Teflon as a first step, saute garlic and vegetables or seafood mix that I mentioned earlier and input sauce. After boiling, add spaghetti, hot sauce and wait until boiling and lift and serve while hot. Sprinkle parmesan cheese if you have appetite.

Saute Bitter Gourd and Dried Anchovies

2011-01-21T07:53:00.001-08:00

Saute Bitter Gourd and Dried Anchovies

Some of us may be doesn't like bitter gourd much because of its bitterness taste. But many say that biter gourd is healthy foods.

If you are one who does not like the bitter taste of bitter gourd, I am too. But do not worry because the bitter taste can be reduced with a few cooking tips.

To reduce bitter taste, put some salt and knead, let stand a few minutes and rinse. After that just cooked and bitterness is reduced.

Let's we look into the recipe of sauté bitter gourd and anchovy.

Ingredients:
2 pieces of medium size bitter gourd
100g Dried anchovy
2 cloves garlic
2cm Ginger root
2 pieces of bay leaf
Salt and pepper
Oil for sauteing

Preparation:
Cut bitter gourd in half, seeded and cut into desired pieces. I usually cut it crosswise as thick 1/4cm.
Wash and rinse salted fish to reduce salinity.
Chop the garlic and ginger and gather all I gradients.

How to cook:
Heat the oil using a wok or frying pan.
Saute ginger and garlic for few seconds and when atoms comes out, add anchovies.
Next steep is putting all ingredients and seasonings.
Sauté until vegetables cook through out. Season with salt and pepper. If necessary, add sugar.
Remove and serve with hot rice and other side dishes ....

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Breakfast Menu - Malay Rice Cake in Coconut Milk

2011-01-18T19:01:00.001-08:00

Breakfast with Malay Vegetable Lontong

Vegetable Malay rice cake is a perfect dish for breakfast because the portions are not too much and fast way of presentation. Usually vegetable rice cake in curry sauce is served in a bowl.

As with any vegetable or rice cake rice cake vegetable that we usually can be easily found in every corner of Jakarta, Malay Vegetable Lontong have in common ingredients and seasonings.

The most dominant ingredient is vegetable that uses coconut milk base, rice cake and hard-boiled egg. It's just feels a little bit different. Vegetable coconut milk and a little bit sweet-scented shrimp paste.

Basic ingredients of vegetable coconut milk [vegetable] use white cabbage, tofu and long beans. While the presentation, Lontong Malay Vegetable sprinkled with toasted shredded coconut and minced chili.

Vegetable Malay rice cake can be found at the counter or Malay food stalls in almost every food court in Singapore. It costs about $ 3.00 a serving.

Friends, this article merely sharing information, especially for those who are on vacation here ..

Making Easy Vegan Crepes

2011-01-13T19:49:00.001-08:00

Making Vegan Crepe Recipe

1 / 2 cup soy milk
1 / 2 cup water
4 tablespoons nondairy margarine, melted
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons maple syrup
1 / 4 tsp salt
1 cup plain flour
Oil, for frying

Combine soy milk, water, nondairy margarine, sugar, maple syrup, and salt in a large bowl stir using a mixer. Add flour and stir again. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and chill in refrigerator for 2 hours.

Take a little oil and pour into a nonstick skillet over low heat or crepe pan and place over medium heat. When the hot pan, pour 1 / 4 cup batter and stir until until the base pan. Cook the crepe until golden yellow. Flip and cook until other side is cooked.

Recipe for 12 to 14 pieces

Tenderloin Beef Cashew nut

2011-01-12T17:29:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
300 grams of beef tenderloin
1 tbsp grated pineapple
butter taste, for sautéing
100 gr cashews, fried

Seasoning:
2 cloves garlic, chopped
5 pieces of dried red chili, iris-iris
100 gr onions, sliced-iris
1 tsp. soy sauce UK
1 tsp of oyster sauce
salt and pepper powder to taste

How to make:
Sliced beef small and thin, mixed with grated pineapple, let sit briefly
Sautéed beef with garlic, red chilli, and onion until fragrant
Enter Worcestershire sauce, oyster sauce, salt, and pepper powder. Lift, give sprinkles cashews. Serve

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Beef Cooking in Bali Style

2011-01-10T17:23:00.000-08:00

Beef Cooking in Bali Style

Ingredients:
½ kg of beef without fat, cut width size ½ x5x7 cm
1 stalk Lemongrass, crushed
5 tbsp sweet soy sauce
salt to taste
sugar to taste
3 tbsp vegetable oil
1 liter of water

Herbs that crushed:
12 fruit red chili
5 grains candlenut, disangrai
7 grains of red onion
3 cloves garlic
1 tsp ginger, finely sliced
½ TSP fish sauce

How to make:
Saute seasoning already crushed with 3 tbsp vegetable oil that is heated under a medium heat until fragrant.
Put all the ingredients, stirring until the meat changes color.
Add 1 litre of water, Cook until the sauce thickens and beef be padded, lift.
Ready to be served.
For 5-6 people.

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10 Tips to Lose Weight Easily

2011-01-09T06:51:00.001-08:00

10 Tips to Lose Weight Easily | Are you looking for tips to lose weight? Well, this easy tips weight loss hopefully can help your problem.

Many of us try to lose weight with diet and reduce food consumption But many also ended in failure or does not work or not even the weight happens but instead the increase and become obese because of wrong in choosing a diet. Or maybe unknowingly the proper way how to perform actual diet.

Losing weight does not mean we should not eat anything. Especially if you have a culinary hobby. All you need to do is how to control your diet and choose foods and exercise in regularly.

Here's a summary of 10 tips is easy to lose weight:

1. Knowing how many calories you need.
2. Eating fruits and vegetables at least 5 servings a day.
3. Keeping food portion in control
4. Do not skip meals
5. Eat fresh foods and avoid processed foods or fast food.
6. No need to stop eating your favorite food with condition you can control the amount and schedule of meals time.
7. Knowing the nutrients in packaged food labels
8. Keeping the consumption of sugar in beverages such as juices, soft drinks and coffee.
9. Create a journal of food consumption. If necessary, consult with a nutritionist
10. Exercise regularly.

10 Tips easily above must be supported by knowledge about food nutrition. Many foods such as fruits and vegetables that are fibrous, containing vitamins and antioxidants are good because It is going to fill your stomach and filling fast.

Eat less red meat such as beef and lamb as well as fatty animal foods. Replace them with vegetable fat. Avoid eating high carbohydrate like rice, especially night time meals.

Source: Healtycastle.com