Home Cooking

Bread Pudding

2011-12-19T05:50:00.003Z

Recipe was adopted from joyofbaking.com with some modifications from my kitchen
Bread Pudding:

8 cups (2 L) bread cubes, cut into bite sized pieces (good choices are French, Broiche, Challah, Croissant, Italian, and/or Panettone. The bread can be fresh or stale and crusts can be left on or removed.)

Fruit: (Optional)

3 large bananas, diced

1/2 cup (120 ml) sultanas (raisins)

Carrot Muffins

2011-12-11T07:07:00.004Z

Source from Here

Carrot Muffins Recipe:

2 cups (270 grams) grated raw carrot (about 2-3 peeled carrots)
1 large apple, peeled and grated
2 cups (260 grams) all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cups (250 grams) granulated white sugar
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon (3.5 grams) salt
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
3 large eggs
3/4 cup (180 ml) safflower, corn, or canola oil
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

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Simple Sponge Cake

2011-07-18T18:27:00.010+01:00

Ingredients:
1/2 cup All purpose flour
1/2 cup Grounded sugar
1/2 cup softened butter
4 Egg,yolk and egg white separated
1 tsp Baking powder
Vinalia Essence, Few drops

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Easy Black Forest Cake

2011-07-08T11:17:00.005+01:00

Easy Black Forest cake recipe made with a cake mix, cherry pie filling, and whipped cream, and shaved chocolate.

Ingredients:

1 chocolate cake mix, 2-layer size
2 cups whipping cream or heavy cream
2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 can (21 ounces) cherry pie filling
1 ounce shaved semisweet chocolate

Preparation:

Prepare chocolate cake following directions on package, making 2 round 9-inch layers. Cool cake thoroughly. In a small bowl, beat the cream with the confectioners’ sugar and vanilla until stiff peaks form.
Place one cake layer on a cake plate and spread with about 3/4 cup of the whipped cream. Top with half of the cherry pie filling, then top that with the second chocolate cake layer. Spread the side of the cake with half of the remaining whipped cream. Spoon remaining pie filling on top of cake, keeping it in the center. Spoon or pipe remaining cream around the cherries. Sprinkle the whipped cream around edge with shaved semisweet chocolate.

Tahu Isi (Indonesian fried Stuffed Tofu)

2011-03-28T06:11:00.003+01:00

Ingredients:
- 1 block of tofu diagonally cut and deep fried, make hole manually with spoon, set aside.
- 50gr carrot cut into jullian
- 50gr bean sprout
- 2 spring onions sliced
- 3 garlic minced
- 2 shallots minced
- Pepper
- Salt
- Oil for deep frying

Batter for the Tofu:
- 1/2 cup rice flour
- Salt
- Pepper
- Water

Directions;
- Heat little bit oil in a pan, add shallot and garlic when the oil is hot.
- Add carrot stir until carrot is softed.
- Add the rest of ingredients and stir thoroughly.
- Adjust seasoning to your liking.
- Fill the tofu with the filling.
- Mix all batter ingredients.
- Heat oil for deep frying in a pan.
- Dip tofu one by one in batter mixture.
- Deep fry until golden brown.
- Eat warm with bird’s eye chili or sambal sauce.

Choux Pastry a.k.a. Kue Sus

2011-02-27T05:47:00.010Z

Actualy, This was my 2nd attempted of baking Kue Sus. the 1st attempted was aged ago in 2007, but i didn't post it here bcoz i wasn't happy with the result. this time i took the recipe from here and this time, i am very happy with the result, it turned out so good.

And thanks to my dear friend Helen for the Vla recipe.

Chicken tikka wings

2011-02-23T09:47:00.007Z

This is almost ours every weekend snack. very simple and easy to make yet very tasty, and the most important thing is, everybody luvs it.

Ingredients:
500 gr chicken wings cut into two pieces (washed, set aside)
2 tblspn chicken tikka seasoning
3 tblspn lemon juice
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
bread crumbs
cooking oil

Directions:
* Combine chicken wings with all the ingredients except eggs, bread crumb and cooking oil. marinated in the fridge atleat for 2 hours.
* In a medium bowl, beat the eggs, Dip chicken wings in eggs, then coat with bread crumbs.
* deep fried until crisp and golden color, enjoy!

Homemade Paratha

2011-02-13T08:07:00.009Z

Fluffy inside, crispy outside.

Medanese Style Chicken soup with coconut milk (Soto Ayam Medan)

2011-01-30T07:21:00.009Z

Ingredients (serve 6):
2 lbs chicken breast
1 bay leaf
1 tbsp ground lemon grass or 1 lemon grass
5 lime leaves
1/2″ galangal
1 cup coconut milk
3 hard boiled eggs
6 cups bean sprout -> boil quickly before serving
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp salt -> 1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp sweet soy sauce

Spices:
8 shallots
3 cloves garlic
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tbsp ground coriander seed
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/2″ ginger
3 nutmeg

Garnish:
1 green onion
fried shallots

Directions:

1. Put chicken and 4 cups of water in sauce pan and turn the heat to high. When the water boils, turn the heat to low, and put in bay leaf, lime leaves and galangal. Simmer for another 8 – 10 mins, put the chicken aside and leave the chicken broth on low heat.
2. Put all the spices in a blender, and ground them. Spray oil on frying pan and stir fry the ground spices for 1-2 minutes. Put the ground spices and salt and sweet soy sauce in the chicken broth and mix well.
3. Put the coconut milk into the chicken broth mix and stir every 10 minutes or so under low heat. Stirring under low heat is important, because otherwise the coconut milk won’t mix well. Keep doing this for 1 hour.
3. Cut chicken into bite sizes, and mix well with soy sauce, then stir fry for 3-4 minutes.
4. On a bowl, put half hard boiled eggs, bean sprout and chicken. Garnish with green onion and fried shallots. Pour 1/6th of the broth mix on top of it. Enjoy!

Dory Fillet in Lemon butter sauce

2011-01-25T07:40:00.003Z

Ingredients:

Dory Fish fillets
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp Olive oil
1 small lemon
Salt and pepper

Directions:

* Put butter on a large non-stick frying pan and heat over medium heat. When the butter melts, add the oil. Cut the lemon into quarters, and squeeze the juice from each quarter into the frying pan. Mix lemon juice, butter and oil with a spatula.

* Add the fish to the frying pan, and increase the heat to medium-high. Cook the fish for 4 minutes, then turn over with a spatula and cook on the other side for 4 minutes or until cooked through.

* Put the cooked fish on a plate. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Pour the lemon-butter sauce from the pan over the fish. enjoy with mashed potato and fresh salad.

Tofu in soy sauce (semur tahu)

2011-01-18T07:34:00.005Z

Ingredients:

* 4 blocks of tofu, deep fry until half-cooked
* 4 shallots, sliced
* 3 cloves of garlic, sliced
* 2 tblsp oil
* 3 cloves
* 1 tsp of white pepper powder
* 2 whole cardamoms
* 1 tomato, diced,
* 2 tblsp of ketchup
* 5 tblsp (or to taste) kecap manis (sweet soy sauce)
* 1 1/2 cups water
* sugar and salt to taste

Direction:

* Heat oil in the pan, add sliced shallots and garlic, stir fry until fragrant.
* Add white pepper powder, cloves, cardamoms, tomato and ketchup, sugar and salt continue to stir fry for about 1 minute.
* add sweet soy sauce, and tofu stir well, and lastly add water.
* Simmer, uncover until the water evaporate to half and a bit thickened.
* Remove from heat and Sprinkle with fried shallots.

Sambal goreng kentang (Spicy fried potatoes)

2011-01-12T07:36:00.003Z

I had half package of chicken gizzard left over in the freezer. so I tried to make this sambal goreng kentang instead of wasted. so here is the result, spicy fried potatoes with chicken gizzard, enjoy!

Ingredients:

* 500 gr Potatoes, cut into small cubes
* Oil for frying
* 10 chicken gizzard, cut into small pieces
* 1 cm galanggal
* 1 bay leave
* 1 lemongrass

Grind ingredients:
* 5 coves onion
* 2 cloves garlic
* 8 red chillies
* 1/2 teaspoon salt and sugar
* 1 tomato

Method:

1. Grind together onion, garlic, chilies, sugar, salt and tomato.
2. Meanwhile, fried the potatoes with oil until brown or until cook through , set aside.
3. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large saucepan, add grind ingredients and cook for 1 minute.
4. Add galangal, bay leave, lemongrass and chicken gizzard, cook for another 1 minutes, add potatoes and cook for further 5 minutes or untill the chicken gizzard cook through.
5. Serve with white rice.

Simple and easy Chicken Biryani

2011-01-06T06:07:00.009Z

Biryani is a traditional rice recipe in South Asia. Biryani is actually very special and popular main rice dish in India and Pakistani cuisine. Particularly in Hyderabad, India and in Karachi, Pakistan. Biryani is considered part of the Muslim Food in Indian cuisine, so Biryani is usually more popular in regions with significant Muslim population. Biryani is also served on special occasions weddings parties, Eid-ul-fitr, Eid-ul Adha and so on. There are many varieties and flavors of Biryani such as Hyderabadi biryani, Sindhi Biryani, Prawn Biryani, Vegetable biryani and many more.

Ingredients
Chicken Biryani - Simple and Easy Recipe

* 1 kg chicken (breast and chicken thighs)
* 1/2 kg potatoes (optional)
* 1 kg basmati rice
* 3 cup yogurt
* 1/2 cup green chilies paste
* 2 medium size onions
* 2 tsp red chili powder
* 1 tsp cumin seeds
* 1 tsp ginger paste
* 1 tsp garlic paste
* 1 tsp black pepper
* 6 cloves
* 4 cardamon
* 4 green cardamon
* 1 inch cinnamon stick
* 2 bay leaves
* 4 green chilies
* 1 tbsp lemon juice
* 1 tblsp of biryani masala
* coriander leaves
* Yellow food color few drops
* Salt to taste
* Oil 1 cup

Method

* Wash and soak the rice in plenty of water for 2 hours.
Heat oil in a pan and fry slice onions till golden brown. Drain and keep set aside.
Peel and cut potatoes into small pieces, wash and keep set aside.

* In the same oil , add chicken and saute for 2-3 minutes on a low flame. Add cumin seeds, bay leaves, green chilies paste, red chili powder, biryani masala, salt, yogurt, ginger paste, garlic paste, cloves, black peeper, cardamon, green cardamon, cinnamon stick, lemon juice, potatoes. Cook 'till chicken and potatoes completely done and oil start to separate.

* In a big pot bring water to boil, add some salt, green chilies and rice for boiling. Continue to cook until the rice almost done. It takes about 10 minutes on stove. Drain the rice and keep set aside.

* Now its time to arrange rice and chicken layers. You should have two layers of rice and one layer of chicken gravy.

* sprinkle with yellow food color, coriender leaves and fried onions.

* Simple and easy chicken biryani is ready to serve. Before serving mix the rice well and serve hot with raaita.

Spicy Stir Fried Green Beans (Sambal Goreng Buncis)

2011-01-02T06:28:00.010Z

Ingredients:

200 gr young green beans, finely sliced
50 gr of chicken gizzard, cut into pieces
2 bay leaves
1 cm galangal, smashed
100 ml thick coconut milk
8 cloves shallots (make it paste)
4 cloves garlic (make it paste)
5 pieces of green chili, finely sliced
2 tblsp cooking oil
salt and sugar to taste
pepper to taste

Direction:

-Heat oil in a wok. Stir fry shallots and garlic paste and chili over medium heat for approximately 2 minutes. Add galanggal and bay leaves, and then add chicken gizzard, cook for 2 minutes, add the string beans, and stir well for about a minute.
- Then add all the other ingredients and stir well for another 5 minutes, or until the green beans are soft but still crunchy.

Getuk Lindri (Indonesian Cassava cake)

2010-12-28T11:10:00.013Z

Getuk Lindri is one of Indonesian traditional culinary. it is made from ground cassava with grated coconut. i missed getuk lindri when i was in my hometown last time. I couldn't found this getuk lindri in the market, i mean in the traditional market of course. its quite hard to find this dish nowadays specialy in my hometown. so here is my first attempted of getuk lindri, a very simple but taste good.

Ingredients:
1 whole cassava
50 gram of granulated sugar
½ tsp. vanila
1 cup steamed fresh-grated coconut, mixed with 1 tsp. salt
50 cc water
food color

Directions:
Put in sugar and vanila in a pot with water and bring it to boil. Peel cassava, Steam cassava until soft and then Mash cassava while still hot and pour the water mixture and food color (what ever color you desired) and blend well. Shape as your desired, and last sprinkle with grated coconut.serve and enjoy it!

Sweet lassi

2010-12-21T06:42:00.005Z

Lassi is a popular South Asian yogurt-based drink in either sweet or salted flavors. The most common flavors include mango, rose water, and plain sugar sweetened lassi.
This lassi is very simple version and easy one to make. you just need yogurt, milk or water and sugar according to your taste. mix them all in the blender and voila, its ready, enjoy!

Nasi goreng (fried rice)

2010-12-16T05:59:00.009Z

Nasi goreng, literally meaning "fried rice" in Indonesian and Malay. Nasi goreng is a simple dish that is easily modified and can be prepared in as little as five minutes. It is so common, that every household has its own recipe. I love nasi goreng serve with a fried egg on top, together with pickles and some kerupuk (prawn crackers). Enjoy!

Ingredients:

* 1 cup cold cooked rice
* 1 tablespoons oil
* 1 egg, fried
* 1 tblsp of dried anchovy, fried
* 5 shallots, pasted
* 2 cloves garlic, pasted
* 3 red chilies, pasted
* 1 teaspoon dried shrimp paste
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 tablespoon sweet soy sauce

Direction:

* Pour a small amount of oil in a wok and fry the egg, set a side.
* fry the anchovy till golden brown n crisp, set a side
* Heat the remaining oil in the wok and fry the shallots, garlic, chilies and shrimp paste for a minute .
* Increase the heat to high and add the rice, salt, anchovy and soy sauce, adding a little oil if necessary, stirring constantly until well mixed and heated through.
* Garnish with fried egg.

Banana Fritters

2010-12-07T07:59:00.005Z

A fritter is any kind of food coated in batter and deep fried.

Recipe of Banana Fritters :

3 ripe bananas, mashed. 1 egg, 1 cup of flour and a pinch of salt. cooking oil for deep frying. mix all ingredients in a bowl. then fry ’till its done.

Spicy tofu & chicken liver

2010-11-10T09:47:00.007Z

Tofu is made from soybeans. It is high in protein and calcium and well known for its ability to absorb new flavors through spices and marinades. There are two main kinds of tofu, silken or soft tofu, and firm or regular tofu.

Cooking tofu is super easy! you can fry it, and enjoy it with sambal or sweet ketchup. Here is my favorite quick and easy tofu, spicy tofu.

Nihari

2010-11-04T07:55:00.008Z

Nihari (Urdu: نہاری) is an extremely popular national dish in Pakistan, and is also eaten among Muslims in India. The word Nihar (Urdu: نہار) means morning in Urdu and this dish was usually eaten in the early morning. Nihari is a curry made from beef shank (rarely lamb) and spices. Simply delicious!

Source from Wiki

Donut

2010-10-21T09:34:00.008+01:00

Ingredients:

2 tsp yeast
125 ml warm water
1 tbsp butter
2 tbsp milk powder
2 tbsp sugar powder
2 yolk egg
2 cup flour
A pinch of salt
½ tsp baking powder

Directions :

Dissolved yeast in the warm water, keep aside until it bubbles (if you used the round shape yeast).
In a medium bowl combine flour, milk powder, sugar powder, salt and baking powder (if you use the needle shape yeast, then you should combine it at this point).
Mix yolk eggs and butter, add to flour mixture then whisk in gradually dissolved yeast (or only water if you use the needle shape yeast). When the dough is heavy to whisk, start to knead it with your hand. Knead until it combines together and not sticky on your hand, you can add little bit more of flour if needed.
Cover the bowl of the dough with wrapping plastic, keep in a warm place until its double in size (time is depend on your warm place).
When the dough doubled in size, removed the plastic cover, knead the dough again one more time for 2 minutes. Roll the dough and cut out with donut shape.
On a tray covered with a plastic sheet, line the donuts. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifCover the donuts with another plastic sheet. Keep aside to rise in a warm place until its double size and light weight.
Deep fry the donuts on medium-low flame until its golden brown in colors. Keep it on the rack with kitchen towel to remove access oil.

Source from : http://kristinemonia.blogspot.com/2011/01/donut.html

Fried okra/bindhi/lady finger

2010-09-16T08:45:00.015+01:00

A very simple dish and easy to cook.

Ingredients:

300 gr of Bindhi, washed, finely cut and set aside
1 big onion, sliced
10 green chillies, or according to your taste, finely cut
Salt to taste
Cooking oil

Direction:

Heat oil in the pan, add sliced onion and cook for about 1 minute. add bindhi, green chillies and salt. cook and stir until the bindhi soft. ready to serve.

My Fav

2010-09-15T08:57:00.002+01:00

Instant Noodle :D

Ikan Goreng Rica-Rica (Fried Mackarel in Sweet And Spicy Sauce)

2010-07-18T10:56:00.014+01:00

No, i did not cook it today, not even yesterday lol. i cooked it ages ago :P.
I found this picture in my hard drive, so i thought to share it with you :)

Meat Ball Karahi

2009-04-14T12:30:00.007+01:00

Ingredients:

for meatball:

500gr minced beef
1 onion, medium size,
2 tblsp yogurt
2 eggs
bread crumbs.
1 tblsp Karahi masala

other ingredients:

1 medium size onion
3 medium size Tomatoes
3-4 Whole Green Chillies
2 tsp. of Ginger Paste
2 tsp. of Garlic Paste
1/2 tsp. of Red Chilli Powder
2 tblsp of Karahi Masala
Salt (to taste)
1 tsp. of Black Pepper (freshly crushed)
2 tbsp. of Oil

Directions:
for meatball:
Mix all ingredients, Shape the mixture into small-medium sized meatballs. then fry until it cook.

Heat oil in a pan, add onion, garlic, ginger paste, then add karahi masala, black pepper, chilli powder and tomato and then add salt and meat ball. cook for another 5minutes, then add green chilli. cook for another 1min and ready to serve.