Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Kek Pisang Che Nom (Blender)

 Kek Pisang Che Nom (Blender) 

Adapted recipe from: https://youtu.be/k5H9Qn7U3g4?si=WQwVYhL3CvCrLSp0


Serving : 17 cupcakes / 8 inches square tin (lined with parchment paper) 

INGREDIENTS 

120g sugar

4 eggs

125g butter (melted)

125g veg. oil

1 teaspn vanilla essence

4 bananas (1 cup mashed)

1/2 teaspn salt

190g all purpose flour

1 teaspn baking soda

1 1/2 teaspn baking powder


STEPS: 

  1. Blend wet ingredients : eggs + sugar till slightly pale yellow.
  2. Mix in oil and butter, vanilla essence and banana. Blend well. 
  3. Pour mixture little by little to combine with dry ingredients (flour+baking soda+baking powder+salt). Mix well with spatula.
  4. Slice banana thinly + choc chips to decorate the top.
  5. Pour 80% full for each cupcake.
  6. Bake in preheated oven at 160DC for 15 minutes (till toothpick comes out clean).
I reduced original recipe's sugar to half. It's perfect now. The texture of the cake is so soft and moist. Totally recommended. 

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Laksam Kelantan

 Laksam Kelantan

https://resepibonda.my/resepi-laksam-kelantan/


Bahan-Bahan:

Laksam –

2 cwn tepung beras
1/2 cwn tepung gandum
2 sudu kecil tepung ubi
secubit garam
4 cwn air suam

Kuah –

1/2 kg ikan selayang/sardin/kembung
sedikit halia
5 biji bawang merah
sedikit serbuk lada hitam
3 cwn santan (dari 1 biji kelapa)
sedikit asam keping
sedikit gula

Cara Membuat:

Laksam –

1. Campur semua bahan dan gaul sebati. Perap dlm setengah jam.

2. Sementara tu sediakan periuk kukusan atas api.

3. Guna pinggan makan/ dulang untuk ganti loyang (ada loyang lagi baik)

4. Letak pinggan tu dlm periuk kukusan. Tuang 2 senduk dan ratakan sampai nipis. Kukus sampai keras.

5. keluarkan dan tunggu suam terus gulung. Gunting sederhana tebal.

Kuah –

1. Rebus ikan dengan air dalam periuk. Paras air sama dengan paras atas ikan.

2. Masukkan satu asam keping dan sedikit garam.

3. Bila ikan sudah masak, keluarkan. Air rebusan jangan dibuang.Buang tulang ikan.

4.Kisar isi ikan dengan halia, bawang merah dan air rebusan. Masakkan bahan kisaran dalam periuk.






Sesame Ball

 Sesame Ball 

Recipe taken from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rJZn2D8vTw&ab_channel=KLLIEW



INGREDIENTS 
110克 糯米粉 - 110g Glutinous Rice Flour 125克 水 - 125g Water 50克 糖 - 50g Sugar 1汤匙 糯米粉 - 1 tbsp Glutinous Rice Flour 3汤匙 水 - 3 tbsp Water 40克 糯米粉 - 40g Glutinous Rice Flour 适量的 白芝麻 - Proper Amount of White Sesame Seeds 1汤匙 食用油 - 1 tbsp Cooking Oil 5汤匙 花生碎 - 5 tbsp Ground peanuts 1汤匙 糖 - 1 tbsp Sugar 1汤匙 花生酱 - 1 tbsp Peanut Butter 适量的 黑芝麻 - Proper Amount of Black Sesame Seeds 适量的 食用油 - Proper Amount of Cooking Oil

I USUALLY DO HALF OF THIS RECIPE: 
65g glutinous rice flour
60g hot water 
25g sugar 
Half tablespoon cooking oil 

STEPS: 
  1. Heat up the water and sugar on the stove.
  2. Add in the flour and oil.
  3. Knead to form a dough. 
  4. Put in some filling in and make into a ball. 
  5. Coat with some water and sesame seed.
  6. Fry in oil. 
  7. Serve.



Ketam Masak Pedas Ala Thai

 Ketam Masak Pedas Ala Thai 


INGREDIENTS 
2 crabs (cleaned and hammered here and there)
1 lemongrass 
10 pieces of limau purut leaves 
Coriander leaves
Cili Padi 

Blend spices:
Shallot 
Ginger

Asam keping 
2 tablespoons curry powder 
1/2 tablespoon conct. chili paste 
2 tablespoons Thai chili sauce 
Sugar
Salt 
Tomyam paste 
Garam masala (I added by myself) 

STEPS:
  1. Boil the crab. Keep the water to be used as kuah later. 
  2. Heat up oil and tumis the ingredients until fragrant.
  3. Add in chili and curry powder, continue stirring until fragrant.
  4. Add in Thai chili sauce.
  5. After the mixture has 'pecah minyak', add in the water earlier. 
  6. Add in asam keping, salt and sugar.
  7. Add in the crab, coriander leaves and limau purut leaves. 
  8. After it has boiled, let the crab soak up a little of the kuah and serve. 

Otak-otak

 Otak-otak 

Original recipe taken from: https://www.nyonyacooking.com/recipes/otak-otak-grilled-fish-cake~x2UKegZg


SERVING SIZE: About 3 square glass containers 

INGREDIENTS 

Spices

20g dried chili (1 tablespoon conc. dried chili paste) * 

6 fresh chili (optional: I didn't put) *

30g fresh turmeric (I used 1 tablespoon turmeric powder) *

20 shallot *

6 cloves of garlic *

60g galangal (I used 2 inches of ginger) *

6 stalks of lemongrass *

20g ginger *

200g oil (I agak2, if follow this measurement, there will be excess oil later) 

300g fish fillet (Tenggiri) 

200g coconut milk (santan) 

200g water 

1/2 teaspoon white pepper powder

2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoon sugar 

30g tapioca flour

1 egg 


STEPS: 

  1. Blend the spices marked with * first.
  2. Pour oil into wok and tumis the blended mixture until fragrant. Discard excess oil for other cooking purpose.
  3. Let the spices paste cool down and then add in the remaining ingredients EXCEPT oil and blend for a short while. 
  4. Lay glass container with banana leaf so that it is easy to remove the otak-otak after steaming.
  5. Insert the otak-otak paste and flatten the surface. Lay a piece of aluminum foil or lid to prevent water from dripping into the otak-otak while steaming. 
  6. Steam for 20-30 minutes until cooked.
  7. Let cool. 
  8. Can be frozen and thaw as usual prior reheating. 

NOTES: 
  • It's important to blend the fish paste after mixing it with the spices paste. 
  • Grill/bake otak-otak after steaming if desire. 
  • This is NOT the kind of solid otak-otak we normally eat in Muar. It's more like Nyonya/Thailand style otak-otak. You may include prawns/squids in the otak-otak paste prior steaming to enhance it. 





Monday, February 13, 2023

Masala Vada

Masala Vada 

Original recipe taken from : https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/masala-vada-recipe-chana-dal-vada/



INGREDIENTS: 

1/2 cup yellow mung bean 

1 medium onion (finely chopped) 

1/2 inch piece of ginger (finely chopped) 

4-5 curry leaves (finely chopped) 

2-3 tablespoons coriander leaves (finely chopped) 

salt 

oil (deep frying) 


STEPS: 

  1. Soak the yellow mung bean. 
  2. Discard the water and blend the mung bean finely. 
  3. Mix all the ingredients together. 
  4. Shape the vada. 
  5. Deep fry. 
  6. Serve. 






Homemade Egg Tofu 自制鸡蛋豆腐

Homemade Egg Tofu 

 自制鸡蛋豆腐 


UTENSIL : Aluminum rectangle tray 

INGREDIENTS :

1:1 ratio egg and sugarless soy milk 

8 eggs 

400g sugarless soy milk 

2 teaspoon salt 


STEPS: 

  1. MAKING SOYMILK: Get a handful of soy beans. Soak for few hours. Blend with 500g water. Filter the soymilk. Boil soymilk with pandan leaves until bubbles can be seen (about 5-10 minutes). Stop the heat and let cool to be used later. 
  2. Mix well soymilk + eggs + salt together with fork.
  3. Pour into the tin. 
  4. Boil water in the steamer. Turn to small fire, place in the tray, steam till cooked (about 10 - 15 minutes). 
  5. Let cool, cut to desired size tofu, coat with rice flour and fry. 
  6. STORAGE : Cut tofu and keep in container. Can place on top of each other. Keep in the fridge. Discard liquid produced. Can be kept in the fridge for 3-4 days. 
NOTE:

  • Important not to use big fire when steaming. The tofu will erupt like volcano. 
  • Only requires rice flour to coat so that it is not wet when frying in oil. 
  • Only coat with rice flour when you want to fry. While storing, do not use rice flour to coat. 
  • Only requires half submerged oil while frying. Use medium-big fire when frying.  
  • Important not to use soymilk which has sugar. Will greatly affect the taste.