Wednesday, June 20, 2007

banana cake resepi


Ingredients:
310 g all-purpose flour
10 g baking soda
1 g salt
115 g unsalted butter ( I used margarine sbb butter pinishhh )
120 g white sugar
80 g light brown sugar
2 eggs
4 ripe bananas, mashed
160 ml buttermilk ( 155ml milk + 5ml vinegar/lemon juice )
*60 g chopped walnuts ( I didn't add in any nuts sbb I like my banana cake to be plain )
How to make:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 2 - 8 inch round pans. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, soda and salt; set aside.
2. In a large bowl, cream butter, white sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Mix in the bananas. Add flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk to the creamed mixture. Stir in chopped walnuts. Pour batter into the prepared pans.
3. Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes. Remove from oven, and place on a damp tea towel to cool. After the cake has cooled off a little bit, I wrapped the cake in cling wrap and left it overnight.

Monday, June 18, 2007

Italian Meatballs


Ingredients:
Meatballs -
minced turkey, 2 eggs, parmesan, breadcrumbs, pine nuts, oregano, salt & pepper, parsley Sauce - 1 tin chopped tomatoes, 4 cloves sliced garlic, 1/2 an onion (chopped), salt & pepper, parsley, borlotti beans, oregano
Directions:
Fry the chopped onion and garlic until transparent and then liquidize with half the tomatoes. Add tomatoes to pan and bring to the boil,then add mushed onions, garlic, beans and oregano and simmer gently for 10 minutes. While sauce is simmering, fry meat, onions and nuts until light brown. Let meat mixture cool down bit, then mix meatball ingredients - with hands is best - into chestnut sized balls and fry until brown. Add meatballs to sauce, sprinkle with parsley and serve with linguine or pappardelle.

bihun singapura

Ingredients
Small shrimps - A handful, peel off the shells and boil the shells to get some stock. Just a little water will do. Leave the shrimps asides
1 piece of bihun (enough for two or three person) - soak
1 large handful of beansprouts (taugeh)
1 stalk of coriader leaves (daun ketumbar) or Chinese celery (daun sup)
1 bulb of garlic (bawang putih) - pounded
1 onion (bawang merah) - pounded
oil (minyak masak)
black pepper, coarsely pounded (lada hitam kasar)

Method


1.Heat oil, stir fry the pounded onion and garlic
2.Add shrimps
3.Add beansprout and coriander leaves
4.Add bihun
5.Add enough water to make the bihun moist
6.Flavour it with black pepper, salt and some fish sauce

Walnut Coffee Cake with Butter Caramel Sauce

Ingredients 220g flour 200g white sugar 100g brown sugar 5g Nescafe ( or any instant coffee ) 3 tablespoon baking powder 1 pinch of salt 115g shortening ( you can use butter if there's no shortening at home ) 230ml milk 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence 4 egg whites 50g crushed walnuts ( any nuts would do if you don't have any walnuts )
How to make:
1. Mix dry ingredients into a bowl, add shortening,milk and vanilla. Beat in mixer for 1 minute or until the mixture is well blended.
2. Add in the egg whites and mix until mixture becomes fluffy or smooth.
3. Bake in prepared pan and preheated oven ( 170-180 degrees) for 30-40 minutes. Halfway through baking, add in crushed walnuts onto the batter and continue baking.This may differ according to your oven temp.Like mine, I had it cooked for 50 minutes at 160 degrees.
4. Leave cake to cool and meanwhile, prepare the butter caramel sauce. Ingredients 60g sugar 2 tablespoons butter 60ml cream, warmed vanilla essence
How to make:
1. Melt the butter in a large saucepan. Stir in the sugar and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally with a heatproof utensil, until the mixture begins to caramelize and turn an amber color.
2. When the caramel has turned somewhat reddish and has begun to smoke, and just when it looks and smells as if it is about to burn, remove from the heat and quickly pour in the heavy cream.
3. Stir the caramel until the sauce is smooth and creamy. Add the vanilla.

Resepi of "Kung Pao Chicken"


Ingredients: 600 gm chicken ( whit meat/dark meat --> ikut selera ) cornflour salt pepper 100 gm cashew nuts - toasted ( nak grg pon bleh ) 30 gm dry chilli, cut into half 1 large onion, cut into big chunks 4 cloves garlic, pounded 3 cm ginger, pounded 1 green bell pepper ( capsicum ) 3 tbsp oyster sauce 2 tbsp chilli sauce 1 tbsp tomato sauce 1/4 cup water oil salt, pepper, sugar to taste
How to make:
1. Season the chicken with salt&pepper and then coat with cornflour. Deep fry and place on kitchen towel.
2. Saute dy chilli and put aside. Then saute the garlic, ginger and onions.
3. Add in the capsicum, fried chicken, oyster sauce, chilli sauce and tomato sauce and add the water.
4. Lastly add in the cashew nuts and dry chilli that was put aside. Let simmer for 3-5mins, remove from heat and serve with warm white rice.

Monday, May 14, 2007

picture or spring roll


Resepi of chicken spring roll

  1. Chicken spring roll

    Ingredients
    3 dried spring roll skin
    3 eggs
    300g Chicken (slice into pieces)
    3 slide of cheese
    1 tablespoon chopped spring onions
    50g of butter
    1 tablespoon mayonnaise
    1 tomato (slide into pieces)

    Seasoning
    A.1/3 tablespoon black pepper
    1/3 tablespoon salt



    Methods
    1)Mix chicken slide with seasoning A they had prepare.
    2)Heat olive oil for 1 minute and put in butter. Add marinated chicken slide when the butter melt
    3)Beat 2 eggs and prepare the wok with little oil flavored with olive oil, fry the eggs prepared till both side are evenly golden. Remove.
    4)Cut the fried eggs into pieces.
    5)Put pieces of fried eggs, tomato slide,1 slide of cheese and the chicken slide, on each dried spring roll.
    6)Roll up tightly and form a, firm long roll. Repeat step 5 and make 3 rolls.
    7)Brush the egg to spring roll to spring rolls and fry it until golden and crispy(around 3 minute).Remove with a spitted spoon and cut into small section, and arrange on a plate.
    Drizzle mayonnaise into spring rolls and sprinkle with chopped spring onions and serve.