Milkshake

Hi! The moment I know the word 'Milkshake' was when I went to London. I tasted that drink and it taste damn nice. I thought milkshake was like some other milk that does not taste nice just because of the word 'milk'. I would never ever forget the moment I was there because in Malaysia, milkshake is not sold in Malaysia. For those who love milkshake or wanted to try to make milkshake, I found a good video source from Youtube. Hope you guys enjoy it.

Reference:
POPSUGAR Food, 2013. Oreo Milkshake Recipe | Dessert Idea | Food How To. [video online] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PqVATOa2ok> [Accessed 10 August 2015].

How to do 'Lepat Pisang'

Lepat pisang is one of the Malaysian cuisine that is well known in the north Malaysia. Whenever, I go to Penang, I'll always buy this at the road side. Please try the recipe below.

Ingredients:

1 bunch of banana
1/2 coconut (get the coconut milk/santan for 2 cups)
2 cups of wheat flour
1 pinch of salt
5 tablespoon of sugar
Few banana leaves held over the flame

Directions:

1) Mash the banana finely.
2) Put the wheat flour and stir it evenly.
3) Put the salt, sugar and coconut milk. Stir it evenly.
4) Cut the banana leaves into square shape. Take the banana leaves and put 2 tablespoon of the batter at the banana leaves.
5) Wrap the banana leaves.
6) Heat the water in the double-boiler. Steam the Lepat Pisang for 30 minutes.
7) When it is cooked, place it on a plate.

Reference:
zewcakes, 2012. Leper Pisang by zewcakes. [online image] Available at: <https://zewcakes.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/lepet-pisang-lapek-pisang/> [Accessed 9 August 2015].

Macaroni cheese

Ingredients:

250 gram of macaroni(boiled)
1 bottle of tomato pasta bake sauce
100 gram of prawns
50 gram of mozarella cheese
50 gram of cream cheese (liquid)
1 tablespoon of black pepper
1 pinch of nutmeg
1 pinch of parsley
1 pinch of basil
1 pinch of rosemary
1 pinch of thyme
1/2 onion (cut into small pieces)
2 garlics (cut into small pieces)

Direction:

1) Pour the olive oil into a wok. Put onion and garlics. Stir until nice fragrance can be smelled.
2) Put the prawns and butter. Stir it until it's half-cooked.
3) Pour the tomato pasta bake sauce and put the macaroni.
4) Add the black pepper, salt and a pinch of nutmeg, basil, rosemary and thyme.
5) Stir it evenly.
6) After it is cooked, put the mixture into an empty square container.
7) Sprinkle the mozarella cheese and cream cheese.
8) Bake it in oven at 160°C for about 20 minutes.

Bread Pudding

Ingredients:

13 - 15 slices of white bread (to be torn into smaller pieces)
2 tablespoon of raisins
2 tablespoon of cashew nuts
2 cups of fresh milk
1 cup of whipping cream
2 tablespoon of custard powder
3 eggs
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
3/4 cups of granulated sugar
2 tablespoon of butter

Directions:

1) In a square spring pan, tear all the white bread into smaller pieces. Sprinkle the raisins and cashew nuts onto the bread.
2) Take a pan and heat up the milk and whipping cream. Add in the butter and wait till it melts. Add in the custard powder little by little and gently whisk it. Then, turn off the heat.
3) In a seperate bowl, break the eggs. Then add in the granulated sugar and the vanilla extract. Use a whisker to mix the eggs and sugar until the eggs turns fluffy.
4) Pour the fluffy eggs mixture into the milk mixture. Mix them well.
5) Pour the mixture into the spring pan flled with white bread. Let the mixture soak with the white bread for 5 minutes.
6) Heat up the oven at 165-170°C. Once the oven is heated up, place the spring pan into the oven and leave it to cook for 30 minutes. Once it is cooked, take it out from the oven and set aside to be chilled.

Fried Macaroni

Fried Macaroni

Ingredients:

250 gram of macaroni (boiled in water for few minutes)
100 gram of chicken
2 potatoes
1 bottle of tomato pasta sauce
6 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon of black pepper (blended)
5 tablespoon of chilli sauce
1/2 onion (cut into small pieces)
2 garlics (cut into small pieces)

Direction:

1) Boil the chicken. Boil the potatoes. Mix the potatoes and chicken together. Then, mash the potatoes that are mixed with chicken together.
2) Pour few drops of olive oil into the wok. Put the onion and garlics, sauté and stir it until nice fragrance can be smelled.
3) Pour the tomato pasta sauce together with chilli sauce.
4) Put the mixture of potatoes and chicken that were mashed.
5) Put the macaroni
6) Put the salt, black pepper and with a pinch of nutmeg, parsley, rosemary, and thyme.
7) Stir it evenly.
8) After it is cooked, place the fried macaroni on a huge plate or bowl.

Reference:
Wickramarachchi, A. 2011. Spicy Fried Macaroni. [online image] Available at: <http://foodcnr.com/spicy-fried-macaroni/> [Accessed 9 August 2015].

How to cook 'Cucur Udang'

Cucur udang has always been my favourite food. The most tasteful part is that it contains prawns in it. For those who like to eat cucur udang, please do give a try with the recipe below.

Cucur Udang

Ingredients:

300 gram of wheat flour
100 gram of prawns
Scallion (cut until very small)
50 gram of Chinese chives
1/2 carrot (cut into small pieces)
1/2 teaspoon of salt
6 tablespoon of blended chilli
1 cup of lukewarm water
Corn oil (1/3 of the wok)

Direction:

1) Put the wheat flour into a round container. Pour the chilli and salt in it too. Pour the lukewarm water and stir it evenly.
2) After that, put the prawns, scallion, Chinese chives and carrot. Stir it evenly.
3) Pour the corn oil into the wok. Fry the mixture/batter until all of it finish.

Reference:
Shaiful, Y. 2014. Cucur Udang Rangup. [online image] Available at: <http://yanashaiful.blogspot.com/2014/03/cucur-udang-rangup.html> [Accessed 9 August 2015].

How to cook Cokodok

Cokodok is actually another type of fried banana but the banana has been mashed compare to Pisang Goreng and it is spherical in shape. So, I'll be sharing the recipe of Cokodok. To see what is the difference of it, check the Pisang Goreng recipe at my previous post by clicking here.

Ingredients:

1 bunch of banana
1 cup of wheat flour
1 pinch of salt
Corn oil (1/3 of the wok)

Direction of preparation:

1) Mash the banana by using the 'Potato Masher'.
2) Add the wheat flour and a pinch of salt.
3) Stir the mixture of banana, wheat flour and salt evenly.
4) Pour the oil into wok and preheat it.
5) Pour the mixture bit by bit into the wok so that it shape like a ball when it is being fried.
6) When it is fried, take it out from the wok and place it on a plate.

Reference:
kak fizah, 2011. Cekodok Pisang/Jemput-Jemput Pisang. [online image] Available at: <http://resepimudah.blogspot.com/2010/12/cekodok-pisangjemput-jemput-pisang.html> [Accessed 9 August 2015].

Spaghetti

Ingredients:
400 gram of spaghetti
3 tablespoon of olive oil
4 tablespoon of olive oil
1 bottle of spaghetti sauce (tomato)
20 prawns
3 tablespoon of butter
1 tablespoon of black pepper
1 pinch of nutmeg
1 pinch of parsley
1 pinch of rosemary
1 pinch of thyme
1 pinch of basil
3 bay leaves
1/4 cups of cooking cream
1/4 cups of chicken stock
1/2 onion (cut into small pieces)
2 garlics (cut into small pieces)
2 tablespoon of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt

Direction of preparing spaghetti:

1) Boil the spaghetti in a wok.
2) After it is boiled, place the spaghetti on a big plate. Pour 3 tablespoon of olive oil to the spaghetti and stir it evenly.

Direction of preparing the sauce of spaghetti:

1) Pour 4 tablespoon of oilve oil into the wok. Sauté the onion and garlics.
2) Put the prawns, butter, cooking cream and black pepper. Stir it evenly.
3) Pour the spaghetti sauce and add a pinch of nutmeg, parsley, rosemary, thyme and basil. Put three bay leaves.
4) Add chicken stock, sugar and salt.
6) Put the spaghetti gradually in the wok and mix it with spaghetti sauce evenly.

How to do Kuih Gulung

Ingredients of fillings:

1/2 grated coconut
100 gram of palm sugar
2 pandan leaves
1 table spoon of cornflour
1/2 cup of water
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Direction of preparing the fillings:

1) Put the grated coconut into the wok. Pour the water and put the palm sugar into the wok. Mix it well and stir it evenly. Mix the cornflour with water and pour it into wok.
2) After the filling is cooked, let it cool for few minutes.

Ingredients of the green omellette:

300 gram of wheat flour
1 pinch of salt
2 eggs
8 pandan leaves (finely crushed to get the essence of pandan)
2 cups of water
1/2 cup of corn oil

Direction of preparing the green omellette:

1) Sieve the wheat flour and put it into a bowl. Put the eggs, salt, essence of pandan and water.
2) Stir the batter evenly until it is well mixed.
3) Heat the pan, pour few drops of oil. Pour 1/2 of the ladle of the batter(green omellette) into the pan and use the base of a stainless steel cup to flatten the batter in the pan.
4) When the green omellette is cooked. Take it out and place it on a plate. Put 2-3 table spoon of the fillings on top of the green omellette and roll it nicely.

Reference:
Ayu, M. 2014. Kuih ketayap/kuih gulung ~ resepi & step by step. [online image] Available at: <http://mummyayu.blogspot.com/2014/07/kuih-ketayap-kuih-gulung-resepi-step-by.html> [Accessed 9 August 2015].

Nasi Impit and Kuah Kacang

Hey there, 😃! I'm gonna share the recipe of Nasi Impit with Kuah Kacang. But before that, Nasi Impit is often eaten with Kuah Kacang and this food is often eaten and served during the day of Eid al-Fitr (Hari Raya Aidilfitri) in Malaysia. Nasi Impit is a compressed rice whereas Kuah Kacang is the gravy which contain a lot of groundnuts. There is a picture below that shows how Nasi Impit and Kuah look like.

Nasi Impit served with Kuah Kacang

Ingredients for preparing Nasi Impit:

1/2 kilogram of rice

Direction of preparing Nasi Impit:

1) Weave the palm leaves to put the rice into it for about 20 pieces.
2) Wash the rice and put the rice into the woven palm leaves. Then, make a knot at both end of the leaves or in layman term it means tie both the end of the leaves.
3) After that, boil all the the palm leaves that contain rice until nice fragrance can be smelled.
4) Then, take out the palm leaves which contain the rice and let it cool. Basically, this palm leaves that contain the rice that were boiled is called as Nasi Impit.

Note: In Malaysia, it is not necessary to make Nasi Impit using the palm leaves and weaving it as it can be complicated because there are ready-made Nasi Impit sold in Malaysian supermarkets. So, basically can just boil the ready-made Nasi Impit.

Ingredients for preparing Kuah Kacang:

1 kilogram of groundnuts
8 red onions (blend)
4 garlics (blend)
1/2 inch of ginger (blend)
1 tea spoon of anise (blend)
1 tea spoon of coriander (blend)
4 lemon grass (blend)
1 piece of (gula melaka) brown sugar
1/2 tea spoon of salt
1 coconut (get the coconut milk)
1/2 bowl of chillies (blended)
Oil

Direction of preparing Kuah Kacang:

1) Fry the groundnuts until it looks golden in colour. Remove the skin of the groundnut and blend it.
2) Pour few drops of oil into the wok. Put the red onions, garlics, ginger, anise, coriander, lemon grass and chilli. Sauté all of it until nice fragrance can be smelled.
3) Put the groundnuts, coconut milk, brown sugar and salt. After it is well boiled, serve Kuah Kacang with Nasi Impit.

Reference:
ayahzaara, 2015. Bolehkah bayi 6 bulan diberi nasi impit? [online image] Available at: <http://www.mayazaara.com/bolehkah-bayi-6-bulan-diberi-nasi-impit/> [Accessed 9 August 2015].

How to make Klepon

Hey there 😊! Well now, I'll be sharing recipe on how to make Klepon. In Malaysia, Klepon is known as Buah Melaka.

Ingredients:

1/2 packet of glutinous rice flour

1/2 cup of lukewarm water

8 pandan leaves (finely crushed to get essence of pandan)

1/2 grated coconut

1 pinch of salt

Gula Melaka/Coconut palm sugar (cut into small pieces)

Direction:

1) Put the glutinous rice flour into a bowl.

2) Take the essence of pandan and sprinkle some water to it and squeeze it in a cup until it the 'pandan water' reaches 1/2 of the cup. (Repeat this step for few times)

3) Pour the lukewarm water and  and pandan water to the glutinous rice flour. Knead it evenly.

4) The flour that was kneaded is shapen like sphere and the Gula Melaka is put in it.

5) The dough that was shapen like sphere is put into a pot filled with hot water.

6) When the Klepon appear and arise on the surface of water, take it out from the pot and place it on a plate. The Klepon is mixed with the grated coconut that was mixed with a pinch of salt.

Reference:

Che'Nom, 2013. Resepi Buah Melaka. [online image] Available at: <http://iresipi.com/resepi/buah-melaka/show> [Accessed 8 August 2015].

How to make Bee Hoon Soup

Ingredients for soup:

1 pack of Bee Hoon (Rice Vermicelli)
1 kilogram of chicken
1 table spoon of black pepper (finely crushed)
5 red onions (finely crushed)
4 garlics (finely crushed)
1 inch of ginger (finely crushed)
1 tea spoon of Anise (finely crushed)
4 table spoon of corn oil
1 star anise
4 cloves
1 inch of cinnamon
5 green cardamom
10 cups of water
1/2 table spoon of salt

Direction:

1) Soak the Bee Hoon in water until it is soft. After that, put the Bee Hoon into colander and pour hot water on it.
2) Pour the corn oil into pot. Sauté the star anise, cloves, cinnamon, green cardamom.
3)Put the chicken into the pot and stir it evenly.
4)Pour water and put salt into the pot. Wait until the chicken is cooked.

Ingredients for decoration:

1/2 kilogram of bean sprouts (blanched)
3 pieces of tofu (fried and all the 3 tofu cut into small pieces)
6 Bird's eye chillies
2 garlics
Soy sauce
1 lime
Scallion (finely cut)
Celery
Chicken fillet (the one from the soup but remove the bone of chicken)

Direction:

1) Blend the bird's eye chillies and garlics. Then, mix it together in a bowl and add soy sauce 1/3 of the bowl. Then, squeeze the lime in the bowl. (Now, it becomes 'Soy sauce gravy')
2) Put the Bee Hoon into another bowl. Pour the soup into the bowl and together add the bean sprouts, tofu, 'Soy sauce gravy', scallion, celery and chicken fillet.

Reference:
wanayusuf, 2010. Meehoon Sup (Bihun Sup). [online image] Available at: <https://blogwana.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/meehoon-sup-bihun-sup/> [Accessed 8 August 2015].

Jelly

 Jelly used to be one of my favourite food. I have always eaten my mums jelly and used to cook that with her once. Jelly is one of the simplest food to make. As usual, I'll also be sharing the recipe of jelly. Good luck trying the recipe.

Ingredients:

1 pack of jelly

1 cup of water

1 tin of carnation milk

1 cup of sugar

2 table spoon of coco powder

2 table spoon of Milo

Note: Mix the coco powder and Milo together in a cup, than pour hot water (1/2 of the cup) into the cup.

Directions:

1) Cook the jelly with water until it melts

2) Add the sugar, cook until the sugar is dissolved.

3) Add the carnation milk, when it is boiling, pour the batter into a round container.

4) Take a spoon of the mixture of liquified coco powder and Milo, then pour on the jelly and design it like batik. Repeat this step for a few times.

5) Let it cool for few minutes. After that, put it in refrigerator for 2 hour at least.

"Kuih Seri Muka"

Seri Muka is one of Malaysian dessert where it has two layers where its bottom layer is glutinous rice whereas its top layer is green colour custard made from Pandan (that's why the colour is green). I'll be sharing the recipe of Seri Muka.

Ingredients:

12 spoon of wheat flour
12 spoon of sugar
3 1/2 cup of glutinous rice
1 coconut (to get Coconut milk or Santan)
2 eggs
8 pandan leaves (finely crushed, for the top layer)
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 Pandan leaves (to be cooked with glutinous rice, not the top layer)

Direction:

1) Pour the coconut milk into the glutinous rice. Put the salt and 2 pandan leaves into the glutinous rice. Stir until it is well mixed and half-cooked.
2) Put the glutinous rice into round container. Flatten the glutinous rice evenly.
3) Steam the glutinous rice until it is cooked for 30 minutes.
4) After that, take the 8 pandan leaves that are finely crushed, squeez it with 1/2 cup of water to get the filtrate (Pandan essence).
5) Put the flour mixed with sugar, eggs, Pandan essence, and coconut milk. Stir it until it is well mixed. After that, pour it into the same round container where the glutinous rice was steamed.
6) Steam it again for 30 minutes, until the dessert is cooked.
7) After it is cooked, let it cool for few minutes (no specific time).

Reference:
Manzoorul, Z. 2013. Recipe Seri Muka. [online image] Available at: <http://zeykhayra.blogspot.com/2013/08/recipe-seri-muka_9866.html> [Accessed 8 August 2015].

How to cook 'Bee Hoon Goreng' (Fried 'Rice Vermicelli')

Hi! It's been long time I have not post any recipe. Well today I'm gonna post the recipe how to cook Bee Hoon Goreng. Well this is one of Malaysian cuisine.

Ingredients:

300 gram of Bee Hoon (Rice Vermicelli) - soaked in water until soft
100 gram of Chives
100 gram of Bok Choy
Prawns (no specific amount)
1/2 carrot (cut)
Soy sauce (no specific amount)
Tomato sauce (no specfic amount)
1 tea spoon of salt
1/2 cup of water
Corn oil
6 table spoon of chilli (blended)
4 red onions (blended)
3 garlics (blended)
Scallion (cut)

Direction:

1) Pour few drops of corn oil into the wok.
2) Sauté the red onions and garlics.
3) Pour the chilli and sauté it until it smells nice.
4) Put the prawns and carrots, stir it until it is half-cooked.
5) Put the chives and Bok Choy.
6) Put the Bee Hoon (Rice Vermicelli) and stir it until it is well mixed.
7) Put few scallions as decoration. (Optional)

Good luck trying this recipe.