Super Easy Martabak/Indonesian Pancake Recipe

A
1 tablespoon sugar
3/4 teaspoon instant yeast
3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1 egg

B
5 tablespoon bread flour or all purpose flour
1 tablespoon corn flour

180 ml Water

1. Add enough water to dissolve ingredients A (about 3-5 tablespoon)
2. Add one egg, and mix well (just use hand mixer)
3. Add B in to previous mixture
4. Add enough water (about 180 ml), can add more if the mixture is too thick
5. Mix well, until no more lump of flour.
6. Place it in refrigerator for use the next day.

Fillings:
1. 1-2 Tablespoon Butter
2. Chocolate Sprinkles (Ceres)
3. Cheese (Optional)
4. Coarse Ground Peanuts
5. Sesame seed (optional)
6. 1 tablespoon condensed milk

Next Day,
1. Preheat pan. I used a nonstick korean brand pan. This pan is made from Marble. I found this type of pan is the best type that I can use in Singapore. Since it's made from Marble, the bottom of the pan is evenly heated (which is a key to get a good Martabak). When you start to see holes, put in some sugar on top, and close the pan with lid. Let it cook for a few minutes.

(When you see something like this, add sugar and close with lid)

2. When the surface is almost dried, off the heat, you can spread with 1-2 tablespoon of butter. Add chocolate sprinkles, coarse ground peanuts, sesame seed, and 1 tablespoon of condensed milk. Fold and cut into pieces. You may spread some butter on the skin as well.

Charcoal Bread (one loaf)

Ingredients:

220 g bread flour

58 g cake flour

2g charcoal powder

20 g sugar

3 g yeast

3 g salt

180 g cold milk

25 g unsalted butter

Procedures:
1. Mix flour, yeast, salt, sugar, and milk using chopstick
2. Add in butter. Knead the dough until the dough is elastic and smooth. You can do it by hand or electric mixer. I usually do it by hand, and it takes me about 20 mins to get an elastic dough. To check whether you dough is ready, you can pinch off a small piece of dough, then stretch the dough by approx. 3-5 cm, if the dough forms a thin membrane and stretches without breaking, then your dough is ready.

3. Leave the dough in a container and cover with cling wrap, let it rise up to double size. This depends on the temperature of your kitchen. If it's warm enough, then it will take short time (45-60 mins). It may go up to 2 hours. I learnt from a friend --> usually I put the dough inside microwave with a cup of hot water.

Since I don't have a microwave anymore, i usually pregeat my oven at 150 degree for 1 mins, then open the oven door and let it cold down for a bit. Then place the dough inside the oven, if the oven is still too warm, slightly open the oven door. 
4. Punch the dough with your fist to get rid of the air. Shape the dough like a big oval and place it in the bread loaf pan. Let it rise for another an hour.

5. Preheat oven 200 celc. Bake it for 20 mins. 

Pumpkin Bread Loaf

Ingredients:

150g mashed pumpkin

280g bread flour

4g yeast(3/4tsp)

3g salt

20g honey

30g milk

30g butter

50g egg(1egg)

Steam pumpkin for 10-15 mins(until soft) then mash with fork. 

Procedures:
1. Mix flour, yeast, salt, honey, egg, mashed pumpkin, and milk using chopstick
2. Add in butter. Knead the dough until the dough is elastic and smooth. You can do it by hand or electric mixer. I usually do it by hand, and it takes me about 10-20 mins to get an elastic dough. To check whether you dough is ready, you can pinch off a small piece of dough, then stretch the dough by approx. 3-5 cm, if the dough forms a thin membrane and stretches without breaking, then your dough is ready.
3. Leave the dough in a container and cover with cling wrap, let it rise up to double size. This depends on the temperature of your kitchen. If it's warm enough, then it will take short time (45-60 mins). It may go up to 2 hours. I learnt a new technique, by placing the dough inside a warm oven that was preheated for 2 mins at 100 celcius. It takes less than an hour for the dough rise. 

4. Punch the dough with your fist to get rid of the air. Then flatten the dough, and roll the dough, like rolling swiss roll cake. 

5. Grease a loaf pan with about 1/2 tablespoon of vegetable oil. Place the rolled dough in the pan and cover with cling wrap. Then let it rise for the second time. You may place it inside the warm oven again. This may take about 40 mins.
6. Set oven temperature to 200 degrees celcius. Bake the bread for 18 mins. 

7. Let it cold before you slice it. You may keep the bread in freezer to keep it fresh. Whenever u want to eat, take out few slices and let it rest to room temperature. Your bread will still remain soft like a fresh one. 

Martabak Manis Bangka (Indonesian Sweet Pancake)

Ingredients:
Skin:
1 egg
70 g white sugar
125 g all purpose flour
100 ml coconut milk
50 ml water
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Fillings:
1 tablespoon of white sugar
1 teaspoon of butter
One slice of cheese
2-3 tablespoons of rice chocolate ceres
1 tablespoon of slice almond (toasted)
1/2 tablespoon of white sesame seed (toasted)
1/2 tablespoon of condensed milk

Procedure:
Mix egg and sugar, beat until sugar is dissolved, add in some flour, then pour in some coconut milk, and water, mix, then add in the rest of the flour and liquid, mix well. You should get a mixture which is not too thick and not too thin. Add in baking powder, and beat hard with fork. Then, cover it with cling wrap, and let it rest for about 30 mins to an hour.

Heat a small pan (I use 8 inch / 20 cm size of ceramic pan). Use low heat, then sprinkle some water on the pan to check whether the pan is hot and ready to be used. When it's hot enough, pour the dough mixture, then use hand to turn the pan slightly to right, left, front, and back. This is done so that, you can create edge for your martabak. After a while (3-4 mins), you will see some bubbles start to create at the surface, then sprinkle sugar on top of the martabak and cover with a lid. Wait until the martabak is cooked (about 5 more mins), and remove it from the pan.

Spread one teaspoon of butter on top, put cheese then sprinkle rice chocolate, almond and sesame seeds. Drizzle the condensed milk evenly on top of the fillings. Cut the martabak into half, and fold it. Spread another teaspoon of butter on the skin.

Macaroons with raspberry dark chocolate fillings

  

Macaroon:

A

40 g almond powder

40 g icing sugar

Mix and sieve

B

30 g egg white (about 1 egg white)

40 g icing sugar

2 drops of strawberry essence

Beat at high speed, until it forms peaks (about 3-4 mins)

Then fold A mixture into B, slowly. The rest of procedure is similar to my previous post.

Filling:

Raspberry jam

4 tablespoons of frozen raspberry

4 tablespoons of sugar

Mix in a wok, and heat it up until it starts to boil, keep on stirring for another 2 more mins, the texture will be like jam, and it's ready to be used. Mix the jam with the chocolate fillings (recipe from previous post). 

The remaining procedures are similar to the one I wrote for chocolate macaroon.

Ice Chendol

Ingredients:

A.

10-15 Pandan Leaves chopped

5 Daun Suji chopped

500 ml water

Blend together and just take the juice. Store it in a container.

B. Palm sugar syrup

3-4 blocks of palm sugar

5 tablespoons of water

2 pandan leaves (tie in a knot)

Heat all mixture at low heat. It's ready when palm sugar has been melted. Store it in a container. 

C. Chendol (for 2-3 cups of Ice Chendol)

2.5 tablespoons of hun kwe powder

250-300 ml of pandan juice (A)

small pinch of salt

1 tablespoon of sugar

Mix them in a small pan, and heat it slowly at low heat. It will take about 10 mins for the mixture to be thickened. Then, pass through a chendol mold. I don't have one, so, I just  use a teaspoon and scoop the chendol mixture. So, the shape of my chendol was bigger and looked like scoops of teaspoon. Let the chendol form in ice water, then drain it.

Assemble a cup of ice chendol:

1 tablespoon of fermented black glutinous rice

1-2 pieces of fermented cassava     

2-3 tablespoon of coconut milk. Use fresh one if possible, and don't heat it. Coconut milk will produce bad cholesterol and fat after you boil it.  

1 tablespoon of palm sugar syrup

Ice cubes

Chendol

Chocolate Macaroon

Ingredients:

      37g Ground Almond

      3g Cocoa powder

      40g Icing sugar (A)

      30g Egg white

      40g Icing sugar (B)

Chocolate Fillings:

1 tablespoon of whipping cream (heat it in microwave for about 30 secs), then add semi sweet chocolate chips (about 3-4 tablespoons). I don't have the exact measurement for this. If you think it's too thick, you may add more whipping cream, or vice versa. Make sure the mixture is not too dilute, and not too viscous, so that you can pipe it easily later.

Procedures:

1. Sieve and mix ground almond, cocoa powder, and icing sugar (A). Put aside.

2. Beat egg white with icing sugar (B) until stiff. Then fold in the ground almond mixture (don't mix all powder one at a time, divide in to 3-4 mixtures).

3. Using piping bag with a 1 cm nozzle, fill with macaron mixture. Pipe on a baking sheet placed on a baking pan. Tap the baking pan few times to break any air bubbles, then leave it to dry for about 1 hour. The surface of the macaron will become smooth and shiny.

4. Preheat oven at 160 degree Celsius for 15 mins, then turn the temperature down to 150 degree C, bake the macaron for 3 mins, then turn the temp. down to 125 degree C and bake for 3-5 mins. You would see that the macarons will start to form skirt (foot), then turn the temperature down to 100 degree C and bake for another 5 mins.

5. Take out from oven, and turn the macaron shell so that the flat surface is facing up, then pipe the filling on top, and sandwich it with another shell. 

6. You may eat it directly or store them in an air tight container and keep it in the refrigerator.  

Turmeric Fried Chicken - Ayam Goreng Kuning

A Ingredients:

4 cloves of shallot

3 cloves of garlic

4 cm turmeric 

1 cm ginger

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon sugar

B Ingredients:

3 slices of lime leaves

2 slices of daun salam (Bay leaves)

500 ml water

2 pieces of chicken thigh 

2 pieces of chicken wing

Procedure:

1. Blend "A ingredients" using an electric blender. You may add one tablespoon of water to make it easier to blend.

2. Stir fry the blended ingredient, then put in the chicken, add water until it's enough to cover the chicken. Boil the chicken. I didn't boil it for long enough, and ended up that the taste didn't go in to the chicken. I will try again. 

3. Heat up oil, then fry the chicken. 

Tiramisu

Recipe:

4 egg yolks

2 eggs

80g sugar 

20g gelatine

6 tablespoon water

400g whipped cream (I used ready used whipped cream, Cool Whip)

500g Mascarpone Cheese

Notes: 

• if you whip your own whipped cream, you may use 350 ml of whipping cream and up to 100 g of sugar, otherwise a ready used whipped cream is already sweet.

Coffee:

30 g Coffee powder (I used Luwak powder)

400 g warm water

2 packets of lady fingers cookies

Procedure:

Cheese part:

1. Beat egg yolks, eggs, and sugar on top of a pan of simmering water. Beat until the mixture turn pale yellow in color. Cool it to room temperature.

2. Add mascarpone cheese and mix lightly. Do not overmix.

3. Soak gelatine powder with water then microwave for 20 seconds. Stir it well, and make sure no lumps.

4. Fold in whipped cream, and gelatine mixture. You may use tea filter when you add in the gelatine mixture, in case the mixture has few lumps in it.

  

How to assemble the cake:

1. Arrange lady fingers cookies on 9 inch round baking pan. 

2. Pour coffee mixture on the cookies (use tablespoon, and do it slowly (one tablespoon at a time), make sure that you don't wet the cookies too much, else it will be soggy). 

3. Pour in half of the cheese mixture.

4. Arrange lady fingers cookies on top of the cheese layer, and wet the cookies with coffee again.

5. Pour in the remaining half of the cheese mixture.

6. Refrigerate the tiramisu for a night. 

7. Sieve cocoa powder on top of the tiramisu cake, and you may decorate it as well.

This is how it looks like inside.

Homemade Pizza

Recipe:
Pizza Dough:
180 g flour (can use wheat flour for the healthy version)
1 tea spoon salt
1 tea spoon dried yeast
1/2 tea spoon caster sugar
1 table spoon olive oil
120 ml warm water

flour for dusting

Toppings:
Mushroom/chicken/bell pepper
Red pepper
Mozzarella Cheese
Pizza Sauce

Procedure:
1. Mix all pizza dough ingredients, and knead the dough until you get a smooth and nonstick dough. Place the dough in a big bowl/mixer bowl. Put some oil before you place the dough. Cover with cling plastic wrap.

2. It may take about an hour to two hours to rise the pizza dough. You should rise it until it double the size (as shown in the picture below).

3. Punch the dough with your fist to get rid of the air. Then roll out the pizza dough. 

4. Spread pizza sauce on top of the dough, then mozzarella cheese and then chicken/mushroom/bell peppers.

5. Preheat oven to 200 celcius. Bake your pizza for about 20 minutes.

Tips on how to make a soft and nice bread

After trying for so many attempts in making bread, I started to understand that the key in producing a nice and soft bread is not so much about the ingredients, but it is the way how we mix the ingredients. Some of us might not be so lucky to own the popular mixer, Kitchen Aid. But, if you do, you may skip my first video, and just look at the second video. I have tried so many recipes before I manage to get the right texture of my homemade bread. For the first 5 trials, the texture of my bread was more like a hard bread. Then a colleague offered to show me how to knead the dough. She explained to me couple of times, but still, I wasn't able to get the right texture. It's actually not only about kneading, but we should beat the dough to get an elastic one. Below is the video that I have recorded for you, in case some of you may have the same problem as me. 

It usually takes me about 20-30 mins to get the elastic bread dough. Below is the video to know when you may stop beating the dough.

Healthy Chocolate Bread

Healthy Chocolate Bread

After few months break of baking, I decided to use my oven again. I didn't realize that I am out of sugar at home. But, I know that I have various honey (Manuka, raw honey, Yummy house honey etc) available. Since, I was too lazy to go out to supermarket to get sugar, so I thought why not give it a try to substitute sugar with honey.
It's going to be a healthy one for sure. But, I do have small doubt whether it's going to work. This chinese idiom then give me a complete confidence:
 用心做的東西肯定會是最好的！
Meaning: If you put your heart into doing something, you will definitely get the best out of it!

Below is my new innovative recipe. It worked!

Recipes:
375 g Bread Flour
9 g Choco powder
4 g Instant Yeast
3 g salt
200 g fresh milk
65 g honey water (mix 3 tablespoon of honey and half cup of water)--> only use 65 g of the mixture
52 g butter

The procedure is similar to that for making Yam Bread (please see my other post for Yam bread).

Chocolate filling:
2-3 tablespoon whipping cream
6 tablespoon baking dark chocolate chips

Heat the whipping cream in microwave or on top of stove, after it boils, transfer to a container and mix the chocolate in, stir it until it's well blended. Put aside.

Diet Plan

Monday:
7:30-9:00 Breakfast --> Oat + a cup of skim milk
12:00-1:00 Lunch --> one fist of rice, Chicken breast, vegetable
3:30-4:00 Tea time --> 2 slices of bread with kaya
6:30-7:30 Work out, running 4 km with interval (slow 1 min, fast 1 min) plus push up, sit up or swimming for 40 minutes
7:30-8:30 Dinner-->a fist of rice with vegetable and fish

Tuesday:
7:30-9:00 Breakfast --> Skim milk + cereal +almond
12:00-1:00 Lunch --> 2 homemade burger / sandwiches (contains lettuce, tomato, a slice of cheese, and patty)
3:30-4:00 Tea Time -->a slice of chiffon cake
7:30-9:00 Yoga
9:00-10:00 A cup of Milo made with evaporated Milk (not condensed milk) and no sugar/Milo Si kosong

Wednesday:

7:30-9:00 Breakfast --> Oatmeal

12:00-1:00 Lunch -->noodle or bihun soup

3:30-4:00 Tea Time -->banana muffin

6:30-7:30 Badminton/Jogging/Swimming/Power Yoga

7:30-8:30 Dinner --> a bowl of chicken/fish noodle soup

Thursday:

7:30-9:00 Breakfast --> Skim milk + oat

12:00-1:00 Lunch --> sandwich

3:30-4:00 Tea Time --> a small handful of mixed nuts

6:30-7:30 Gym

7:30-8:00 Dinner --> rice with chicken breast and vegetable

Friday:

7:30-9:00 Breakfast --> 1 cup of Skim milk + 3/4 cup of cereal

12:00-1:00 Lunch --> a fist of rice with vegetable and small portion of meat

3:30-4:00 Tea Time --> muffin/chiffon cake

6:30-7:30 Dinner --> A bowl of Oatmeal

Saturday:

7:00-8:00 Running 7-10 km plus push up, sit up

8:00-9:00 Breakfast --> Omelette with one slice of wholemeal bread, 1/2 cup of orange juice

12:00-1:00 Lunch --> a fist of rice with vegetable and small portion of meat

4:30-7:30 Badminton

7:30-8:00 Dinner --> A fist of rice with fish fillet and vegetable

Sunday:
7:30-9:00 Breakfast --> one scramble egg with 2 slices of toasted bread +1/2 cup of orange juice
12:00-1:30 Lunch --> a fist rice with a lot of vegetable, and a little bit of meat
6:30-8:00 Dinner --> Outing (No fried food)

a fist of rice = the amount of rice should be the same size as your one hand fist.

Recipes:

OatMeal
3-4 tablespoons of rolled oat cooked in a cup of water. If you need some taste, after the oat is boiled, you may add a sachet of milo or hot cereal.

Vegetable --
Fried Kailan
1 tablespoon of olive oil
2 cloves of garlic
1/2 teaspoon of salt
Kailan

Fried long beans:
1 tablespoon of oil
2 cloves of garlic
1/2 teaspoon of salt
Long beans

Fried noodles:
Blender 4 cloves of garlic, 6 cloves of scallion, 1 teaspoon of dried shrimp
1 tablespoon of olive oil
cabbage
10 whole chilli padi
salt, pepper
spaghetti noodles, boiled

1.Heat oil, then fry the garlic mixture till fragrant
2.Add cabbage and chili padi, stir fry till half cooked, then add in the boiled spaghetti noodles, fry, add salt, pepper

Omelette:
2 eggs
2 cloves of garlic
1 slice of cheese
salt
pepper
1.5 teaspoon of olive oil

Bread

Yam Filling Bread

Bread

Ingredients:
Flour:
200 g bread flour
50 g cake flour (self-rising flour)
Or
120 g plain flour
130 g bread flour
Or
200 g plain flour
50g cake flour

Either option will work. I have tried!

3 g instant yeast
160 g fresh cold milk
2 g salt
35 g sugar
40 g unsalted butter

  

Procedures:
1. Mix flour, yeast, salt, sugar, and milk using chopstick
2. Add in butter. Knead the dough until the dough is elastic and smooth. You can do it by hand or electric mixer. I usually do it by hand, and it takes me about 20 mins to get an elastic dough. To check whether you dough is ready, you can pinch off a small piece of dough, then stretch the dough by approx. 3-5 cm, if the dough forms a thin membrane and stretches without breaking, then your dough is ready. 

3. Leave the dough in a container and cover with cling wrap, let it rise up to double size. This depends on the temperature of your kitchen. If it's warm enough, then it will take short time (45-60 mins). It may go up to 2 hours. I learnt from a friend --> usually I put the dough inside microwave with a cup of hot water. This will make the temperature inside the microwave a bit warm, therefore it helps the dough to rise faster. Here is how it looks like after about an hour. 

4. Punch the dough with your fist to get rid of the air. Then divide the dough into small balls, each weights about 30 g, depends on how big you want it to be. You will be able to get about 16 rolls. Then leave it for 10 mins before you shape your bread, and put the filling. 

5. After you fill and shape, leave it rise for the second time (about double size). This might take about 30 mins.
6. Glaze with beaten egg, and spread some sesame seed on top.
7. Set oven temperature to 200 degrees celcius. Bake the bread for 8-10 mins.

Yam Filling:

Steamed fresh yam for about 30 mins, then mash it. Boil small amount of coconut milk then add the mashed yam and add sugar to your taste. Be careful with the amount of coconut milk that you use, if it's too liquid like, you will have a hard time to shape your bread.

Banana Walnut Chiffon Cake

Recipe

A:

5 egg yolks

72 g cooking oil

2 medium size banana (blended with 30 g of water or milk)

147 g cake flour

B:

6 egg white

100 g sugar

1/2 teaspoon vinegar

C:

Walnuts

Vegetarian Burger

Burger Bun:
200 g bread flour
50 g cake flour
35 g sugar
a pinch of salt
3 g yeast
160 g milk
35 g butter

One egg beaten, for glazing
Sesame seeds for decorating

Procedures:
1. Mix flour, yeast, salt, sugar, and milk using chopstick
2. Add in butter. Knead the dough until the dough is elastic and smooth. You can do it by hand or electric mixer. I usually do it by hand, and it takes me about 20 mins to get an elastic dough.
3. Leave the dough in a container and cover with cling wrap, let it rise up to double size. This depends on the temperature of your kitchen. If it's warm enough, then it will take short time (45-60 mins).
4. Punch the dough with your fist to get rid of the air. Then divide the dough into small balls, each weights about 60 g. You will be able to get about 8 rolls.
5. Leave it rise for the second time. This might take about 30 mins.
6. Glaze with beaten egg, and spread some sesame seed on top.
7. Set oven temperature to 200 celcius. Bake the bun for 8-10 mins.

Burger Patty:
1 lb firm tofu
1/2 tsp coriander powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cajun spice powder
1/2 tsp chilli powder
2 cloves of garlic, cut into small pieces
5 fresh shiitake mushroom, boiled, cut into small pieces
1/4 cup corn flour
1/4 cup plain flour
1/4 cup instant oat
3-4 drops of sesame oil
Some white pepper

Procedures:
1. Mash tofu using fork, combine the rest of the ingredients.
2. Shape, and put it on aluminum foil that has been oiled. You will be able to get about 8 patties.
3. Bake in oven at 200 celcius until the patty turn golden brown in color.

Burger ingredients:
Slice cheese
mayonaise
sambal ABC

How to assemble the Burger:
1. Cut burger bun into half, put one slice of cheese on the bottom bun, then spread on some sambal ABC on the cheese.
2. follow by the veggie patty, and spread on one teaspoon of mayonaise.
3. Cover with the top bun. Your veggie burger is ready.

Banana chocolate chips and walnut muffin

Recipe:

55 g brown sugar

50 g butter (room temperature)

1 egg

75g yogurt (can use sour cream as well)

1/4 cup milk

1 medium banana (mashed)

97 g cake flour

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp vanilla

choc chips

Walnut

Procedures:

1. Mix butter and sugar, then add in egg. You just need to use a hand whisk or a spoon to mix these ingredients. Add salt and vanilla essence. Preheat your oven the temperature of 200 celcius (use upper and lower fire).

2. Mash banana with fork, then add milk and yogurt. Mix to the previous mixture.

3. Sift flour and fold in to the butter mixture. It's crucial not to overmix the flour, otherwise your muffin won't rise and it will be hard.

4. Spoon the mixture to muffin molds. 

5. Bake the muffins for about 12-15 minutes. 

Double chocolate muffin

Recipe:

1/8 cup unsweetened choc powder

65 g brown sugar

50 g butter

1 egg

150g yogurt (can use sour cream as well)

1/4 cup milk

97 g cake flour

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp vanilla

choc chips

200 celcius for 12 mins

Chicken satay

Recipe:
Serai (lemon grass)
Ginger
Red Chilli
Shallot
Garlic
Salt
Chicken thigh

Procedure:
1. Blend all spices
2. Marinade chicken with the spices
3. Bake in the oven or grill it

Pork Noodle

Recipe:

Lean Pork

Garlic

Noodle (From medan)--> may be replaced with egg noodle

Chye Sim

Bean sprout

Chicken

Oil:

Chicken's skin

Cooking oil about 3 tablespoon

Garlic

Procedures:

1. Heat oil with chicken skin and garlic, when you can smell the fragrance, it's done, keep the oil in a container.

2. Cut lean pork in small pieces (like dice).

3. Heat one tablespoon of cooking oil, then fry garlic, and then put in the pork, add spices liked: soy sauce, thick soy sauce, salt, pepper, a bit of sugar. Then add some water to cover the pork. Cook it for about 20 mins, until the pork is soft.

4. Boil chye sim, bean sprout, and noodle --> don't over boiled.

5. Place one table spoon of the chicken oil from (1) in a bowl, place chye sim, bean sprout, one tablespoon of light soy sauce, add noodle, then mix everything with a chopstick. Then add the cooked pork on top.

6. Can be served with chilli padi+soy sauce