Monday, June 13, 2011

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

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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.

Monday, April 4, 2011

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. 

Sunday, March 20, 2011

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

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Hun kwe (Nagasari Pudding)


















Recipe:
1 packet of hunkwe flour (the one I got from NTUC is 90 gr)
180 g sugar
1 small box of kara coconut milk (200 ml), mix with 900 ml of water (total about 1100 ml of liquid)
½ can of whole kernel sweet corn
1 tablespoon of condensed milk
Slightly less than 1 teaspoon of salt

Optional:
3-4 ripe Pisang Kepok (usually used for fried banana), need to be steamed, then only peel the skin and cut.

Banana leaves:
Need to be washed and let it pass through fire on the stove (to soften the leaves, so, that it’s easier to fold)
Then cut into small size.

Procedures:
1.       Mix the coconut milk liquid with the hunkwe, sugar, salt, and stir. Then put it on the stove. Keep on stirring while cooking. This is to make sure no small chunks will form. The mixture will get thicker. It’s done when it boils.
2.       Then, stir in the condensed milk, and corn.  
3.       Spoon about 2 tablespoons of mixture on the leave, place a small piece of banana, then cover it with another 1-2 tablespoons of mixture, and wrap.
4.       Refrigerate.

Another version is without corn or banana:
After the mixture is cooked, divide it into 2 portions, then dilute about 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder in small amount of water and mix it into one portion. Then spoon 1-2 tablespoons of the white mixture on the leave, and another 1-2 tablespoons of the chocolate mixture.

Fermented black glutinuous rice (Tape ketan) pudding

Recipe for Tape/tapai Ketan:
1.5 cups of black glutinous rice
1 teaspoon of grinded wine cake (powder form)
Procedures:
1.       Wash rice and soak it for 3-4 hours or overnight.
2.       Drain it, then, steam until it’s cooked – about 30 mins
3.       Let it cool to room temperature, then spread the wine cake powder, mix well. Make sure every single rice gets contact with the powder, then put it in a clean bowl or glass container, and cover with cling wrap.  Wrap with cloth or towel so that it’s warm.
4.       Leave it in a warm place for 2-3 days. When you smell a strong fragrant, then the rice is ready. I usually put it in the refrigerator for couple of days before using it. They said, if we can get a sweet taste of the rice, then the fermentation is successful.
Recipe for agar agar (made about square pan 17 cm):
1 packet of agar agar, swallow globe brand (white original)
750 ml of water
150 g sugar
200 ml of coconut milk
A pinch of salt
100 gr of tape/tapai
Procedures:
1.       Mix agar agar powder with water, sugar, salt, coconut milk, then bring it to boil. Stir continuously.
2.       Add tapai, stir, and pour into pan. Let it cool before put it in refrigerator.  

Pumpkin Chiffon Cake

Recipe for 17 cm cake:
3 egg yolks
180 g pumpkin puree
30 g milk
48 g oil
98 g cake flour

6 egg whites
60 g sugar
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar

Procedures:
1. Blend pumpkin with milk  
2. Beat egg yolks with oil, then add pumpkin+milk puree, sieve flour into the mixture, and fold with mixer.
3. Warm oven at 180 celcius (top and bottom heat)
4. Beat egg white with sugar and cream of tartar until stiff.
5. Add 1/3 of the egg white mixture into egg yolk mixture, fold gently, then add egg yolk mixture in the remaining egg white, and again fold gently.
6. Pour it into chiffon cake pan.
7. Change the oven setting to "bottom heat", and bake the cake for about 30-35 mins.
8. Invert the pan as soon as you bring it out from the oven, cool it down before you remove the cake from the pan.
Note: Different type of oven may vary time of baking.