Wednesday, 7 October 2009

Sweet Potato Porridge

Sweet Potato Porridge basically a plain porridge cooked with sweet potato to add a zest of sweetness to the porridge. The porridge usually cannot be eaten alone, we eat it with compliment side dishes; salted eggs, fired peanut and ikan bilis and a can of diced fish with preserve vegetables.

Breakfast Scones

This is Rapunzel's first attempt of making the scones for our breakfast. This quick breads have a crisp crust with creamy butter flavour. It is a perfect breakfast or dessert to go with tea or coffee.

Ingredients:
300g all-purpose flour
1 tbsp caster sugar
3 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
100g butter
2 eggs, lightly beaten
170g cream

Method:
1. Preheat oven at 200 °c.
2. Mixed the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl till well combined.
3. Rub in butter till it is roughly combined.
4. Pour in the eggs and cream and gently mixed into a dough.
5. Knead the dough on a lightly flour surface and rolled into small oval shape sizes.
6. Place on the baking tray and bake for 15-20 minutes or till golden brown.

Serve warm with butter or jam.

If you like, mixed in dried rosemary or sesame seed or even chocolate chip. Babe love their flaky texture especially the scone with rosemary.

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

Baked Rosemary Chicken Chop

Chicken baked with rosemary and seasoning, side with french fried and boiled broccoli make a simple and delicious meal.

Marinate 4 boneless chicken thighs with 4 slice of gingers(minced), 2 coriander root(minced), 1 tsp dried rosemary. 1 tbsp oyster sauce, 1 tsp cooking wine, 2tbsp maple syrup or honey, salt and pepper for 1 hours.


Straight cut 3 potatoes, soaked in salt water and deep fried.







Steamed the broccoli and toss with olive oil and salt.







Grease the tray with butter, place the chicken into the oven and baked for 30minutes or till the skin turn golden brown.





The chicken is ready to serve with the french fries and broccoli. Sprinkle some sesame on top, garnished with coriander leaves and pour some juice from the chicken accumulated in the tray over the chicken. See, just like restaurant food! The chicken is juicy inside with rosemary infused and crispy outside.


Thursday, 1 October 2009

Homemade Bread Base Pizza

This bread base pizza is really easy to make at home. All you need is a loaf of thick bread, a jar of pasta sauce, mozzarella cheese and your choice of toppings. Toppings we used today include sambal sardine fried by Snow White, prawn, pineapple, button mushroom and cucumber.

Toast the bread for 3 minutes till firm, spread some pasta sauce on the bread and add in your favorite ingredients. Lastly top generously with mozzarella cheese and place into the oven to bake till the cheese turn golden brown. Tah Dah! Now you can have freshly bake pizza of your own creation in 20 minutes.

Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Chinese Mushroom Soup 2

After the last 2 days of "sinful" lunch, we going to have some light lunch today. Yes, we cooking Rapunzel's favourite soup, Chinese Mushroom Soup. The soup base is the same, using the ikan bili stock, 2 slice of ginger and 2 cloves of garlic to boiled. Other then the main ingredients, shitake mushroom and king mushroom, Snow White also added fish cake, carrot, cabbage, sweet corn, tofu and wolfberries into the soup.

See the mushroom pot, the ingredients is overflow.

After added the fish sauce and salt to taste, the soup is ready. Garnished with coriander and sprinkle some pepper, viola the steamy hot Chinese Mushroom Soup is served!

Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Chicken Curry Noodle

Normally we eat the chicken curry with prata or bread, this time we simply blanch the yellow noodle and pour the Chicken Curry over it and tah da, a hot and spicy Chicken Curry Noodle is ready for lunch.

Chicken Curry
Ingredients:
400g chicken meats
1 packet curry paste
1 stalk curry leave
1 stalk lemon grass
3 medium size potatoes (cut chunks)
1 pc fish cake (sliced)
6 pcs tau pok (sliced)
3 cloves garlic, 3 chilies padi, 1 onions (blend)
1 tbsp chili powder
4 bowl chicken stock
1 cup coconut milk

Methods:
1. Deep Fried the potatoes chunks and put aside.
2. Boiled the chicken stock.
3. Heat 3 tbsp of oil in a wok and stir fry the blended garlic, chilies padi and onion.
4. Add in the curry paste, chili powder, lemon grass and curry leaves and stir fry till fragrant.
5. Add in the chicken meats stir fry with the curry paste till cooked.
6. Pour the curry paste and chicken into the boiling chicken stock.
7. Add in fish cakes, tau pok and fried potatoes into the curry soup.
8. Season with salt, sugar and fish sauce to your taste.
9. Lastly add in the coconut milk and let it simmer a while and the curry soup is ready.

Just blanched some bean spouts and yellow noodle and pour the curry soup over it, a fragrant yummy Chicken Curry Noodle is ready to serve.


Monday, 28 September 2009

Pineapple Fried Rice with Salted Egg Crispy Prawn

This Thai Heavenly Pineapple Fried Rice is done by Rapunzel. She did not add in the raisin but it is still as heavenly yummy. If you interested can try out this recipe.

This fried rice is supposed to be a real vegetarian Thai food but we eat with Salted Egg Crispy Prawn so we not having vegetarian lunch after all. This Salted Egg Crispy Prawn goes very well with the fried rice. The recipe can get from fenying's blog.