Sarawak Laksa Paste

The Sarawak Laksa Paste

Whoever want to try making the Sarawak laksa paste can follow this recipe below:It is close to the original.

Ingredients:

10 shallots,coarsely chopped

5 single bulbs garlic,chopped

1 large galangal,chopped

10 fresh chillies,cut into chunks

1/2 cup dried red chillies,soaked in hot water for 20 mins,drained

5 stalks lemongrass-white parts only

50g candlenuts

1/2 cup sesame seeds,toasted

3/4 cups roasted peanuts

3 tbsps cumin seeds,toasted and ground

1/2 cup coriander seeds,toasted and fround

6 pcs star anise,toasted and ground

6 pcs cloves(bunga cengkih,toasted and ground

1 tsp ground nutmeg

10 cardamon pods

2 cups soybean oil

5 tbsps salt

1/4 cup palm sugar/sugar

1/2 packet of tamarind pulp,mixed with 1 cup boiling water

Preparations:

o Put inside the blender to blend until smooth paste is formed.Blend in batches because the blender could not hold a large amount.

o Add the 2 cups of soy bean to a wok and cook the paste under medium heat,stirring constantly.

o When oil starts to separate,add in the tamarind water,salt and sugar.Continue stirring constantly
for another 20 mins.

Kek Lumut Sarawak

Sarawak Moss Cake

This is a steam version cake.Nestum replaces the flour.

(A)

1tsp vanilla

454g anchor butter

3/4 glass castor sugar

(B)

10 eggs

1 small tin kaya

5 glasses Nestum cereal

1 bottle pandan paste

1/2 tin condensed milk

1 glass horlick powder

Method:

1.  Beat A till white and creamy,

2.  Add in egg one by one till all eggs are finished.

3.  Add in condensed milk.Continue beating.

4.  Add in horlick and nestum powder.

5.  Lastly,add in kaya and pandan paste.Combined well.

6.  Pour the batter into a 8"x 8" baking tray.Cover the top with aluminium foil Steam the batter for 4 
     hours using medium heat.Refill the water in the steamer every few hours as the water will           decreased faster.

Wait till the cake is completely cooled then cut the cake.I have opted out putting one whole bottle of
pandan paste to my cake.Hence,the colour is not so green.

Black Sesame Bread-Soft Soft Bread

 Bread Machine Black Sesame Bread

 Bread machine Soft Bread.Recipe adapted from mymindpatch.The link is below.

205g cold whole milk
20g beaten egg
30g fine sugar
1/2 tsp salt

20g cold unsalted butter

280g bread flour
20g rice/top flour
30g black sesame seeds
3/4 tsp instant dry yeast

Whole milk for grazing

1.Roast black sesame seed in oven for 10 mins at 150°C.
2.Let cool down for 3 mins.Place in plastic bag and use roling pin to crush.Set aside.

Instructions:

Put all ingredients into the bread maker.Let the bread machine does the bread.After the machine has stop spinning the dough,remove the blade.You won't want a big hole at the bottom of the bread.
After it double it's size,glaze with the whole milk first before putting it to bake.

If not using bread machine,follow mymindpatch instructions of how to do the bread.

http://mymindpatch.blogspot.com/2015/07/black-sesame-seed-bread.html

Crispy Seaweed Fish Strips

Crispy,crispy snake that even children can make.Very easy.

What you need:

Nori Sheets

Fish Strips

Water

Cut seaweed into strips.Cut half.

Take about 4 fishstrips.Bend into half.Take seaweed wrap round it.
arrange on baking tray.Bake at 150°C for 12-15 minutes until crispy.If not crispy enough bring back to oven,but take care not to burn.

I hope you find it easy to make.

Crispy Honey Cornflakes

This honey cornflakes is so easy to make.No extra fuss.Mix and stir and bake in a few minutes and you are done.Cool it and then serve to eat.It is perfect for all occassions like Hari Raya,Chinese New Year,Deepavali,,Hari Gawai and many other festive seasons including Christmas.It is a crispy snack.
Adding honey made it a perfect combination.Joy to all.

Ingredients:

40g Butter

1.5 Tbsp Honey

25g Caster Sugar

150g Cornflakes

1.. Mix all the ingredients in a saucepan.

2..Wait until the butter and sugar are melted,then add in the cornflakes.Stir and mix well.

3..Bake at 150°C for 10 mins.Take out from the oven and leave to cool before storing in an airtight container.

Purple Sweet Potato Spiral Buns

Spiral Buns With Purple Sweet Potato Fillings.

I like to see the combination of purple and white,so I sprinkle more white on it,

It's all in a day's work,and when my hubby came home,saw this on the table and said "wow",so beautiful buns.Still I think I'm not so perfect and not so professional yet.Still need improvement.
I went shopping and when I enter the supermarket to buy some veggies home,I saw this purple sweet potatoes.I choose some and bought it home.Almost everyday I make something for my daughter to bring to school.
I headed home and began searching for recipes.I wanted to make sweet potato buns.
Then I found one source from youtube by ll Apron,so I follow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnZ5NlcUWwk

Ingredients:

300g Purple Sweet Potato
20g Butter
30ml whipping cream
240g bread flour
1/8 tsp salt
30g caster sugar
1/2tsp yeast
150ml milk +30g butter
20g x 8 purple sweet potato puree

Method;

1. Peel the skin of the sweet potato.Cut small size.Boil in saucepan till soft.Mash the potato until smooth.

2. Add in butter.Mix well.

3. Pour in whipping cream.Mix with fork and then use a spatula to make it smooth.

4. Sieve bread flour. Put into a big mixing bowl.Add castor sugar,salt and yeast.Add in the milk..Attach dough hook or use a bread maker to knead.

5.After about 10 mins,add in the butter.Continue beating until dough is formed about 30 mins.

6. Flour table top.Take the dough out and put onto the floured table.Give a few stretch and knead.
Shape the dough into round ball.Cover the dough and let rise to 50 or 60 mins.

7.After rise to double size,take the dough and put on the table top.Press the dough flat and cut to 8 pieces.Make small round balls each .Cover and leave to rise for 15 mins.

8. Next,make 20g each x 8 purple sweet potato balls.

9. Flatten each dough with roller pin to oval shape.Roll on both sides.Roll each purple balls to cylindrical
shape.Place on top of the flattened dough.Hold the dough out and sealed.Pinch the edge.
Turn over and roll.Use pizza cutter or knife to cut 5 lines on the dough.
Begin making to spiral.Hold one end of the dough and turn diagonally.After finished twisting,make round and tuck in the center.

10. Rest it to proof for 50-60 mins.

11. Bake at 180°C/356°F for 15-20 mins or until baked.

12..Take out from oven.Sprinkle icing sugar onto the buns/bread.

Ham Chi Peng

HAM CHI PENG - NEW RECIPE

This is my new ham chi peng recipe.Many years ago I made this fritters and I couldn't remember the texture.Few days ago,I suddenly think of eating yew cakoi and ham chi peng.I haven't been eating any local fritters for as long as I can remembered.Deep-fried things scares me.Leaving me with sore throat after eating.Nevertherless,I fried and eat more...more....and more.This time I only sprinkle less of the 5-spice powder.Hubby said he don't like the smell of the 5-spice powder.The texture is soft inside and crispy outside and not hard.

Old post Ham Chi Peng with more 5-spice powder added.I liked.What I don't like is got too much yeast,baking powder and baking soda added.I also say no no to alum and alkaline.In fact,a basic bread dough can also be used to make.

https://cocomintt.blogspot.com/2014/04/ham-chi-paeng.html

HAM CHI PENG-NEW RECIPE TAKEN FROM; http://www.recipies.50webs.com/Ham%20Chin%20Peng.htm  and altered a bit.I skip the milk powder and used butter instead of the shortening.


(A)  Starter dough

120g plain flour
85ml hot boiling water

1.  Place flour in a mixing bowl.
2. .Add hot boiling water and mix with wooden spoon to form a rough dough..
3. Cover bowl with cling film and leave dough to cool in the fridge for at least 1 hour 

(B) Ingredients (main dough)

380g plain flour
170g lukewarm water
80gm sugar
50g condensed Milk
30gm butter

(C)  Ingredient  (yeast paste starter)

1 tsp instant yeast
1 tbp flour
1 tbp sugar
2 tbp warm water

Filling:
2 tsp five spices powder
2 tsp salt
A little water

Method:

Mix ingredient C.set aside until the paste turns foamy.

Since I'm using the bread maker to knead,I put everything into the bread pan starting with the liquid ingredients,then follow by the dry ingredients,adding the yeast last.Press start to begin making the dough.
When the machine has stopped and the dough is ready,transfer into a clean big bowl.Let the dough rise to double size.

Sprinkle some flour on a table. Roll out dough into a rectangle sheet or split to few parts if working surface is not enough to use.
Brush the dough with water,then sprinkle some 5 spice powder. Roll the dough up like rolling a  swiss roll
Cut dough into 1 inch slices. Shape and flatten each piece. Leave aside for 45-55 mins. Deep fry in hot oil till golden brown. Place the hot ham chi peng on wire rack to drip off excess oil.

When cool then eat.Enjoy!

Almond OR Sunflower Seeds Flakes Crisp

Ha! Ha!.Make this on Chinese New Year,only now then post.Too many things wanted to post but no time to totally concentrate on posting and blogging,

Inspired by everyone who kept posting on facebook during the special season,I finally decided to give it a try.It is not hard to make.While most people used almonds,I on the other hand used sunflower seeds because there is no almond at home but got sunflower seeds.Reason is lazy to go out and buy.

I didn't get to make much.Chinese New Year is so busy.Got a lot of things to do-baking and cleaning the house to prepare for the coming guests.If no celebrate,then free free.Anyway,
there's a lot of cooking to do during that time,and so who cares about eating cookies and all those junkies,krek! krek! when they have so much nice food to eat?The guests wouldn't eat much of the sweet delicacies.

Well,the ingredients is as follow.Adapted from the web or facebook I forgot.At that time I quickly scribbled on a piece of paper.

75g egg whites from 2 large eggs

60g castor sugar

50g cake flour

100g almond flakes/150g sunflower seeds

25g melted butter

Hand whisk egg white and sugar till dissolved and bubbly.

Add flour,almond flakes/sunflower seeds plus melted butter.Combine with a spatula till well
done.Rest 30 mins in fridge.

Spoon the batter onto a square tray lined with grease baking paper as thin as possible.
Bake at preheated oven 150°C at lowest rack fan forced for about 18 mins .(will depends on your oven,so check for crispiness done).or when it turns brown.Rotate the tray for even baking.
When cooled,store in an air-tight container.

Bread Machine Apple Jam

When I bought my machine home,I noticed that it has a jam function.So,besides making bread the machine also can make jam.Only two years later then I try to make jam.I make apple jam because there were a lot of apples inside my fridge.I do not want to stand long hours making jam standing in front of the gas stove,stirring and stirring until my hands grew tired,so I used the bread machine to make for me and partly because of curiosity of how the machine  make jam.This I wanted to test.
I peeled the apples,cored,cut to small pieces and put inside the blender to blend first then put into the machine and just press the "jam function".The machine will start making the jam until a buzzer will sound to tell you that it is all done.
From time to time I will look through the glass of my machine cover.If I open the cover the jam will splash to my face.Anyway,it's not hard to make jam.Can also cook in the low fire until it become jam,that's it.

Ingredients:

6 apples,peeled,core,cut small
100g sugar
2 tbsps orange juice

Blend the ingredients in a blender.Transfer to the bread maker and press the jam function.
Wait until the buzzer sounds to tell you that it's all done.
Now,you can spread on your bread,but before that you have to let it cool first.

Kek Lapis Strawberi/Strawberry Layered Cake

The kek lapis that I'm making here is strawberry flavour.According to my friend who gave me this recipe,said i can put in any flavours/paste that I like.Be it pandan,strawberry,orange,yam or colours if you prefer no flavour.I've altered the recipe a bit.I less the sugar from 250g to 220g,and 4tbsps of condensed milk from the original recipe of only 4tsps condensed milk.I prefer more condensed milk to more sugar.Both are sweet.You can stick to the original recipe if you want more sugar and less condensed milk. Please use golden churn butter.Happy Baking!

INGREDIENTS;
10 egg yolks
5 whole eggs
220g sugar
145g Hong Kong flour or plain flour will do too.
30g ovalette
500g butter
4 tbsps condensed milk
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1-2 tsps strawberry paste
Method:
1. Beat butter and half of the sugar until creamy.Add in condensed milk and vanilla essence.
2. Beat ovalette,eggs, and half of the remaining sugar until smooth and creamy.Add in the flour and mix
well at low speed.Add in the butter mixture until well-combined.
3. Divide the batter into 2 portions.1 portion,add in strawberry paste and the other leave it plain.
4. For the first layer,set the oven to top and lower heat at 200°C until the top of the cake turns brown.Then,for the second layer,adjust the oven setting to only the top heat and grill layer by layer with alternate colours until all are used up.
NOTE: For every layers,press the cake with a flatterner.If you don't have a flatterner,you can use the bottom of a glass to press or pork with a fork before putting in the next layer. Happy Baking!

How to Make Green Noodles By Machine

ONDEH-ONDEH SPONGE CAKE

Not long ago,people went crazy over making ondeh ondeh cake.I guess I'm late,but still never too late.A cake that has the ingredients using palm sugar(gula melaka),pandan juice and coconut flakes.The cake was called like that simply because it is similar to the local kueh ondeh ondeh which uses this few ingredients except in cake you have eggs added.
Recipe for sponge cake was adapted from Zan's Treat from youtube channel and recipe for the swiss meringue was adapted from Bake With Paws.

Method for assembling my cakes was simple.Each layer was topped with gula melaka and dessicated coconut and cream.

I can't seem to find any written recipe from Zan's Treats.I was having a hard time copying the ingredients from her youtube video,pausing every moment to try to get her recipe and having to repeat the video to double check that I was copying correctly.

Zan's Treats recipe:

Ingredients:

(mix together)
3 egg yolk
42ml water

35g canola oil
15g corn flour
55g self-raising flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp pandan paste

Method:

Preheat oven to 160°C.

In a bowl,mix together the egg yolk and water.Add canola oil in.Stir to combine.

Add in corn flour bit by bit.Stir,combine.

Add in self-raising flour.Make sure there are no lumps.

Add in the salt and pandan paste.Mix thoroughly until you have 
a flowing batter consistency.Put the batter aside.

In another clean bowl,beat the egg whites.
Beat at low speed first,then increase the speed to medium.Add in the cream of tartar when bubble start to come out.Beat again,then add in the sugar slowly.Beat till stiff peak.

Mix the egg whites with the yolk mixture with a spatula.Mix well.

Pour the batter into 2 baking tray.Use 6"x6" tray.

Bake for 20-25 mins depending on your oven temperature.

When it is baked,take out from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack.

To make the meringue buttercream:

Ingredients:

5 large egg whites
133g caster sugar
250g butter,room temperature
1/4 tsp salt
4-5 tbsps pandan juice,very thick and concentrated juice

Method:

Cut butter into cubes.Set aside to room temperature.

Combine egg white and sugar in a heat proof bowl over a pot of simmering water.Make sure the base of the bowl is not touching the water.Whisk with hand whisk until the sugar is dissolved.

Transfer the egg white mixture to a mixing bowl.Beat at high speed
until stiff peak.Let it cool to room temperature before adding the butter.This will prevent the butter from melting.To speed up the process,you may leave the meringue in the refrigerator.

At low speed,add in the butter cube gradually,then turn to high speed.Beat until the mixture comes together.Scrap the bowl if necessary.Keep on beating until it turn into a smooth buttercream.

Once the buttercream becomes smooth,add in salt until well-incoporated.Do not add in pandan juice all at once.Start with 2 tbsps,then slowly add.Turn down speed and add pandan juice one tbsp at a time.Scrap the bowl with spatula and beat until well-combined.Use 41/2 tbsps.Not require to use all pandan juice.

To make the gula melaka syrup:

35 gula melaka
120ml water
knotted pandan leaf

In a pan,boil the gula melaka with the water and add in the knotted pandan leaf.Stir to syrup and let it to cool.

To assemble the cake:

Cut each piece of the cake into half.

Put the cream into a piping bag.Pump the first layer with the cream.then the gula melaka syrup,then some coconut flakes.Place the second layer onto the top of the first layer.Then the cream, gula melaka and coconut flakes.Repeat for the last 2 layers.All four layers.Deorate the top with some gula melaka and coconut flakes and pump some flowers or whatever you wish to.