The basic bread dough is simple.With basic bread dough recipe,I can make all kinds of buns,pizzas and even doughnuts.Sometimes,I just don't like to add in a lot of things.A lot of ingredients.
This basic dough is just what I needed sometimes.
Last few days I made butter buns using the basic dough recipe.It is easier and faster because not many ingredients are added.I was lazy to make the tangzhong,so I decided to make a quick dough without cooking the flour.Not long ago I made butter buns using the tangzhong method.Refer here: https://bit.ly/2ZgTaJh
If I made a big batch the leftover dough I made it into pizzas or dinner rolls or sausage buns and
a whole lot more of things can be made using this basic dough.
500G Bread Flour
100G Sugar
5G Salt
11G Instant dry Yeast
30G Melted Butter/Cooking Oil
220G Plain Water
1 Egg Usually,I use the bread machine to do the kneading for me. For using mixer-gather all the ingredients into a mixer bowl and start to mix at low speed at first,then change to higher speed until the dough is smooth and leaves the sides of the bowl.Transfer the dough to a lightly dust table top.Knead the dough for about 2 minutes.Shape into round ball and cover with a damp towel to let it rise to double in size. Now can make buns and pizzas.
This is called" Mani Chai".Translated from hokkien to english is money vegetables.The malay called it ''Cangkuk Manis".It means sweet shrub.
In chinese it is called "Shu Cai".
Above picture is the raw "'Mani Chai".One stalk of this "Mani Chai" can be share with 4 persons.Before cooking,this vegetable have to be wring small first so that it will taste sweet and delicious.The smaller you can wrng the better.It's like wringing your clothes to take the water out or squeeze/crush
as some said.The stalk you can put to the soil to grow in your backyard or it can also be grown in a pot.If you grow it near the bitter gourd,it will be bitter.So,do not grow near to the bitter gourd.
We got a habit of ordering for Mani Chai whenever my family and I went out to eat in the restaurant,or any dining places.It is one of the popular dish of Sarawak.It is often cook with eggs.
We have now try to eat less of this vegetable.It is long believe to have cause headaches when eaten too much.Parts of the reasons too is because Mani Chai need to be cook with a lot of oil and add in
monosodium glutamate(MSG) so that it is palatable.It eats up a lot of oil.If the oil is fewer,it won't be that nice.The MSG enhances the dish making it sweet and appetizing,though nowadays people
opt out the MSG and substitute with chicken stock or some even oyster sauce.I totally opt out both.
One more thing is "Mani Chai" have to be cooked dry and not too moist and watery.The plenty of oil made it moist a bit and not too dry.
INGREDIENTS;
1 stalk mani chai/cangkuk manis
2 eggs
1 tbsp onion/garlic
1-11/2 tsp(adjust to your taste bud)
1/2 cup oil
1/2 tsp aji-no-moto(monosodium glutamate
METHOD;
1. Heat up oil in a wok.When smoke comes out,saute the onions/garlics until fragrant.
2. Add in the vegetable together with the access bits of water.Stir.
3. Make a hole in the center of the veg.Add in the beaten eggs.
4. At this stage don't do anything,Wait for the eggs to turn dry,then quickly stir-fry the eggs and
the vegetable.You can even fry the eggs first then the mani chai.Both ways will do.Add in the
salt and the msg.
5. Continue stir-fry for another 2 minutes then dish it up to serve with warm rice.
Whenever I saw people posting water melon cakes or cookies,I weren't interested but just admired their creativity and hard work.Lately,I don't know why I suddenly became very interested and had tried to make this water melon layered cake. I wanted to use raisins instead of the chocolate chips for the seeds,but I don't have raisins at home,so I just used chocolate chips.I'm very pleased with my cake. Perhaps next time I'll use raisins.
INGREDIENTS; 10 Eggs 500G Golden Churn butter 200G caster sugar 300G Hong Kong flour 1 small tin kaya 1 small tin condensed milk 50G santan/coconut cream 1Tbsp ovalette 1Tsp vanilla essence 1 botol chocolate chips 2Tbsps of cocoa to mix with the red batter Red,Yellow and Green colouring METHODS; 1. Preheat oven to 200°C.Line an 8"x 8" baking tray with greaseproof paper on the bottom and lightly grease the sides with butter. 2. Beat butter,sugar,vanilla and ovalettes till creamy and fluffy using high speed. 3. Add in eggs one by one till well combined. 4. Switch the beater to low speed and add in the milk,kaya and santan/coconut cream. Beat again till all are well-mixed 5. Add in the flour in batches or slowly(bits by bits).Mix well. 6. Divide the mixture into 3 portions: Using the soup ladle, Portion 1-Scoop up 3 ladles-Add in green colour Portion 2-Scoop up 2 ladles-Add in yellow colour Portion 3-The rest of the portion add in red colour and cocoa powder 7. First layer,set the oven to top and bottom heat. 8. Pour the first layer of green to the baking tray.Spread it evenly.Grill with top and bottom heat forabout 7 mins or when it turns slightly brown.Take it out from the oven . 9. Change the oven setting to top heat only and pour in the second green layer,third green layer,then first yellow layer,then second yellow layer,and follow by the red layers till all the layers are used up.Flatten each layer with a flattener.If no flatterner,use the bottom of a glass. This is to ensure that no wind are trapped inside and that the cake are level and nice.Each layer of red must put in some chocolate chips as the seeds. 10. After all layers are baked,cool on a wire rack.When cooled,cut into water melon shape.
With the leftover "General Tso's Chicken" bites pieces,I use it for my fried bihun(rice vermicelli). Surprisingly,it was super delicious!.Will cook like this again some time. Ingredients: General Tso's bites chicken pieces-abt 90g of left over 200g Bihun/rice vermicelli 1tbsp chopped garlics 1tbsp chopped oinions 2 stalks green onions 2tbsps chicken stock powder seasoning or more for extra flavour 1/2 tsp salt abt 4 tbsps cooking oil for frying Method: 1. Soak the bihun/rice vermicelli until it soften in hot boiling water. 2. Take it up.Drain any excess water.Set aside 3. In a wok,fry the onions,garlics until brown and fragrant. 4. Add in the chicken pieces.Stir for 3 minutes. 5. Add in the bihun/vermicelli.Fry until all are mixed well. 6. Add in the chicken powder seasoning,and salt.Keep frying for 5 minutes until well mixed. 7. Lastly,add in the green onions.Dish it out. 8. Serve warm.
Nothing special about this.It's just a sticky chicken.Not much to my liking.Seen everyone raved about it and cooked at home,I decided to give it a try.The taste is sweet,sour and sticky because of the added corn starch.Maybe too much corn starch was added? Marinate with corn starch,coated with corn starch and again corn starch in the sauce.How sticky this chicken bites can be?Maybe I should have add less starch so that it won't be that starchy? Recipe taken from an internet source,but forgot whose one.I forgot to bookmark it.
Ingredients: MARINATE; 350g chicken chunks 1 egg white 1 tbsp dark soy sauce 1 tbsp light soy sauce 4 tbsps shaoxing wine 2 tbsps corn starch COATING: 1/3 cup plain flour 1/3 cup corn starch 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt SAUCE; 1 tbsp dark soy sauce 1 tbsp light soy sauce 2 tbsps shaoxing wine 11/2 tbsps white vinegar 3 tbsps water 3 tbsps sugar 1 tsp sesame oil 2 bsps tomato sauce 1/2 tsp corn starch STIR-FRY INGREDIENTS; 2 tbsps cooking oil 2 tsps garlic chopped 2 tsps thin sliced ginger some green onions 5 dry chillies(optional) OIL FOR DEEP-FRYING; 1.Cut chicken into chunks.Marinate the chicken with the marinate ingredients for one hour. 2.Drain the excess liquid away from the chicken and coat with the ready mixed dry flour. 3.Pour enough cooking oil into the wok for deep- frying the chicken.Deep-fried until it turns brown and cooked through. 4.Then when it is cooked,dish out the chicken onto a plate. 5.Mix the sauce together until well-combined.Set aside. 6.Next,stir-fry the garlic,ginger,dry chillies and green onions until fragrant.Pour the sauce to a pan and cook until mixture becomes translucent.Then turn off the heat.Add the deep-fried chicken into the sauce and mix thoroughly through. 7.Serve hot with rice.
Look at this! Don't they look yummy?I sprinkle lots and lots of parmesan cheese to add to the flavours.You can also go with mayonnaise if you don't have parmesan cheese...Or dip it in plum sauce. It is the same as the chicken ham roll,but this is without chicken. Above all,it is very easy to make. This is great for party!
Ingredients for making: 10 pieces turkey ham slices 10 pieces popiah/spring roll wrappers 1 beaten egg 1tsp salt For Dusting: 1tsp five spice powder 1tsp garlic powder(optional) 50g plain flour Oil for deep-frying Parmesan Cheese Method: 1.Gather salt,five spice powder,garlic powder and flour together.Mix it well. 2. Roll the ham.Place the ham roll diagonally across the spring roll or popiah wrappers.Roll it up and seal the edges wet with the beaten egg and then dung the wrapped into the beaten egg to get a wet finger roll.Then dust it with the flour.Do the same with the rest until you had all the desired 10 rolls. 3.In a wok,pour about 3-4 cups of oil.When smoke comes out,put the rolls in to fried.Deep-fried until golden brown and crispy. 4.Take it out onto the plate.Sprinkle some parmesan cheese all over or eat it with plum sauce.Parmesan cheese can be substitute with mayonaise.You can either eat it without adding any sauce. Note: For "Chicken Ham Roll" visit: https://cocomintt.blogspot.com/2015/09/chicken-ham-roll.html
I always wanted to make this myself at home instead of buying.They are not getting any nicer compare to before.Nowadays,they made it very hard and it's very difficult to bite with my soft teeth. My daughter complained that the one I bought is very hard and has no taste,not nice.So,when I made it at home,she was enjoying it with every crunch.I made it more thinner and crunchier too.It was very easy to make.I'm sure everyone can make it too. For this,you have to use the unripe green bananas instead of the ripe one.Ripe bananas won't do.
INGREDIENTS;
Green bananas
Lots of cooking oil for deep-frying
Some sugar or pinch of salt
Slicer to slice the bananas
Peel the skin of bananas,Then using the slicer,slice the bananas either into a plate or straight drop into the hot oil.Once it turns crisp and slightly brown ,take it up into a big deep bowl.Sprinkle sugar or salt in to mix.When it is cooled,store it in an air-tight container.
Mix all ingredients in a mixing bowl with whisk except corn oil.Mix until sugar has dissolved.
Then add in the corn oil.Stir and mix well.
Brush the mould with oil.Give the mixture a good stir.Spoon the mixture over to the mould.When
bubbles start coming out,cover the mould.Cook over low heat.
When the surface is dry it is cooked.Take one by one out with a satay stick or toothpick.leave to
cool for a while before enjoying the kueh.It will look like a honeycomb cake.
Here's another version of Kueh Cara.Pictures and recipe below.
Another version of Kueh Cara a bit different from above.This one uses a lot of coconut milk.If you don't like too much coconut,try the other recipe.This version smells of coconut.
Recipe:
2 cups flour
3 cups santan/coconut milk
2 eggs
6 pandan leaves-cut small
pinch of salt
Method:
.Blend the pandan and santan together.
.Strain thru a sieve.
.Mix all the ingredients in a clean blender.Pour the pandan mixture over and blend till smooth.
.Oil the mould with brush.
.Pour the mixture slowly into the oil mould.Sprinkle some sugar over the kueh cara.
.Cover to allow it to cook faster.
Take the kueh out with a toothpick .Enjoy!
UPDATE KUEH CARA RECIPE:
After trying many other mini sponge cake recipes, I found that I like the below recipe the most. It is much softer and spongy. Although it is not really the Sarawak version, they are all equally the same. Perhaps each recipe lies in a person's hand skills. When it is done right, you'll yield a better
result. Cheers!
INGREDIENTS;
100G all purpose flour
50G tapioca flour
180G sugar
120G coconut milk
80G Pandan Juice(10 screwpine leaves)
1/2 tsp Sait
2 Eggs
dash of apple green colouring(optional)
METHOD;
Provided your blender is big enough to fit in,you can pour everything in the blender to blend,but first you must prepare some pandan juice first.
Cut the pandan leaves small.Blend with some water in the blender,Strain 80g of juice out.Then after obtaining the pandan juice,you can now blend all the ingredients in the blender.You can also mix all the ingredients in a bowl.
Remember to oil the mould with a brush before putting in the batter.Pour 3/4 full.Cover the top and check to see whether it is done and take out with a toothpick.
NOTE; I do not wish to confuse you with so many recipes,but you can pick any one of the recipes and try yourself out.Maybe your skill are better than mine?
Ingredients: A bundle of midin(grams not known) (A) 1 tbp dried shrimp 1/2 tsp shrimp paste or belacan 1/2 chilly(seeds thrown) 1 tsp garlic 1 tsp onions salt to taste a bit of aji-no-moto or sodium glutamate to taste(optional) 2 tbsps of cooking oil Method: 1. Break each stalk of midin short and throw away the hard bottom part.Wash it in a coriander. 1. Pound (A) ingredients using pestle and mortar.You can also use mixer to mince it small. 2. Pour oil into the wok. 3. Fry the pounded paste. 4. When the paste is brown and aromatic,put in the midin to stir-fry until the stalks has softened and thoroughly cooked thru. 5. Dish it up onto a plate and serve with rice.
