Macaroni "Tulang"

Creative at its best. Today Mr E asked for macaroni soup again. Nah I'm not cooking again. Ok I will lah so I decided to try something new to me ... I google for Tulang gravy from Qasehdkitchen made a few changes and add macaroni.

Below is the recipe that I made changes original recipe you can check out her page. Click here for the recipe.

Ingredients

Meat cubes (I used beef)

2 diced onions
3 small carrots roughly chopped

Potatoes

blended ingredients
5 cloves of garlic
2 inch young ginger
50g dried chili
30g chili padi
30g red chili
3 spoons of white pepper, 3 spoons of black pepper, cumin and coriander powder

Methods 

Boil meat, onion, potatoes and carrot till tender

Take out the onion and carrot and blend it
Heat oil and fry the blended ingredients.

Add the broth from the meat. Season it with salt.

Add in the meat and cook it for 10mins.

It takes TWO to make keTWOpat!

This year Ramadhan feel so short.  You blink and it's over.  So I decided to continue fasting for 6 days in Syawal.  These 6 days is not a must to fast but it's recommended to fast.

Whoever fasts these six days will have recorded for him a reward as if he had fasted a whole year, as was reported in a sahih hadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).

So fast lah no harm fasting extra more days since the momentum is still there. Sooo ...  yesterday was the 6th day and today is RAYA SAKAN!!!!!

What's the menu for today? Jeng ... Jeng ... Jeng ...

Ketupat ...... INSTANT (adabi punye)

Sambal Goreng (da bao from my ibu)

Ayam Lemak Chilli Padi

Sambal Tumis Udang

Daging Rendang

Kachang Phool or Foul Medamez

This is my ibu's recipe.  I try to put the quantity but this is agak-agak hor.  If you like but more don't like don't put lor.  Don't stress! Don't stress!

It's a very last minute menu as my sister in law is coming to visit after magrib.  Since ibu provide me some of the ingredients and others can be found in my fridge oklah. This is not my first time cooking kachang phool but this is the 1st using ibu recipe.  Much lesser ingredients.  Fast and easy but hate the splatter-splatter it made when boiling.  I burnt my left palm. -_-'' pandai sangat tu namenye.

Kacang Phool 

Ingredients:

3 cans Foul Medames (supplier ibu)

2 tbsp powder coriander seeds

1/2 tsp powder fennel seeds

1/2 tsp powder cumin seeds

tomato sauce (to your liking)

Ingredients to blend:

Onions

Garlic

Dried chillies

Garnishes:

Diced onions

Sliced green chillies (supplier ibu)

Limes, halves (supplier ibu)

Sunny side up

Bread

Methods:

Heat pot (use pot better cos it will splatter here and there).  Add in the powdered ingredients for 1-2 mins.  Pour in the blended ingredients, fry it till the oil floats.  Coarsely blend the foul medames.

Add in the coarse foul medames.  Stir and season it with salt and tomato sauce cook till it bubbles up and off the heat.

Serve a place of kachang phool with some diced raw onions, afew sliced of green chillies, squeeze half or 1 lime and a sunny side up and a few sliced of toast or French loaf. (I fry some but I don't put on my plate)

Birthday

Ibu 58th Birthday.  Wow! 58 oleidie and she has not been given the purple EZlink card.  What this?! They should start giving the senior citizen at the age of 50 ok.  They SHOULD! They MUST!  Anyway ... It was a success.  I attempted to cook 4 dishes and out of the 4 dishes, 3 were 1st time.  

Alhamdulillah it when well.  Tiring but it's a good tired.

This year we have 6 adults in our family. And in a few months time a new addition to the family.  Everyone is very excited.  Ibu cannot decide what the baby should call her Nenek? Nyayi? Oma? My brother also Papa, Ayah or Daddy-O but whatever it is we are very excited on the arrival of the newborn.

She is so mental.  She wanted a photo of her "action-action" cut cake.  I took soooo many photos of this cos she had to close her eyes when I snapped. Beside her is Nek Asmah her BFF I guess.

My ibu loves messy and berdechet chocolate cake.  You can't go wrong with chocolate origin's cakes.  There's only 2 option Original or Dark chocolate. This is sooooo a good choice.

Feasting.  Breaking fast together.  When I told her, she do not need to cook.  Guess where I get my stubborn-ness from ... She still cook lor.  Lucky only 1 dish if not we will have problem finishing the dishes.

Nasi Jagung | Corn Rice

Squid Masala | Sotong Masala Curry 

Ayam masak Merah | Red Chicken?

Daging masak Hitam | Black Beef?

Hahahahh ok I'm being annoying. I enjoy cooking for my love ones and I really hope they enjoyed my food.  I may not cook like my ibu but I put in a lot of thought and love when I'm cooking.

DON'T YOU DARE DOUBT MY SINCERITY!

If I'm not sincere, I don't even bother. #justsaying #takmarahannoyedje

Nasi Sambal Goreng

It's Friday! It's Friday! It's finally Friday!  I am excited much cos I'm challenging myself to a heavy ifTHOR (yup I still couldn't let go of THOR!!!) Heeh...

So today is the quest of cooking Nasi Sambal Goreng.  I think its the husband  favourite.  Erm I can't make out his expression. Anyway this NSG is alot of work sey.  I went cold storage during lunch yesterday.  Got some of the stuff I need.  After breakfast, I went to the cold storage at compasspoint (heh almaklum da raya) Disappointed okay supermarket so big run out of dried chillies, tempeh, fresh chicken breast and minced meat. So I took the train to NTUC to get the rest of the stuff. (Kecoh weeeei I went 3 supermarkets in 1 day sheeesh) and NTUC run out of TEMPEH!!!! ok I give up ... the sambal goreng shall have no tempeh.

So I when home and marinate my chicken and fry dry the mince meat and keep in the fridge.

Here is my Nasi Goreng Sambal Set.  Quite a hearty meal hor.  Food Coma lah after that.  Lucky its Friday the tarawih here is 8 rakaats.

Anyway, I did manage to put tempeh in my Sambal Goreng.  The husband went all the way to geylang market to buy.

So ta-daa ... tempeh! Nie star ingredient nie so must have lah kan.  But if you don't like tempeh can always omit it lah.  The husband don't eat paru so I did not put any paru in here.

Here's my plate a bit of everything.  The serunding was also store-bought from geylang market cos the husband is hantu serunding.  He bought 2 types. 

Ayam Goreng Berempah

Bagedil Daging

Sambal Goreng

Sambal Tumis

Nasi Goreng Daging Merah

As promised to the Mister (which I forgotten yesterday), here is THE Fried Rice.  At one point of time, he can eat fried rice almost everyday. I just find it boring and a lazy way of eating.  Why lazy ... just put everything and anything u like in 1 wok. Where is the challenge ... hahah chey chey chey.

Oh and fried rice I can never make it twice the same recipe.  Cos it's always difference every time.

Nasi Goreng

Ingredients:

Rice (yesterday's leftover)

Sambal Terasi (I bought from Batam)

 

*this is sambal terasi in packets.  Taken from the net

Minced onion

Scramble egg

Fried ikan bilis

Oil

Method:

Heat up abit of oil just enough to scramble the egg. Fry and put aside

Add abit more oil for the ikan bilis.  Fry till crisps and put aside

Use the remaining oil to sautee minced onion.  

Once its translucent, add sambal terasi.

Stir abit and add rice mix well.

Add the egg and ikan bilis mix well and off the heat.

Daging Merah

Ingredients:

1 pack sliced beef

2 sliced onions

a few cloves garlic

Tomato sauce

Chilli sauce

Blended dried chillies

Oyster sauce

Fish sauce

Oil

 Method:

Heat oil and sautee garlic and onion.

Add blended chilli cook for 5-10mins

Add in the beef 

Season with oyster sauce, fish sauce, chilli sauce & tomato sauce

Mix well.  Once cook off heat

Sabsuka

Sunday is visit your mom's day.  And I did not come empty-handed.  I volunteered to cook for the family.   My brothers will be home.  So I hope to finish cooking early and head to ibu's house.  

Off all the 4 days of fasting, I think sunday I ate the most.  Apart from the sabsuka, there's sardine puff from Shakilah's family, ibu fried some chicken drumlets and chicken seaweed.  There's kuihs and I manage to make cincau drink.  So rajin right.  Not all the time hor.

Anyway sabsuka is a repeated recipe.  I have cooked this so many time and each time I will improvise according to my guest.

The naked sabsuka

.... garnish with fried shallots...

... sprinkle chopped coriander leaves...

... and drizzle olive oil ..... or melted ghee...

Ingredients:
1/2 kg minced meat
1 cinnamon stick
1 large onion (diced)
1 large onion (blended)
2 cloves garlic (blended)
1/4 thumb ginger (blended)
1 bowl of chili paste
2 tbsp ground cumin
1/2 bowl tomato sauce
2 tbsp sugar
1 bowl tomato paste
2 tbsp chili sauce
2 tomatoes (diced)
2 cups water
1 tbsp Ghee (i used EVOO)
Black pepper powder
Coriander leaves
 fried shallot

Method:

Mix the onion, ginger, garlic and black pepper powder to your minced meat leave it to rest.
Heat cooking pot and fried the chilli paste and cinnamon stick. About 5-10 mins add in your minced meat.
Add in diced onions, tomato paste, chili and tomato sauce, cumin powder and water
Once the minced meat half-cooked, add Ghee (i added EVOO). For garnishing add in fried shallot and coriander leaves.
Serve fried egg with Sabsuka or either mix it in the Sabsuka (individual preference)

Selamat mencuba | Happy trying.

Bistik Daging

Cooking we must ~Yoda

It's the first weekend of the fasting month. And MIL was at home so we break fast at home lah. Since the other days we broke fast at the mosque nearby.  

Ask the Mister what he wants to eat and he said anything to eat with bread.  How simple! Woke up early to prep and started cooking after asar.  The taste was quite mile no kick.  Maklumlah puasa tak boleh rasa =p.

But can better if can taste while cooking I would have alter the flavour lah.  I did some Google-ing and I like Tiffinbiru's recipes. Easy and hassle free though I made some changes to the recipe to suit may laziness hahaha.

Ingredients:

500g minced meat or sliced meat
5 potatoes
Black pepper
1 cinnamon stick
Blended dry chilli
Salt and sugar to taste
Peas
Water
Tomato sauce
Tomato paste
Beef stock

Blended ingredients:
                                  1 onion
                                  6 red onions
                                  3 cloves garlic
Oil for frying

Method:

Season the meat with black pepper and salt and put aside.
Heat oil. Throw in the cinnamon stick and the blended ingredients.
Add the potatoes and mix well.  Add water cook the potatoes till half cook.
Add in the meat and tomato sauce, blended chilli, tomato paste, and beef stock.
Mix well and cover the pot with low heat till the meat and potatoes are cook.
Season with salt and sugar cook till gravy thickens.
Garnish it with peas, fried shallots and chopped coriander leaves with sliced French loaf.

Took reference from Tiffinbiru

Batagor (BAkso TAhu GOReng)

Recipe taken from: allrecipe.asia

Ingredients 
Serves: 8 

• 4 firm white tofu squares
• 60 g prawns, peeled, deveined and minced
• 40 g minced chicken
• 1 green onion, chopped
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• salt and white pepper to taste
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 2 teaspoon cornflour
• oil for frying
• For the batter
• 50 g plain flour
• 1 egg
• water

• For the sauce
• 30 g dry roasted peanuts
• 1 fresh red chillies, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoon vinegar
• 70 ml water

Directions
Prep:20min  ›  Cook:30min  ›  Ready in:50min 

1. Slice each tofu cake diagonally to make 8 triangles. With each triangle, make a slit on the cut side to make a pocket for stuffing. Hollow out some tofu from the pocket.
2. In a bowl, mix well the hollowed out tofu pieces with minced prawns, chicken, green onions, sesame oil, cornflour, egg and season with salt and pepper.
3. Carefully stuff the tofu triangles with the filling, making a slight mound on the outside of slit. Place the triangles in a steamer and steam for 20 minutes.
4. Meanwhile make the dipping batter by combining the egg with flour and pouring enough water while whisking until you've reached a medium-thin consistency.
5. Make the sauce: Chop the roasted peanuts until medium coarse and add all the ingredients together in a bowl. Stir until the sugar and salt has dissolved. Set aside.
6. When the triangles are cooked, remove from steamer. Heat oil in wok until hot. Take each triangle in batches, and dip in batter and slowly lower in hot oil. Fry until golden brown and batter is cooked. Drain on paper towel.
7. Serve hot with accompanying sauce.

Nasi Tomato & Ayam Merah

Hiatus for ages ...

Invited love ones to break fast cum dinner. I decided to be adventurous and attempt tomato rice.  Almaklum ibu came for raya and brought her battalion.

It turned out great alhamdulillah ... if not drop my ibu water face sey ... hee hee ...

photo credit: Yat Fikri/Babypink

Nasi Tomato Recipe

Ingredients

4 cups basmathi, rinse and soak for 30 mins (I used India Gate Basmathi Premium)

4 1/2 cups water

1/2 cup evaporated milk

1 onion (sliced)

1 inch ginger (just bashed it)

3 clove garlic (sliced)

2 tomatoes (diced)

1/2 cup tomato sauce

1 knot of pandan leaf

4 tbsp of butter

4 tbsp of oil

a handful of cashews

Salt to taste

Ingredients to sautee

1 cinamon 

1 star anise

4 cloves

Garnish

Chopped coriander 

Toasted Cashew

Fried onions

Method:

Clean, rinse the basmathi and sock it for 30 mins.

I did all this in the rice cooker:
Pour oil and butter in the cooker. Melt the butter.
Add ingredients to sautee.
Add in onion, garlic and ginger.  Cook until its soft.
Add pandan leaf, diced tomato and tomato sauce cook until the diced tomato break apart.
Add in evaporated milk and bring it to boil.
Season it with salt.
Add the rice, 4 1/2 cups of water and cashews and mix well. Leave it to cook.  Occasionally stir and mix.

Garnish it with chopped coriander, toasted cashews and fried onions.

For Ayam Merah I followed my mom's recipe and I've attempt a couple of time its not perfect yet but definitely better then the last ... recipe can be found here.

Guests photos will be upload later when I find the time to develop my film ... heh 

2013: 1st Entry Ayam Pongteh & 'Kacau-goreng' (Stir-fry) Sayur

Rabu: 3 Jan 13

Sepatutnye ku ke kerja ... but mata kanan bengkak kene eye infection. Maybe pasal bulu mata masok dalam mata kot. hee hee 

Breakfast selepas ke klinik

anyway  ... dah lama gitu kan dapur tak berasap. Saya berazam untuk sering masak dan makan dirumah.  Almaklum start of the year ... ade chance hangat2 taik ayam je ... tapi hopefully not lah.

So since dah dapat MC ... aside from resting ... kite masak ler ye ... 

Satu daripada blogger yg saya amat salute skali dan follow ialah Mat Gebu sebab recipe dia best-best belaka.  So Ayam Pongteh nie adalah salah satu recipe yg saya cuba from blog dia.

Click on Tiffin Biru to go to his site.

BAHAN-BAHANNYA

1/2 chicken cut 7 or 8 1/2 ekor ayam, kerat 7 - 8 bahagian, cuci bersih dan toskan
10 red onions 10 biji bawang merah*
6 cloves garlic (red onion & garlic blend) 6 ulas bawang putih*(*dikisar halus)
1/3 cup fermented soyabean (mashed) 1/3 cawan pes taucho (mat guna tauco biji2 dan mat lumatkan sedikit)
8 shitake mushrooms soaked 8 kuntum cendawan shittake segar, rendam
2 potatoes clean and cut into 4 2 biji kentang, kupas, potong 4 setiap 1, rendam
1 tbsp dark soy sauce 1 camca besar kicap pekat
1 tbsp light soy sauce 1 camca besar kicap cair atau secukup rasa
Sugar to taste Gula secukup rasa
Red and Green Chili cut Cili merah dan hijau, dipatah2
Parsley to garnish Hirisan daun sup, untuk hiasan

CARA MEMBUATNYA

1. Panaskan minyak dalam periuk, tumis bahan kisar halus hingga harum, masukkan taucho, kacau dan masak hingga terbit minyak, guna api kecil dan kacau selalu. Masukkan ayam, gaul hingga mesra dan biar ayam kecut. Tuang air secukupnya dan biar mendidih.
2. Masukkan kentang (toskan), tambah kicap pekat dan kicap cair (sedikit dahulu). Kacau dan biar mendidih dengan api sederhana hingga kentang 1/2 empuk. Tambah cendawan shittake (tos dan perah). Masak lagi hingga kentang empuk.
3. Tambah sedikit gula dan masak hingga kuah pekat sedikit. Rasa dan jika kurang masin, boleh tambah lagi kicap cair. Masak sekejap dan boleh matikan api. Tabur hirisan daun sup dan cili merah dan hijau yang dipatah2kan. Hidang bersama nasi hangat dan sambal belacan..

• Heat up oil, fry the blended ingredients for 5 mins and add fermented soyabean.  Stir and cook til the oil floats a little, lower the heat and stir often.  Add chicken, mix well.  Add enough water and let it boil
• Add in potaoes, add dark and light soy sauce (a little bit first). Stir in a medium heat and let the potatoes half cook.  Add shitake mushroom and continue cooking til the potaoes are fully cook
• Add abit of sugar and cook til the gravy thickens. Taste and if its bland, can add abit more light soy sauce. Cook for a while and off the heat.  Garnish with parsley and chilis

untuk  'Kacau-goreng' (Stir-fry) Sayur recipe nie sebenarnye takde recipe ... nie recipe ikot sedap hati ok.  no fuss lah senang kata ... kalao ade ingredient just masok kan je.

 'Kacau-goreng' Sayur aka Stir-fry Veggie

Kalao lah guru melayu ku baca blog nie ade chance dia nangis tak berlagu. heh ... takpe lah kalao ade lagu pun bising kan.

BAHAN-BAHANNYA 

2 sq tofu cut into 8s and pan fry 2 keping tahu - dipotong 8 dan digoreng 
1 bunch of long beans 1 gengam batang kacang panjang - petik or just cut into bite size
8 shitake mushroom - left over from the ayam pongteh (sliced it)
5 red chilis 5 batang lada merah -blend
3 cloves garlic (blend both chilis and garlic) 3 ulas bawang putih - blend
2 tbsp oyster sauce 2 sudu makan sos tiram
1/2 cup water 1/2 cawan air
Salt to taste garam

CARA MEMBUATNYA

1.  Panaskan minyak dalam kuali, tumiskan blended bawang and lada dan sampai berbau harum, masukkan pula tahu goreng, mushroom dan kacang panjang.
2. Goreng hingga masak sekata tak perlu sampai sayur lecur nanti tak sedap. Masukan sedikit garam dan sos tiram. Balik2kan sebentar dan padamkan api.  

• Heat oil, fry blended ingredients for 5 mins, add fried tofu, mushrooms and long beans
• Fry 5 to 10mins (u still want the long beans to be crunchy so do not cook it for too long).  Season it with salt and oyster sauce. Mix well off the heat

Kachang Phool

Hmmm people must be thinking ... raya  was over long time ago but i still have guest over to my place.  This was our post Raya. (Puasa tak cukup raya sampai post sakan ... tsk). My primary school friends and family came last sat.  I did not manage to visit them during the festive season so we planned this get together not too long ago. 

Alhamdulillah everything when well.  I was quite happy that they managed to squeeze some time to come over to my place.  Tina was not able to join us cos her lil girls were not well.  But its ok there's always another time.

I'll post some photos once Munira upload it hee hee ya ... too busy chatting till we forget to take pix ... lucky Munira brought her camera ... so we took some shots before we end the day.

Ingredients:

1 can Foul Medames

150g minced beef

1/3 cup of tamarind juice

2tbsp meat curry powder (Babas’ brand + abit of water to make a paste)

1tbsp blended dried chilli

Blend:

• 5 red onions
• 3 cloves garlic
• ½ inch ginger

Salt and Sugar to taste

Side Ingredients:

Egg, sunny side up

Onion (diced)

Tomato (diced)

Green chilli (sliced)

Lime (cut into 2)

Ghee (melted)

Method:

1. Heat oil, sautee the blended ingredient for 3 to 5mins then add the blended chilli cook thoroughly, add curry powder and minced beef, mix and cook for 10 to 15mins mins add 1 cup of water.
2. Once the mixture boil add tamarind juice.  Add salt and sugar to taste. Lower the heat til the gravy thickens.  Add in the Foul Medames (I’ve blend it to smooth paste or you can just mashed it with your hands.  Up to individual) Stir and cook for another 10 to 15 mins and off the heat.

To Serve:

Scoop the gravy on a plate, put 1 egg sunny side up, scatter some diced tomato, onion and chilli.  Drizzle some melted ghee and squeeze 1 lime juice accompany it with French loaf or normal white bread

Source: tiffinbiru

Keema

Open house Day 3: Paternal Family ... Thank you ALL for coming =D

There's no photos for this cos ... I FORGOTTEN to take ... ler ... 

Source: FN

Ingredients

·         2 tablespoons vegetable oil

·         1 onion, minced

·         8 ounces ground veal

·         8 ounces ground lean beef

·         Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste

·         2 large cloves garlic, minced

·         2 firm, ripe tomatoes, diced

·         1 tablespoon minced gingerroot, or 1 teaspoon ground ginger

·         1 teaspoon Garam Masala

·         1 teaspoon minced fresh hot green chilies, or to taste

·         3 cups frozen peas

·         1 lemon, juiced, or to taste

·         2 to 3 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro, or to taste

·         Indian flatbreads (rotis) or tortillas, as an accompaniment

Directions

In a nonstick skillet set over moderately high heat, warm the oil until hot. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes. Add the veal, beef, and salt and pepper to taste, and cook, stirring, until no longer pink. Add the garlic, tomatoes, gingerroot, Garam Masala, and chilies, and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes. Add the peas and continue to cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes more, or until flavors blend. Stir in the lemon juice and cilantro and correct seasoning, adding more salt if necessary. Either transfer to a bowl and serve with warm rotis or tortillas or spoon Keema down center of bread and roll up like a burrito

Roti Kirai - 'Spider Web'

Open House Day 2 : Maternal Side of the family.  Photo courtesy by Mazri mynotsolittlecousinanymore. I made roti kirai with the new bottle I bought online.  It was fuss-free.  Ibu helped with the mi birthday.

All in all I am so happy that almost all my family came ... My granny came, my aunties and uncles, cousins, niece inside the tummy, friends ... I had an awesome weekend.  Lots of love.

Source: Rozzan
Roti Kirai aka 'Spider Web'

Ingredients
1 kg Plain flour
300 ml evaporated milk
950 - 1000 ml water
3 eggs
3 tsp salt
a bit of colouring (in this case a made 2 different batch 1 is yellow and the other is purple)

Methods:

Mix everything in 1 bowl and sieve so there’s no lumps.

Heat a flat pan sprinkle a bit of oil or use a non-stick pan =)

photo was taken from here.

Use the equipment and drizzle it in circular motion or up to you.

Please do not walk away from the pan as it cooks really fast …30s to 1min depending on the thickness

And fold it … that is also up to you too … =D

Chicken Curry

Bahan-Bahan

1kg of wings (or whole chicken cut into 8 or 12 parts)

Blend till smooth:

·         2 large onions
    4 cloves garlic
    1 inch ginger

10 tbsp curry powder BABAS

1 onion (sliced)

5 star anise

3 cardamom

2inch cinnamon

Oil for frying

200 ml santan (I did not put into my curry)

3 potatoes (cut into quarter)

2 tomatoes (cut into quarter)

Salt to taste

Method:

Heat oil.  Sautee sliced onion and curry powder till soft.

Add in the blended item, mix well. Cook it for 10 – 15mins.

Add in the chicken and add 2 to 3 cups of water.

Add in potatoes … once the potatoes are fully cook add in tomato and salt.

Simmer it for 5mins and off the heat.

The Shepherd's Pie

Not your normal Hari Raya dish but my mom requested for 2 medium trays of shepherd's pie.  

I also have some friends asking for this recipe ... I like to make changes from time to time cos there's no right or wrong shepherd's pie.  This recipe has gone a lot of changes ... in school, Secondary 2 to be exact, it was a super basic pie ... its just potatoes season with salt and pepper, filling was minced chicken, onion, garlic, salt and pepper and abit of butter to finish off ...

So you see this recipe has evolve for the passed 16yrs ... and I kept adding more ingredient to the recipe ... to make it AWESOME!

• Boil potatoes for 1 to 1 1/2hr depending on the quantity and size of the potatoes
• Once cooked, drained and peel the jacket (if you boil together with the jacket). Season with salt and pepper.  Butter and milk are optional. Mashed and mix till smooth or leave bits and pieces of chunks are ok too.

Potatoes:

potatoes - use russet potatoes (scrub clean and boil with jacket on til cook)
salt and pepper to taste

  *Optional
soft butter

milk
parmesan cheese

•  Minced meat (I used beef - the choice is yours)
• Garlic and ginger - chop, onion - diced
• *Optional - Tomatoes, capsicums, mushroom (put can, don't put also can, put other things also can)

•  Seasoning - Tomato sauce, salt, pepper, black pepper
• *Optional - Blended chili
• Oil to fry

• Sautee garlic, ginger and onions
• Once soft add in the minced meat
• Mix well
• The liquid will come from the meat cook til the liquid dry up

• Season with salt and pepper
• Continue to cook it for 5mins
• *Optional - add blended chili (can omit) and cook it for 10 to 15mins or until its well cook [add black pepper once its half way cook]

•  Off the heat
• Add tomato sauce and the *Optional ingredients such as tomato, capsicum and mushroom
• Mix well and put aside ... let it cool before use

Use a good quality Mozzarella Cheese!

• grease aluminum tray, pyrex or oven-prove dish with butter.
• take 1/2 of the potato mixture and line the bottom of the dish
• then take a generous amt of filling and layer it on top of the lined potato mixture
• cover it with mozzarella cheese
• take the remaining mixed potatoes and cover the filling
• dot the top with butter (I have none left hahha)
• add generous amt of mozzarella cheese on top.

Bake it for abt 10min on a pre-heat oven of 190C or until the cheese has melted and turn golden brown