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)

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

Sambal Goreng

Recipe taken from: Singaporelocalfavorite

Sambal Goreng

 Ingredients:

200 g tempeh, cut into cubes (I don't have tempeh here)

300 g long beans (kacang panjang), slice diagonally 

150 firm beancurd, cut into cubes 

60 g fresh prawns, deveined and shelled if desired

60 g chicken gizzards, cleaned, boil till tender for about 20 minutes and cut into cubes (I did not add this)

1-2 red chillies, slice diagonally 

2 shallots, thinly sliced  

1 cm ginger, thinly sliced 

1 stalk serai (lemongrass bulb), thinly sliced

3-4 tbsp thin tamarind juice 

2 cups (500ml) coconut milk 

2 tspn roasted belacan

Salt and sugar to taste 

Cooking oil 

Rempah to Blend:

3 cm ginger 

3 cm galangal 

4 fresh red chillies 

5 shallots 

4 buah keras (candlenuts) [I used macadamia nuts]

3 cloves garlic 

1 stalk serai (lemongrass bulb), thinly slice

Method: 

Fry the tempeh and tofu separately until golden brown (Do not overcooked). Drain and set aside. 

Stir fry the long beans, chicken gizzard and prawns for about 2-3 minutes then set aside. 

Blend all the rempah ingredients in blender to a smooth paste. Heat a little oil in pan and fry this paste until fragrant and until oil separates. 

Add in the sliced chilli, ginger, lemongrass and shallots. Stir and add in the roasted belacan, tamarind juice and coconut milk. Add salt and sugar to taste. 

Reduce heat and simmer until the sauce thickens (there should not be too much gravy) slightly then add all the other remaining ingredients that were set aside.

Serve with rice, serunding and rendang pandang.

Chicken Rice

Sunday already ... there must be a day between Saturday and Sunday.  We had breakfast with MIL at Tekka Market.  Booooy was she famous ... met a few of her friends from table to table... 

As usual I had my thosei, teh-O ice and tebu with lemon (this one not so happening) ...  We went marketing to stock up before CNY.  Everyone worries that there won't be enough food over the long weekend. After that MIL went kai-kai and me waited for the boss to finish his shaving  .... what's left of it. 

Anyway dinner was chicken rice as we had guests ... I love guests so they can be my guinea pig.  Hahahha .... I try to use less or no oil in my cooking and other method of cooking ... for health sake ... slowly but surely changing ....

Chicken Rice

Ingredients:

Rice (2 part rice : 3 part water or chicken stock)
Garlic
Ginger
Chicken skin
Lemongrass
Pandan leaf
** garlic and ginger blend into paste
** lemongrass bashed
** tie a knot for the pandan leaf

Method:

1. Saute garlic and ginger paste (without or with a little bit of oil) and chicken skin till aromatic
2. Pour water or chicken stock in the rice cooker
3. Add lemongrass and pandan leaf in the rice cooker
4. Once simmer add in the sauted mix and put in the rice and mix well, leave it to cook.
5. optional: Once the rice is cook, can shape it into balls or just serve like dat

Chilli Sauce

Ingredients:
Red chilli
Chilli padi
Garlic
Salt
Tomato sauce

Method:

Blend everything and boil it.

Source: Both Chicken Rice and Chilli Sauce recipe taken from my ibu's recipe

Oven Baked Chicken

Ingredients:

·         6 chicken wings about 500 grams

·         2 tbsp honey

·         1/2 tbsp oyster sauce

·         1 tsp sesame oil

·         1/2 tsp light soy sauce

DIRECTIONS

1.      Prepare the wings by cutting to 3 portions at the joint (drummette, mid joint and end tip). Freeze the end tips for making chicken stock. Pat dry with paper towels.

2.      Marinade chicken with the rest of the ingredients for at least half an hour or overnight.

3.      Arrange chicken pieces on wire rack with foil-lined tray beneath. Bake at preheated oven of 200°C (392°F) for 25 minutes or until chicken turns golden brown, basting with remaining marinade and turning once halfway.

Source: Noobcook

Kailan with Oyster Sauce

Serves 4
Ingredients
200 grams of medium sized Kai-lan

Sauce:
1 small shallot, thinly slices (best to remain in rings for better presentation)
1 clove of garlic, chopped
2 tablespoons of light soy sauce
2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
Small pinch of salt and pepper

1 teaspoon of sesame oil
2 tablespoons of oyster sauce

Method
1) Wash and soak whole leavy Kailan vegetables in lightly salted water for 15 minutes. Boil a medium pot of water over high flame. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar (add more if your pot is large). Blanch Kailan in the boiling water for 1 – 2 minute, or once the leaves appear darker green in colour. Drain on a strainer and place nicely on a serving dish.

2) Heat wok with vegetable oil on medium heat, stir-fry shallot and garlic till fragrant and browned. Reduce heat to low fire when shallot and garlic are lightly browned to allow standing time. Sprinkle salt and pepper, followed by light soy sauce (beware of its sizzling effect by the mixture of hot oil and light soy sauce). Heat off and immediately pour onto the vegetables. Top sesame oil and oyster sauce. Serve.

Source: MyWokLife

Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

A few piece of chicken with bones

Blend

4 cloves garlic

2 red onion

2 inch ginger

  

1 Knorr chicken cube

Leaves leek soup

Fried shallots

Method:

Do not need to saute ...boil water and in chicken and blended ingredients, add in the chicken cube and salt to season.  Once the chicken is cook off heat. Add in the leaves leek soup and fried shallots.

Source: Kasihaleeya

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

Lunch

Monday 11th Apr 2011 was my rest day cos I was on duty over the weekend.  Toa Payoh Roadshow leave me lots of memories (go into flash back ...... ) shall not elaborate ... hhahahah ... anyway I woke up early so I decide to do some spring cleaning... washed 1 week worth of laundry (cos my partner, he had to work too) and cooking.

So woke up put the first batch of laundry in the machine and left it to do marketing. I bought fish (i'm not too sure what fish i bought, damn it's one expensive fish) and veggie and some other stuff ... 

Had my breakfast at kopitiam ... prata was ok the curry gravy was a lil bit watery but the taste was oklar.  Reached home, hang out my laundry and put the 2nd batch to watch and start on my cooking.

Ayam masak Merah

*chicken (I used fillets cos Esa dont like bones)

*marinate chicken with abit of blended chili, tumeric, salt and cornflour ... fry till golden brown)

garlic

ginger

2 onions (1 blend/1 sliced)

lemongrass

lime leave

dried chili

tomato sauce

tomato

salt

Sugar

Oil for frying

Methods:

Blend 1 onion, dried chili, garlic, ginger.

Heat up oil, add lime leave, bashed lemongrass and slice onions (sautee it)

Add the blended chili mixture (cook well)

Season it with salt, sugar, tomato sauce

Add the fried chicken and tomato and mix well ... 

Fried Fish

fish of any kind (as long as its good for frying)

tumeric

blended chili

salt

curry leaves

Methods:

Marinate the fish

Fry in hot oil. 

Fry till golden brown

Stir-fried Veggie

Veggie 

garlic

onion

chili

fish cake

prawn

oyster sauce

salt/ pepper

Methods:

Saute chili, garlic and onion

Add fish cakes and prawn

Season with salt, pepper and oyster sauce

Add in veggie

Lunch is serve .... =D

Home-cooked meal

Decided to have breakfast come lunch before we went for ratib.

 I bought this frozen from NTUC

 Stir-Fried Veggie

Ingredients

Long Beans 

Carrots

Baby Potatoes

Sliced Onion

Chopped Garlic

Chopped Ginger

Sliced Chili/Chili padi

Chicken Cube

Oyster Sauce

Salt 

Pepper

Methods:

Sauted garlic, ginger, onion and chili

Add carrots and potatoes, cook till tender

Add long beans

Season with salt, pepper, oyster sauce and chicken cube.

Cook for 5 to 8 mins

Garnish with spring onion and coriander and fried shallots

Spiced Wedgies

Ingredients

A few potatoes cut into wedges

Salt

Black pepper

Cajun powder

Paprika powder

Garlic powder

Chopped Coriander

Methods

Deep fry the potatoes

Drain access oil

Put the fried wedgies in a container

Add all the powdered ingredients

Cover the container and shake it well

Ta-da ... seasoned wedgies =D 

Ayam Balado

I'm not a writing mood cos i have sick ppl to take care of so here's the recipe for the following pix aite.

TuesNite Dinner.

Stir-fried Veg

Ingredients:

veggie (of ur choice)

mushroom (of ur choice)

garlic (bashed)

onion (sliced)

red chili (sliced)

dark soy sauce

oyster sauce

salt

pepper

Method:

Saute garlic, chili and onion. 

Add in mushroom.

Season with salt and pepper.

Add in dark soy sauce and oyster sauce

Add veggie ... stir for a few mins and off the heat

Ayam Balado

Ingredients

chicken (Meat/Other part of the bird)

salt

lime

blended ingredients

red chili

chili padi

garlic

onion

salt

chopped coriander

Method:

Mix salt, lime and meat for a few mins.

Half cook the chicken

Oil for frying 

Add the blended ingredient.

Masak sampai garing =D

Add salt, and chicken 

Cook until the chicken is fully cook

Garnish it with chopped coriander

Fried Chicken Marinate

curry powder

salt

blended dried chili

Tempeh Campak-campak?!

today i tot of cooking kachang pool. dah mintak recipe from my ibu lagy sey but NTUC @ Sengkang tak sell foul medames. haiz
bump into yana hee hee ... so near yet so far ... y i said so cos we stay few bloks away but the last time i saw her and hubby was on the ONE's bdae which was before raya 6th sep ... it was horrible sey cos i din notice kalau yana tak tego i haiz ... the ONE always has my mata tarok kat lutut hahahah ...
ok time to panic cos i dun have a backup plan ... oklar end up i settle for tempeh almaklum saya jawa per ...
erm ok i just create it along the way lar eh ...

Ingredients:
tempeh (sliced)
onion (sliced)
garlic (chopped)
blended chili
curry powder
su'un
fish cake
oyster sauce
salt
black pepper

Directions:

Marinate the tempeh with chili curry powder and abit of salt.
Deep fry it, and put aside.
Heat pan with oil enuf to stir fry, add garlic and onion saute
Add su'un and fish cake. too dry - add in abit of water
Season with salt and black pepper.
Add the fried tempeh ... mix well
Accompany it with hot steamed rice .... YUM ... simple home cook food

Stir Fried Veggies and Sweet and Sour Chicken

The passed few days we had dinner outside. Monday was McD (all becos of shaker fries)... as for Tues we wen The Manhattan Fish Market (.... shheeeeshhh.... an expensive dinner)... today dinner at home... simple and satisfied...

*Photos has been deleted

2 dishes for two..

Stir-fried veggies with chicken meat

Sweet and Sour Chicken ... and Spicy too