Curry Puffs

My lovely curry puffs!!!
:)

And the recipe:
Outer layer:

400 g flour
50 g margarine
1/3 tsp salt
1/2 egg
170 ml water

Inner Layer:
120 g flour
60 g lard/shortening

Filling:
150 g chicken meat
150 g onions
500 g potatoes
50 g shallots
2 tbsp oil
2 1/2 tbsp curry powder
1 1/2 tbsp freshly ground chilly (paste)
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp sugar
3/4 cup coconut milk


For the filling:
Cube the chicken. potatoes and onions slice shallors.
Boil the potaoes till soft.
Heat oil ,sweat the shallots and add in ground chilly(paste). Fry until fragrant then add curry powder.
Add in the cubed chicken, then onions. When chicken is no more pink add in coconut milk.
Simmer until filling thickens, season with salt and sugar.

Leave to cool.

Method:


For Wrapping:

Outer layer:
1. Boil margarine, water and salt. Pour into the flour. Add in egg. Knead well. Let dough rest for a while. Divide into 8 portions.

Inner layer:
2. Mix flour and lard/shortening together. Knead well and divide into 8 portions.
3. Wrap inner layer with outer layer. Flatten it and then roll it up like a swiss roll. Repeat twice and then divide into 2 portions.
4. With cut side on the table, roll dough into a circle and fill with a spoonful of curry filling. Wet the outer rim of circle and fold into half, seal the edges.
5. Remove several ladles of hot oil as the puffs are slightly brown, turn heat on to the highest and fry puffs until brown. This way will ensure that the puffs will not be soggy.
6. To fry the second batch, add in the slightly cool oil and put in the frozen puffs, frying the same way as no.5.
7. Put fried puffs in 250f oven to keep warm.

Wan Tan meal

Wan tan mee...

Wan tan soup...

Koay Teow T'ng & Chicken Wrap

My lovely koay teow t'ng as our lunch, and small portion of chicken wrap as dinner..... healthy huh!

Dried bean curd with Soya Milk

Yes, I havent been updating my blog...
What to do,....I dont even have time to *poo poo*!!
Oh well, *finger-cross* everything will end by this month....*pray hard*
So just a 'brief' update~~ Let's see, I've 'invented' (well probably there is someone that actually did this) soya milk with dried bean curd(fu chuk).



One day I was so craving for fu chuk. So instead of making the common eggs and fu chuk dessert, I thought of trying new dessert....Not sure what the taste was going to be, but....it turns out GOOD! Real good. We both are loving it!

So, as usual, the dried bean curd must be soaked in water until is fluffy. Then instead of putting it straight into the soya bean milk, I've boiled it in water until is 'broken into pieces' . Then only I heat the dried bean curd with soya milk together . Do not over boil the soya milk!! If you prefer it to be sweeter, just add some sugar.


And there goes, nicely done dried bean curd with soya milk dessert. Healthy!

Crab dinner

Nice nice nice??
And of course there must be some vege~ -_-

Claypot Chicken Wings

Ingredients:

3 chicken wings

2 stalks spring onions, cut into sections

1cm ginger, sliced thinly

5 chinese mushrooms, soaked till soft and quatered

3 tbsp cooking oil

Seasoning:

1 tbsp shao xing wine

3 tbsp oyster sauce

pepper to taset

1/4 cup water

Extra 1 stalk of spring onions, cut into sections

Method:

1. Cut the chicken wings into pieces (at the joint)

2. Heat the claypot until smoking hot. Heat the cooking oil and fry both spring onions and ginger until fragrant. Add chicken wings and mushrooms. Add shao xing wine and continue to fry.

3. Add water and the remaining seasoning, except the extra spring onions. Bring to a boil. Cover claypot and simmer over low heat until chicken wings are tender.

4. Before serving, add extra cut spring onions. Stir well and serve while still hot.

Dinner

Well I think I can consider myself as 'carnivore'. I only eat a few types of vegetables, such as, broccoli, lettuce, okra (lady fingers) and probably belacan kangkung (Water Spinach). So, we went and get this kangkung at one of the chinese grocery shop and had it as our dinner~


and this too~~

Yam Cake (Malaysian style?)

This had always been our favourite! After we've tried from one of our friends, he was so in-love with it. And of course, I HAVE to get the recipe and learn from my friend.

Anyway, you can try it and let me know if there's any 'smell' that you don't like.

Now, here's the recipe.

Ingredients (A)

1. Rice flour – 225g
2. Glutinous flour – 3 tbsp
3. water – 825 g
4. salt – 2 ¾ tsp
5. sugar – 3tsp
6. white pepper – ½ tsp
7. chicken stock – ¾ tsp

Ingredients (B)

1. yam – 600g
2. dried shrimp – 120 g
3. spring onions – 2
4. shallots – 10
5. red chilies (shredded)

Steps

1. Heat 5-6 tbsp oil, mix the sliced shallots with corn flour and sauté the shallots until golden brown.
2. Soak the dried shrimps in a bowl of hot water. Blend all the dried shrimps. Scoop all the cooked shallots and use the oil to fry the blended dried shrimps. When it is ready, it will have bubbles. Stir it again, and let it cooked again (wait for another bubbles)
3. Scoop about 60% of the fried blended dried shrimps and cook the yams with the remaining oil and blended dried shrimps. Stir fry until about 70 - 80% cook. Depends on individual, stir fry until about 50-60% if you want the yam to be crunchy.
4. Mix all ingredients (A) in a bowl.
5. When the yam is about cook, stir in (4). Keep stirring until the mixture is thicken. Taste the mixture, add additional salt and pepper if necessary.
6. Once ready, scoop the mixture into a square(or round like mine) bowl. Flatten the mixture with the back of a spoon. Steam in medium fire for 40-45 minutes.
7. When is done, sprinkle cut spring onions, fried shallots and shredded red chilies before serve.

For the chili

Ingredients

1. Red chilies – 50 to 60g
2. Vinegar – 2 tbsp
3. Salt – 1 tsp
4. Water – 10 tbsp
   

Steps

1. Cut the red chilies into pieces and blend it with the water.
2. Heat a frying pan and pour the chili mixture into it.
3. Add some cornflour if you want it to be thicken.

Coca - cola Chicken

Another easy recipe to be shared. Saw this recipe on the newspaper one day and thought of giving it a try. All I can say about this recipe is délicieux! :D

Now,

Ingredients:
1. 5 chicken wings
2. 1 tbsp light soy sauce
3. 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
4. 1/2 tbsp sugar
5. salt and pepper to taste
6. 1 can of coca-cola
7. Oil for deep frying.

Steps:
1. Clean the chicken wings and marinate them with light and dark soy sauce, sugar, salt and pepper. Best to marinate them for about 2-3 hours but usually I do it for at least half an hour.
2. Once they are ready, heat the wok and enough oil for deep frying. Fry those chicken wings until about 70% cook.
3. Take it out of the wok and drain it with kitchen towel.
4. Heat the wok, put the chicken back in the wok and pour coca-cola into the wok just enough to cover all the chicken wings.
5. With medium heat, continue to stir until sauce thicken.
6. Serve when it is warm.

my 'day Off'

I had my 'day off' yesterday...unbelievable...I was not asked to cook even an instant noodle ...

We had Indomee as our branch. Then after about an hour, we went out for lunch with his friend at one of the chinese restaurant in town. We had nasi lemak and ho fun.
Then even dinner, HE made me one ... while I'm having 'evening' nap.. :)
This is what he made me ...
some garlic breads, cajun wedges, and paprika pork... what can I say.... Thank you!

Curry Chicken

Now, this is my favorite! This dish was actually taught by one of my colleague long long time ago (well probably 2 years). He always complains that my curry chicken is too spicy for him...and yesterday, he complains that the curry is SWEET... what can I say, MEN ....

Anyway, this is the recipe:
Ingredients:
1. Chicken portions
2. 1 potato
3. 2 tomatoes
4. 1 cm of ginger
5. 1 onions
6. 5-6 tbsp milk/coconut milk
7. 3 cloves of garlic
8. 4-5 curry leaves
9. 3/4 tbsp of curry powder
10. 1/2 tbsp of turmeric powder
11. 2 tbsp of oil
12. Light soy sauce
13. Salt & pepper to taste

Steps:
1. Cut the potato and tomatoes into cubes, smash the ginger and garlic and slice the onion.
2. Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pot. When it is ready, saute the sliced onions until fragrant. Before it is brown, fry along with ginger, garlic and curry leaves.
3. Add in the chicken potions and slightly stir it with the onions. Then, add the curry powder and turmeric powder and stir well. Add in the potatoes cubes and tomatoes wedges.
4. Pour in the milk/coconut milk and cover the pot with low fire for about 15-20 minutes until the chicken portions are cook.
5. Before dishing out, season it with salt and pepper.

p/s: Superb easy dish and lovely

Spring roll

What can I say, this is one of his favorite food. Every now and then, HE would ask me to make this dish for him. When he asked me to make it yesterday, I have got no prawns, no sesame oil and some other ingredients.

So I've used whatever I can find from his fridge to make him this before he comes back from work.

Ingredients:
1. Mince pork (1/4 of 500g)
2. half a carrot
3. 2 mushrooms
4. 2 cloves of garlic
5. light soya sauce (~1 tablespoon)
6. sugar (1/2 tablespoon)
7. salt and pepper to taste
8. spring roll pastry

Steps:
1. Chop the carrot and mushroom into pieces and mix them with mince pork. Do the same for garlic as well. Marinate the mixture with soy sauce, sugar, salt and pepper.
2. Instead of deep frying the spring rolls, I've used oven to grill the rolls. No oils = less fat! So, to I've fry the mixture first before rolling them with the spring roll pastry.
3. Heat the frying pan with 1 tablespoon of oil, and stir fry the minced garlic. Once the garlic start to burn, pour in the meat mixture and continue to fry. Turn off the fire, when the mince meat is no longer pinkish color. The result should look like this.

4. Let it cool before wrapping it with the pastry.
5. I've used this spring roll skin(bought one from china town)
6. After wrapping...


7. Heat up the oven to about 180C before placing wrapped spring roll inside. When the oven is ready, grill the rolls for about 10-15 minutes for each side. It should be ready when it looks brownish.

Haha...this is what we had for our dinner with a plate of fried bee hoon.