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Onion And Potato Fritters

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This is a simple fritters which I always make because of the availability of ingredients at home. It is easy and also delicious. Eat the fritters with your dipping of choice. I like it with chili sauce, tomato ketchup, black pepper sauce and also curry.  Ready in 20 minutes, for 4 servings Ingredients 1 medium potato 1 onion 2 cups all purpose flour 1 teaspoon soda bicarbonate 1 teaspoon salt 2/3 cup water Methods Dice potato and onion. Mix all ingredients except water. Then add water little by little until the batter mixture reach a consistency a bit thicker than of a pancake.  Heat cooking oil in deep pan. When the oil is well heated, add in a tablespoon of the mixture. Repeat until the pan surface is full. Cook and flip the fritters until the fritter surfaces become golden. Strain the fritters with kitchen tissue for excessive oil. Eat with condiment of choice.

Solok Lada

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Solok Lada (so-lock la-da) or Stuffed Chili is a side dish along with Nasi Kerabu (Kelantanese Salad Rice). It is also can be eaten along with rice and gulai or curry. It is a dish made from big green chili (usually a type of chili we call solok chili) filled with flavored grated coconut and fish.  The taste of solok is creamy, a bit spicy, salty and sweet. However the spiciness of the chili has been largely reduced because the chili is cooked and the seeds are removed before stuffing in the coconut filling. Usually sardine and mackerel fish are used to make Solok Lada.  Solok Lada is delicious when eaten with Nasi Kerabu which has a mixed flavor from fresh minced vegetables and herbs, spicy coconut sauce (tumis), grated coconut sambal and budu (anchovies sauce). It is also accompanied with sambal air lada (chili sambal), and any meat of choice. Solok is also delicious when eaten with rice and gulai, a curry like gravy which is usually cooked with meat, fish and c...

Onion Fritters

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Fritters is an easy food to cook for breakfast and teatime. There are many types of fritters such as onion fritters, banana fritters, lazy fritters, sweet fitters, milk fritters, bread fritters, anchovies fritters and many more. Here is a recipe of an easy to make fritter which is onion fritter. It is crispy on the outside but soft inside.  Ready in 20 minutes and the ingredients are for 4 servings.  Ingredients 3 cups all purpose flour 1 big onion  1 teaspoon soda bicarbonate 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup of water A pinch of sugar (optional) 1 teaspoon garlic paste (optional) 3 cups oil for frying Methods Slice the onion.  Mix the flour with soda bicarbonate, salt and sugar.  Add the onion and garlic paste. Then add water little by little until the mixture reach the consistency a bit thicker than the pancake.  Heat the oil in a deep pan. When the oil is well heated, scoop 1 tablespoon of the batter into the pan. Repeat until the p...

Soy Sauce Onion Omelette

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There are many types of Dadar Fried Egg. Dadar fried egg is a type of omelette which can be easily found in Malaysian restaurants. The difference between ordinary omelette is it is usually crispy at the edges and uses more oil to fry it. It also contains vegetable, herbs or even meat in it. Here is a version of Dadar Fried Egg recipe which is Soy Sauce Dadar Fried Egg. Just like the name, soy sauce is added into the egg before frying, resulting darker colored omelette.  Ingredients 1 egg 1/4 onion (thinly sliced or minced) 1/4 chili (thinly sliced) 1/3 teaspoon salt 3 to four drops sweet soy sauce White pepper powder 3 tablespoon cooking oil Methods Mix all ingredients well. Heat the oil in the pan. Pour the egg mix when the oil is well heated.  Flip the egg. Cook until both surface are cooked and became golden. 

Fish Head Curry

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Malay/English We usually eat fish curry 5 to 7 times a month. Yesterday my mom and Ichah (my 7 years old niece) and my brother went to night market and bought a spanish mackerel fish head. Ichah was the one asking her grandmother to buy the mackerel as she wants my mom to cook her favourite fish soup. So my mom bought 1 slice of mackerel for Ichah and mackerel fish head for us. So when her aunt found the mackerel fish head this morning she went and cook fish head curry. This is a recipe which I always use to cook thin fish curry (fish curry that used little coconut milk). This fish curry recipe is the one I obtained from trial and errors and combination of recipes which I got from here , here and here . Those recipes are all good and delicious, but I made some changes and combinations to suit my family's taste and also based on the ingredients I already have at home. There is another fish curry that I always make, I call it Kelantanese fish curry. It is a bit differ...

Homemade Roti John By Using White Bread

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Roti John is a famous street food in Malaysia. It consists of long hot dog bread and filled with egg mixed with meat, some herbs and spices and sauces. Cheese is also added on the costumer's request. The price is around RM5 to RM10 depends on the filling. The filling usually are egg with beef or chicken, and extra price for addition of cheese. Whenever I crave for roti john in the morning or when I did not go out I just make a simple one at home by using available ingredients. Here is a simpler version of roti john which just using egg without meat. Personally I prefer this version a bit because the bread used (white bread slices) are thinner. I also included the additional method on how to add meat in it. Ingredients 2 slices of bread, or 1 hot dog bun. 1 egg 1/2 onion 1/2 green chili or bell pepper 1/2 teaspoon chopped Chinese Celery (optional) 1 teaspoon curry spice mix Minced cabbage, and sliced onion Chili sauce Black pepper sauce Mayonnaise Cheese 2 tablespoon ...

Scrambled Egg Sandwich with Toum

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This is a sandwich I always make when I harvest the Brazilian Spinach at my small container garden in the backyard. It is easy, delicious and nutritious. The toum is a new addition to this sandwich to give more flavor to it.  Ingredients 1 egg 1/4 cup milk 1/2 cup 1 cup spinach (I use Brazilian Spinach) Toum Mayonnaise Margerine or butter 2 slices of bread A pinch of salt White pepper powder Methods Beat the egg in a bowl until egg white and egg yolk mixed.  Add in some salt, milk and white pepper.  Cook on the low heat. Put scrambled egg aside. Spread margarine or butter on one side of the bread. Toast the bread on the pan. Cook the buttered side until golden. Boil the spinach in 1/3 cup of water until tender. You can also add it raw.  Spread some mayonnaise on one of the bread. Spread toum on another bread. Spread scrambled egg on one if the bread, followed by the spinach.  Then put another bread with toum spread...

Loofah Soup with Anchovies and Cellophane Noodles

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I don't know what other people call this vegetable. I call it tene (tay-nay). Other call it petola. Others may call it loofah. This vegetable is really delicious. It can be steamed or made into soup. I like both. And this is the recipe of loofah soup with cellophane noodles which we call suhun and anchovies.  There are many types or species of loofah. This recipe uses a species which usually eaten as vegetable. There are one more variety which usually used as bath sponge. That species contains lots of fibrous meat which when ripe and dried can be used as bath sponge.  This loofah soup is usually served as side dish along with white rice. Young loofah tastes sweet, tender and juicy. Cellophane noodles are smooth and soft. Anchovies add flavor to the soup. This tasty and healthy soup also can be eaten by its own.  Ready in 15 minutes Ingredients 30 cm of loofah (young) sliced into 1 cm thick slices 3 shallots sliced 1 garlic 2 tablespoons anchovies 1/2 ...

Kampung Fried Rice

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I did not have cucumber that day so I used bell pepper as garnish.  Nasi goreng or fried rice is one of my favorite breakfast in the morning. It is delicious, fulfilling and easy to make especially when I have instant nasi perencah or pre-made perencah in the fridge. Perencah is the basic ingredient in nasi goreng which usually made from shallots, garlic and chili. Sometimes it contains shrimp paste or anchovies.  There are many types of nasi goreng and one of my favorite is nasi goreng kampung. Because I love to eat anchovies. Nasi goreng kampung is a classic nasi goreng which usually contains bird eye chili, anchovies and water spinach in it. Sometimes it is eaten with plain soup.  So here is my recipe of nasi goreng kampung.  Ready in 15 minutes  Ingredients 5 cups cooked rice 7 shallots 5 cloves garlic 3 to 7 bird eye chili 1/2 cup anchovies 1 cube anchovy stock 1 tablespoon budu or fish sauce (optional, I added it. ...