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I can say that fried fish is cooked almost everyday for our lunch menu. Be it turmeric fried fish, unseasoned fried fish or boiled fried fish, lunch may not feel complete without it. In the restaurants also there will be crispy spicy fried fish or crispy turmeric fried fish in trays for the costumers to choose for their lunch menu. Hot and crispy fried fish is a very suitable partner to the hot steaming white rice. And today I am going to share the turmeric fried fish recipe for people who have not tried this dish yet to try them. It is a quite easy recipe. The taste of this fried fish is, soft inside and crispy outside. Some people love their whole fried fish to be crispy until the bones become edible. Some prefer it less crispy. Usually this fried fish dish is crispy outside and a bit tender inside. The marinade add flavor to the fish and in the same time decrease the fishy taste of the fish. The crispier the fried fish the less fishy taste it will have. The fish used also must b...

I almost forgot that we have some split gill mushrooms in the fridge. This morning I found them almost completely dried due to the cold refrigerator temperature. I decided to cook two dishes with these mushrooms, 1 for lunch and 1 for dinner.  I remembered that my dad said that split gill mushrooms can be cooked as curry so I decided to cook mushroom curry. I have adjusted this curry recipe to suit the mushroom dried condition and lack of flavor after sitting in refrigerator for more than a week. I added some stock to cover up the lack of mushroom flavor. Being a homemade cook also require us to be creative and adjustable sometimes, in order to save time, and save some ingredients which almost go bad.  Difference in taste between gulai and curry Lots of people mistakenly called gulai as curry when they came to Malaysia and maybe Indonesia. Actually there are some difference between gulai and curry. I am not very knowledgeable in spices mix but I try to explain a bit ...

Noodles have been my favorite food for dinner and in rainy days. It is a comfort food for me. If I cannot find fresh noodles to be cooked in the fridge, I will cook the instant noodles. Although it is not a healthy option.  Noodles are versatile food. It can be fried, add in the soup, add in curry, deep fried for snack, and many more. In this entry I will share a very simple and healthy recipe which is soup noodle. There are many recipes of soup noodles. From rich soup noodles, spicy, seasoned soup noodles and many more. But this recipe of soup noodles is far from the glamorous world of flavorful soup noodles.  This soup noodles is an ordinary recipe which we can make at home almost anytime. It is because the method is simple and not many ingredients are used. In fact, we can use whatever we have at home. I call this as my everyday soup noodles. Even though it is simple, for me, the flavor of the soup is satisfying for my everyday need. Not too rich, not too plain. That is why...

Okra or lady's finger is a delicious and versatile vegetable. It can be sauteed, steamed, add into curry and soups, and many more. Young okra are soft and tender when cooked, they add  variety of flavor and texture in your curry and soup. In this entry I add this easy and simple recipe of sauteed okra which you can add as side dish to your rice and curry. I made this to accompany my canned sardine soup dish which I made for lunch that day. Okra usually goes well with fish dish.  In this recipe not much ingredients are used. I used shrimp paste to add more flavor to it. If you don' have shrimp paste you can use fried anchovies or dried shrimp, and even fresh shrimps.  Ready in around 15 minutes.  Ingredients 7 okras 2 shallots 1 pinch or 1/4 teaspoon shrimp paste or dried shrimp 1 bird eye chili 2/3 teaspoon salt A pinch of sugar 3 tablespoon cooking oil Methods Pound shrimp paste or dried shrimp, shallots and chili together. Slice the okras. Heat the oil in the pan. ...

Canned sardine is a versatile food which we can use to cook many dishes. There are several types of canned sardines, such as sardine in oil and sardine or tuna in tomato sauce. The way it is processed made sardines bones to be soft and edible. This makes the canned sardine more convenient to be consumed and also simplified the fish sandwich making process.  Today I cooked a simple dish out of a canned sardine. This is initially my father's recipe and we eat this with rice. I call it Canned Sardine Soup. It is a thin soup made with some spices and canned sardine with its tomato sauce. Even though it is thin in consistency this soup is flavorful. It is suitable to be made for lunch, dinner and during weekend. Lets check the recipe.   Ingredients 1 canned sardines in tomato sauce (400 to 500g) 7 cloves garlic 3 dried chilies cut in 1 inch long and soaked 5 minutes in hot water or 1 teaspoon paprika 1/2 tablespoon black pepper powder or 1 tablespoon ...

I was thinking what to cook with the chicken my mom put near the kitchen sink. Usually my mom will fry them after marinating them with turmeric powder and salt. But on the day before my mom cooked tumis , a spicy coconut sauce. It is a sauce added in Nasi Kerabu and also suitable to be served with Ayam Percik (Grilled Chicken in Coconut Sauce) and Ikan Percik (Grilled Fish in Coconut Sauce) . I think I want to cook a different fried chicken than the one my mom always cook to suit the Tumis. Then I thought of this recipe. It is like the fried chicken in my mother's Chicken Rice. I added some ingredients and omitted some. The result satisfy me. The fried chicken has a combination of sweet and savory flavor in it.  Ready in 30 minutes  Ingredients 1/4 chicken (around 400 gram) 1 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 tsp turmeric powder  1/2 tsp fennel seed (crushed to release the flavor) 1 clove garlic (crushed or minced) 1/2 tsp sweet soy sauce Cooking oil for deep frying ...

Kerabu is a type of salad in Malaysia. I think in Thailand there  are also similar dish like this. It is a form of vegetable, fruit and or meat salad which are finely chopped and mixed with other ingredients and flavorings such as grated coconut, coconut milk, nuts and many others.  Kerabu is really tasty when eaten with rice.  It is good eaten along with curry, and gulai. One of the kerabu recipe is Sambal Pauh which I will translate as Spicy Fish and Mango salad. Even though it is called sambal it look and taste more like salad.  Sambal Pauh is a dish which contains a combination of spicy, salty, fishy, a hint of sweet and sour taste. These combination of taste maybe enough to satisfy our taste buds. Maybe that is why many people just eat it alone with rice.  This dish can be side dish to curry or gulai, or become the main dish, only with rice.  Ingredients 1 medium size fish (usually mackerel is used) 1 small unripe mango 1 teaspoon chili paste 1 or ...

Vegetable pancake is one of my favorite breakfast food. It is delicious, nutritious and fulfilling. It is also a flexible recipe, as I can always change some of the ingredients based on what I have in the kitchen.  Lately I have been persuading myself to eat more and more vegetable everyday. As our age increase year by year, our risk in getting disease also increase. Diabetes, high blood pressure and heart diseases are some of the major health problems faced by many of us. There are also the dangerous cancer and kidney related diseases. Some efforts that we can all do to maintain our health are to consume more fruits and vegetables and drink enough water everyday. These are some of the easy way to take good care of our body.  So I made vegetable pancake as an effort to add more vegetable into my breakfast. The batter is soft but not fluffy, added with some crunchy vegetable such as cabbages and carrot. I just use ingredients that I already have in the kitchen. You can add diff...

Pumpkin is a very versatile garden produce. It can be cooked in many ways. Baked, made into soup, add into cake and other dishes and many more. The sweet flavor and soft but solid texture really makes it loved by many people. There are some Malay desserts and kuehs which use pumpkin in it such as Pumpkin Sira, Pumpkin Lepat and Pumpkin Pengat. Sira is a dessert where fruits or other foods are cooked in the sugar syrup, with added Pandan leaves and sometimes cloves in it. Lepat is a dish made from the mixture of wheat flour and fruit paste and wrapped in banana leaf. And Pengat is a dish which the fruit is cooked in sweet coconut soup. In this entry I will share the recipe of Pumpkin Pengat, or Pumpkin in Coconut Soup. This dish is suitable to be served as dessert, during tea break and even dinner. This recipe is prepared with added glutinous rice, but the addition is optional. Ready in 1 hour For 6 servings Ingredients Half of a medium sized pumpkin. 500 ml c...

We always get extra Dhal Curry when we buy Roti canai or flat bread, usually for our breakfast. Sometimes we get dhal curry and sambal, but sometimes we get dhal curry, sambal and curry. Roti canai is one of Malaysian staple breakfast food. Not only cheap, it is also delicious. It is a type of flat bread which is crispy on the outer side and soft inside. It also come with many variations such as onion roti canai, cheese roti canai, egg roti canai, double egg roti canai, half cooked egg roti canai, sardines roti canai or combinations of the former. There are already many you tubers covering about roti canai in Malaysia. One problem that I face when I buy roti canai is the extra dhal curry given by the seller. It is easy to just toss them in the bin or in the sink but my heart always feel guilty by doing so. That was when this idea suddenly came to my mind, which is to make fritters out of it. Then I tried to make it and I found out my father and brother loves them. Seems like I h...

Gulai is one of signature Malay dish in Malaysia. There are varieties of gulai, same as curry. There are fish gulai, chicken gulai, beef gulai, and all of these uses some different ingredients to cater with the meat used. There is also gulai named before the ingredients used in it such as Gulai Lengkuas Kunyit (Galangal and Turmeric Gulai), Gulai Tempoyak (Fermented Durian Gulai) and there is one dish similar to gulai which is called Masak Lemak Cili Api ( Bird Eye Chili Gulai). There are also Gulai Darat which famous in Eastcoast Peninsula and Gulai Kawah, which always being cooked during wedding events.  Sometimes gulai is mistaken as curry. This may be because the consistency and its spicy taste is near to curry. But gulai is made from  different ingredients and spices, usually lesser than curry. The taste is also milder and creamier. In this posting I want to share a recipe of a dish called Gulai Udang or Prawn Gulai. There are several ways of cooking ths dis...

It has been a long time since I added a recipe here. The weather is hot, but it began to rain in several days before. When the weather was very hot in last two weeks, I feel like do not want to do anything. It was hot and less humid. My plants need to be watered everyday and there is no rain. I am continuing to write this recipe of a gravy called Tumis Budu. It is a dish that is usually eaten with white rice and deep fried fish or other meat, and salad. It is also a sauce for Kerabu Rice, a type of rice which often dyed in blue color, eaten with finely chopped vegetable and herb salad, fried grated coconut, spicy fish sauce and some meat of choice, either fried or grilled. The taste of this gravy is creamy, a little spicy, a little sweet and sour with the hint of fish sauce taste. It is also very good when rated with grilled fish with coconut sauce and grilled chicken in coconut sauce , also with this turmeric fried beef here . Ready in 30 minutes For 6 servings...