Resepi Recipe Recette

Today I decided to make chicken congee for my aunt. It's been a long time since I made her the congee. She likes it a lot.  There are many recipes of chicken congee. But I decided to make the congee based on my aunt's preference. She loves it simple, plain and pure.  She also loves potatoes and carrots in her congee. The flavor is pure based on fresh ingredients used. It is a healthy food, and a fulfilling one.  Chicken congee is also suitable for people with fever. Some will prefer chicken soup. Warm chicken congee can refresh a sick soul.  This recipe is for four servings. It takes more than an hour to make.  Ingredients 3 shallots, minced. You can also use onion.  5 to 7 garlics, crushed and minced.  1 inch ginger, crushed.  100 gram chicken, mixed meat with bone. Cut to small pieces. Set aside the meat from bones, but both will be used.  1 small potato, diced.  1/2 of carrot, diced.  1 celery, sliced.  1/3 of green chili, d...

I like eating mushroom. It is a delicious and versatile vegetable packed with umami flavor. Mushroom soup, stir fried mushroom, crispy fried mushroom, mushroom fillings, I love them all. The unique flavor of mushroom make soups and tom yum tastier.  Today I bought a packet of oyster mushroom at nearby store. It looks and smell fresh. I decided to cook a clear mushroom soup with it. And I combined it with some other ingredients. It is tasty when eaten with hot white rice. You can also eat it on its own. Lets look at the recipe.  For 3 to 4 people.  Ingredients 7 garlics minced 3 shallots sliced 3 bird eye chili crushed 1 fish cake sliced thinly 1 1/2 cup water 1 anchovies stock/cube 2 tablespoons oyster sauce Vegetable stock (optional) 1 Pak choy cut according to your preference 3 chives cut 1 inch long 3 cups oyster mushroom, tear to a smaller pieces according to your preference Cooking oil, around 3 tablespoons Methods Heat the cooking oil in a pot. Saute fish cake until...

  Bloating is a common problem for many of us. It causes uncomfortable feeling, body pain, feeling irritated, nausea and headache. A problem that sound simple but really makes our life disturbed. Usually, we go to the doctor for treatment, or we just buy medicines at the pharmacy. But we can also try to eat food that can reduce or treat bloating problem. It is also better if we try to find the cause of the bloating problem first, as this problem can be caused by many factors.  Ginger, garlic and some other herbs are often believed to reduce bloating problem. For me it really works. Drinking ginger tea really helps our body to eliminate extra gasses. It also makes our body feel better.  But besides making ginger tea, I am now making my anti-bloating congee, and eat it for lunch. It can save me some times from brewing tea, as I just need to eat my lunch to feel full and heal the pain.  This congee is bland in flavor, and it is usually eaten with another meat or eg...

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. ...

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...

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. 

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...

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 ...

This is a plain noodle soup recipe which I always cook. It is not so delicious compared to other noodle soup. However it may be refreshing and fulfilling. I like to eat this kind of noodles after eating flavor rich or fatty dish like beef curry, biryani rice or cakes. It is also simple to make, by using whatever ingredients I have at home.  Ready in 15 to 20 minutes Ingredients 1 cup noodles 1 egg 1 shallot 1 clove garlic 1/2 inch ginger 1 bird eye chili (optional) 1 1/2 cup water White pepper powder Vegetables (I use broccoli and red capsicum here) 1/2 of small tomato 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1 tablespoon oyster sauce Salt and sugar to taste 2 tablespoons cooking oil Some of the ingredients. Methods Mince shallot, garlic, bird eye chili and ginger. Or pound it in a mortar and pestle. You can also slice them. The texture will differ. Clean and rinse the noodles and set aside.  Cut tomato to smaller and preferred size.  Prepare the vegetables.  ...

I was cooking fish curry when my mom asked me to cook this green vegetable. It was just recently my family eat this vegetable. It looks like lettuce to me. I even imagine to eat it raw in my sandwich. The packaging wrote Yau Mark Tam. Yau mark tam? A vegetable from China I guess. Then I thought I would just sauté it with anchovies. And today I searched about yau mark tam in the internet and... it is actually romaine lettuce... hahaha... But sauteed romaine lettuce is also delicious. So let's look at the recipe. Ready in 15 minutes Ingredients 1 head of romaine lettuce or yau mak tam 2 shallots (sliced) 2 cloves garlic (sliced) 1 tablespoon anchovies 1 tablespoon oyster sauce 3 tablespoon cooking oil Some drops of white vinegar Salt to taste Methods Heat cooking oil in a pan. Add in anchovies and fry until they become crispy. Take it out from the pan and crush it a little. Set aside.  With the same oil and heat turned on add in shallots and garlic. ...

Stir Fried Vegetable Fern One of my favorite vegetable is edible fern. Here we call it pucuk paku . I read that Philippines call it pako . This vegetable plant thrives in low and damp shaded area with high nutrient soil. It looks like fern, but with softer stem. The part that we use to cook is the shoots. And also some other soft stem with leaves. We must be careful to not to take the hard stem while preparing this vegetable or it might ruin the taste and texture of the dish.  Raw vegetable fern Raw vegetable fern. Raw vegetable fern prepared for cooking. The vegetable itself has a very unique taste, the type of taste when you eat some kind of mushroom. Hence, cooking it by itself alone already produce a distinct taste. Usually I cook it with dried shrimp to add more flavor. There are many ways to eat this fern, you can steam it, fry it or make a soup with it. Yesterday my father bought some pucuk paku and today I stir fried it for lunch. My family love it...

Bitter gourd is bitter. But it is also crunchy. And it is good for health, good for diabetic patients and can boost our immune system. Even though it is bitter, it is one of my favorite vegetable. To reduce the bitterness, clean and slice bitter gourd like in the picture. Soak them in salted water for around five minutes. Then strain and clean it. Or marinate it with salt for about five to ten minutes. Then clean it.  Bitter gourd and garlic stir fry is a humble dish to me. It does not have variations of flavor in it. But that makes it as a suitable side dish for your lunch with rice and other dish. Dried shrimps may add flavor to this dish. You can imagine the salty dried shrimp flavor combined with the taste of sauteed garlic and a hint of bitterness from the bitter gourd combined in your mouth.  Ready in 15 minutes Ingredients 1 small bitter gourd 3 cloves garlic 1 tablespoon dried shrimp. Or some fresh shrimp. (optional) 1/2 teaspoon salt  1 tab...

Today I cooked beef kerutuk, a curry like dish. So I thought a bowl of cucumber acar will suit my beef kerutuk perfectly. I decided to make this version of cucumber acar, which is called Yellow Acar. This version of mine is a simple version of this Yellow Acar. Is has a sweet, sour, salty and fresh taste. The amount of sugar, salt and vinegar can be altered to one's preference. You can also add in other types of suitable vegetable and fruits that you think suitable.  This is the first time making this acar for my family so it does not look really appetizing. But I still want to share the recipe and the pic will be upgraded time to time as I make other batch of it. I also added dried chili in it but I don't like it in there. So I omit it from ingredient. If you want to add chili I suggest to add fresh green chili.  Prep time : around 10 minutes Cook time : around 10 minutes Ingredients 1 medium cucumber 1 medium carrot 3 cloves garlic 5 shallot...

Sweet leaf is a vegetable that is becoming less popular in my country. However it is easy to grow and requires less supervision. Here people loves to cook it with coconut milk and pumpkin or sweet potato. It is one of my aunt's favorite soup. Sweet potato and sweet leaves coconut soup is a delicious partner for fried fish and rice.  Sweet leaf is a vegetable which is widely grown and lives in Malaysia. It is also widely grown in tropical area. It is also known by the name katuk and stargooseberry and its botanical name is Sauropus Androgynus. In Malay it is called Pucuk Manis, Cekur Manis, Cekak Manis, Cangkok Manis (Brunei) and Asin-asin. In Chinese language it is called Mani Cai. In Thailand it is called Pak Waan Ban, in Japan it is called Amame Shiba, Rau Ngot in Vietnam, Chinese Malunggai in Filipina and Madhura Cheera in India. 1 Sweet Leaves or Sayur Manis This vegetable has many health benefits such as high in Vitamin K, B, C protein and minerals. 1  It is...

Singgang is a type of Malay soup made with galangal, tamarind peel and garlic. The soup is clear and it should be cooked by using fresh fish to obtain an optimum fish flavor. Usually mackerel and tuna are used to make this soup. There are many versions of Fish Singgang recipe, some uses onion in it and some add turmeric. In this entry I will share the basic clear Fish Singgang recipe.  Singgang dish is best served on the next day when the taste from all ingredients are well mixed and released into the soup. This soup is recommended for those who are pursuing a healthy life style. The omega-3 fatty acid in the fish is good for health, plus garlic and galangal are well known for its health benefits. Plus, chili contains vitamins and tamarind peel is said to be good for treating high blood pressure. This dish use fresh ingredients and bring out the fresh taste of it. If you have not eaten Fish Singgang yet, you may wonder how does it taste. It is a clear fish soup with the combina...