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Lempeng : Flat Pancake Recipe

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Lempeng (lamp-eng) or flat pancake is our regular meal for breakfast. It is easy to make, uses simple ingredients and delicious. The ingredients are all purpose flour, egg, salt, margarine and water. It is cooked in a round and flat shape but usually the texture differs according to personal preference. Some people loves it thick and soft. Some other loves it thin and soft. Some loves the surface to be crunchy but soft in the middle. I prefer the third version of lempeng. Lempeng is usually eaten with granulated sugar, condensed milk and syrups. The basic lempeng is plain in flavor, making it suitable to be eaten with condiments. I like it with curry. It is so delicious when eaten together until I usually add one more piece in my plate. =) Ready in 15 to 30 minutes. For 5 servings Ingredients 3 cups all purpose flour 1 egg 1 teaspoon salt 1 to 2 tablespoons margarine Water Methods Mix all the ingredients together except water. It is okay if the marg...

Clam Soup

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Clams are always a delicious food to be cooked for lunch, dinner or as and addition into soups. It has a unique umami flavor and tastes a bit fatty. It is also versatile, it can be grilled, saute, boiled, cooked into a sup, curry, deep fry and many more. Adding clams into tom yum soup will add flavor to it.  In this recipe I cooked a type of clam which people here call la-la or retak seribu (thousand cracks). Maybe it got its name from the pattern of its shell which looks like it has many cracks on it. I cooked it into an almost clear soup, consisting of some herbs. It is then eaten with rice. Fried salted fish is a good partner to this dish.  Ready in 30 minutes Ingredients 500 gram clams 1 onion (cut into 6 wedges) 7 cloves of garlic (crushed) 5 stalks of lemongrass (bruised) 5 dried chilies (pounded until become paste or cut in 1 inch length) Water Salt  5 tablespoon cooking oil 1 teaspoon fish sauce Methods Heat the cooking oil in ...

Salted Fish Fried Rice (Nasi Goreng Ikan Masin)

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Nasi Goreng or fried has become our family's staple dish. It is easy to make and can be an alternative choice for white rice dish. There are many types of nasi goreng such as Nasi Goreng Kampung (Country Fried Rice), Nasi Goreng Cina (Chinese Fried Rice), Nasi Goreng Ikan Masin (Salted Fish Fried Rice), Nasi Goreng Kerabu (Salad Fried Rice), Nasi Goreng Seafood ( Seafood Fried Rice) and many more. The most commonly made nasi goreng at home is only basic fried rice with addition of meat or dried salted fish and also egg.  Today I will be sharing a recipe of nasi goreng which I made during breakfast for my family. It is nasi goreng ikan masin or salted fish fried rice. This fried rice is really liked by Malaysian as it has variation in its flavor as the fried salted fish is added in it. The salted fish which is usually used is Spanish Mackerel fermented fish in oil. But you can also use any types of salted fish that you like. So lets go to the recipe. For 4 servings Ingr...

Beef Curry Noodles

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If you are a curry lover you might love Curry Noodles. Curry Noodles is a type of street food you can find in Malaysia. From high end restaurants, franchises, mak cik stalls, and night market you can always find curry noodles. Curry noodles is one of the beloved food by Malaysian. There are many types of other noodles which are usually sold along with curry noodles, such as Soup Noodles, Boiled Noodles (with sweet potato and shrimp soup), Bandung Noodles and many more.  Curry Noodles basically consists of fresh noodles, curry, fried tofu, boiled or steamed vegetables such as mustard, cabbages and beansprout, fresh chopped chilies and spring onion, half of boiled egg and crispy fried onion. Lime is also added and the juice will be squeezed before eating the noodles.  There are many types off curry noodles as well. Beef curry noodles, assorted curry noodles, chicken curry noodles and prawn curry noodles are some of the variation you can find sold in various...

Black Glutinous Rice Porridge

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Glutinous rice is a widely used ingredient in dessert making in Southeast Asian region. Porridge, kuehs, grills, stuffed foods are some types of dishes which use glutinous rice. The sticky but creamy, soft and sometimes gooey flàvor and texture makes glutinous rice to be chosen as the ingredients in dessert making.  There are some types and grades of glutinous rice which are usually used in cooking. Today we are going to talk about black glutinous rice porridge which is a delicious dessert treat. It is often made during festivals and parties.  Here in Malaysia, especially in Malay cookings the porridge made for dessert mostly use coconut milk as its base or sauce. The creaminess of coconut milk add flavor to the porridge. There are sweet porridge such as corn porridge, mung bean porridge, red bean porridge, and rice porridge that use coconut milk as its base.  Black glutinous rice has a unique flavor of its own, I think, I will describe as sweet and s...

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...