Healthy Wrap

Ingredients

Vitenamnese Rice Paper

Sengkuang Fried with garlic, dried prawns and carrots.

Long beans Fried with taufoo and garlic.

Fresh lettuce or any veg of your choice

Shredded cucumber

Chilli Sauce to dip. (Mix fish sauce with sugar and lemon juice and chillie padi)

WholeMeal Buns

Refer to my bread recipes for loaf. Instead of baking in a loaf tin.

Divide each dough into approximately 75gm and shape it into rounds. (make 12 buns)

Leave it to proof till double in size, set oven to 180 degrees and bake for 15mins.

Bake Garlic Parsley Chicken With Butter Rice

Ingredients For The Chicken

4 kampung chicken drumsticks

4 tsp of McCormick Garlic Powder

2 tsp of sea salt

Method

Season and leave for half hour. Bake at 250 degree C for 40 minutes, turning once and until skin becomes crispy.

Ingredients For The Rice

2 cups of rice 3.5 cups water

1 tbsp butter 2 tsp sea salt

2 stalks lemon grass 3 pandan leaves

1 tumbsize ginger

Method

Mix all the rice ingredients into a rice cooker to cook.

Ingredients For Chillie Sauce

3 big fresh chillies (add few chillie padi for extra hot)

1 pip garlic

2 pip ginger

3 kat chai juice

1 tbsp sugar

1 tsp sea salt.

Method

Blend all ingredients together.

Serve with fresh lettuce and pickled cucumber with onions.

Homemade Kaya

This is one of my daddy's recipe....but I must say that I have reduced much of the original ingredients to pass my health concious test. The taste is GOOD but not the APPEARANCE cos I have cut down the sugar by one third of the actual measurement.

Ingredients

15 eggs (AA Size)
850gm sugar
750ml thick coconut milk (extract without adding water from 3 coconut)
6pcs pandan leaves
2 tbsp pandan juice from leaves (optional)
(Original ingredients is 6eggs to 600gm sugar, 2 coconuts milk)

Methods


Lightly beat the eggs and sieve.
Stir in together with sugar till sugar dissolve.
Double boil over a pot of water, keep stiring all the time till eggs begins to thicken.
Add in the coconut milk and pandan leaves.
Keep stiring until thicken as above picture.
Stiring time is approximately 1hr to 1 1/2 hrs.

Cream Puff

Fresh Cream Fillings

100gm castor sugar

2tbsp flour & 2tbsp corn flour

3 egg yolks

400ml milk (either low fat or full cream)

1tbsp butter

1tsp of vanilla essence

Methods

Combine sugar, flour, corn flour. egg yolks with 2tbsp of milk into a paste.

Warm the remaining milk and pour over the paste.

Stir over low fire until cook to a custard as can be seen in the picture above.

Remove from fire, add in butter andd vanilla essence.

When cool, keep in the fridge.

**Fresh cream fillings can be prepared a day before.

Puff

200ml water

80gm butter

a pinch of salt

100gm self raising flour

4 eggs (size C) or 3 eggs (size A or AA) beaten

Methods

Bring water, butter and salt to boil.

Lower the fire, pour in all the flour and stir to get a cooked dough.

Leave to cool for 3 to 5 minutes.

Add in the beaten eggs slowly to get a thick batter.

Lay baking tin with foil paper and grease it.

Scope 1 tbsp of batter for each puff and bake at 180 degree celcius for 20 minutes.

Slit the top with a sharp knife and cool it on a wire rack.

Fill the puff with 1tbsp of fresh cream and YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY

Thermo Cooker

Today I am going to introduce my thermo cooker, which is also my magic saver cooker. This wonderful cooker is so magic that it saves your time and gas. The inner cassorole with glass lid can be served beautifully on the table. It is also very convenient for pot luck, cooking all soups and tong sui, cooking curry chicken, stew, porridge and etc.....etc.....

I am so glad because it saves me half of my COOKING TIME!!!!!!!!!

A good investment if you happen to come across one so pretty like mine...Happy Cooking!!!

Stir Fry Bitter Gourd with Black Bean Fish

Ingredients

1 tin of Gulong Black Bean Fish

1/2 Bitter Gourd (removed seeds and cut into slant pieces or any of your favourite pattern)

1 Bombay Onion (thin slices)

1 Red Chilli (cut into big pieces)

Methods

Use oil from the Black Bean Fish, stir fry onion till fragrance

Add in chilli and bitter gourd, stir fry for a minute or two

Add in the fish

Sprinkle enough water as you stir fry till bitter gourd is just tender.

Season with 1/2 tsp of sugar.