Spaghetti tomyam

Was in the mood for something soupy and spicy, so came up with spaghetti tomyam. Daun limau purut and cili padi were from our garden! Avoided shrimps to save me the agony of hidung gatal.

1. Tumis 2 ulas bawang. Masukkan daging (or ayam or whatever).

2. Tambah air, biarkan mendidih.

3. Tambah serai (dititik), bawang (potong labu), daun limau purut.

4. Tambah cili padi, perasa tom yam, sedikit air limau nipis.

5. Tambah sayur-sayuran.

6. Perisa dengan garam.

7. Serve as lauk or in this case, with spaghetti.

*I know some people add fish sauce. Unfortunately, dah habis di dapur.

Ajue's macaroni soup

This is another good one, courtesy of Ajue. It's almost 5 ingredients or less so fits my criteria of 'fast and easy'. Prepared within 30 minutes.

1. Garlic 3 - 4 cloves

2. Sliced beef

3. Chicken stock cubes

4. Mushrooms

5. Oyster sauce (about 5 - 6 tablespoons)

6. Salt to taste

1. Saute garlic, add in beef and allow to cook.

2. Add water + stock cube

3. Add mushroom; allow to boil

4. Thicken soup with cornflour; season to taste.

5. Slowly spoon in egg whites while stirring (for a 'stringy' effect)

6. Serve with macaroni; include condiments ie cut chillies, spring onion, fried shallots.

muffin stew buns

Banana muffin (betty crocker – easy to do and nice esp when hot)

1/3 cup milk
¼ cup vegetable oil
1 large egg
2 cups all purpose flour (if use self-raising f, omit b powder and salt)
½ cup packed brown sugar
2 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup mashed very ripe banana (2 medium)

heat oven to 400
grease bottoms only of 12 medium muffin cups or line with paper baking cups
beat milk, oil, egg
stir flour, sugar, b powder, salt all at once just until flour is moistened (batter will be lumpy)
fold in bananas
divide into cups; sprinkle each with about 1 tablespoon topping.
bake 20 to 25 minutes or till golden brown
when done, immediately remove from pan to wire rack

streusel topping
¼ cup all purpose flour
¼ cup packed brown sugar
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoon firm butter or stick margarine

mix flour, brown sugar and cinnamon
cut in butter using pastry blender or crisscrossing 2 knives until crumbly



Chicken mushroom stew tarbus version
Made a simple and tasty chicken stew with the pressure cooker. Am better at it now - no need to add so much water, just enough to cover the meat.
tumis bawang (m + p)
add hard veggies (ie carrots, sweet potatoes - diced)
add chicken - i used one whole cut into 8
add mushrooms (i used oyster mushroom - if that is what it is called)
add bit of Mik's rempah kari udang cap tarbus (1/2 packet)
season with salt, pepper.
add enough water to cover
cook about 15 mins.


Buns
I used sweet bun recipe (hanieliza) to make these - one was with mushroom filling (i'm mushroom crazy now) and the other plain sprinkled with sesame seeds.

SWEET BUN Ingredient A : 500g high protein flour 25g milk powder 75g sugar 10g instant yeast 1 teaspoon bread softener 1 egg 1/2 teaspoon salt Ingredient B : 250ml water 75g margarine Method : 1. Mix well ingredients A. 2. Add in water and knead till a soft dough is formed.(I called upon my antique but still reliable mixer to help me with this process!) 3. Add in margarine and knead again till soft and elastic. 4. Divide the dough into 50g balls. 5. Shape the dough to your liking. 6. Leave to prove till double the size. 7. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degree celcius till golden brown. 8. Once out of the oven, brush some margarine on top.

sup tulang lindek / zurin

sup tulang /ekor... terlupa nak taruk bawang goreng / daun bawang at this point. Lindek gave a recipe using pressure cooker, but since i don't have one i made this with a slow cooker - almost 6 hours .. nice and daging is soft. didn't type her recipe but can use zurin's which i have in this computer. Hope she doesn't mind. Lindek, if you can please jot down your version.



Zurins’ sup tulang


I cukup suka sup tulang. Nomally I beli ribs, masak 2-3kg.
I tumis a lot of bawang besar yang dah dadu, halia yang dimayang and b. putih. Lepas tu campur kayu manis, cengkih and lada hitam. Put in as much as you like. I suka bubuh banyak sbb I like the smell. A little of pelaga and b. lawang (jangan banyak sagat sbb soup will turn sourish). Tumis wangi.

Masukkan air. Gelegak, masukkan tulang yg dah buang ALL the lemak and bunjut sup tulang Mak Siti. Gelegak,tutup periuk,,rebus api kecil for 1half to 2 hours. Dah empok masukkan a lot of carrots and some kentang. The more carrots the sweeter the soup. Bila dah siap, biarkan soup for a while then scoop up the minyak on top together with some soup. Put the minyak mixture in the fridge. Bila the minyak dah beku, throw the minyak away and pour the remaining soup into periuk.

Curried Carrot Soup ala Lynn Roffey

Sheen – here’s my contribution to your 5 ingredient or less recipe. Easy to make especially if you have a hand blender, and nutritious. Don’t know whether appropriate for bulan puasa, but definitely will heat you up in winter.

Ingredients:

1 lb/600 grams carrots – peeled and cut up into sticks – doesn’t really matter which shape, just need to cut up so that cepat sikit masak. Or buy prepackaged cut-up carrots lagi senang.
2 cans vegetable or chicken broth (about 30 ounces or ..75 liter total)
1 medium bawang besar coarsely chopped
2 ulas bawang putih, coarsely chopped
Curry powder to taste (I guna half pack serbuk kari daging Adabi – this makes it really hot, which I like – so ikut suka seleralah).

Cara:

Panaskan sikit minyak, goreng bawang besar and bawang puteh sampai lembut, tapi jangan garing. Masukkan serbuk kari, tumis sikit (if too dry, add a little broth). Masukkan cut carrots, saute a few minutes on medium heat. Masukkan broth, bring to boil, then simmer 30 minutes. Cool slightly and blend. Kalau pakai hand blender, can blend directly in the pot. Otherwise, blend in a few batches in a regular blender. Garnish with what ever you like when serving – bawang goreng or kucai or sour cream.

Kalau pakai half a pack of curry powder, sure berpeluh bila makan.

Lynn, 8 Oct 2006

13 Ramadhan

Sup tulang pakai Zurin's recipe - made last weekend, frozen and today baru makan. Scrumptious.

Never knew that bubur jagung is so easy to make - took me just minutes to put water in the pot, open 2 small cans of corn, rinse, keplok into pot, put a bit of coconut milk (i have that instant block), around 3 tblspn of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 tblspn sagu (have no daun pandan). Kacau2 sikit, left it alone simmering, few minutes dah siap. we ate it warm. Kids loved it.