Mee Bandung

Ingredients:

- 1 kg egg noodle 
- 1 cup dried chillies 

- 3 large onions

- 4-5 cloves of garlic 

- 3 tbspn soup powder ( I use Adabi brand) 
- 1 tbspn cumin powder

- 4 large tomatoes (2 for blending & 2 quarted)

- 3-4 tbspn olive oil 

- sea salt to taste 

- 1 tspn sugar to taste
- 2 ltrs of water

- meat of your choice. I use prawns, beef slices & fishcakes.

- 4-5 eggs. 

1 packet Chye Sim ( blanch in boiling water with a lil olive oil added to it for abt 1 min- drain and set aside)

Methods:

1) Blend the dried chillies, onions, garlic & tomatoes with some water in a food processor into a
smooth paste. Mix the soup powder & cumin powder in the paste.

2) Heat the olive oil, fry the paste till fragrant. 

3) Next, add about 2 ltr of water and bring to boil. Then add the beef slices and cook till the beef is tender. Add the prawns and fishcake Add salt and sugar to taste. Add more water if tje gravy is too thick. 

4) Next, break the eggs into the boiling gravy and leave it for a few minutes till the eggs are cooked. Lastly add the tomatoes and turn off the heat.

5) Serve as shown in the picture below. Enjoy!

Easy Prawn Aglio Olio with Mixed Herbs & Broccoli

I have been cooking almost everyday in the month of Ramadan and today I feel like cooking something easy, light and nutritious. Might opt for an easy dish pasta dish today. Pasta. Did you know that pasta when cooked in olive oil, has several health benefits? One health benefits of pasta is in terms of the Glycemic Index - which measures how fast a food causes the blood sugar level to rise. Pasta is low in GI so it is suitable for diabetics as compared to eating rice. I will share with you my favorite easy recipe of Prawn Aglio Olio. Hope you'll love em.

Prawn Aglio Olio with Mixed Herbs & Broccoli

Ingredients;

1 packet spaghetti
1/2 kg- 1 kg prawns ( de-skinned, de-veined)
15 cloves garlic - coarsely chopped
Mixed dried herbs for pasta
Some white pepper
1 Broccoli - cut into bite-sized florets
Olive oil
Sea Salt

Methods:
1) Boil pasta with added olive oil & lil sea salt till cooked, drained & set aside.

2) Pour abt 3-4 tbspn of olive oil in a cooking pot & sauté garlic till fragrant then add a lil water & leave for a few mins. Next, add the prawn & once prawn is cooked, add cut broccoli & sea salt & simmer for a few sec. Next, add the boiled pasta & mix well for a few mins. Lastly, add the mixed dried herbs & white pepper & give it a good mix. You may add more olive oil if you find it too dry.

P.s. Red bird's eye chillies.(optional)

Black Pepper Beef In Sweet Soya Sauce ( Daging Masak Kicap )

Yesterday I realise that I haven't been cooking rice since the first day of Ramadan so I chose to cook my family's favourite dish of Black Pepper Beef with Sweet Soya Sauce with rice for iftar. Everyone enjoyed their meal. Alhamdulillah. Hope you'll enjoy it too!


Black Pepper Beef In Sweet Soya Sauce ( Daging Masak Kicap )


Ingredients:

1 kg beef ( thinly sliced)
10 dried red chillies ( cut, soak in water & drain)
3 large red onions ( coarsely chopped)
5 cloves of garlic
an inch of ginger
1 tbspn black peppercorns
1 tbspn cumin powder
1 cup of sweet soya sauce ( kicap manis)
4-5 cups of water
some olive oil for frying paste
some sea salt
3-4 potatoes (peel skin, quartered & fry in olive oil and set aside)
2 tomatoes (cut into cubes)


Methods: 

1) Blend, dried chillies with little water till it become a paste, then add in the onions, garlic, ginger, black peppercorns and cumin powder and blend it further till it becomes a smooth paste.

2) Heat cooking pot with some olive oil and fry the paste till fragrant. Add in the meat and fry for a few more minutes. Add in sweet sauce & 3-4 cups of water and cook till the beef is tender. Stir the gravy every now and then. Add in more water if gravy becomes too little. 

3) Once the meat is cooked, add in little sea salt to taste. Add the potatoes and stir for a while. Lastly, add the tomato cubes and turn off the heat. 

P.S. This gravy is best eaten with hot piping rice. Simple & delicious! 

 

Custard Dates & Raisins Bread Pudding

 Custard Dates & Raisins Bread Pudding

I had some leftover slices of baguette and made this delicious, creamy bread pudding for iftar yesterday. It turned out pretty amazing. My family loved it. It's both delicious taken hot from the oven or chilled & so easy to prepare! Here's the recipe,

Ingredients:

6 slices of baguette- cut into cubes ( better to use a day old ones)
2 cups of fresh milk
170 ml cream ( I used Nestle cream in a can)
1 cup sugar ( you can replace it with brown sugar for a healthier version)
6 eggs ( break into a bowl, add vanilla essense and beat with a fork & set aside)
10 pitted dates, chopped coursely
A handful of raisins
some cinnamon powder
2 tbspn salted butter
1 tspn vanilla essense

Methods:

1) Preheat the oven at 180 degrees celsius.

2) Arrange the bread into a casserole and top the bread with the dates and raisins and set aside.

3)  Heat the saucepan, pour the fresh milk, cream, sugar & with a wooden ladle, keep stirring for a few minutes till the sugar dissolves. 

 4) Add the butter and keep stirring till the butter melts. While stirring, pour in the eggs slowly into the mixture and continue stirring for 1-2 mintes and turn off the heat.

5) Pour the mixture over the bread and with the back of a spoon, slowly press the bread till all the bread pieces is soaked in the custard mixture. Sprinkle some cinnamon powder over the bread. Leave it for 5 minutes and bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes till the bread turns golden brown. 

Note: When baking the bread pudding, place bowl( oven friendly) of water in the bottom compartment of the oven to avoid pudding getting too dry.

Serve hot/ chilled. You can serve it with double cream or have it on its on its own. Hope you'll love it! Do comment below and let me know how it turn out alright?