grilled tandoori chicken

adapted from kak rin. made this when my father in law came..

1 whole chicken (i cut into 12 pieces)

1 lemon

1 tub plain yogurt

Pounded ingredients:

3 garlic

2 inch ginger

2 deseeded red chillies

grounded ingredients: (according to your taste)

peppercorn

coriander

cumin seed

cloves

cardamom

bay leaf

cinnamon stick

red colouring

• clean the chicken, remove skin and score the thigh and breast


• put the chicken into a plastic bag. squeeze a lemon into it. leave it for 1 hour


• mix the grounded and pounded ingredients. add yogurt and red colouring.


• marinade the chicken for 4-6 hour


• preheat oven 200 degreed


• grill the chicken until cooked


• (i lined my pan with aluminium foil before putting the chicken on it)

my 100th posts!! - Fudge brownies

baked fudge brownies last weekend - taken from Periplus Mini Cookbooks (Brownies, Fudges and Toppings)...very easy to make...

150g butter

200g dark cooking chocolate

3/4 cup castor sugar

3 eggs

1 tsp vanilla essence

1 cup flour, sifted

• preheat oven 180 degrees. brush a 8 inch square tin with oil or melted butter and line base with baking paper


• melt butter, chocolate and sugar using double boiler method, stirring occasionally. remove from heat


• beat in eggs and vanilla. then fold in flour. pour into the baking tin and baked for 35 minutes


• remove from oven and cool in tin before cutting into squares

tumeric fried squid with kaffir leave

another easy recipe that i made yesterday for dinner...

squid, cleaned and cut into pieces
1 tbs tumeric powder
salt to taste
1 onion, sliced
2 garlic, sliced
1 lemongrass, pounded
few kaffir leaves, teared into pieces
water
tomato, wedged

• heat oil, add in onion, garlic, lemongrass and kaffir leave. fry till fragrant


• add in squid, tumeric powder and salt, mix everything well


• add in water (depends if you want more gravy, add more water)


• add in tomato, let simmer


• remove from heat

tenggiri goreng kicap (fried tenggiri with soy sauce)

i have not been cooking dinner for quite some time ( my maid did) and yesterday i decided to feed my "hungry hippos" with simple dish...

2 slices of tenggiri - marinate with salt and tumeric powder and fry till cooked
1 onion, sliced
2 garlics, sliced
1 red chilli, sliced
1 cinnamon stick
2 star anise
1 tomato, wedged
4 tbsp, sweet soy sauce (kicap manis cap kipas udang)
1 tbsp, salty soy sauce (kicap masin cap kipas udang)
garnishing- spring onion

• remove excessive oil from frying the fish, leaving about 1 tbsp of oil


• add in onion, garlic, red chilli, cinnamon stick and star anise, fry till fragrant


• add in the soy sauce, mix well


• add in the fried fish and tomato, mix well


• remove from heat


• garnish with chopped spring onion

food hunt - east coast vacation (part 3)

so, it's our last day in Kuantan...where to go for breakfast..??

i've never been to Kemaman Kopitiam situated in front of Berjaya Megamall....so, i suggested to have breakfast there...we went quite early as this place is usually packed with people....we had a really BIG breakfast...!!! we had black and white coffee (black coffee topped with cold milk), nasi lemak burung puyuh, roti bakar, pulut udang and pulut ayam, garlic bread....(i think, that's all)...we really enjoyed the meal because they were delicious....and the price...??(look at the photo below)....many celebrities came here and their photos were placed on the restaurant's wall (including Siti Nurhaliza and Datuk K)


the toasted bun was so delicious especially when you dippend inside your coffee...and the garlic bread was crispy and tasted marvellous...the burung puyuh were served hot with the nasi lemak (they will fry them when you order)...and the pulut panggang ayam and udang were so rich of flavour (and pricey too)








so, that's our last meal in Kuantan....overall, we always like it here and really love the food here...this will always be our destination of holidays for many years to come...

food hunt - east coast vacation (part 2)

so, the food hunt continues...

on the 2nd day we were in kuantan, we started off having a very east coast breakfast at Restoren R&R at Jalan Besar Kuantan (in front of Megaview Hotel)...we had a feast of nasi kerabu, nasi dagang, laksa Pahang and nasi lemak.....the meal was lovely and it was relatively cheap....

the almost finished nasi kerabu

since we were still full during lunchtime, we decided to have a light snack at Taman Teruntum...we had refreshing ABC, goreng pisang and fried fihsballs and cucur udang....

waiting for our ABC

then, off we went to Kuala Kemaman to have a table full of sata, otak-otak and keropok lekor with cold coconut drinks....there are many stalls at Kuala Kemaman, but we particularly like the stall that is between 2 mosques...it was packed with people...after that, we went shopping for keropok lekor and dried keropok at the nearby stalls...

otak-otak and hot keropok lekor

satar

enjoying her fresh coconut drink

soon after that, we went to find the floating restaurant at Paya Bakau Recreational Park....it is built floating by the river bank and we ate kerapu steamed fish, vegetable soup, roti John special and a Thai dish which i can't remember what it is called, along with refreshing asam boi drink......the meal was wonderful and the price was reasonable....

lovely food on the table

oh, my!! we really had a fun day of eating so many things and we simply loved it!!!!

food hunt - east coast vacation

we travelled East Coast (Kuantan, to be exact) last weekend and it was time to eat and eat and eat (there goes my diet!! hahahah!)

our first stop was at Temerloh R&R...we had a very nice lunch of ikan patin masak tempoyak...everybody was hungry and finished everything on the plate..!!!

ikan patin's head

with refreshing lai chee kang

later, we had dinner by the beach at Kg Tanjung Lumpur....a feast of famous ikan bakar sambal petai, sotong goreng tepung and kerang bakar along with seafood tomyam, lala sweet sour and kangkung goreng belacan!....we we had it at famous Ana Ikan Bakar Petai...the sambal was very mouthwatering.....! it was relatively cheap and very, very delicious....!

the stall

seafood tomyam and kangkung goreng belacan

kerang bakar and sweet sour lala

ikan bakar petai

sotong goreng tepung

then me and a few of our ex classmates had a late night supper (some of them had not yet eat dinner) at Sara Thai Kitchen (Wan Tomyam) in front of St Thomas School/Grand Continental Hotel...i had a sip of the tomyam soup and it was outstanding!!! the service was quite fast and the food was delicious!

having another feast at wan's tomyam

END OF PART 1...!!!

Lemon and herbs roast chicken

adapted from jamie oliver's:

1 whole chiceken

5-7 cloves garlic

fresh rosemary

1 lemon, juiced

salt/pepper to taste

olive oil

• preheat oven 220 degrees


• pound the garlic, rosemary, salt and pepper


• add olive oil and lemon juice in pounded ingredients


• arrange chicken in a casserole dish


• marinate chicken


• cover casserole dish with aluminium foil


• bake for 1 hour


• remove the foil and bake for a while until browned

**you can add boiled potatoes (in cold water bring to boil; simmer 10 minutes) when baking the chicken

baked pasta lasagne

adapted from allrecipes.com

250g penne pasta (i used spiral pasta)

250g minced meat (i used corned beef)

750g pasta sauce (i used 1 bottle of readymade pasta sauce)

200g mozarella cheese

100g parmesan cheese

200g cheddar cheese

1 egg beaten

• preheat oven 175 degrees


• grease dish


• boil pasta until dente


• heat pan, cook beef, stir in pasta sauce, remove


• in a big bowl, combine cheeses and egg


• layer half pasta, half sauce and half cheese mixture. repeat


• top with extra mozarella

** i combined the sauce pasta and cheese mixture all together and put in the dish, topped with extra mozarella and chopped parsley and baked them....yummy!!!

blueberry muffins

another easy recipe by my sister...moist and fruity...

2 cups flour

1/2 cup sugar

3 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 cup milk

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 egg

blueberry filling/jam * can substitute with other fillings

• combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt



• beat the milk, oil and egg



• add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. mix well (using spoon)



• spoon into the muffin cup 3/4 full



• spoon in the jam into the batter



• bake in a preheated oven 200 degrees for 20-25 minutes

**i mix the blueberry filling into the batter before putting them into the muffin cups

you can also top the muffin with a simple crunchy crumbs:

• butter



• sugar



• flour

mix together until becomes crumbs and top on the muffins before baking them

moist chocolate cupcakes

i really like this chocolate cake because it is very moist and chocolaty...

250 g butter
2 cups castor sugar
2 3/4 cups flour
4 eggs
1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 cup water

1. Mix cocoa powder with water and set aside.
2. Sift flour and bicarbonate of soda 3 times and set aside.
3. Cream butter and sugar.
4. Beat egg till fluffy.
5. Pour the eggs into the creamed mixture a bit at a time.
6. Add in vanilla essence.
7. Fold in the sifted dry ingredients into the mixture.
8. Pour in the cocoa mixture and keep folding.

9. Fill in the muffin cups 3/4 full
10. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until done

corned beef roll

a variation of the cinnamon rolls (using the similar dough) but this time i made them into mini rolls that were bite size....lovely and it was a hit!

filling:

corned beef

onion, chopped

red chillies, chopped

parsley, chopped

egg

cheese (mozarella/cheddar)

• heat oil in pan. fry onion till fragrant


• add in corned beef. fry till cooked through


• add parsley and chilli


• remove from heat

to assemble:

• roll the dough flat


• spread the corned beef mixture


• sprinkle some cheese on top


• roll the dough


• arrange in pan and let it doubled for a while


• glaze with egg


• bake in a preheated oven 190 degrees until golden

Blueberry cheese tart

from kak Rin's fotopages:

i really like this...lovely!!

Pastry:

125g butter

40g icing sugar

1 egg

220g flour

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

• combine all ingredients together until it becomes dough


• roll the dough and mould it in the tart mould


• poke with fork


• bake in a preheated oven 175 degrees for 8-10 min

Filling:

250g cream cheese

3/4 cup icing sugar

1 egg

1/2 cup whipping cream

1 tsp vanilla essence

Blueberry filling

• beat the cream cheese and sugar


• add in egg, whip cream and vanilla essence. continue beating


• scoop in the filling into the pastry and scoop in the blueberry filling


• bake for another 15- 20 min

homecoming party..!

my sister got back from Adelaide for summer holidays, so she invited her friends for a homecoming party...(duhhh!!!) we also invited some of our friends and relatives...

Menu:

• Nasi Arab with Moroccan lamb and beef


• roast chicken


• tabouleh


• cinnamon rolls


• corned beef rolls


• blueberry cheese tart


• carrot cake


• chocolate cupcakes


• baked pasta

yummylicious brownies from JawaManis...

went to Midvalley yesterday...stopped by at JawaManis stall just after 7pm...so, got discount 3 brownies for RM 10...

P/S: got a big cooking/baking project this weekend....