Sweet Pork (Babi Ketjap....^^)

Babi Ketjap

Hai...
We meet again in my cooking blog.
After two week I haven't been writing anything for my blog, finally today, I can write a blog post again.... I have a lot of things to do, because we finally have a real summer.  Yes... It's very hot... hehehe...... How are you my friends? Are you enjoying your summer holiday too?

During the summer holiday, I also made couple of dishes.  But I choose Babi Ketjap for our topic today. Babi means pork and Ketjap means sweet soy sauce. The key ingredient to make this dish is star anise. For description about anise star you can check it here. As far as I know, star anise is commonly used in Chinese cuisine. And I usually use dried star anise in my food.

Everyone can make this food, because it is easy and doesn't take much time to cook. Let's start cooking.....

Ingredients:

• 1/2kg lean pork shoulder, cut into cube
• 15gr ginger, finely chopped
• 6 cloves garlic, finely chopped 
• 1 scallion, cut into 2cm length
• 2 tbs soy sauce
• 200gr sugar
• 300ml water
• 5 star anise
• 1tbs sweet soy sauce
• salt and pepper to taste 
• oil to stir fry

Method of Cooking:

1. We use three stoves at once. The first stove is for heating the water until it's boiled.  The second stove is for caramelizing the sugar. 
2. And the last stove is for heating the wok with oil over high heat. Add garlic into the wok, stir it until a little bit brown, then add soy sauce. Briefly stir it, then add pork and ginger. 
3. Add the boiled water then the caramelized sugar, star anise, sweet soy sauce, salt and pepper. Stir it, add scallion then wait until it's boiled. 
4. Finally, keep stirring until the water is reduced. 
5. Ready to serve... Enjoy your food ^^

Yummy... My Fried Dumpling with Noodle !!!

Welcome Friends,

For today, I will write about Fried Pangsit with Noodle. Noodle is one of my favorite food.

Noodle is easy to make and very delicious.. Yum ... Yum ....

Have you ever eaten noodle? Spaghetti and Ramen are varieties of noodles. 

What is Noodle?

Noodle is a type of staple food made from some type of unleavene dough which is rolled flat and cut into one of a variety of shapes. While long thin strips may be the most common, many varieties of noodles are cut into waves, helices, tubes, strings, shells, folded over, or cut into other shapes. For more information, please click here. 

And what is Dumpling?

Dumpling are cooked balls of dough. They are based on flour, potatoes or bread, and may include meat, fish, vegetables, or sweets. They may be cooked by boiling, steaming, simmering, frying, or baking. My dumpling is called pangsit in Indonesian. We can eat pangsit fried or steamed. But today, i will make fried pangsit.

Fried Pangsit with Noodle

Pangsit

Ingredients:

• 150g pork/chicken minced
• 150g shrimp minced
• 50g onion finely chopped
• 70g water chestnut finely chopped
• 3 cloves of garlic
• lumpia skin
• 1 tbs corn starch
• 15 ml water 
• salt and papper to taste

Method of cooking Pangsit

1. Mix the shrimp, pork/ chicken, water chestnut, garlic and onion with salt and pepper. Make sure that everything is mixed well.  Mix corn starch with water with another bowl.
2. Take one lumpia skin and fill it with the mix ingredients except water and corn starch. One tea spoon of the filling is enough.





First Step




3. Fold the lumpia skin, and make sure that the skin cannot be easily opened, you can used the mix of water and corn starch to glue it.





Second Step

4. Finally turn round the lumpia skin and make it like this.

Third Step

  

I will show you my pangsit. you can make fried pangsit or steamed pangsit. Hmmm.. Lekker...:p

 

Pangsit

Noodle

You can buy noodle in the supermarket. Usually i use egg noodle for my noodle dish. Egg noodles are heartier and sturdier than regular pasta because they are made with only egg yolks and no egg whites.

Ingredients:

• Water (depends on how much you will cook the noodle, make sure that your noodle is under the water )
• 1 tbs of oil
• 1 tsp of soy sauce
• 1 tsp of sesame oil
• pepper to taste

How to cook Noodle:

1. Place 1 tbs oil in the pan and heat the pan with high heat. Wait until boiled. 
2. Add egg noodle in the pan. Stir it and wait until 3 minutes.
3. Mix soy sauce, sesame oil and pepper in the bowl.
4. Strained the noodle and put it in the bowl. Make sure that you have mixed it well.

Meat ( You can use pork or chicken )

Ingredients:

• 200 g pork or chicken, minced
• 3 cloves of garlic, chopped
• 40 g onion, chopped
• 50 g ears mushroom (to cook ears mushroom see here), chopped  
• 3 tbs oil to stir fry
• 1 tbs soy sauce
• 2 tbs sweet soy sauce

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Your ingredients

Method of cooking:

1. Put the oil in the pan and heat it until high heat. Add garlic and onion into the pan. Stir it slowly then wait until aromatic and the color turn a little bit brown.
2. Add the chicken or pork. Stir it then add soy sauce.
3. Stir it again, add the mushroom and wait until cooked.

Garnish and Condiment

Garnish
You can use scallion (cut 1 cm) and fried onion.

Condiment
You can make Chicken Stock for the condiment and garnish with scallion.
Chicken stock : 1 cube of chicken bouillon mix with 300 ml of water

 Have a nice day with your fried dumpling with noodle !!!

Fried Dumpling with Noodle