Salted Fish Fried Rice... Yum.. yum..

Hi...

Welcome back with me lizzie.. ^^

Let's talk about rice. I believe that everyone know what is rice. Yup, Rice is Asia's staple food. The main meal in Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand Cambodia, China, and Korea is rice and fish. In Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka a meal means rice, pulses,vegetables and some meat. Rice is cooked in many different ways,such as steamed, fried, and roasted. For today, I want to make Salted Fish Fried Rice. This is also one of my boyfriend favorite food. In Indonesia, we usually eat Salted Fish Fried Rice in Quali (name of a restaurant). In the Netherlands, is hard to find a restaurant which sells a good fried rice. That's way I decided to make it by myself. 

Salted Fish Fried Rice

Ingredients:

• 4 cloves of garlic, chopped
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 75gr dry salted fish
• 200gr shrimps, cut into 1 cm length
• 2 scallion, cut into 1 cm length
• 500gr cooked rice
• 50gr bean sprouts
• 1tbs soy sauce
• 1tbs sweet soy sauce
• salt and pepper to taste 
• oil to fry

Your Ingredient

 

Method of Cooking:

1. Heat up the oil, add the garlic, stir it and wait until aromatic (the color turn a little bit brown).
2. Add the soy sauce and shrimps then stir until the shrimps are cooked.
3. Add the beaten egg, dry salted fish, bean sprouts, scallion and the cooked rice. Turn off the heat.
4. Mix everything well and season the fried rice with salt, pepper and sweet soy sauce. 
5. Turn the stove back on to medium heat, stir well until it cooked. 
6. Finally, we can start eating our fried rice... ENJOY YOUR SALTED FISH FRIED RICE.

Uhhh... lekker Nasi Empal ala Lizzie

Hoi.. hoi...

Long time no see.. Nice weather last week and it might be the only summer days in the Netherlands. Ha..Ha.. Ha.. That's why I was "busy" doing other things (enjoying the sun).

But for now, Let's start cooking Nasi Empal!!!!

Empal is one of my and my boyfriend favourite food. In general, Empal is a slow cooked then fried beef (of course with spices to make it taste gooooood).
 

Nasi Empal

Ingredients for Empal:

• 1kg beef
• 400ml coconut milk
• 4 bay leaves (daun salam) 
• water to boil the beef

Ingredients for spice paste:

• 5 shallots
• 6 cloves of garlic
• 7cm galangal
• 10g brown sugar
• 1tbs tamarind
• 3tbs coriander
• salt and sugar to taste 
• oil to fry

Your Ingredients

Method of cooking

1. Cut the beef into big and thick slices, then boil it in water until tender (it takes at least 30 minutes. If the beef is still hard, keep on boiling. Tips: Pressure cooker will make your life easier here). Don't throw away the beef stock you get from this.
2. Cut the beef into 1-2 cm thick slices. After that smash the beef to flatten it. The reason I don't cut the beef directly into thin slices, is this way you will get a better looking slices of Empal.  





Empal before frying




3. Put all the spice paste ingredients into a food processor to make the spice paste.
4. Boil the spice paste with the coconut milk and bay leaves until cooked. Then add the stock (you get it from the first step). After that add the beef, season it with salt and sugar then boil them again in medium heat until the water is completely reduced.
5. Strain the beef then fry it but not too long only until the color is changed.



Empal, Tofu and Tempe

6. Eat the Empal with steam rice, fried tofu,  fried tempe and HOT sambal. Eet Smakelijk allemaal.

HOT Sambal

My sweet Mung Bean ^^

Aloha,...
How are you my friends?

Our topic today is about dessert. Dessert is something sweet and usually served at the end of a meal. Our dessert today is very simple, you only need mung bean, coconut milk and ice (optional). Mung beans are good source of protein. It is also high in fiber, has lot's of benefits for the immune and metabolism system. When I was in Indonesia, my mom usually made it for me or we could buy it in our favorite shop. Here in the the Netherlands, I found the Mung bean in the oriental market. So, I decided to make Mung bean with the coconut milk.  Do you want to try it?

Mung Bean in coconut milk

My sweet Mung bean

Serves : 6 portions

Mung bean

Ingredients

• 200 gr mung bean (soaked in water for one night)
• 500 ml water
• 3 pandan leaves
• 2 tsp salt
• 200 gr brown sugar
• 100 gr sugar 
• 1 tbs cornstarch (mix with 30 ml water)

Method of Cooking:

1. Boil the soaked mung bean with water (change the water, don't use the soaked water).
2. When it is boiled, reduce the heat. Add brown sugar, sugar and pandan leaves. 
3. Cook further until it cooked and softened then add the cornstarch. Stir it and wait until boiled. 

Coconut Milk
Ingredients

• 300 ml coconut milk
• 200 ml water
• 3 tsp salt
• 3 pandan leaves

Method of Cooking :

1. Heat the coconut milk, water, salt and pandan leaves in medium heat.
2. Stir it slowly and wait until it boiled. 
3. You can serve it hot or cold with ice on top.

Enjoy your day and Welcome to Ramadan (for Mooslem people)

Spare ribs in Summer !!!

Hey my friends,

Yesterday was a very cool rainy a long day and hard wind. Where is my Summer?

I wanted to go outside with no jacket, enjoy the sunshine and barbeque with friends. But if the weather like yesterday,we can only stay in home, watch movie, experiment with food. 

My boyfriend like spare ribs very much. We eat spare ribs once in a week. So, last weekend he asked me, why don't we make our spare ribs. And then we experimented with our own spare ribs. Hmmm... delicious.. yum.. yum..

Home made Spare Ribs

Our experiment with spare ribs was a success and he liked it very much. For the condiment we also made french fries.

Set Menu Home Made Spare Ribs

 

Enjoy your day... and Smakelijk Eten !!!

Simple, fresh and delicious food ^^

Hey.....

Welcome back, with me again !!!

Today, I want to share about simple, fresh and delicious food. What is that?

I call it orak arik. In Indonesian, Orak arik means mixing any kind of ingredients. You can also give another name to this food. This food is suitable for vegetarian people. It consists of carrot, ear mushroom, cauliflower, and egg.

Carrot is among the most widely grown and popular vegetables in the world. Carrots can be eaten in various ways. It can be eaten raw, boiled, fried, steamed, or cooked in a soup or stew. For more information about carrot's nutrition you can read it from here.

Ear Mushroom is particularly popular in Asia. For any kind of mushroom you can see it here. 

Cauliflower is my last main ingredient today.  I usually use broccoli. But as I wrote earlier, you can use any ingredient you want. And this time I have one too many cauliflower at home. So let's start cooking.

ORAK- ARIK
Serves : 4 portions

Orak- Arik

Ingredients:

• 2 carrots, cut into thin slices
• 100g ear mushroom (how to prepare dry ear mushroom)
• 300g cauliflower, boiled
• 2 eggs, scrambled
• 20g onion, chopped
• 1 clove of garlic, chopped
• 1 tbs soy sauce
• salt and pepper to taste 
• 1 tbs oil to stir fry

Your Ingredients

Method of cooking :

1. Heat up the pan, add onion and garlic then stir until aromatic and the color turn a bit brown.
2. Add the soy sauce, cauliflower and carrot then wait until half cooked.
3. Add the scrambled egg and ear mushroom then season it with salt and pepper.
4. Stir it again until cooked and it's ready to eat

Lekker... Opor Ayam (Braised Chicken in Coconut milk)

Halooo, Welcome Back !!!

Finally, I can write a blog again. How are you my friends?

Yesterday I was so busy, but I still had time to make Opor Ayam (Braised Chicken with Coconut milk). This food is also a popular dish for lebaran or Ed ul Fitr. It contains not only chicken and coconut milk, but also galangal, lemongrass and lime leaves.

I will give some information about galangal, lemongrass and lime leaves. 

Galangal has a distinct flavor that combines bitter, sour, and spicy together. Galangal reduces the fish smell in food. For more information please click here. 

Lemongrass has a citrus flavor. Lemongrass is used in Indonesian, Malaysian, Vietnamese and Thai cuisine. It can be found fresh, frozen, dried or grounded into a powder. 

Lime leaves are thick, dark green, shinny on the top, porous and pale on the back. A leaf has two connecting leaves which I call ‘double leaves’. The leaves  are very aromatic and can be consumed if cooked or very thinly sliced.

Let's start cooking

Opor Ayam (Braised Chicken in Coconut Milk) 
Serves 4 portions  

 

Opor Ayam

Ingredients:

• 1/2 kg chicken cut into 4 pieces
• 4 egg, hard boiled
• 1 block of tofu cut into 6 pieces
• 100 ml thick coconut milk 
• 200 ml water
• 2 lemongrass
• 2 cm galangal
• 4 lime leaves
• 10 g brown sugar
• sugar and salt to taste
• 2 tbs oil to stir fry

Spice Paste:

• 2 tsp coriander seeds
• 5 candlenuts
• 1 tsp cumin powder
• 2 cloves garlic
• 4 shallots
• 1 cm ginger
• salt to taste 

Your Ingredients

Method of Cooking:

1. Blend the spice paste ingredients with a food processor until it become paste. You can also use the traditional method. It's called ulek-ulek in Indonesian. 





Ulek-ulek



2. Deep fry the tofu until a little bit brown, and fry the chicken until half cooked.





Fried Tofu, Boiled Egg and Chicken



3. Heat the oil in a sauce pan, add the grounded spice paste and stir it until aromatic. 
4. Add water, lemongrass, galangal, brown sugar and lime leaves then stir it slowly.
5. Add tofu, chicken and the hard boiled egg, wait until boiled. 
6. Add coconut sauce, stir it again and wait until cooked.

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

Here is your ingredients picture:

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