Saturday, March 15, 2008

Nasi Lemak (Rice with Coconut milk)

Ingredients
• 1 cup Rice (washed and dried)
• 2 cups of Santander
• 1 sheet Pandan (linked to a node)
• 1 / 4 cc of salt

Ingredients for shrimp Sambal
• 10-12 shrimp (peeled and de-geädert)
• 1 large onion (sliced)
• 1 / 4 cc of salt
• 1 C. Coffee sugar
• 2 Tablespoons Tamarind Juice
• Bake 2 Tablespoons oil

Pound: --
• 2 Dried Chillies
• 2 Fresh Chillies
• 1 Kleine Blacan
• 1/2-inch piece Lengkuss
• 1 candle Nut

Ingredients for Garnishing
• 2-Hard Boiled Eggs (cut into blocks).
• 2 Tablespoons Ikan Bilis, (crisp fried).
• 1 piece yellow Bean Curd (and made lightly fried).
• 1 / 4 of cucumber (sliced thin).
• 2 ounces Kang Kong (gebrüht)


Method
1) washing and cleaning rice and place it in a jar. Add the Santan and Pandan leaf and boiling.
2) When the rice begins to boil, lower heat.
3) Simmer gently for 10 -15 minutes, until water has been absorbed, and remove yourself from the heat.
4) solve the grains of rice with chopsticks. Top Cover and allow to cook rice, and for their own heat 10-15 minutes.
5) While the rice is cooked, and prepare shrimp sambal Garnishing.
6) For Sambal, heat oil and fry until onions brown slightly.
7) Add the ingredients hammered and fry until they are fragrant. Add the shrimp and cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
8) Add the sugar, salt and Tamarind Juice. Let simmer 4-5 minutes more and serve.
9), serve with rice and other Garnishing the Sambal.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Sambel Kacang/Bumbu Kacang (Peanut Sauce)

Sambel kacang usually served with Sate Ayam (Chicken Satay)

Ingredients:

  • 3 cups deep-fried peanuts
  • 4 cloves garlic, peeled and bruised
  • 12 bird's eye chilies, sliced
  • 3 inches kencur (like galangal), peeled and choped
  • 3 kaffir lime leaves
  • ½ cup sweet soy sauce
  • 2 tsp. salt
  • 6 cups water
  • 1 Tbs. lime juice

Instructions:
• Grind or mix the first four ingredients until coarse or fine, depending on whether you want to or coarsed fine.
• Put all ingredients in a saucepan, except lime juice.
• Simmer over very low heat for about 1 hour, stirring to prevent sticking.
• Stir in lime juice just before use.
Note: The peanut sauce is used for a variety of Indonesian dishes, such as Macedonia vegetables with peanut sauce (Gado-Gado), fresh salad with Spicy Peanut Sauce (Keredok), Chicken Satay (Sate Ayam) etc.

Sate Ayam (Chicken Satay)

Ingredients:

  • 2 chicken breast
  • 1 Tbs. vegetable oil
  • Bamboo skewers
  • 2 shallots
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 tsp. coriander (Ketumbar)
  • ½ inch turmeric (Kunyit)
  • 1 tsp. tamarind (Asem) sauce (1 Tbs. tamarind dissolved in 1 tsp. water)
  • salt
  • 1 Tbs. palm sugar (Gula Jawa)

Instructions:
• Cut the chicken into small cubes and set it aside in a bowl.
• Using a mortar and pestle or food processor, the mixture of garlic, shallots, coriander, turmeric, tamarind sauce, salt and sugar palm to form a paste.
• Pour the vegetable oil and blended ingredients in the bowl filled with cubes of chicken breast.
• Mixed them well and set it aside for half an hour so that the chicken will absorb pasta.
• Put cubes 4-5 pieces of chicken on each skewer.
• Grill the chicken satay on both sides until well done.
• Put the chicken satay on a plate and pour the sauce and peanuts fried shallots on top.
• chicken satay is commonly served with rice Rolls (Lontong).

Saturday, March 1, 2008

8 Chinese New Year Food Symbols for Happiness, Prosperity and Health

"Lucky" Chinese New Year celebration symbols are an important part
Celebrate the festival of spring.

Afterall, it is the beginning of spring - an ideal time to
New Year's Eve, you have your dreams!

And what could be better than opening the happiness, prosperity and
Health benefit from the food "a good omen" with the family and
Friends?


Here are the Top 8 a good omen for the nutrition of the Chinese New Symbols
Year.

These delicious dishes served in the
Dinner meeting of the Chinese New Year celebration with the family takes care
Members.

Comphrensive For a list and description of
Chinese New Year dishes and sweets, visit:

Http: / / www.living-chinese-symbols.com/chinese-new-year-symbols.html.

And if you want even in the kitchen, here are
Some Chinese New Year celebration revenue:

Http: / / www.living-chinese-symbols.com/chinese-new-year-recipes.html

Top 8 a good omen for the diet of new Chinese symbols
Years

1st Hot Pot

A hot steam in the pot (or Fondue Chinoise) with meat, seafood
And vegetables), is a must.

Huo3 in the pandemonium huo3 guo3火锅is the same word in huo3
Hong2 huo3红火thriving and in full expansion.

2nd Fish

Another must-have flat, if you like, a lot to discover
On the new year.

鱼yu2 fish is the most popular dish served, while in China
New Year.

The Chinese fish has the same sound and the surplus
余much.

A whole fish is on the Chinese New Year celebration provides the
Dinner meeting.

In general, the fish is subdued.

It is a good sign to the bones and the head and the tail
Intact.

This symbolizes the surplus or the lot, and a good beginning, and
At the end of the new year.

Better served.

3rd Shrimps

Shrimp xia1虾ha in Mandarin and Cantonese sounds
As someone who laughs.

Eating shrimp happiness and well-being.

4th Boiled dumplings

A Chinese New Year is the tradition of eating boiled dumplings.

These will be in the form of gold bars.

Dumplings jiao3 zi饺子sounds like jiao1 zi3,交子
Displays the time of the changeover to the new year.

So, in the north of China, pellets filled with meat,
Gegessen the Chinese New Year festival provides good opportunity and
Fill the new year.

Sometimes, a part in one of the balls. Who
Bite on them has much of the wealth of the new year.

If dumplings and yellow noodles are cooked together, they
Explain through pipelines gold in gold bars.

In the cities in eastern China, such as Shanghai, Hangzhou and
Suzhou, egg dumplings eaten, as they like in gold
Bars.

5th Oyster

Hao2 sounds like hao3 shi4好事that means, well
Matters.

In the south of China, it is served with thin rice
Noodles.

6th Green Vegetables

To the close family ties, serve some greens.

Qing1 cai4青菜sounds like qing1亲qin1 re亲热mea
Ning near / intimate

7th Sticky rice cakes

Nian2 gao1年糕.

Nian2 years of central and sound cake gao1
Even the highest gao1高.

So this cake eating steamed rice flour and noppige
Red with data, the importance of strengthening
The prosperity and the classification of the new year.

8th Noodles

Known as chang2 shou4 mian4长寿面longevity means "
Noodles. "


A wish for luck - good luck, prosperity, longevity,
Good luck and - in the middle of the Chinese way
Life.

Moreover, during the Chinese New Year!

For a good omen Chinese leader symbols, and the culture of
Chinese characters, symbols visit life in China.

Nasi Goreng (Fried Rice with Soya Bean Ketchup)

Nasi Goreng GorengNasi, Indonesian fried rice. This dish can be enjoyed by themselves or as the basis for a larger meal, for example, with a rice table. It is very easy to make and will no longer than 20 minutes to prepare.
Ingredients:

350 gr. Long-grain rice
2 Tbs. Vegetable oil
3 Eggs
1 Onion
2 Green Chillis, Sambal Ulek or Sambal Badjak.
1 Garlic Clove
1 Leek
1 teaspoon Ground Coriander
1 teaspoon Ground Cumin
250 gr. Chicken meat
250 gr. Shelled Shrimps
3 Tbs. Kecap Manis
Preparation:

This dish is best made from leftover cold rice, but you can cook, a new party and let it cool for at least 4 hours.
Beat the eggs and make into an omelet, slice into strips and set aside.
Heat the oil in a wok or large pan. Add the chopped onions, leeks, garlic and chillis. Fry until the onion is soft. Add the Coriander and Cumin. Slice Chicken in strips and add the shrimp mixture to the onion and cook, stirring occasionally until they are well mixed. Add the rice, soy sauce and omelet strips and cook for a further 5 minutes.Decorate with some of the remaining leeks and serve warm. Enjoy.

Beef Rendang

Spicy Indonesian beef dish in an almost dry coconut sauce. Suitable as a main or side dish.

Ingredients:

500 gr. Rump steak.
2 Onions.
4 Garlic cloves.
3 Fresh red chillies.
2½ cm Ginger root.
1 teaspoon Turmeric.
1 tablespoon Paprika.
1 stalk Lemon grass.
3 Lime leaves.
600 ml Coconut milk.
75 ml water.

Preparation:

Put the Onions, Garlic, Chillies, Ginger, Paprika, Turmeric and Water in a food processor and make into a smooth paste.
Dice the meat and mix with half the paste. Set aside.
Put the other half of the paste into a heavy sauce pan and add the coconut milk, chopped lemon grass and lime leaves. Boil without the lid for about 30 min. until mixture is reduced to half. Add the meat mixture and return to boil. Reduce heat and simmer uncovered, stirring regulary, for a further hour till the steak is tender. Serve with boiled rice.

Asian Foods & Beverages

Become the most occupied continent by people in the world make Asia is also become place in a world of at most the food and beverage type exist. Many from them are very specific food from certain nations and already there since epochs formerly.

This Blog will present some from them as well as the recipes if were available.

Enjoy it! :D