Empal Suwir Cabai

Empal Suwir Cabai

Ingredients:
2 slices Empal (made by my mommy, don't ask me the recipe. I only know how to fry and eat it)
3 shallots (sliced)
1 tomato (chopped)
4 red chilies (chopped)
2 chilli padi (chopped)
Salt, pepper and sugar to taste
Juice from 1 lime
Cooking oil












Instructions:
1. Fry empal and set it aside to cool.
2. Blend chopped tomato, red chilies and chilli padi with food processor and then set it aside.
3. Reheat the pan, using the left over oil from frying empal, saute shallot until fragrant.
4. Add tomato and chili mixture and cook until the water evaporated. Add more cooking oil if needed.
5. Season it with salt, pepper and sugar and continue cooking until it's done. You can tell by the smell :).
6. In the meantime, when the meat (empal) is cooled down, shred it with your hand or fork, whatever works for you.
7. Toss the shredded meat. Mix well and continue cooking around 2 mins.
8. Pour in the lime juice, cook for another 1 minute. 
9. In the end, the food should taste spicy, salty, a bit sour from the lime juce and a bit sweet from the sugar. Slurppppss!

I serve this with rice mixed with komatsuna (Japanese spinach mustard). 
Komatsuna can be replaced with chye sim.
 

Recipe: Salt Pepper Chicken (Updated)

FYI, I have no work today hence the blog spamming :P

Salt Pepper Chicken (Ayam Lada Garam)

Ingredients:

Coating Mixture:
3 tsp Kobe starch
1 tsp flour
1.5 tsp tapioca starch
0.25 tsp knorr chicken
white pepper to taste
salt (very very little)

2 strips of chicken fillet (cut into dice approx. 2cm)
2 cloves of garlic (minced)
1 chillipadi (diced)
1 red chilli (diced)
1 green chilli (diced) (why green chilli? to make it colorful, my hubby tastes food with his eyes first)
1 tablespoon margarine
salt and pepper (black and white) to taste
cooking oil.


Instructions:
1. Mix the coating mixture evenly and put into a medium plastic bag. Put the diced chicken and shake the bag to evenly coat the chicken.
2. Deep fry the chicken until golden brown. Remove from heat and put it aside. on top of the sauteed garlic and cayenne pepper. Mix it well.
3. Heat the pan, melt the butter, saute the garlic and all the chillies until fragrant and soften abit. Put a bit of salt and white pepper. Continue stirring.
3. Toss the chicken, mix it well. Add more salt and black pepper to taste. Personally I choose black pepper cause I like it hot
4. Remove from heat. Put in a plate.
5. Ready to serve.
For 2 people.

Note: chicken can be substituted with tofu, pork, cuttlefish, squid or shrimp.

Normally I would serve this with shredded cabbage, mix with Japanese mayo and a bit of honey mustard.
My hubby loves it!

Potato Salad Ala Me

Potato Salad

Ingridients:

3 Mini potatoes

2 eggs

Corn (optional)

Cheddar cheese (optional)

Thousand islands

Coleslaw

Tar-tar sauce

Mayonnaise (optional)

Instructions:

1. Peel potatoes (duh, isn't obvious?) chop into cubes neatly (you want all the cubes within the same or at least similar size)

2. Boil potatoes until soft enough (remember not to soft or your salad will become muddy and yucky).

3. Drain potatoes; put in the refrigerator at least an hour.

4. Hard boil eggs, peel, chopped, put in the refrigerator at least an hour

5. Mix together potatoes and eggs with the dressing, taste, grater the cheese, mix it together.

6. Ready to server

For 2 persons

Notes:

1. I'm using Kraft’s coleslaw and thousands islands dressing, both of them are quite sour so I put a bit only.

2. Tar-tar sauce can be substituted with mayonnaise but you won't get tar-tar unique taste.

Recipe: Tahu Daging Cincang Pedas

Ingredients:

2 tea spoons minced garlic
100 gr minced meat
1 egg tofu, cut and fried (big fire) until golden then put aside
10 cherry tomatoes, washed and cut
1 table spoon chili paste
oil
salt and sugar to taste
Spring onion, fine cut for decoration

Instructions:

1. Heat oil and fry garlic until fragrant
2. Add minced meat, fry until half cooked
3. Add tomatoes, keep frying until it becomes soft like paste
3. Add chili paste
4. Add salt, sugar then taste
5. Toss fried egg tofu and stir well.
6. Sprinkle some spring onion, ready to serve

Enak loh...mengagumi hasil kreasi sendiri hohohohoho

Recipe: Kimchi Fried Rice

Ingredients:

1.5 tablespoons chopped garlic
4 tablespoons kimchi
4 (or to taste) spoons light soy sauce
200 gr sliced port, marinate with 2 spoons of light soy sauce for about 15 minutes
6 pcs meat ball, sliced.
2 plates of cooked rice
2 eggs
red pepper and white pepper to taste
cooking oil

Instructions
1. heat the cooking oil, make sunny egg and put it aside
2. heat the cooking oil, saute garlic until fragrant, toss the pork meat and keep sauteing until the half cooked and toss the meat ball. Cook until the meat well done.
3. toss the rice and kimchi. Mixed well
4. Add red pepper and white pepper. Mixed well. Ready to be served.

For 2 persons

Recipe: Spaghetti Aglio Olio

My mum hates pasta, but she managed to eat the pasta if I cooked it ala Aglio Olio

Ingredients:

150 gr pasta (I prefer spaghetti/angel hair)
3 cloves garlic (minced)
2 cayenne pepper (cut)
3 smoked ham (potong memanjang)
Cooking oil
salt and pepper to taste
Parmesan cheese.
Water

Directions:
1. Boil water, put salt and taste. Put 1 tablespoon cooking oil and boil your pasta until al dente or as instructed then drain.
2. Heat the pan and cooking oil, saute garlic and cayenne pepper until fragrant and change color. Add the smoked ham. Saute until it change color.
3. Toss the pasta, saute a bit. Add the salt and pepper, mix well.
4. Ready to serve.

For 2 people.

Recipe: Mommy's Shrimp

Okay.. I finally decided to name my new recipe like that since this is my first recipe that got approved by my mother. For your information, my mother is very picky on food. So this is quite accomplishment for me hehehe

Mommy's Shrimp

Ingredients:

100 gr/10 medium shrimp
1.5 tablespoons butter
1-1.5 tablespoons sweet soy sauce (bango)
1 tablespoons light soy sauce (lee kum kee)
2 cloves garlic (minced)
0.5 onion (cut)
2 slice of ginger (cut into thin stick)
2 cayenne peppers (cabe rawit, gw juga baru tau) (optional)
1.5 limes
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Peel the shrimps and deveined then marinate with 1 lime. Wait for 5 minutes. Wash before cooking.
2. Heat the pan and cooking oil, saute the ginger until it turn white and toss the garlic and cayenne peppers. Keep sauteing until the garlic starts to change color then toss the onion. Cook until the onion a bit soft.
3. Toss the shrimp and cook until the shrimp turn pink.
4. Put the sweet soy sauce, light soy sauce, stir and simmer a while with medium heat.
5. Put the salt and pepper. Stir. Taste. Turn off the heat. Ready to serve. You can add the 0.5 lemon if you like.

For 2 people

Note:
1. Lee kum kee light soy sauce is not only salty but also sweet. Put extra sweet soy sauce if your light soy sauce is salty only.
2. I post the pictures latter when I cook this recipe again. Yesterday we were so hungry, did'nt have the time to take the picture.