Fish Fried Rice

Salut,

Leftover rice normally will not stay too long in my kitchen. There is always a way to use up leftover rice and what I like the most is to make a quick fried rice. From vegetables, meat or seafood, there is almost anything can go into fried rice.

Fish fried rice is one of my favourite because my mom and my sister used to cook this fish fried rice everytime we had leftover fried or grilled fish at home. Simple food yet so tasty and delicious. Let's cook this quick and easy recipe for lunch or even dinner any day of the week.

FISH FRIED RICE

Ingrediens;

1-2 cups leftover rice
2 cloves garlic
1 shallot
2-4 small chilli
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/2 cup fish meat (leftover cooked fish, fried or grilled)
Salt, pepper and soy sauce to taste

METHOD;

- Pound or blend garlic, shallot and chilli into a course paste.
- Heat up little oil in a wok or saucepan and fry garlic chilli paste until fragrant.
- Add beaten egg and scramble it for a few seconds.
- Stir in rice and season with salt, pepper or add an additional amount of soy sauce if needed.
- Add fish meat and stir-fry over a high heat for a minute or two.

Enjoy the fish fried rice!

Kek Lumut

Bonsoir,

Kek lumut kukus or steamed moss cake is another Sarawak famous cake that I've made a while ago. This cake has a few version with slightly different ingredients but still used the same name. I think people called it kek lumut because of the greenish coloured just like moss from the stone surfaces. However, though the colour looks like moss, but the cake was delicious!

Most of the delicious Sarawak cake used the steamed method and sometime it takes up to 10 hours of steaming for a certain cake. For this cake lumut, I just baking it in water bath instead of steaming them. The cake turned out great and it was so moist. I love this kind of cake. Recipe source from Homekreation blog.

KEK LUMUT

Ingredients;

5 eggs
1 cup sugar
200g butter, soften
1/2 cup semolina flour
1 cup Nestle Nestum cereals
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1/2 cup tea
Green food colouring

METHOD;

- Preheat oven 160° with water bath in place and prepare baking pan, set aside.
- Beat egg until light and fluffy.
- Add sugar and beating well.
- In another bowl, beat butter until it becomes soft and creamy and add butter into egg sugar mixture.
- Add in semolina and nestum cereals, beat until just combined.
- Add milk, tea and a few drops of food colouring, mix well.
- Pour batter into a prepared baking pan, cover with aluminium foil and place the cake pan into the preheat water bath and bake for 1 hour 30 minutes.
- For steam method, the recipe called for 2 hours of steaming.

Happy baking!

White Bread And Doughnuts

Bonjour,

Making homemade bread at home can be fun and at the same time its a good exercise if making it by hand. Some people might think that making bread can be complicated, just like what I think before I begin making my own homemade bread not long ago. In fact, there is nothing complicated at all.

This simple basic bread recipe is great and works well for me. Even without a bread machine, they are worked fine and the bread actually tasted good. This is also the recipe that I used to make for a simple doughnuts and sometime I divided the dough into two and make half doughnut and half white bread with it.

For the doughnuts, just make a doughnut ring or balls, let the dough rise and fried. Dust with powder sugar or dip the tops of doughnuts into the chocolate glaze. Voila! There are bread and doughnuts at the same time with only one recipe.

WHITE BREAD AND DOUGHNUT 

Ingredients;

500g flour
2 teaspoon salt
8g dry yeast
1 tablespoon sugar
3 tablespoon vegetable oil
300ml warm water

METHOD;

- Mix flour and salt in a large bowl, set aside.
- Dissolve yeast in warm water, add sugar and let stand for 5-10 minutes or until yeast bubbles and foams up.
- Add oil in the flour mixture and pour the yeast water little by little.
- Mix well and knead the dough onto the lightly floured surface.
- Once the dough smooth, place it in a lightly oiled bowl. Cover and leave to rise 1 hour in a warm area until doubled in size.
- Punch the dough down, knead for a minute and pat the dough into regtangle and roll up tightly.
- Place the roll dough into greased loaf pan. Cover and let it rise until doubled in size, around 30-40 minutes.
- Preheat oven 180° and bake bread for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
- Remove from oven and brush with melted butter. Allow to cool before remove it from pan.

Happy baking!

Homemade Kaya

Salut,

First things first, I begin with the word of the day, KAYA. Kaya is a Malay word means rich but at the same time this word also means coconut jam. I've been thinking about kaya for the last few months but I couldn't find one that sell in the shop. How I want my bread and kaya for breakfast until I decided to try out kaya recipe from internet and make my homemade kaya at home.

It feels good now and it satisfied the craving I'd been feeling since many months. From now on, I can make this kaya at home anytime as the recipe was great yet calls for simple ingredients. I also like to bake my own white bread and I've been making quite a lot of breads and buns lately.

HOMEMADE KAYA

Ingredients;

3 large eggs
250g sugar
350ml coconut milk

METHOD;

- Mix 150g sugar with coconut milk, whisk until sugar dissolved.
- Add in eggs and stir to combined. Set aside.
- In a small saucepan, heat the sugar until it melts and turn brown.
- Pour the caramel sugar into egg mixture and continue to stirring until the caramel sugar dissolved.
- Meanwhile, prepare double boiler on the stove over low heat.
- Place the mixture bowl in the top of double boiler.
- Stir the mixture occasionally, every 2 or 3 minute to avoid the burning.
- It took me about an hours to cook until I achieve the desired thickness.
- Cool the kaya completely before transfer in a jar.
- Keep kaya in the fridge and it can last for a couple of week.

Enjoy the kaya with bread!

Fried Fish with Three Flavoured Sauce

Bonjour,

Asian food, just thinking and picturing the savory and aromatic taste of some Asian food makes me drool. How I miss all the food that my mom used to cook at home. From fish, local vegetables and even a simple fried rice, everything just make my mouth water.

Ikan masak tiga rasa or fried fish cooked with three flavoured sauce has a three flavour, sweet, sour and spicy. Only one dish meal enough for dinner with fish and vegetables comes together, simple yet very satisfying.

FRIED FISH WITH THREE FLAVOURED SAUCE

Ingredients;

2 mackerel or any kind of fish
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 shallot, chopped
1cm ginger, thinly sliced
1 lemongrass, thinly sliced
1 green or red chilli, sliced
1 onion, sliced
1 carrot, sliced
1 tomato, sliced
2-3 tablespoons ketchup
2-3 tablespoons sweet chilli sauce
1-2 tablespoon oyster sauce
1-2 tablespoons fish sauce
1 tablespoon corn flour, dissolved with 1/4 cup water

METHOD;

- Clean the fish, season with salt and fry the fish until golden brown and cooked through. Set aside.
- Heat up little oil in a saucepan  and fry garlic, shallot, ginger and lemongrass until fragrant.
- Add chilli, onion, carrot and add a little water if necessary. Cook and simmer for a few minutes.
- Add in tomatoes and all the sauces and let the sauce boil for a minute.
- Add cornflour mixture to thicken and season with salt.
- Simmer for another minute and pour the sauce over the fried fish.

Enjoy the fish with rice!