Rice Porridge

Hello,

For most of the time in Asia, rice porridge or sometimes called congee are often served or eaten for breakfast. In fact, congee is a simple Asian dish.

While in Asia I don't eat congee in the morning since I'm not a fan of these dish, but now I do eat what called breakfast food at lunch or dinner time. And now I have to admit that how good to have rice porridge some time for dinner. Porridge is a really simple and healthy food and it makes us full enough and satisfied for a long time.

RICE PORRIDGE

1/2 cup rice
2cm ginger, sliced
4-5 cup water
Salt and pepper to taste

METHOD;

- Boiled rice, ginger and water and reduce to a simmer with cover until the rice broken and creamy.
- Stirring frequently and season with salt and pepper.

Porridge accompaniment;
Spring onion, fried anchovies, soy sauce, fried fish or seafood or other side dish according to individual preference.

Bon appétit!

Amaretti Cookies

Buongiorno,

It's sounds Italian right? In fact, I don't speak Italian but I do love the Italian language as well their cuisine. I made some Italian amaretti cookies not too long ago and this cookies was so easy to make. It just need a few ingredients and voila, cookies ready..

I might not made a real good Italian amaretti cookies but for some occasion, these cookies would be good enough to please people.

AMARETTI COOKIES

Ingredients;

1 large egg whites
100g almond powder
70g caster sugar
1 teaspoon almond extract or vanilla extract
Some powder sugar for dusting

METHOD;

- Preheat oven 160° and prepare baking tray.
- In a bowl, whisk the egg white until soft peak.
- Gradually add sugar, almond powder and almond extract.
- Continue to stirring until become a smooth dough.
- Roll a small ball and place on the baking tray.
- Baked for 15-17 minutes until crackled in appearance or until golden.
- Dust with powdered sugar.

Arrivederci....

Stir-Fried Tom Yum Prawns

Salut,

This month of May is a month more public holidays in France than any other month. The weather also has been beautiful for this past week, not too hot or too cold. Its just nice and I love spring, my favorite seasons.

Alors, let's talk about food now. Stir-fried tom yum prawns, one of the simple Thai recipe that I like the most, from tom yum soup to tom yum grill fish, tom yum is always good, at least for me because I like spicy food.

STIR-FRIED TOM YUM PRAWNS

Ingredients;

200g prawns
1 onion, sliced
1 carrot, sliced
1/2 cup snow peas
2 cloves garlic, chopped
2cm fresh ginger, sliced
1 tablespoon tom yum paste
1 tablespoon sweet Thai chilli sauce
Fish sauce to taste
Oil

METHOD;

- Heat some oil in a wok or sauce pan and fry garlic and ginger until fragrant.
- Add onion and carrot, continue to stir for a minutes.
- Add in prawns, snow peas, tom yum paste and sweet chilli sauce.
- Season with fish sauce and continue to stir-fry until the prawns is cooked.

Shakshuka

Salut,

Shakshuka, a new recipe that I have come across recently and managed to make shakshuka for our dinner last night. This dish is one of the popular breakfast meal in Israel and I suppose it also popular in many Middle Eastern countries.

Simple and easy dish yet good enough to eat with any bread or french baguette. Mon mari and I loved it and many times he said it was so so good. I'll definitely make this dish again and again. I've even got an idea to make these dish for some special occasion and I'm pretty sure it will delight and satisfy eveyone around.

Actually, for the basic shakshuka recipe, there is no meat, but I've add another ingredients like tuna and shredded cheese. I've also devided the sauce into half and baked in oven for 5-8 minutes. I add shredded cheese on top while the sauce still hot.

SHAKSHUKA

Ingredients;

1 onion, chopped
2 clove garlic, chopped
1 red bell pepper, chopped
3 tomatoes, chopped
2 tablespoon tomato paste
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon chilli powder
1 can tuna
2-3 eggs
Salt and pepper to taste
Some chopped parsley for garnish
Oil

METHOD;

- Heat some oil in a pan and fry onion and garlic until fragrant.
- Add bell pepper and sauté for few minutes or until softened.
- Add chopped tomatoes and paste and stir until everything well blended. Add a little water if needed.
- Add spice and salt and pepper to taste. Cover and simmer over medium heat for 5-8 minutes.
- Add tuna and stir well, continued to cook for a couple of minutes.
- Crack the egg over the sauce, cover and let simmer for another few minutes.
- Garnish with fresh chopped parsley and serve with any bread..

Bon appétit!

Roti Jala

Salut,

Whenever I think about what to cook for friends or even simply for our tea time snack at home, one of simple and easy snacks to prepare is roti jala or sometimes being called kuih renjis or net crepes. Roti jala is a type of crepe, made from flour, egg and water. This time, I've made roti jala filled with potato curry and rolled it like spring roll or we can serve separately with other curry dish.

To make this net crepes, we need to use a special mold or for altenative, just use any water bottle or can and nailing a few holes and fill the bottle with batter and swirl around the pan, and voila, there is a net crepe ready.

ROTI JALA

Ingredients;

150g flour
1 egg
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
300ml water
A pinch of salt
A little bit of yellow colour
Little oil to grease the pan

" For the roti jala filling, I used the same filling of curry puff from my previous post"

METHOD;

- Combined all ingredients, whisk until no lumps or blender and strain the batter.
- Add more water or flour if the batter too thick or thin, until the batter was like crepe consistency
- Fill the special mold or bottle with some batter and gently make some swirl around the grease pan.
- Once the batter is set, remove the crepe to a plate and make the remaining batter.
- Fill the crepes with potato filling and roll it just like making spring roll.
- For those who don't want the filling, just fold them in any shape of your choice.
- Serve with any curry dishes.

Happy snacking!