Potato Curry

Hello,

Indian style potato curry or aloo curry is another Indian dish that I made recently. Simple and easy, and suitable to be eaten with roti paratha or naan. This potato curry can be made in less than 30 minutes. With sauce or without sauce, adding green peas or carrot, either way this dishes are delicious.

Let's have a potato curry for dinner and enjoy the Indian dishes!

POTATO CURRY

Ingredients;

2-3 potatoes, cut into small cubes
1 onion, chopped
1 tomato, chopped
1 teaspoon masala powder
1/2 teaspoon coriander powder
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
Salt and pepper to taste

METHOD;

- Heat up some oil in a saucepan and fry onion until fragrant and soft.
- Add chopped tomatoes, masala, coriander, chilli and turmeric powder and cook for a couple of minutes.
- Add in potatoes and a cup of water, continue to cook for 10-15 minutes or until the potatoes are tender.
- Season with salt and pepper, add more water if needed and cook until it reaches desire consistency.

Bon appetit!

Tiramisu

Buongiorno,

E tempo di mangiare tiramisù, è delizioso! Woof, what a language! I love to hear people talk in Italian and I would like to learn this language one day. Italian language is so beautiful with its dulcet tones and smooth flowing and even hand do the talking. Che magnifico!

Okay, now back to the food, I've made Italian popular dessert, tiramisu few days ago since I was thinking of making this dessert all week long and here I am, eggless tiramisu cake with amaretto. E fantastico e lo adoro!

TIRAMISU

35-40 ladyfingers
500g mascarpone
200ml heavy cream
200g sugar
11/2 cup brewed coffee
4 tablespoon amaretto
Cocoa powder for dusting

METHOD;

- Prepare the brewed coffee and add 2 tablespoon amaretto, allow to cool.
- In a large bowl, mix heavy cream and sugar, whisk until it forms soft peaks.
- In another large bowl, whisk mascarpone just to soften a bit.
- Fold whipping cream into mascarpone and add another 2 tablespoons amarettto, mix well.
- Dip ladyfingers quickly into the coffee and arrange in a bottom of baking pan or glass.
- Spread half of the mascarpone on top and layer with another ladyfingers .
- Spread remaining mascarpone and dust with cocoa powder.
- Refrigerate at least 8 hour or overnight and dust with another cocoa powder before serving.

Buon appetito!

Indonesian Sambal

Selamat sore or good evening!

When I was working in the hotel industry long time ago, I had many friends from different country working at the same department with me. I had one Indonesian friend who taught me how to make Indonesian style sambal. Sambal is a spicy chilli paste made with assorted chilli, shallot, garlic, prawn paste and salt and sugar. Sambal is popular in Indonesia and Malaysia. We eat sambal with the main meal as a side dishes and some people could eat sambal all the time and without sambal on the side, the meal seems not complete.

There are many types of sambals with slightly different ingredients but this is my most favourite sambal recipe and also favourite to my family and I made it every time we had a family gathering.

INDONESIAN SAMBAL

Ingredients;

2 tomatoes, cut into small pieces
4 big red chilli, sliced
4-5 small chilli, sliced
3-4 shallots, sliced
1 clove garlic, sliced
1/2 teaspoon prawn paste
Salt and sugar to taste
Oil

METHOD;

- Heat up about 1/4 cup oil in a medium saucepan.
- Add all ingredients except salt and sugar, cook for 5-10 minutes or until the chilies and tomatoes are soften.
- Remove from heat, season with salt and sugar.
- Blend or pound everything into fine or coarse paste, I prefer my sambal a bit coarse and wetter.
- This sambal goes well with rice and any fried food!

Bon appétit!

Banana Blondies

Bonjour,

One simple and easy recipe that I want to make again in the future is banana blondies. I made this cake few days ago to finish up my ripe banana and at the same time to serve to our friend coming over to spend an afternoon tea at home. I found this recipe on pinterest while I'm searching for another simple banana recipe. One sliced of this blondies was simply not enough and it was a great recipe indeed.

There are so many blondies recipe out there but either way, even without banana, they were delicious!

BANANA BLONDIES

Ingredients;

120g salted butter, melted and browned if desired
100g brown sugar
1 egg
150g flour
2 mashed banana

Brown sugar frosting;
60g butter
50g brown sugar
2 tablespoon milk
150g powder sugar

METHOD;

- Preheat oven 180° and prepare baking pan.
- In a medium bowl, combine melted browned butter and sugar and whisk until combined.
- Beat in egg and mix well.
- Stir in flour and mash banana until smooth and well blended.
- Pour batter in a prepared pan and bake for 20-25 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.

For the brown sugar frosting;
- Melt butter in a medium saucepan and add sugar and milk. Stir until the mixture just come to boil.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool.
- Add in powdered sugar and whisk until the frosting is smooth.
- Spread over the blondies and allow frosting to cool completely before serve.

Happy baking!

Spicy Fruit Salad

Hello,

Spicy fruit salad or we called it "rojak" one of the popular salad in certain country like Singapore and Indonesia. Rojak means everything is mixed up in one bowl with assorted fruits and vegetable like pineapple, cucumber, mango, apple, beansprouts and served with special homemade rojak sauce. My mom loves these spicy fruit salad and I used to make in a big portion for her, so she can keep in the fridge and eat whenever she wants.

This rojak taste quite unique and special, some people might not like it but for those who like to discover Asian food, these spicy fruit salad is a must try!

SPICY FRUIT SALAD

Ingredients:-

4 tablespoon dark soy sauce
4 tablespoon sweet chilli sauce
1 teaspoon chilli paste or chilli powder
2 tablespoon palm sugar/ brown sugar
2 tablespoon water
1/2 teaspoon prawn paste, optional
Sugar to taste
Sesame seed
Crushed peanut
Assorted fruits and vegetable (pineapple, mango, cucumber, beansprouts, fried tofu etc..)

METHOD:-

- To make the sauce, mix all ingredients in a saucepan except cornflour paste, peanuts, sesame seeds and fruits.
- Bring to boil over low heat and stirring constantly until the sauce thickens slightly. Add more sugar if needed.
- Remove from the heat and add in sesame seeds, allow to cool.
- Cut all the fruits into bite-size and mix all together.
- Pour the sauce over the fruit and toss gently to mix well.
- Sprinkle with crushed peanut and serve.

Bon appétit!