Semolina And Cereal Cake

Salut tout le monde,

It's officially Autumn season and of course winter is coming. The weather slightly change and getting cold, the colour leaves changing slowly and soon it starting to fall. No surprise actually as we lived in Brittany, it's always rains here, constantly sunny but it's cold. As everyone wish and hoping this time around the winter won't be too long like last year.

Okay back to the baking story, since I start making a Sarawak steamed cake for several times now, last week I've made semolina and cereal cake inspired by those Sarawak steamed cake. The ingredients for this cake based on the kek lumut that I made a year ago. Nothing much different, I just add some other ingredients and I adding more semolina flour by reducing the cereal Nestum.

SEMOLINA AND CEREAL CAKE

Ingredients;

5 eggs
1 cup sugar
220g butter
1 cup semolina flour
1/2 cup cereal nestum, blend into powder
1/4 cup almond powder
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1/2 cup tea
Green food coloring

METHOD;

- Preheat oven, place a large pan with hot water for steam bath and prepare the baking pan.
- Using a stand or hand mixer, beat the egg and sugar until light and fluffy.
- In another bowl, beat butter until light and add in to the egg mixture.
- Slowly add semolina, cereal and almond powder. Mix well.
- Add the evaporated milk, tea  and green food colouring. Whisk until everything well combined.
- Pour the batter into prepared baking pan, cover with aluminium foil and steam bath for 1 1/2 hours-2 hours.

Happy baking!

Prawn And Potato Curry

Bonjour,

Prawns again and again, I will never get bored of eating it, whether they are boiled, fried, steamed or grilled, and this prawn and potato curry is one of my favourite seafood dish. Prawn curry suitable to be eaten with roti canai because the gravy itself was so tasty and not too spicy, even my mother in law can eat it. It was a big surprise for me because I don't expect she could eat any kind of spicy food but I'm totally impressed when she likes almost all Asian food that I prepared.

Alors, pour maintenant, let's cook a simple prawn and potato curry for lunch or dinner on the weekend with family and friends.

PRAWN AND POTATO CURRY

Ingredients;

200g prawns
1 potato, cut into large cubes
1 onion, cut into small cubes
2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
2 shallot, thinly sliced
2 cm ginger, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons curry powder
1/2 teaspoon chili or paprika powder
1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
1-2 pieces tamarind peel or 1 tablespoon tamarind paste
Salt and pepper to taste

METHOD;

- Mix curry, chili, cumin powder and tamarind peel, add little bit of water to make a paste. Set aside.
- Heat some oil in a saucepan and fry garlic, shallot and ginger until fragrant.
- Add curry paste and cook for a few second and add little bit of water when the paste begin to dry. Repeat the process for two or three times. Stirring constantly.
- Add potatoes and a cup of water and cook for a few minutes until potatoes are almost tender, stirring occasionally.
- Add prawns and onion, season with salt and pepper and cook until the prawns are cooked through.
- Serve the prawn curry with roti canai/paratha/naan or rice.

Bon appetit!

Roti Canai

Hello,

It's been quite some time since I made roti canai or paratha, I'm kinda miss having these flatbread Malaysian style dish after a while. Making roti canai may takes a little time but believe me, it's worth it as we can't get enough with only one piece, it was so delicious to eat with any kind of gravy like curry prawn, chicken or beef and a sliced of onion rings.

We enjoyed our lunch and dinner because I can say that today is our roti canai day. I can make 12 roti canai with this recipe and with the prawn curry on the side, the food was exceptionally delicious.

ROTI CANAI/ PARATHA

Ingredients;

3 cups flour
1 cup water, more or less
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon oil
2 tablespoon condensed milk
A pinch of salt

METHOD;

- Combine flour, butter, oil, condensed milk and salt in a large bowl or bread machine or stand mixer.
- Add water little by little and let the machine work for a few minutes or until the dough smooth and no longer sticks in hands.
- Divide dough into 10-12 small balls and coat each dough with oil and place them in a large plate or baking pan. Pour some oil over dough.
- Cover and let the dough rest for several hour or overnight.
- Flatten and roll the dough as thin as possible and start pleating the dough, carefully stretching between hand and slowly circle the dough.
- Heat up pan with some oil and roll the prepared dough as desirable thickness. Cook the flatten dough for 1-2 minute on both side.
- Slap the bread together to fluff it up.
- For the egg roti canai, pour the beaten egg in the middle of flatten dough and fold into square, cook then flip until golden brown on both side.
- Serve roti canai with prawn curry or any other preferable gravy.

Enjoy!

Homemade Samosa

Hello,

There is a times when I just don't feel like cooking but there's also a time when I am in the mood to make something, cooking, baking or preparing many things in a day without feeling lazy. This past few weeks since there are quite a lot of cooking program on TV, more or less the program inspired me to bake or cook something every single day.

Samosa, a snack that basically similar to curry puff, not to complicated to make, just a little time consuming and voila the homemade samosa ready in less than 1 hour.

HOMEMADE SAMOSA

Ingredients;

1 cup flour
2 tablespoon butter, melted
A pinch of salt
Water

For the potato curry filling, I used the same recipe for curry puff and net pancake.

METHOD;

- Combine flour, melted butter and salt. Add water little by little, knead and make a dough until they are nothing longer stick in hand.
- Wrap the dough with plastic wrap and set aside until the filling is ready.
- Take out the dough and divide into golf size balls and roll the dough ball into round or oval shaped. Cut each circle in half.
- Take one dough and make a shape of cone, put a tablespoons of potato filling and seal the edges properly, creating a triangle pastry. Moisten the top edge and press the edges together to tight seal.
- Deep frying the samosa until golden brown on both side.

Enjoy the homemade samosa!

Madeleines

Bonjour,

Every Saturday and Sunday normally we go to visit a brocante nearby our place around this region. Most of the brocante are organized by the maire of the city or association all over France. Hunting and finding a little treasures is one of the thing that I love to do and it was a great pleasure indeed. I found a lots of cooking stuff just like this madeleines pan which I brought in brocante for 1 Euro few weeks ago.

I made madeleines recently after watching a TV program showing about these little cake, and at the same time I excited to use my new toys. It was my first attempt, though, these madeleines turns out really good.

MADELEINES

Ingredients;

100g flour
100g butter, melted
100g sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon oil
2 tablespoons fresh milk
1 lemon zest
1 teaspoon baking powder

METHOD;

- Whisk the eggs, sugar until lightens in colour.
- Sift half of the flour and baking powder into the egg mixture and gently fold in using a spatula, and continue to folding in with the rest of the flour.
- Pour the melted butter and oil, mix well until it fully incorporated.
- Add in milk, mix well and lastly add lemon zest.
- Cover the batter and chill in the fridge for at least 1 hour to overnight.
- Before baking, prepare the madeleine pan by brushing with melted butter and flour, preheat oven to 200°.
- Spoon 1 tablespoon of batter into the pan and bake for 8-10 minutes.

Happy baking!