Bamboo Shoots in Coconut Milk

Hello,

Bamboo shoots cooked in coconut milk or rebung masak lemak in malay language is one of my favourite vegetables that my mum used to cook for us. Sometimes, whenever I think about these bamboo shoots, I would try to get it from Asian grocery store even if it is just a canned bamboo shoots. Then I will cook it with canned coconut milk and voila, there is my version of rebung masak lemak.

There is no comparison of fresh bamboo shoots and my mom cooking, but at least with the canned one that I had here, I still can have a good meal.

BAMBOO SHOOTS IN COCONUT MILK

Ingredients;

I canned bamboo shoots/ 300g fresh bamboo shoots, thinly sliced
2 tablespoon dry shrimps, soak in warm water
1 cloves garlic
1 shallot
2-3 small chilli/ dry red chilli
1/2 teaspoon shrimp paste
2 cups coconut milk
Salt and sugar to taste

METHOD;

- Pound or blend dry shrimp, garlic, shallot, chilli and shrimp paste into coarse paste.
- Place bamboo shoots and all other ingredients in a saucepan and bring to boil.
- Season with salt and a little bit of sugar to taste and simmer over medium heat for 5-10 minutes or until the bamboo shoots are cooked.
- The taste even better after reheated the next day.

Bon appétit!

Stir Fried Fish Fillet With Ginger And Leek

Bonjour,

Fish ginger is one of our favourite dish for dinner. One single dish is enough for us because there are fish and vegetable together without to cook any other side dishes. Fresh ginger bring out a special flavour and we love to eat a lot of ginger specially when it cooked with fish.

I've made this fish ginger with leeks many times and I found that the combination of the fish and leeks was really good. In fact, fish, ginger and leeks are perfect combo created such a great dish.

STIR FRIED FISH FILLET WITH GINGER AND LEEKS

Ingredients;

250g fish fillet, any fish
1 tablespoon corn flour
1 leek, clean and thinly sliced
1 cloves garlic, chopped
4cm fresh ginger, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
1 tablespoon light soy sauce
1 teaspoon corn flour, dissolved with 4 tablespoon water
Salt and pepper to taste

METHOD;

- Season the fish fillet with salt and pepper, dust lightly with 1 tablespoon corn flour.
- Heat up some oil in a wok or saucepan and fried fish fillet until golden brown and slightly crispy. Set aside.
- Heat up little oil in a saucepan and fry garlic and ginger until fragrant.
- Add leeks and fry for a minute. Add more water if needed.
- Add oyster sauce, soy sauce, salt and pepper and the corn flour paste, cook for a few seconds.
- Add in fried fish fillet and quickly stir fry in high heat and dish up.

Bon appétit!

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!