My Kitchen's Recipes: November 2010

Friday, November 19, 2010

Chicken in Spicy Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

o 2 onions , peeled
o 5 cloves garlic, peeled
o 2 candlenuts
o 50g dried chillies, soaked in hot water, seeded and drained
o 5-cm (2-in) knob galangal (lengkuas), peeled
o 5-cm (2-in) knob ginger, peeled
o 1(about 1.5 kg /3 lb 4½ oz) chicken, cut into 12 pieces
o 2 tsp turmeric powderv
o 200 ml (6½ fl oz/¾ cup) cooking oil
o 5-cm (2-in) length cinnamon stick
o 5 cardamom pods
o 2 lemon grass, lightly bruised
o 2 tsbsp tomato paste/ketchup
o 100 ml (3½ fl oz/2/5cup) evaporated
o milk/coconut cream Salt and sugar to taste

Method

Grind or blend onions, garlic, candlenuts, dried chillies, galangal and ginger. Set aside.

Season chicken with turmeric powder and salt for 30 minutes.

Heat oil in a wok. Deep-fry chicken pieces until browned and cooked. remove and drain.

Leave 4 tablespoons of oil in the wok. Sauté cinnamon, cardamom pods and lemon grass. Add ground ingredients and fry until fragrant.

Add fried chicken, tomato paste/ketchup and evaporated milk/coconut cream. Stir well to coat chicken and simmer until gravy thickens slightly. Season to taste with salt and sugar.

Garnish as desired and serve with Special Tomato rice.

http://kuali.com/recipes by CHEF ZAM.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

TALAM TAKO

Ingredient:
(white part)

50 gm green pea flour
100 gm Castor sugar
1 pc coconut - make into 4 cup of coconut milk
1 t/s bicarbonate soda
some salt

* blend all.

ingredient:
(green part)

100 gm green pea flour
200 gm Castor sugar
5 cup panda n blended water.
1 t/s carbonate soda

* blend all.

preparation:

1. used 2 separate of cooking pot.Put white blended part in pot 1 and green blended part in pot 2.Stir until both ingredient become viscous.(slow flame)

2. Pour green part alternate with white part till finished.(as per step to do marble cake)in cake mold.

3.Put in freezer and ready to cut.

Note: used white type of green pea flour.able to get from cake shoppe.

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