Raisin butter rice with cashew nuts

This is a simple rice tasty flavour and cooked over a stove in my pan.

http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/25247/rice-with-almonds-and-raisins

I followed the recipe above and changed the almonds to cashew nuts

Ingredients to use 

1 tbsp butter

1/3 cup finely chopped onions

1 cup uncooked rice ( I rinsed)

2 tablespoon raisins ( I used a mix of raisins)

1 n 1/2 cup chicken broth

Salt n pepper to taste 

1/4 cup of almonds ( I replaced with about 1 cup of cashew nuts - toasted)

Method

Melt the butter in the saucepan.

Sauté the onions n then add the rice, chicken broth, salt, pepper all at once.

When the broth boils, lower the heat to low and cover.

Observe for about 5 minutes n stir the rice a little and cover again.

Do it again in closer intervals.

This way the rice will not get burnt.

It only takes about 15 minutes to cook.

When all the liquid is absorbed your rice should be cooked. 

Stir in the cashew nuts.

Serve with a meat side dish if you prefer.

Water starts to bubble 

Dinner is served!

I did another bowl with almond flakes this time round.

Oatmeal n raisin cookies

Oatmeal and raisin cookies

 

When I received a packet of oatmeal, I was really perplexed. I didn't know what to do with a 1kg of oatmeal.  In my memory, I didn't think oatmeal was delicious at all... so I decided to use them for other purpose.

 

Yesterday, my colleague bought some Quaker cookies and they were delicious! I decided to try using the Quaker recipe even though my oatmeal were not Quaker brand.

 

Here is the recipe

 

Ingredients

 

1 cup and 6 tablespoon of butter, softened -I used 195gm butter (SCS)

3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar (I used caster sugar)

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 and 1/2 cup of plain flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 cups of Quaker Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked) I used Captain Oats quick cook oatmeal

1 cup raisin

 

Method

1. Heat oven to 180C .In a large bowl, beat butter and sugars on medium speed of electric mixer until creamy. I used an electric hand mixer.
2. Add eggs and vanilla and beat well.
3. Add plain flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt, mix well. 
4. Add oats and raisins, mix well.
5. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie trays. Please space out as the cookies will spread during baking  ( I will recommend to line the trays - I had to use my dough cutter to remove cookies and some broke)
6. Bake using the middle tray for up to 15 minutes.  Original says 8-10 minutes but they were soft. Cool 1 minute on the trays, remove to wire rack to cool completely.  Store tightly covered.

Most recipes online says cookies can be stored for up to 1 week.  Happy baking!!!

 

 

 

  I used this brand of oatmeal

Mixing the butter n sugars n flours n cinnamon

Added in the oatmeal n raisins

Very wet look after mixing

Space them out on trays

Crunchy cookies