One pot rice

Sometimes on weekends, is my time to cook day. A lot of times, my hubby will not want me to cook and he prefers to buy from the food centre but he does appreciate if my food is good. But I do hate washing up!


Last weekend, I searched for one pot rice and chanced upon this recipe for "Kiam Peng" meaning salty rice.


The ingredients are simple, I used about 250 gm of chicken thigh meat, diced and pan fried first.


Then fried the garlic, and ginger and diced onion together.
Added in the carrots, some shimeji mushrooms and long beans.
After frying those, I added sliced cabbage, about 1/4 of  a large cabbage.
Then I added in Kikkoman soy sauce, Tai Wah dark soy sauce and oyster sauce, some sesame oil  and fried together.


Note : no need to cut the beans and carrots so fine, because in the end, I couldn't see my vegs!!

After frying, mix into the rice which you place in the rice cooker. I mixed water with chicken stock.
I followed and put less than the water level for 2 cups rice. Mix well and cook.

mixed in

almost cooked

After cooking, mixed well, and I put in some Chinese parsley. Let it sit for 15 mins before serving.

The rice is fragrant and tasty! but you should not skimp on the ingredients - should put in more than what I did.

Happy cooking everyone!

Hi Everyone,
It's really been so long since I last updated this blog.
for sometime, I could not access this blog and I have been using my phone to post.
Today I have tried to use the computer instead.


I have been busy taking a course for work and didn't really do anything much except mugging and catching up on sleep since I took night classes.


After the course ended, I pampered myself taking up some cooking lessons and finally decided to sign up a bread making course.


The photos below are the marron glace crown which I made in class. We used Japanese chestnut. On its own, it is very sweet, but combined in bread, is very appealing.

I made again the next day replacing the chestnuts with golden raisin and walnuts. I also scattered some walnuts on the bread before baking. It turned out quite well and is also tasty. I ate the bread over 3 days for breakfast.

Bread is made using handknead method. I will be posting more bread posts in future.

Happy mid week to everyone!!



Creamy lemon berry cheesecake

This recipe comes from the box of Philadelphia cream cheese 

This is how mine turned out

I changed the base to Oreo and used only 3/4 punnet of blueberries in the cake 

I also did a raspberry sauce to decorate the top

Recipe

Ingredients 

The cake

2 x 250gm cream cheese softened about 30 mins 

3/4 cup caster sugar

1 lemon - grate the zest n get the juice

1 cup of heavy cream

3 teaspoons of gelatin dissolved in 1/4 cup of boiling water 

1 punnet of blueberries 

I omitted the strawberries 

Firstly prepare the base 

The base 

15 Oreo cookies with filling crushed to fine bits 

80 gram melted unsalted butter

Mix them together and press into the base of the 20cm spring form tin

The type with a removable base

Chill in the fridge 

Place the softened cream cheese and sugar in a large mixing bowl n beat together till combined

Then beat in the gelatine mixture till just combined

Add the cream and lemon juice and beat till combined

Fold in the lemon zest and blueberries 

Pour into prepared tin and chill

Prepare the raspberry sauce - recipe from this link 

http://www.cookingclassy.com/2011/11/white-chocolate-raspberry-cheesecake-2/

Decorate the cake with rice crisp milk chocolate I bought from baking shop Phoon Huat 

You can buy the happy birthday signs from SKP the store that sells a lot of plastic wares.

We enjoyed the cake however maybe I will recommend to remove the Oreo cream next round as the base looked a bit greasy 

The cake ,raspberry sauce n the chocolate 

Banana Cake

My friend Helga posted this recipe she adapted from a cookbook to Facebook and I decided to try but I found I didn't have self raising flour so it checked for a recipe to make it.

Here is the recipe for the banana cake

To make self raising flour

1 cup plain flour

1/4 tsp fine salt 

1 tsp baking powder

Mixed together 

Other ingredients

250 gm ripe bananas ( about 2.5 bananas)

3 eggs 

40 gm melted unsalted butter

1 tsp baking soda

100 gm brown sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla

Cut the bananas into smaller slices into a medium bowl and mix with the baking soda and set aside.

In another medium bowl, mix 3 eggs with the brown sugar and 1/2 tsp vanilla till the sugar is dissolved. 

Add the prepared flour into the eggs mixture n mix thoroughly till no more white flour can be seen 

Then add the egg mix into the bananas 

Stir well and then add in the melted butter. Combine. 

Preheat oven to 180c.

I lined my loaf pan with baking paper with paper hanging over the sides of the loaf pan and pour the batter into it. This helps to remove the cake easily.

Place a few slices of bananas on the surface.

Bake for 35-40 mins.

Cool before cutting.

Before removal from pan 

11 slices ( I ate a piece)

Happy Baking!!

Roti Boy Buns

I can still remember buying roti boy buns in Malaysia and they were very popular many years back.

Today I happen to come across this YouTube video on how to make them

https://youtu.be/NAjaSkkcHac

I was already making bread buns so I used about 300 gm of my dough to make 6 of these roti boy buns.

Wrap a pc of cold butter I use 4-5 gm wrap in a small pc of dough 10 gm

Further wrap into the main bun dough 

Before proofing

After proofing about 30 mins

Make the coffee paste n chill it in a piping bag

Ready to pipe ( sorry my nozzle hidden) actually can don't use nozzle 

Pipe rounds about halfway on the bun

Baked at 180 for about 15 mins

I used bread flour - see the butter in the middle?

Light coffee flavour

Do give it a try! Happy baking 

Baked cream cheese tarts

These are delicious and I applied 3 different toppings. The original recipe is from Alex Ong but I followed this blog recipe http://messywitchen.com/recipe/dessert-recipe/blueberry-cheese-tarts/

I made 12 tarts and I still have left over cream cheese filling so perhaps next round can make up to 15 tarts for 1 batch. I think is because my tart size is small as I used my Zhui kueh molds.

I kept the filling and the remainder pastry dough in the fridge to make more tarts next day.

Making the tart shells each 30 gm

Should have reduced to 25gm as my mold size is smaller - next time!

Spoon cheese filling into cooled cooked tart shells - baked at 190c 11 mins

Ready to bake 

Baked  at 180c for 9 mins

Enjoy!!

Cheese and Bacon Potato Gratin

This is a dish for potato lovers

I used up 4 russet potatoes and a few slices of bacon in there. It is aromatic and I like the flavour.

You can find the recipe here

http://www.jamieoliver.com/news-and-features/features/easy-potato-gratin-cheese-bacon/

Although the link says Jamie Oliver but this recipe is contributed by Mardi Michel

I omitted the white mushrooms n flaked almonds and for cheddar cheese I replaced with pizza plus shredded cheese from Perfect Italiano.

Through the same link you can find Jamie Oliver's  festive potato bake .

4 large russet potatoes, some bacon , whipping cream cooked with garlic.

I find that it's a huge serving 

We just ate for fun but I kept the balance and brought it to work for my lunch the next day . Just wrap in aluminum foil n heat it up.

 Slice the potatoes as thinly as possible

Bacon that I used

Cross section of my potato gratin . I added some diced yellow capsicum as well.

Do give it a try! Happy baking!