Recipe : Ayam Masak Masin / Salted Egg Chicken

At first, it sounded bizarre to me. I saw it in a menu in Tupai-tupai - Ayam Masak Masin and I was like..masin? who would ever wanted a salty dish? Then I ask the waiter calmy la, and he told me that Masin came from the Telur Masin, the red one. He finally assured us to try it as it is their signature dish.

It was delicious!

I can't get enough of it, so making them myself! I have been making this dishes whenever I don't have time to prepare things. Same as my butter prawn recipe, it is just a simple dish, no hassle. Even you lil sister can make this. 

Here's the recipe I've change a bit to suit my ke-malasan. 

Recipe : Sticky Date Pudding

Hello Saturday and Salam everyone.

Remember my post complaining on leftovers dates? Well, I've succeeded, berjaya juga, making something out with the leftover dates.

Yeay...

Recipe are from 
Sticky Date Pudding by The Little Teochew

Sticky Date Pudding by Anis Nabilah

1. Place dates and water in a small saucepan over high heat. When the mixture starts to boil, add bicarbonate of soda and 60g butter, and remove from the heat. Stir and then set aside for 25 minutes.

2. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius (160 degrees Celsius fan-forced). If you are not using a fan-forced oven, adjust the oven rack to the lower half of the oven so the top of the pudding will be in the centre of the oven.

3. Grease a 20cm diameter (top inside measurement) round springform pan and line the base and side with baking paper. 
(Instead of baking paper I spread some of butter, maybe a bit too much.)

4. Place cooled date mixture in a food processor. Pulse mixture a few times to form a chunky paste.

5. Add eggs and vanilla to date mixture and pulse a couple of times until just combined.

6. Stir flour and 150g (2/3 cup, firmly packed) brown sugar together in a medium bowl. (I reduce the amount of brown sugar, as I use sweetened dates) Use the back of the spoon to break up any lumps of brown sugar. Add date mixture to the flour mixture and gently fold the ingredients together until just combined. 

7. Pour batter into prepared pan. If, when baking, the pudding starts to overbrown, loosely cover it with greaseproof paper.

8. Bake the pudding for about 50-60 minutes (about 20-30 minutes if baking in muffin tins), or until it springs back when lightly pressed in the centre. A thin-bladed knife or wooden skewer inserted into the centre of the pudding should come out without any batter attached. (mine has crack at the middle, might be cause by overheating)

9. For butterscotch sauce, place sugar and butter in saucepan over medium heat. Stir well until the sugar melted. (my tips, be sure the sugar turns brown. as I don't, the sauce got too sweet)

10. Add evaporated milk and let it simmer. Then add a spoon of cornflour, which was added with water earlier. Stir well until the sauce thickens and ready to serve :)

Enjoy, dear :D
Happy October lovelies..

Let's put baking skills to test

photo source: bakercat

Assalammualaikum and hello everyone :)

Raya is coming and....there are tons of dates / kurma left. Hehehe..instead of worrying other things, my mind is on the dates. Though I'm a big fan of them, I'm a real fussy eater sometimes. It's too sweet, too ripe, too lembik..I don't eat lah. :) So that's the reason why so many boxes of dates left..

but worry no more, here some recipes..

Apple Date Cake by Scandie Foodie

Sticky Date Pudding by The Little Teochew

Sticky Date Pudding by Anis Nabilah

Sticky Date Pudding with Toffee Sauce by Sips and Spoonfuls

Proaty Date Cookies by chocolatechillymango

Bran Muffins with Dates by Everyday Cooking

Apple, Date and Ginger Crisp by Martha Stewart

Date and Nut Cookies by Martha Stewart

Ooo..drooling..it's already 6pm. Selamat berbuka :) 

DIY : Wedding Wonders

Assalammualaikum and Happy Sunday everyone..

Just finished cleaning up my room, doing laundry, doing dishes..like a housewife..and all force me to think of wedding.. plus the 'apa artinya cinta' playing on tv :D

The love is in the air.. Numbers of my friends are getting married.. by I mean numbers, I got 3 wedding invitations on the same weekend. Guess what, all the venues is "too close"..kutub utara kutub selatan la kan..

and yes, it is the time that makes me feel like I'm getting older.. Older than when you get birthday wishes. but, it doesn't matter actually, I don't really care. What I'm really concern is the finance!

Base on my experience, I could claim that we tend to splurge on wedding..too much.. too lavish. and I really hate the fact that you have to save tons, just to get married. Marriage shouldn't be a burden.

Why not you just do it yourself? So here what I've been googling..

Invitations

Cakes

Gifts

It's all there, just search and do it.. or ask someone to help kan..
Happy fasting and too bad I'm working tomorrow..

Wishing all muslims, have a great nuzul al-Quran :)

Update: links can be found from my pinterest :) sorry for any inconvenience causes.

Recipe : Butter Prawn

I couldn't explain in words how delicious this sinful dish when I tasted it for the very first time. Sure it is high in cholesterol, but once a month should be okay..(wide smile) Big hugs and kisses to Afiqah Hassan's mom for cooking me this. Right from that moment, I have to know how it cook!

So, again.. I love to cook dishes that are not so fussy. No measurement, no timbang-timbang...just cook with your heart.I know its sound cliche, but I swear its true..

Lets cook up a storm!

What you need:

• 1/2 kg medium prawns (about 15-20 prawns, cleaned and only tail intact )
• 1 tablespoon frying oil (to avoid butter from burn)
• 5 tablespoon butter
• 3 tablespoon evaporated milk
• 4-5 cili padi (depends how spicy you want, slice them thinly)
• 2 strands curry leaves
• 1 eggs (beaten lightly)

What you have to do:

1. First, to prepare the egg floss (one on top), stir frying oil and pour in beaten egg and continue stir to get fine floss. Then keep aside. 
2. Now for the main dish, heat the frying oil and put in butter. Let it melt. 
3. When it starts bubbling, put in the cili padi and curry leaves. 
4. After a while, put in he prawns. Let them cook. 
5. Lastly, put in the evaporated milk and egg floss. Stir well. 
6. Make sure the prawns well-cooked and it ready to be served!

p/s: add extra butter or milk if you want extra gravy.

Enjoy my friends! Its easy to do and no bawang needed!

Kuih Makmur Inti Jem Nenas

Assalammualaikum w.b.t. and hello!

Syawal will be here in just few days. 2 days to be exact. All of us in the mood of celebrating 1st of Syawal. Some might wait to spend up for cheaper things at the last minute..for cookies, baju kurung, lemang, ketupat, shawls..the list goes on..

Some who is awesome (sengaja..:D) shall try my family's recipe, Kuih Makmur. Believe me, it is easier than you think and it taste simply good.

Recipe: Kuih Makmur with Pineapple filling

This recipe is from my Opah sedara and she mentioned that no precise measurement required. Which makes things easier!

Ingredients
: Dough
3/4 packet of Wheat flour
1 tin of Ghee

:Pineapple filling
A pineapple (grated)
Spoonful of sugar, proportionate to amount of pineapple.

:Finishing
Caster sugar (grounded),  for coating





Methods 
  

1.  Prepare the filling first, so it has time to cool down. You don't want to burn your finger. Just put all the grated pineapple and sugar. Too much of sugar will get it too hard and tedious to work with. Let it reduced.
2. For the dough, put in little by little ghee onto the flour and yes, use your hand please. You have to feel it to ensure it soft enough and easy to mold.
3. The fun time! Mold the dough into balls and put a pinch of filling at the center and it ready to bake :)
4. Preheat the oven for 5 minutes first and bake it for 20 minutes at 180 degrees. Tadaa..
5. Powdered the cookies with grounded sugar and it's ready to be served.

Selamat Hari Raya!