Sambal Belacan

Hoh, Sambal Belacan pon nak letak kat sini? Sharing is caring, bak kata orang sekarang ni. Kalau saya pon dok melilau kat internet mencari resepi Sambal Belacan, tak mustahil ada orang lain sewaktu dengan saya kan...

So, here goes..

Bahan-bahan
1. 3 cili besar
2. 4-6 cili padi
3. Gula
4. Garam
5. Jus limau nipis
6. Udang kering - rendam sebentar untuk melembutkan
7. Belacan - bakar sebentar (I just put it on a metal spoon and stove-grilled it for 2-3 minutes sampai naik bau)
8. Bawang merah

Cara-caranya

- Tumbuk lumat cili besar, cili api, bawang merah dan udang kering.

- Masukkan belacan bakar dan tumbuk hingga sebati

- Perasakan dengan gula, garam dan jus limau nipis

Apalagi, silalah mencicah yerr...

Semur Hati Ayam

By now, surely you have noticed most dish I prepare is simple. Senang belaka. Sesuai dengan diriku yang tak berapa rajin ni...

This one is Semur Hati Ayam, taken from the same book from this entry here.

Bahan-bahan

1. Hati ayam - potong dadu

2. Bawang besar - hiris kasar

3. Bawang putih - ketuk

4. Cili besar - hiris kasar (boleh tambah cili padi kalau nak pedas lagi)

5. Kicap masin

6. Kicap manis

7. Rempah tumis (bunga lawang, buah pelaga, bunga cengkih dan kulit kayu manis)

Cara-cara

- Tumis rempah tumis hingga naik bau wangi.

- Masukkan hati ayam dan goreng hingga air sedikit berkurangan.

- Masukkan bawang besar, bawang putih dan cili. Goreng sebentar hingga agak layu.

- Perisakan dengan kicap manis dan kicap masin.

- Hidangkan panas-panas

Ayam Berempah Kak Mon

This, is my newest version of Ayam Berempah. Bahan wajib is bawang putih, halia and kunyit. Kunyit tu pulak wajib kunyit hidup, baru best. Bahan optional pulak serbuk kari, cili padi, madu etc. So, pandai-pandailah nak buat version kari ke, version honey ke, version pedas meletop ke...

Bahan-bahan

1. Ayam - potong kecil

2. Halia *

3. Bawang putih *

4. Cili padi *

5. Kunyit hidup *

6. Garam kasar *

7. Madu lebah

Cara

- Tumbuk halus bahan bertanda *

- Perap ayam dengan bahan * dan madu lebah

- Goreng di atas api perlahan hingga masak

- Makan panas-panas dengan nasi panas!

Lala Masak Lemak

For this version, I added up some kerisik and daun kunyit. Ended up well. Too bad the lala are not at their freshest. Kecuttt!! Makan gravy aje laa..

For recipe of my Masak Lemak, refer here. Just add some kerisik and daun kunyit this time around.

Beef Chop Suey - Ummi's Style

Hari ni cuba resepi Beef Chop Suey from the book Easy Stir-Fry, published by Parragon Books and printed in Indonesia (ha ha semua nak bagitau). This is the first recipe from the book, which I had bought wayyy back in August 2009. Better late than never huh?

Anyway, the original recipe has lotsa ingredients (which I failed to find in Carrefour BTHO) and some are not consumable by muslims like me. So, kenalah adjust here and there and sudahnya Beef Chop Suey, Ummi's style.

Cumanya, I always use my heartfeeling and gerak hati when measuring ingredients for my cooking so that's why takde unit measurement ya. Sorry, kena agak-agak je lah kalau nak try out.

Ingredients

For marinate

1. Pepper

2. Salt

3. Sesame oil

4. Light soy sauce aka kicap cair

Others

1. Beef - cut into small, thin strips

2. Onion - 1 whole bulb. Hiris.

3. Oyster sauce

4. Sweet pea - cut into half

Methods

- Marinate beef in marinating ingredients for 2 hours (at least). Keep refrigerate.

- Add some cooking oil and stir fry beef on high heat, making sure to constantly stir so tak hangit.

- Once the beef juice dried up and the meat still 'moist', transfer into a plate.
- Clean your pan/wok and put in some oil.

- Fry onion until it becomes translucent and aromatic.

- Add in sweet pea and if it's necessary add up some water (I did cause the peas I bought agak tua dan keras).

- Add in some oyster sauce and let it simmer it bit.

- Add in the beef and fry for another minute or so.
- Serve hot.

* The original recipe require vegetables under the name - bamboo shoot, water chestnut, broccoli, mushroom and snow peas. I just used sweet peas. I am allergic to broccoli, it gives me flatulence.

Swedish Meatballs

I did Spaghetti Bolognese (my previous entry on this here) again just now. Bak kata orang ni, back by popular demand. Iman yang request. Kalau sebelum-sebelum ni just pasta di makan dengan sosnya, this time I added up dengan meatballs.

Pernah tengok tak channel Astro 703 (AFC), Scandinavian Cooking tu? (web here). Tina Nordstorm prepared meatball recipe once and nampaknya sangat menyelerakan. And the next trip to IKEA, we bought a packet of its Swedish Meatballs. Sangat sedap dan sangat mahal. A packet of about 1kg goes for about RM30! Since I am not working anymore (for a year), we have to spend wisely, food included and that now I have more free time, buatlah homemade Swedish Meatballs.

Ingredients
1. Minced beef - 2 pounds. I used Ramli's minced beef, 2 small tubes that weighted about 800gm.
2. Egg - 2
3. Milk - 1 cup
4. Bread (cut into small pieces) - 1 cup (or 1 cup of mashed potato)
5. Salt - to taste
6. Pepper - to taste
7. Minced onion - 1
8. All spice - 1/4 tbsp


Methods
- Mix all ingredients.
- Form into small balls.
- Shallow fry for 5-10 minutes until cooked. (fry in regular cooking oil PLUS some butter)

* If the consistency is not right (it's subjective here, the word 'right'. but somehow you must've gotten the feeling kalau if's too hard/densed or too soft kan), adjust the amount of milk or bread.
* Since I was cooking 2 tubes of minced beef, I 'blanched' remaining balls for a while and then freeze em all.

Comments from Tebby - Rasa dah macam Swedish Meatballs from IKEA. Cuma shape tu heh heh.. huduh sikit. Acik 'jiwa kacau' time masak tu. Si Adam sibuk nak nolong bagai.... nolong nyibuk heh heh!

Homemade Cili Boh

I normally get my cili kisar or better known as cili boh/chilli paste from Tebby's hometown, Kuala Terengganu. The taste is just nice and susah nak dapat kat KL yang ready made rasa camtu. This morning I just realised my ration dah habis and I had no spare of it. The night before memang dok browse resepi cili boh and it came handy in not time at all heh heh.

Bahan-bahan

1. Cili kering - satu peket plastik saiz A4. Sorry takde alat nak timbang. This how I can describe it best heh heh. Potong serong supaya senang nak buang biji. Kalau tak buang langsung, alamatnya tebal bibir makan sambal nanti! Basuh bersih.

2. Bawang merah - 1 biji

3. Bawang putih - 2 ulas

Cara-cara

- Rebus cili hingga mendidih. Biarkan kira-kira 5 minit atau sampai cili lembut.

- Then, let it cool down a bit, toskan dan masuk cili dalam blender.

- Blend dengan bawang merah dan bawang putih. Gunakan kira-kira secawan air rebusan untuk tujuan mengisar.

- Kisar halus.

I got 2 small tubs. Satu masuk freezer, another one just refrigerate. I did my sambal Nasi Lemak using this version and sangat berpuas hati dengan hasilnya. Kaler pon cantik merah.