My Version of : Kueh Lapis Kacang Hijau Berkoko a.k.a Cocoa & Mung Bean Layer Cake

Easy to prepare and cook!. I have been thinking of cooking this Kuih Lapis Kacang Hijau eversince I saw the kuih lapis made by Fabmom. But I dont want to buy many kinds of flour like stated in the recipe tried by Fabmom... so by try and error.. here is my version of the kuih lapis kacang hijau. I didnt want to use any food colouring, so I am using natural colouring and flavour hehehehe.

Ingredients A:
1 cup flour
1 tbsp rice flour
1 tbsp corn flour
1/3 cup sugar
2 cups coconut white milk (santan
1/2 tsp salt

Ingredient B
1 cup mung bean, boiled to soften and blended in a blender/food processor

Ingredient C
1/2 tbsp cocoa powder, dissolve in 1/4 cup of warm water


Methods:
1. Mix all ingredients A and sieve to make sure all are mixed well and smooth batter.
2. Divide into 2 portions
3. Mix in the blended mung bean into one portion and the cocoa mixture in the other portion.
4. Heat up the steamer ( I just use a wok with cover) and grease (with bit of cooking oil) the container you are going to use for cooking the batter. I just use a grease baking tin.
5. Pour in half of portion of the cocoa batter and steam for 3 min ( depends on how thick the layer is, the thicker the layer the longer the time needed to steam).
6. Then pour in half of the mung bean batter and steam for 3 min.
7. Repeat until all batter finish up.
8. Cool and slice according to your preference.


note: easier to slice with a grease(with cooking oil) knife

Chocolate Donut with mashed potato

Doesn't look very nice right, but taste delicious... with a little bit crunchy on the outside but soft in the inside... plus the chocolate taste!

Ingredients

· 1 egg
· 1/2 cup sugar
· 1 ounce unsweetened chocolate
· 1 tablespoon shortening
· 1/2 cup mashed potatoes
· 1/3 cup milk
· 1.75 cup sifted all purpose flour
· 3 teaspoons baking powder
· 1/2 teaspoon salt
· fat for deep frying

Method
1. Beat egg until light and beat in sugar.

2. Melt chocolate and shortening together, add to sugar mixture.

3. Add potatoes and milk.

4. Combine flour, baking powder and salt.

5. Add dry ingredients to batter, adding just enough to make a dough that can be handled.

6. Chill dough

7. Roll out dough on floured board; cut with doughnut cutter.

8. Fry (a couple at a time) until browned on both sides, turning once.

9. Transfer to paper towels or brown paper bags to drain.

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Note:

As usual I don't glaze my donuts. You can glaze them using the glazing method mentioned in the previous donut recipe. :)

Chicken Rice- My version

The very simple way of cooking and preparing Chicken Rice @ Nasi Ayam. Save money and cook your own Chicken Rice hehehehe....

Ingredients & Methods

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CHICKEN

Chicken portions
Oyster sauce
Concentrated chicken stock

Oil for frying

Method
1. Mix all the ingredients together and marinate for at least 1/2 hour.
2. Microwave marinated chicken until chicken is almost cooked.
3. Fry the chicken until dark brown colour.

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RICE

2 cups (rice cooker's measuring cup) rice, washed.
4 cups (rice cooker's measuring cup) water
2 tbs concentrated chicken stock
2 garlic, smashed
2 inches ginger, sliced
¼ onion ( small size), sliced

Method:

1. Mixed all ingredients in a rice cooker and cook the rice.

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CHILI SAUCE

Red chilies, seed removed.

Garlic, sliced

Lime juice or vinegar

salt

sugar

water

Method
1. Blend the chilies and garlic with a small amount of water (with a blender)

2. Heat up the chilies mixture in a pan until simmering.

3. Add in lime juice/vinegar, salt and sugar and let the mixture simmers until the sauce thickens.

That's all folk!. Just serve your rice and chicken in a plate with some sliced cucumber and pour in a little bit of the chili sauce on the chicken or you can serve the chili sauce separately in a small saucer.

Enjoy your Chicken Rice! :)

My Version of Warung Burger

Aha! I just remembered these photos when lab papa posted his warung burger in his blog.
I wanted so much to eat warung style burger last Friday but when I thought about the way they make burgers in the stall near my place, how small and overcooked the burger patties were... I just had to cook and prepare my own burgers....

So here they were... so nice and juicy and satisfying!

I grilled the burger patties instead of frying them.. so the patties were still juicy, yummy, yummy for our tummies hahahahaha


Kadus mama asked me to write down the recipe.... so here's for my blogger friend Kadus Mama :)
This is for one burger.. if you want to make more, then add the amount appropriately.


Ingredients

1 burger bun
2 burger "Ramly" patties
1 egg
cabbage - sliced thinly
Tomato chili sauce
Cheddar cheese slices
Mayonaise ( if like.. I dont :) )

Method
1. Grill the burger patties until they cooked (dont overcooked! )
2. Whisk / beat the egg and cook like a scrambled egg.
3. Cut the bun into two and spread some margarine or butter on the cut sides.
4. Brown the sides with margarine on a hot pan.
5. Arrange the ingredients on the warmed bun - cheese first, burger patty 1,tomato chili sauce, egg, some sliced cabbage, burger patty 2, chili sauce and then cheese. To have a delicious taste of cheese... make sure the patties are still hot :)

You can arrange them anyway you like actually......

Good luck!

Express Donut a.k.a. Cake Donut

Hi there!

My daughter likes to eat donut but most of the time I don't have a lot of time to spare to cook donuts for her as you probably know the original donuts normally take hours to prepare as it uses yeast. I didn't glaze the donuts I made because I don't like them to be too sweet, even without the glaze (that's why they don't look shiny), the donuts taste sweet enough for me.

I found this recipe to cook donut in much shorter time and the most important thing for me is my daughter loves them very-very much! The donuts are soft but please don't compare them with the Big Apple or Dunkin Donuts etc., this is an express donut recipe.. remember? :)

Work plan


60 mins preparation
30 mins frying




Ingredients
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
1.5 Tsb shortening at room temperature
2 cups of sifted flour
2 tbsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup milk
oil ( for frying)





Glaze
1/4 cup boiling water or 1/4 cup hot coffee
pinch of salt
1 cup icing sugar





Method


1. In a medium bowl, slightly beat 1 egg.
2. add sugar to egg and beat until incorporated
3. Add butter and beat until smooth
4. Add milk and mix well.
5. Add flour, baking powder and salt. Mixed well.
6. Cover and chill dough until stiff enough to roll out with rolling pin.
7. Roll out dough on a floured surface with rolling pin to 1/3" thick. Let rise for 5-10min.
8. Cut out donuts with a donut cutter.
9. Combine the ingredients for glaze and set aside.
10. Fry donuts until golden brown.
11. Glaze the fried donut with the sugar mixture and cool on a wire racks.





Tips:


Add more flour, If your dough is not stiff enough to roll out with a rolling pin.


You can use a clean smooth bottle ( or others) instead, if you don't have a rolling pin.


If you don't have a donut cutter, you can just make a ball of dough, flatten it a bit and make a hole in the middle it or you can also use rims of drinking glasses or bottle covers ( different sizes of course, big one to cut the shape and small one to make a hole in the middle).

This is the donut cutter I use. A cheap plastic one which you can buy from the supermarket for RM1.90. This makes mini donuts. For bigger donuts, you can buy a bigger mould which costs about RM2.50.

An Eye in a Hole

I found this great recipe for breakfast. Very easy to make and tastes yummy too. Can surprise daddy during this Father's Day or just a great variation to the boring looking bread, cheese and egg breakfast.

Prep Time:10 min
Total Time:30 min

Servings: 4, one sandwich each

Ingredients
8 slices bread
1 tbsp. margarine, softened
3/4 cup Cheddar Cheese, grated
4 eggs

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200°C.
2. Cut hole in center of each of 4 of the bread slices, using 1-1/2-inch cookie cutter or rim of drinking glass.
3. Set cut-out bread slices aside. Discard removed bread circles or reserve for another use.
4. Spread remaining bread slices with margarine. Place, margarine-sides down, in a baking tray. Sprinkle cheese on top of the bread.
5. Top with cut-out bread slices to make four sandwiches.
6. Break 1 egg into each hole. Sprinkle with remaining cheese.
7. Bake 15 to 20 min. or until cheese is melted and eggs are set.
   

Variations:
Can also sprinkle shreded bacon together with the cheese for added flavour.

Basic Macaroni and Cheese

Especially for Kadus_mama. This is just a very basic and easy to do Mac & Cheese recipe. Hope you will like it :).

Ingredients
1 cup macaroni
2 tbsp butter
1 tbsp flour
salt and pepper to taste
1.5 cup milk
2 cups grated Cheddar cheese
1 small onion ( if like)

Method

1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add macaroni and cook for 8 to 10 minutes. Drain.
2. While the pasta is cooking, melt 2 tablespoons butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the minced onion (if use) and cook until the onion softens and turns translucent, about 5 minutes.
3. Stir in the flour, pepper and salt until incorporated, then pour in the milk (gradually while stirring) and bring to a simmer.
4. Simmer, stirring constantly until the milk has thickened, about 10 minutes.
5. Take the milk mixture off of the heat and stir in the Cheddar cheese until melted.
   Pour cheese sauce over the macaroni.
   Serve warm.
   

Variations
Add boiled / steamed vegetables like carrots, broccoli, cauliflower if like.
Can also add more cheese on top of the macaroni and cheese sauce and baked for 15-20min in a preheated oven (175C).

Banana Cake

Yesterday I made some Banana Pancake.. today I baked Banana Cake... because I have some more bananas and I have been wanting to try baking Banana Cake for quite a while but never got the chance.

Here is a recipe that I tried...

The cake is very nice, soft and strong banana flavour. I made this banana cake in a rush... so end product did not look so nice... hehehe
but still taste very nice.


Ingredients
8 bananas (pureed)
1 1/2 cup flour
1 cup caster sugar
3 eggs
1/2 cup oil
2 tsp bicarbonate soda
2 tsp baking powder
1tsp banana essence

Method

1. Beat sugar and egg together
2. Mix in oil, banana essence and pureed bananas.
3. Add in flour, bicarbonate soda and baking powder ( sieved together) and mix well
4. Bake at 180C for 1 hour

Tip
Mashed / pureed the banana well to get a nice texture cake. For the cake I showed in the picture above, the bananas were not mashed well, so the cake texture was quite rough. In my next trial, I am thinking of modifying the recipe a little bit.. I'll post the result if it turned out to be ok :).

If you don't have an oven, you can also steam the cake mixture for 45min. The cake would be softer and very moist compared to baked cake.

Banana Pancake

Prep Time:10 min
Total Time:20 min


Ingredients
1 cup self rising flour
3 tbsp quick-cooking oats, uncooked
2 tbsp sugar
pinch of salt
1 tbsp oil
3 tbsp milk powder
1 egg
2 medium banana, sliced
enough water to make batter (about 1/2-1 cup)


Method

1. Heat non-stick pan on medium-low heat. Meanwhile, mix all ingredients, except banana, in medium bowl with wire whisk until well blended. Stir in banana slices.
2. Ladle batter into hot pan, using 1/4 cup batter for each pancake. Cook until bubbles form on top, then turn to brown other sides.

Tips
If you don't have self rising flour, you can also use wheat flour mix with 2 tsp of baking powder.
You can also add some cinnamon powder with/out nutmeg to add flavour.
You can also use 1 cup of low fat milk to replace the milk powder and water.

Variations
Serve with reduced calorie syrup, if desired.

Servings:5 servings, 2 pancakes each

Mung Bean Dessert (Bubur Kacang Hijau)

Ok, another one of my old recipe... simple but delicious. Now as everything is so expensive, time to save some money and cook this dessert yourself ;). I don't have a picture for this recipe, so I just borrowed the picture from a recipe book.

Work plan

Preparation: 10min

Cooking time: 1 hour

Ingredients

1/2 cup mung beans / kacang hijau (washed)

a pinch of salt

water (enough to cover

2 pandan leaves ( or can also use pandan essence)

1 cup coconut milk

1/2 cup gula melaka / palm sugar

Methods

1. Boil the mung bean with water until soften.
   
2. Add in salt and pandan leaves (or pandan essence) and let it simmers for about 10min.
   
3. Pour in coconut milk and the palm sugar. Stir slowly while simmering.


4. Serve either hot or cold.
   

Variations

Add some durian flesh in the porridge during boiling to add flavour ( if you like durian hehehe) or some sweet potatoes to add some variety.

Some people also add some ginger during boiling - good for "buang angin" (what's buang angin in english?? remove wind? anyone can help? )

Serve: 4 persons

Puding Sagu ( Sago Pudding)

This is a nice and simple recipe... but I don't recommend to be taken everyday.. too much cholesterol hehehehe

Preparation time: 10min

Cooking time: 20min

Servings: 4-6 persons

Ingredients

310g sago ( washed and remove water)

water enough to cover sago ( during cooking)

150ml white coconut milk

1/4 tsp salt

150g malacca sugar ( harden brown sugar)

250ml water

Method

1. Dissolve salt in coconut milk and refrigerateuntil use.
2. Cook sago in water until sago is clear. Then remove cooked sago from water ( use a sieve ).
3. Put sago into the mould ( or you can also use small bowls as mould) and refrigerate.
4. Boil the brown sugar with 250ml water and also sugar is dissolved and the syrup has thickened.
5. Let the syrup cool down.
6. Take out the refrigerated sago pudding from mould and put into bowls. Pour in the coconut milk and brown syrup before serving.

Basic Cheese Cake

I am not a good baker / cook, but I just love to try simple recipes. Here the basic simplest cheesecake recipe and the end product is still yummy. It can be prepared in 15 - 20min with just a few ingredients

Ingredients

2 pek Philadelphia Cream Cheese

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

2 eggs

Cake Base

Crushed biscuits or crackers

2 tablespoon of butter

Sugar (if desired

Method

1. Preheat oven at 160C.
2. Mix the crushed biscuits with butter (and sugar if used)
3. Put in the round baking pan ( bottom can be removed type) and press onto bottom and sides of greased pan. Refrigerate until filling ready.
4. Beat together the softened cream cheese, sugar and vanilla essence
5. Put in eggs and beat until thoroughly mix
6. Pour mixture onto the prepared cake base
7. Bake for 40 min
8. Let it cool down for about 1/2 - 1 hour
9. Refrigerate for at least 3 hours or overnight.

Simple Chocolate Chip Cookies

A nice recipe. All my "customers" (my family and some of my officemates hehehehe) like the cookies. If I remember correctly, I think the original recipe includes some nuts in the ingredients, but since my daughter does not like nuts, I omitted them in my recipe.

Chocolate Chips Cookies

Preheat oven at 190C

Ingredients

50g margarine/butter

50g castor sugar

50g brown sugar

1 egg

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

100g self rising flour

175g chocolate chips or plain chocolate broken into small pieces

Method

1. cream the butter or margarine first and gradually add castor sugar and brown sugar little by little until finish. soft and fluffy

2. carefully add egg, adding a little of the flour if the micture begins to curdle. put in the vanilla essence

3. fold in the flour, then stir in the chocolate chips

4. shape the mixture into rounded teaspoonful and drop onto a greased baking-tray, leaving plenty of room between them as they spread during cooking. Bake for 8-10min.

using microwave

1-3, follow the instruction above

4. shape the mixture onto rounded teaspoonful and drop onto a greaseproof paper, leaving plenty of room between them as they spread during cooking. Cook on high for 2-2.5 min then leave to cool before peeling away from paper.

Simple Moist Chocolate Cake

Here is a very simple moist chocolate cake - simple and easy. You can even bake it in the microwave. I have tried using both microwave and baking oven, both resulted the same moist chocolate cake

Ingredients

A
170g flour

2 tsp bicarbonate soda

57g cocoa powder

a pinch of salt

B

230ml corn oil

230ml water

2 tsp Nescafe (if like, omit if does not)

2 tsp vanilla essence

2 eggs

230ml condensed milk

Method

1. Put in ingredient B into ingredient A and mix well.

2. Bake at 180C for 50min or until cake has baked well ( test with toothpick method) or bake in a microwave oven for about 6min

For simple topping

1 can of condensed milk

1 tsp vanilla essence

1/2 cup corn oil

1/3 cup cocoa powder

a pinch of salt

1.Mix all the topping ingredients and heat it up on the stove until mixture becomes thick. Stir continuously while heating up

2. Put in the salt and vanilla essence

3. Pour on top of cake and spread all over the cake surface.

Note:

I have also tried making cupcakes using this recipe (as shown in the picture above). Simply pour them into cupcakes baking tin, and bake as usual ( only shorter time). My eldest daughter really loves the cupcakes.

Quick to prepare Basic Bread Recipe

I found this recipe on the internet.... but I cannot recall the website URL. But this recipe is very useful alternative to the previous bread recipe I posted, mainly because I can bake this bread in half the time needed by the previous bread recipe. Both recipes gave the same taste and smell. The only difference was the bread made with this recipe has slightly harder outer layer compared to the previous bread recipe.

Express Bread Recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup water
1/8 cup margarine/butter
2 - 2.5 cup flour
1.5 tbs sugar
0.5 tsp salt
1 packet active dry yeast

Method

1. Mix milk, water and butter in a small pan and heat up slowly until warm.
2. In a mixer, put in half of the flour and other dry ingredients. Mix at low speed until mix well
3. Gradually add the warm milk mixture. Mix well.
4. Then put in the other part of the flour graduallu until dough becomes smooth and not sticky on the mixing bowl.
5. Knead the dough for a few times.
6. Leave the dough in a greased mixing bowl for about 20-25min in a warm place.
7. Then divide the dough into rolls or loaf, whichever is preferred, and put in the suitable baking tin.
8. Let the dough rises again for 20-30min in a warm place.
9. Bake at 220C for 10-30 min, depending on the shape of the dough ( whether rolls or loaf, rolls will require shorter baking time) or until the bread become golden yellow.
10. brush with butter while still hot to get a softer outer layer.

Basic Bun recipe

Yes, you are right! Another simple recipe that I have tried.. you can use this recipe and replace the fillings with your favourites or just bake it without any filling.

Basic Bun Recipe

Ingredients:

A
250g flour
1/2 cup caster sugar
1/2 cup powder milk
(Mix ingredient A together)

B
4 teaspoon salt
1/2 packet yeast maripan
1/2 tablespoon spry [crisco]..melted [can be replaced with butter or margarine)
1 egg (beaten)
1 tablespoon cooking oil
125 ml warm water

Method
1. Mix all the dry ingredients together in a big mixing bowl.
2. Put in all the wet ingredients and mix well.
3. Knead dough until smooth
4. Cover dough with damp towel and leave until doubled the size
5. Turn out, punch and knead lightly
6. Divide dough into several small balls and flatten.
7. Fill in the fillings or just leave them empty
8. Roll into balls and leave them to rise again.
9. Bake at 200C selama 15 min (can also be fried until golden yellow)
10. Before baking, brush the egg and milk mix on top of buns to give nice brown colour to the bun
11. When buns are cooked, glaze with butter.

I told ya..... the recipe is so simple.... and the buns turned out nice... ( I am not a professional baker, so I am so happy when they turned out nice, hahahaha)

Basic White Bread

I tried this recipe because it looked so simple. Yup, it is simple but take sometime to get the end product, but worth it. My family loved it.

Basic White Bread


Ingredients:


3 cups of flour
1/2 tablespoon sugar
1.25teaspoon salt
1/2 packet dried yeast
1 cup of warm water(~ 48°C)
1 tablespoon butter (melted)


Preparation


1.In a large mixing bowl combine 1 cup flour, sugar, salt, and yeast. Beating at low speed, add the water and butter. Continue beating at high speed for 3 minutes. Add 1/4 cup flour and beat 4 minutes longer.

2. Put in 1 cup flour, or enough to make a soft dough. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface.

3. Knead for about 8 to 10 minutes,, or until dough is smooth and elastic, adding a little more flour as necessary.

4.Place dough in a large buttered bowl, turning to butter top. Cover with a clean towel and let rise for about 1 hour in a
warm place, free of drafts.

5. Punch dough down; knead until smooth. cover with the mixing bowl, and let stand for 15 minutes longer. Roll into a 12x9-inch rectangle. Starting with the narrow edge, roll up, turning ends under to make loaf to fit pan.

6. Place roll seam side down in greased loaf pan, 9x5x3-inches. Cover pan with clean towel and let rise in warm place until double, about 45 minutes.

7. Bake loaf at 200°C for 25 to 30 minutes, or until loaf sounds hollow when tapped with fingers.

8. Remove from pans to racks; brush with butter for a soft, more flavourful crust, if desired

Melting Middle Chocolate Pudding

Another simple recipe that I have tried. Very-very nice and so easy to make.

Melting Middle Chocolate Pudding

Ingredients

170g cooking chocolate

10 tablespoon butter

1 1/2 cup icing sugar

1 cup flour

3 eggs

3 egg yolk

Method

1. Preheat oven to 220C.

2. Melt chocolate and butter ( I just melt them together in microwave oven for 0.5min and then mix until all the chocolate melted)

3.Mix icing sugar and flour or you can also sieve them together.

4.Whip both eggs and egg yolk together.

5. When the chocolate mixture is cool enough, beat in the egg mixture followed by the icing sugar/flour mix.

6. Pour into cupcakes baking tin ( I also put the cupcakes paper cups so that it is easier to get them out from tin later)

7. Bake for 8 min or until the puddings are slightly hard on the outside but soft in the middle.

8. Let them cool down for about 1 min. Take out pudding from baking tin.

9. Serve upside down on a plate. Take off the paper cup covering. Sprinkle some icin sugar on top of the puddings.

Try it and let me know what do you think of it :).

Magic Peanut Butter Middles

Another simple cookies recipe that I have tried. Very sweet. My daughter likes it very much.

Magic Peanut Butter Middles

Ingredients

200g flour

40 g cocoa powder

½ tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

100 g white sugar

110 g packed brown sugar

115 g butter, softened

65 g peanut butter (crunchy)

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 egg

For the filling

90 g icing sugar

195 g peanut butter (creamy)

How to make:

1. Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder until well mix.

2. In bowl mixer, cream butter, peanut butter,white sugar and brown sugar until fluffy. Add vanilla essence and egg. Mix in the dry ingredients to the butter mixture.

3. For Filling: Mix peanut butter with icing sugar until well blended.

4. The cookie dough should be easy to mould with your fingers. Take 1 tbsp of the cookie dough and flatten it with your fingers. Fill in with 1 tsp of the filling and cover completely. Flatten the dough and place on baking tray ( remember to place them about 1-2cm apart )

5. Bake at 190C for 9 minutes.

Simple but very nice cookies especially for peanut butter lovers.

Bread Pudding

Here is an extremely simple recipe for those who:
- have a lot of soon-to-be expired bread
- love simple recipe ( that's me!)

I have tried this recipe and taste yummy to me... ( I am not a fussy eater though, most food taste yummy to me

BREAD PUDDING

Ingredients:

6 slices of bread
2 tablespoons butter/margarine,melted
3 eggs, beaten
2 cups of milk
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Preparation/Cooking Procedures:

1. Preheat oven to 175C / 350F
2. Cut bread into small pieces and arrange in a baking dish. Pour in the melted butter on top of the bread slices.
3. Mix the eggs, milk, sugar, cinnamon powder and vanilla essence. Pour in the mixture over the bread and press lightly with a fork until all bread slices are covered by the egg mixture.
4. Bake for about 45 min or until the top of the pudding springs back when lightly pressed.

Variations:

Bread pudding with raisins :sprinkle raisins on the bread before covering the bread with egg mixture.
Chocolate bread pudding: combines 2oz/2 squares unsweetened chocolate with milk, melt over low heat.

What do you think? Isn't it the simplest dessert ever? :-)