Spicy Fried Beef

A super simple recipe to those who doesnt wanna spend lots of time in the kitchen. Simple yet nice. Preparation time would take about 10 minutes and cooking time is another 10 minutes. So, by 20 minutes max. you'll get yourself one decent dish to pleased your family.

Ingredients

400 gm beef, thinly sliced

5-6 stalks long beans

3 red chillies

5 bird’s eye chillies

3 garlics

1 big onion, wedged

How To

		Cut the long beans into 2” length. Marinate the beef with salt, tumeric & a tablespoon of chilli powder
		Pound all the chillies with garlic – the chillies doesnt need to be so fine. Omit the bird’s eye chillies if you dont want it to be too hot.
		Using a high flame, fry the beef with a bit of oil for about a minute or till the colour changed. Dont overcooked the beef as it’ll make them hard. Put aside.
		With the same oil, fry the long beans till soften. Put aside together with the beef.
		Fry the onions till yellowish. Then add the pounded chillies & fry for 1-2 mins till fragrant.
		Add salt & sugar to taste. Finally mix the beef & long beans altogether.
		Dish out & serve with rice while hot. Can be eaten with porridge & bread too.

Fried Chives Flower w/Fish Cake

I'm very sorry if I've disappoint some of my fellow readers by posting today's entry late evening like this. It is now 10.30 pm when I just started writing this entry......huhuhu. Thought of ditching out for the day but then the guilt is too strong that I couldnt do it. I've committed myself to this blog therefore it is my responsible to meet the needs of my readers in any way I possibly could.

I've been terribly busy the whole day today with the office works among my many other commitments that I just couldnt squeeze myself into writing this entry earlier. Tomorrow is a very special day for me where all of my hard work & effort for the past 1 month will finally materialized, insyallah. I cant wait to announce it here & share the good news with all of you.

Anyway, that's tomorrow's story. As for today, I'm gonna post a new recipe of mine which debuted last night as my dinner. I dunno whether you've heard of kuchai flowers ( or chives flowers in english ) before. For those who didnt know, kuchai flowers are a long green leaves with white flower bulbs at the end. Without the flowers, they look pretty similar to spring onions.

I was in the supermarket yesterday when I saw these leaves. Not that I've never seen it before but out of blue yesterday, I felt like trying out this particular vege. Honestly, I've never ever tasted it......let alone cooking a dish out of it. In a way, I'm sort of giving myself a challenge on chives flowers cooking. After getting all the appropriate ingredients to go along with it, I headed home feeling very anxious & excited.

As expected ( chewahhhh ), I pass with flying colours. It turned out to be a very tasty & healthy dish, both Marsya & myself enjoyed very much. Well, how difficult can it be for a stir fried vegetables, isnt it? You just need a lil' bit of creativity to make it a perfect dish.

So, this is what I did with chives flowers :


Ingredients
1 medium stalk of chives flowers
10 pcs of fresh sweet peas
10 medium sized prawns, shelled
1 packet of Enoki mushrooms
2 sticks of fish cake, sliced
3 garlics, crushed
5 pcs of bird-eyed chillies
1 medium sized onion, wedged
Salt to taste


How To
- Fry the garlic, onion & chillies till fragrant
- Add in the prawns & the sliced fish cakes. Fry for 1 min.
- Add the sweet peas & fry till soften. Do not over-cooked.
- Finally, toss in the chives & mushrooms.
- Add salt to taste.
- Dish out & serve when it's still hot.

Happy trying !

Baked Macaroni

Looks like my blog has been transformed from a rojak blog to a recipe blog – since most of my entries for the past 1 week are a whole bunch of recipes…..hehehe.

For today’s entry, it’s gonna be another recipe, which has long been requested by Jamie. Sorry dear……not that I’ve forgotten, it’s just that I have so many things on my plate at the moment. Anyway, it’s better late than never. Finally, here’s the recipe you’ve been wanting……..buat jangan tak buat !

Ingredients

250 gm makaroni
250 gm minced meat
1 big onion, diced
1 can of button mushroom, sliced
2 tbsp curry powder
2 tbsp flour
2 eggs
1/4 cup warm water
Grated mozzarella cheese
Salt & sugar to taste

How To

		Boil macaroni till soft. Drain well & set aside.
		Fry the onions till fragrant & add the curry powder.
		Fry for a while & add the minced beef. Put in the black pepper, salt & sugar to taste.
		Add in the mushroom & fry for another 1 – 2 minutes.
		Turn off the heat & add in the macaroni, egg, flour & warm water. Mix well.
		Scoop out some of the macaroni mixture into a casserole / baking tin – just enuff to cover the bottom of the tin.
		Layer the macaroni with grated cheese. Repeat this process till both macaroni & cheese are finish.
		Make sure that the top part is the cheese.
		Bake in the oven at a temperature of 180 Deg C for about 20 – 30 minutes or till the cheese’s colour becomes brownish.
		Wait till it cools off before cutting it.

Black Peppered Beef With Celeries & Snow Peas

Since I've already declared this week as the makan week, might as well I just go along with it. And ironically, my mood is in sync with the theme too.......I've been cooking almost every night this whole week.

Tonight, I cooked this for dinner - Black Peppered Beef with Celeries & Snow Peas. It's a combi of all of my fave food - Beef, Celeries, Snow Peas & Black Pepper.

The beef

The sauce

Fry the beef under maximum heat for 1 minute or till the colour changed. Put aside.

Fry the garlic & ginger till fragrant.

Add in the onions & continue frying till the onions becomes soft.

Then, pour approximately 1/2 bowl of black pepper sauce. Add water if necessary.

Put in the vegetables & fry till half cooked.

Finally, add the beef & mix well.

Dish out & enjoy.

Thai Style Steamed Siakap

Cooked this for dinner last nite. While on my bike, I suddenly had the craving for a steamed fish. So, I made a detour to Tesco right away in a quest for a steamed fish. This is a very simple recipe which requires less than half an hour of both preparation & cooking time. And yet the result is just marvelous.

This time, I'm gonna present my recipe in a "Step by Step" manner. Was a bit rajin last nite to snap the pics while cooking. So, here we go......

The fish, that is siakap (sea bass)

The basic ingredients

The must-have sauces ( these particular ones, akak import dari Bangkok lagi nih !)

Fry the lemon grass, cili padi, garlics, galangal & lime leaves for a while

Add in the onions & fry till fragrant

Add 1 - 2 cups of plain water, 1 tbsp fish sauce, 1 1/2 tbsp lime sauce & 1 tbsp sugar

Put in the fish & cover the pan. Cook for 5 minutes under medium fire. Turn over the fish & cook for another 5 minutes.

Add in the vegetables, if desired. In my case, I've used mushrooms & celeries. Cook till the vegetables are soft.

Voila ! Bon Apetit !

Roti Sardin Tampal

The name is indeed funny....cant deny that. I just cant think of any other name that suit the food well. I brought this for my "Breakfast With The Gals" last week. Seems that both Ija & Ain loves it so much & asked me to post the recipe in my blog.

I'm sorry gals for taking so long to post it here - biasalah, got so many other stories to write about. Tu yang langsung tak teringat tuh. Anyway, demi tak menghampakan ibu-ibu berdua ni, here's the recipe :

Ingredients

4 - 5 slices of white bread, cut into 2

1 small can of sardine, crushed

1 onion, chopped

2 chillies, chopped

1 calamansi (limau kasturi), extract the juice

2 eggs, beaten

How To

		Add the chopped onions, chillies & juice into the crushed sardines. Add salt if necessary.
		Cut off the bread crust & cut the bread into 2.
		Mix the sardines with the beaten eggs.
		Spread some sardine+egg mixture onto one side of the bread & fry (face down) on a greased pan
		Turn it to the other side once the sardine’s side is done.