Yummalicious Mee Soto

This is one of my all-time favourites! It's a real easy-peasy dish to prepare. However, the 'troublesome' part is actually making the bagedil (potato balls) that goes GREAT with Mee Soto. So yummy, you can even eat it on its own. You can see bagedil in almost every Nasi Padang stall. Mee Soto will taste alil' weird and incomplete if you dun eat it with them. Heheh...Warning: It can be very addictive, once you pop, you can't stop! 

Sorry I kept forgetting to blog about this :P

Now here it is!

What you need [Cooks for 5-6]

- Yellow noodles
- Bean sprouts
- 1kg Chicken wings/drumsticks
- Mee Soto paste (Mine is from the wet market)
- 3-4 tbsp of tumeric powder
- 6 tbsp of onion (grinded into paste)
- 1 tbsp of garlic (grinded)

For the Garnishing

- A handful of Chinese parsley (Chopped)

- A handful of Spring onion (Chopped)

- Fried shallots

For the Seasoning
- 2 teasp Salt
- 1 teasp Sugar

Method
- Heat some oil in the frying pan and sauté the garlic for 3 mins
- Add in the onion and continue to cook for another 3mins
- Add in the Mee Soto paste, tumeric powder, 3 tbsp of water and stir-fry 
  till fragrant
- Add in water (my paste instruction states 1litre) and bring to a boil
- Add in the chicken and boil for 15mins or till chicken is tender
- Throw in a tbsp of fried shallots to make your soup more fragrant!

[Making The Mee Soto Chilli]

What you need

- 8-10 stalks of red chilli padi

- 2 stalks of normal red chilli

- Kecap manis (use less of this if you prefer to have a thicker chilli paste)

Method

- Pound/blend the chilli to a paste

- Add the chilli paste to the kicap manis and mix well

[Making Bagedil]

What you need [Makes about 15pcs]

- 4-5 potatoes

- 100g of minced beef

- ½ teasp salt & a dash of pepper

- A sprinkle of fried shallots

- 1 egg (whisk to mix the egg white & yolk thoroughly)

Method

- Boil the potatoes in water till soft

- Once cooked, mash them up (I used my pestle and mortar)

- Stir-fry the minced beef in a pan with a tbsp of cooking oil / butter and mix 

  into the mashed potatoes

- Sprinkle the fried shallots, salt & pepper and mix well

- Roll the mashed potato into 1.5 inches-wide potato balls and flatten it slightly

- Dip the bagedil into the egg and fry it in hot oil till golden brown

Blanch the noodles and bean sprouts, add in all the toppings and serve hot!

Stir-fried Hokkien Mee

It's been pretty hard for me to find a good halal Hokkien Mee, so as usual, I decided to try cooking it myself to satisfy that craving. Hehehe...

What you need [Cooks for 4]

- 500g Yellow noodles

- 500g Thick bee hoon

- A handful of bean sprouts

- A bunch of Chives (cut to 2-inches long)

- 3 rolls of Fishcake (sliced)

- 1/2 kg prawns
- Sambal chilli
- 5 lime (cut into halves)
- 2 tbsp Garlic (grinded)

For the Seasoning

- Chicken stock (can be soup form or the concentrate) or

  Prawn stock (from boiling the prawn shells)

- Salt

- Sugar

Method

- Heat some oil in the frying pan and sauté the garlic for 3 mins

- Add in the stock and bring to boil

- Add in prawns, followed by fishcake and stir-fry for 3mins

- Add in the following in this sequence – Thick bee hoon, yellow noodles, 
  bean sprouts and mix thoroughly and simmer for 5 mins

- Lastly add in the chives, cook for 2mins and serve hot with sambal chilli and lime

How to cook the sambal paste

You will need
- 9-10 tbsp onion (grinded into paste)
- 2 tbsp Garlic (grinded into paste)
- 4 tbsp dry chilli paste (grinded into paste)
- Salt & sugar

Method

- Heat some oil in the frying pan and sauté the garlic for 3 mins

- Add in the onion and cook for another 5 mins

- Add in the chilli paste, stir-fry for 5 mins and add salt & sugar for taste and

   continue to stir-fry till the paste darkens slightly and becomes drier and the oil

   is slightly separated from the oil

CCC: Chinny's Chicken Curry (Kuay Teow)

Hi everyone, I'm back after a long 4 months' maternity leave!

I hope to share more recipes soon as I can.

This is one of my favourite dishes of all time. You can either have it with Kuay Teow or noodles or even serve with hot steaming white rice :)

Please take note that my Curry is slightly of the thicker type. For more watery kind of curry please add more water and use less of the paste. If you wanna have more 'kick', please add more of the dry chilli paste or chilli powder! Feel free to modify this recipe to your own taste :)

What you need [This is for 5 people]

- 1 kg Chicken midjoint / wings / drumsticks
- 1kg Med-width kway teow / yellow rounded noodles

- A handful of bean sprouts
- 7 tbsp of Onion (grinded into paste)
- 2 tbsp Garlic (grinded into paste)
- 3 tbsp Dry chilli paste (grinded into paste)
- 1 small Cabbage (roughly cut / peeled)
- 4 Potatoes (cut into bite size)
- 1 tbsp Tumeric powder

- 1 tbsp Chilli powder

- 1 tbsp Curry powder for meat / chicken
- A small handful of curry leaves (Optional)

- 1 box of Coconut milk (can be boxed or fresh ones)

For the Seasoning

- Salt

- Sugar

Method

- Heat some oil in the frying pan and sauté the garlic for 3 mins
- Add in the onion and cook for another 3 mins
- Add in the chilli paste and add salt & sugar for taste and continue to stir-fry

   till the chilli paste darkens slightly and becomes drier
- Add abit of water followed by some tumeric and chilli powder
- Stir for 5 mins
- Add in potatoes and continue to stir for 10mins
- Add more water till it covers the potatoes and boil for 10 mins
- Add in the chicken and boil for another 10 mins

- Add the coconut milk & cabbage and bring to boil for another 10mins

- Boil your kuay teow/noodles and bean sprouts in a separate pot of water and add 

   in to the curry

- Serve hot!

Chinny's Baking@Home

A random day where I was on MC and stuck at home.

So I baked! 

I get damn happy when people enjoy my cooking

(baking in this case). 

Haha..not much of a sweet-eater myself.

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Strawberry cheese

&

Double-chocolate(with cheese in the centre)

muffins

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Julie & Julia

I watched this movie called Julie & Julia a couple of weeks back. Alone. Yes alone. Starring Amy Adams & Meryl Streep, it was a simple heart-warming story about this lady Julia Child (Meryl Streep) who started a cookbook from her passion back in 1949. Julie Powell (Amy Adams) started a blog in 2002 as a challenge to cook all the recipes in Julia Child's first recipes cookbook. Their lives intertwined somehow...both were housewives and found their passion and way to success - with faith and perseverance and the support of their loving husbands and friends.

Looking at the life of Julie Powell(the modern lady), I was sudden engulfed in tears. As she challenge herself to cook all the recipes in Julia's cookbook, her husband was always there supporting her. The way he eats her food, oh my, it's just amazing. Hahaha..i've always lurved cooking, but my hubby being so sooo far away (yea i know it's only KL but to me it's still farrrr away) I can't really have the chance to do this anymore. When he's back, we will always be running around meeting relatives or friends for catching up. So I'm left with not much chances to cook for my loved one. Sighs. Looking at Julie cooking (not just for her husband but trying out the recipes) with the hub enjoying the food so much, I really really envy her. And of course whipping up some nice dishes and getting friends over for mini cosy gathering, that's just something I would very much like to do. I would very much lurve to have my VERY OWN SELF-DESIGNED kitchen where I can try out different dishes and who knows create new dishes. But I seriously wonder when that day will ever come.