Doughnut ala Carboot

Bahan

1 kg plain flour

• Ibu Roti Brand Mauripan 1 paket (11 gram)
• Gula Pasir 7 sudu besar
• Garam 1 sudu kecil
• Susu Tepung or fresh milk 1 cawan
• Marjerin 1 cawan
• Telur 2 biji
• Serbuk Penaik / Baking Powder 1 sudu kecil
• Air secukupnya

Cara Memasak

1. Isikan ¾ gelas air suam dicampur dengan 1 sudu kecil susu tepung atau gula pasir dan 1 paket yis Mauripan dan dikacau hingga rata. Biar 10 min atau hingga buihnya mengembang naik ke bibir gelas.
2. Masukkan tepung gandum, gula pasir, garam halus, susu tepung, marjerin, telur, serbuk penaik dan air ibu roti tadi ke dalam besen kecil.
3. Uli adunan tersebut dengan dituangkan air sedikit demi sedikit sambil menguli adunan hingga menjadi doh selama kira-kira 10 min till tak lekat pada tangan.
   
4. Tutup besen dengan kain dan letakkan pada tempat yang hangat supaya ia dapat mengembang dengan cepat dan sempurna. Biar selama kira-kira 1 jam or till the size doubles.
5. Ambil doh yang telah kembang tersebut dan uli sekali lagi kira-kira 5 minit utk keluarkan udara.
6. Leperkan doh kira-kira berketebalan 5 mm dan cetak dengan pencetak donut.
7. Biarkan doh yang telah dicetak itu kira-kira 30~60 minit.
8. Doh yang telah sedia untuk digoreng akan kelihatan telah mengembang dari bentuk asalnya.
9. Goreng doh dengan minyak masak yang telah cukup panas. Goreng kira-kira 3~5 minit hingga warna bertukar jadi kuning kecoklatan. Jaga api jgn terlalu besar sebab donut ni cepat kuning.
10. Biarkan sejuk sedikit, baru golek dlm gula halus.
    

Serimuka with gerodok telur topping

Specially dedicated to my good friend Dr Suhaiza in Manchester...dgn ucapan selamat bertugas..hehe..

Ingredients:
For the base:
3 cawan pulut
3 cawan santan
1/2 tsp salt

Gerodok telur topping:
5 eggs
1 cup palm sugar
1/2 tsp salt
5 cloves
1 tsp vanilla essence

For normal pandan topping
2 eggs
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup custard powder
1/2 tsp salt
6 cups coconut milk.
green colouring or pandan flavour or blend 5 pandan leaves with 1/2 cup water

Methods:
1. Mix glutinous rice with coconut milk and salt, place in the microwave for 10 minutes, take it out and stir and continue for another 5 minutes.
2. You can also steam the glutinous rice for about 30 minutes if you do not like microwaving.
3. Press the cooked glutinous rice with a wet spoon.
4. Prepare the topping, mix all te ingredients together and pour onto the rice and steam for 30 minutes.
5. For pandan topping, once ingredients are mixed, stir them on the stove to thicken so that steaming is shorter. Pour the mixture onto the rice once it has thickened.

Curry Puff (Karipap)

Today is the Czech girls last day in our lab, so we decided to throw another lunch party. Prepared some beef curry puffs for everybody. I think Zumla finished 5 or 6 pieces. She obviously liked it sooo much and Katka finished the last piece. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:

For the pastry:

1 kg plain flour

200 g margerine/ butter

2 cups water

1/2 tsp salt

The filling

1/2 kg mince meat

3 tbs curry or korma powder

1/2 Holland onion- chopped

1 Holland onion- diced

3 garlic- crushed

1/2 inch ginger-crushed

salt, white pepper, a dash of sugar

5 potatoes- diced to 1/2 cm small

Methods:

1. Fry the chopped onion, garlic, ginger.

2. Add the curry powder, then add 1/2 cup of water.

3. Add the mince meat, fry for 5 minutes then add the diced potatoes and 1 cup of water.

4. Add diced onion. Cover the pot with a lid and let the potatoes soften.

5. Season with salt and pepper. I also sprinkled some sugar. Set aside to cool down.

6. Mix the flour, butter, salt and water together to form a dough.

7. Flatten the dough to about 3-4 mm thick with a rolling pin.

8. Using a pastry round cutter, make several circles and place the meat and potato filling on each pastry and fold it into two.

9. Press the edges of the pastry firmly to make sure there is no filling leakage.

10. Make a plait at the edges using the tip of your thumb and index finger.

11. Deep fry till the pastry turns brown in colour. Serve hot with tea/ coffee.

Kuih Cara Berlauk (Cara cake with meat filling)

It was Naheema's 28th birthday on the 8th of June, so we, the Paul Murray Group decided to throw a small party for her. Naheema herself bought some halal BBQ chicken from Costco and she also prepared some salads. Others brought cakes, starters, strawberries, cookies and dips. I wanted to introduce to my lab mates another Malaysian delicacy and after minimal thinking , I thought kuih cara would be the best for a small party like this. Started preparing the meat filling the night before and made the batter in the morning. I would say everyone enjoyed the party and the food of course.

Kuih Cara (Savoury cake with Meat Filling)

Ingredients:
For the fillings:
1/2 kg mince meat
1 Holland onion
3 garlic
1/2 inch ginger
1 carrot- diced
1 celery stick- diced
1 green/ red pepper
1 tsp black pepper
2 tbs curry powder
fried shallots- optional
parsley/ celery leaves- optional

For the batter
2 cups flour
1 cup coconut milk
2 cups water (adjust to get a thin batter)
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp salt
1 or 2 eggs

Methods:
1.Place all the ingredients for the batter in the blender and whizzz. Pour the thin batter into a jug.
2. For the meat fillings: Fry onion, garlic, ginger till yellow and add curry powder and 1/2 cup of water.
3. After a few minutes, add the mince meat and fry till meat is cooked then add carrots, celery, green pepper.
4. Season with salt and pepper. Put aside.
5. Place the cara mould on the stove, brush the mould with some oil so the batter will not stick.
6. Once the mould is heated up, pour the batter into it and quickly spoon the meat filling into it.
7. Sprinkle some fried onion and chopped parsley leaves on the fillings.
8. Cover the mould with a lid and cook for 5 minutes.
9. Remove the cakes from the mould and serve. Repeat steps 5 to 8 till the batter is finished.

* I think you can also bake this dish in the oven, but I somehow have never tried it myself.

Kaya Balls

Found this recipe in Rinnchan's blog. So made this balls using kaya Kluang brought by Mak Enn in October which I still kept frozen in my handy freezer. It somehow were oval instead of round as I used the kuih cara mould. Does anyone know where I can get hold of kaya ball mould?

Ingredients:

250gm flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

125 gm butter

75 gm castor sugar

4 eggs

200ml milk

1 tsp vanilla essence

Serikaya

Method:

1. Sieve flour, baking powder and salt.

2. Whisk butter and sugar till fluffy.

3. Add eggs one by one.

4. Add milk and flour alternately.

5. Add vanilla essence.

6. Pipe the thick batter into the mould, add kaya and then cover with more batter.

7. Turn the kaya balls a few times till it is cooked.

Kuih Bakar Durian

Craving for something sweet after coming back from the lab today. Thinking of what to do with my lempok durian in the freezer. Thanks to my beloved Mum who had taken all the trouble making lempok for me. Alhamdulillah Abe Yoh had succeeded in smuggling it into the land of the queen. Saw this recipe in Kak Nor's blog. It tastes yummy. Better than the normal pandan kuih bakar.

Ingredients:

900 ml coconut milk
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups plain flour
3/4 cups sugar
100 gram durian (I used lempok)
1/2 tsp salt
yellow colouring
2 tbs butter

1. Put all the ingredients(except the butter) into the blender and blend for a few min.

2. Place butter in a baking tray and heat up in the oven at 180 C till boiling.

3. Pour the batter into the baking tray and bake for 1 hour.

4. Allow it to cool before cutting.

Kuih kasoi

Bahan:

1/2 kg tepung gandum
3 cawan air gula merah
3 cawan air
1 tsp garam
1 tsp air kapur


Cara:
1. Masakkan gula merah dalam air untuk hasilkan 3 cawan larutan gula merah.
2. Campurkan tepung dengan 3 cawan air, kemudian masukkan air gula merah, garam dan air kapur.
3. Tapis adunan dan masukkan di dalam dulang. Kukus selama 1/2 jam.
4. Sejukkan dan potong dan golekkan di dalam kelapa parut yang dicampurkan dgn sedikit garam.

Kuih Tako Ibu Mertuaku

Bahan

Utk lapisan bawah (hijau):
1 paket 55 g tpg HanQue
1 1/2 cawan gula
1 cawan santan
3 cawan air
5 biji sengkuang cina/ water chestnut (kat Wing Yip, ada dlm tin)- potong dadu kecil2 5 mm saiz
1 sudu besar esen pandan

Utk lapisan atas (putih):
1/2 cawan tepung jagung
2 cawan santan
2 cawan air
1 tsp garam


Cara:
1. Masukkan tepung HanQue, air, santan, gula, esen pandan ke dalam periuk dan kacau atas api sederhana sehingga pekat atau meletup-letup. Masukkan dalam cawan puding atau takungan daun pandan. Jangan lupa masukkan sengkuang cina yang telah didadu dahulu.
2. Masukkan santan, air, tepung jagung dan garam dan kacau atas api sederhana sehingga pekat. Tuangkan atas lapisan hijau tadi.
3. Sejukkan dalam peti ais hingga sejuk dan hidangkan.