Showing posts with label pasta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pasta. Show all posts

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Fried Rice Noodles (Bihun Goreng)

Fried Rice Noodles (Bihun Goreng)

250 gram dried rice vermicelli, cooked and set aside
150 gram prawns (or chicken)
1/2 onion, peeled and chopped
3 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 stalk spring onion, finely chopped
2 tablespoons sweet soy sauce (kecap manis)
1 tablespoon oyster sauce (optional)
salt and pepper to taste
2 eggs, lightly beaten
Bean Sprouts (as desired)
1/2 medium red paprika, sliced diagonally (optional)

To make the rice noodle soft and tender, Place the noodles in a heatproof bowl and pour with boiling water. Drain.

Heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in a wok over medium-high heat. Make the scramble egg. Set aside.

Heat the remaining oil in the wok over a medium-high heat. Fry the prawns, but don't make them too dry. Set aside.

Stir with the remaining oil in same wok, fry the onion and garlic until fragrance. Then add spring onion, bean sprouts, red paprika and stir-fry for 1-2 minutes or until just tender. After that, add the rice noodles, sweet soy sauce, oyster sauce and stir-fry for 5 minutes. Then add the prawn and scrambled egg. Stir together.

Serve fried rice noodle while hot or warm.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Ingredients & Spices for Indonesian recipes (5)

Here are ingredients and spices for Indonesian recipes. You will find the English name of the spice and follow by the local name in bracket.

lemongrass serai
Lemongrass (serai): This is an intensely fragrant herb that is used for soup, seafood and meat dishes and spice pastes to produce lemony flavor. Cut off the roots and peel off the hard outer leaves, use only the tender bottom portion (6-8 inches).

kaffir lime jeruk purut
Kaffir lime (jeruk purut): There are several types of lime used in Indonesia. The most fragrant one is called kaffir lime (jeruk purut). The picture on the right shows Kaffir lime. The picture showed the double leaf of Kaffir lime.

Kaffir lime leaves daun jeruk purut
Kaffir lime has no juice, but the double leaves is often used whole or very finely shredded, while the grated skin is occasionally used in cooking. Above is the double leaves of Kaffir lime.

yellow skin limes jeruk nipis
The round yellow skin limes (jeruk nipis) which is size slightly larger than a golf ball and also dark green limes (jeruk limau) are used for their juice. If limes are not available in your area, you can substitute it with lemon. Picture showed Yellow skin limes (jeruk nipis)


Nutmeg (pala): Always grate whole nutmeg just before using as the powdered spice quickly loses its fragrance.

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Friday, May 28, 2010

About Lelaki Memasak

Cooking

Dear Friends,

Lelaki Memasak means the man who loves cooking! Yes, I love to eat and I love preparing dishes.

My name is Lelaki which is “man” in English. Don’t ask me why I was given the name “man”. My grand grand father gave me this name and my parents just accept it. I thought it was because they have too many children so they don’t really focus on their names but how to feed each of us, we are twelve brothers and sisters!

Thanks God, my mom love to cook and we all love to eat! But can you imagine cooking for 14 people, 3 times a day? Linda McCartney once said that “Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafĂ©” and my mom have to cook for 14, that's including my mom and dad.

What happened back there was we all help her in kitchen. That’s why all of her children can cook now, that’s including me!

This is a bit about me, I love to share and I hope I can get your responses back too, including your recipes if you care to share! If you have any suggestion to improve my recipes so my dishes can taste better, please let me know by dropping your comments on related article. Many thanks.

Sincerely,
Lelaki Memasak

Lelaki Memasak

This is my journal, to be exact my culinary journey!

I love to eat and prepare my own dishes, here in this blog I am going to share most of my recipes, my friends recipes *of course with their permission* and all free recipes generously contributed by people who love to share in the internet.

Bon appetit!
Lelaki Memasak