Tish Boyle's Plainly Perfect Pound Cake

Source: Life is Great, original recipe from Tish Boyle's The cake Book
Yield: 5 x 9" loaf pan

Ingredients:
200gm / 2 cups plain flour or All purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
227gm / 2 sticks unsalted butter
120gm castor sugar
4 large eggs
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
1 teaspoon finely grated orange zest
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
80ml full fat milk

Method:

Preheat oven to 170C.  Prepare and line a 5x9" loaf tin.  Sift flour with baking powder and salt, set aside. 

Cream butter in a mixer at medium high speed until cream, about 2 minutes.

Add sugar gradually and continue beating for 4 minutes until light and fluffy.  

Reduce the mixing speed of the mixer to low and add eggs one at a time mixing until well mixed.  Add the citrus zests and vanilla extract.

Add flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating it with the milk (added in 2 additions).

Pour into prepared tin and bake for 60 - 70 minutes or until the cake turns brown and a testing skewer comes out clean.

Cool cake completely on a wire rack.

(A very moist and soft cake, a keeper recipe)

Ayam Goreng Ala KFC and the Geng

Olahan Kim

Ayam Goreng Ala KFC

Bahan-bahan:

2 keping ayam dicuci bersih, perahkan dengan sedikit minyak, garam, lada sulah, lada hitam, cumin powder dan all spice sedikit

Bahan salutan ayam dikisar halus:

1/4 cawan Serbuk roti kering

3 keping Biskut Cream Crackers cap PingPong, kalau ada cornflakes boleh guna jugak 

2 sudu besar mixed herbs kering

Bahan salutan ayam:

(A)

1 biji telur dikocok 

(B)

1/2 cawan tepung gandum * gaul rata

5 sudu besar tepung jagung *

Minyak yang banyak untuk menggoreng terendam ayam

Caranya:

Panasakan minyak dikuali sehingga betul-betul panas. Sebelum dimasukkan ayam, kecilkan api semula.

Ambil sekeping ayam yang diperahkan tadi salutkan pada telur yang dikocok, kemudian salutkan pada bahan salutan ayam yang dikisar dan akhir sekali salutkan pada tepung. 

Masukkan ayam di kuali yang panas dan goreng sehingga masak.

Angkat dan ketepikan

Mashed Potatoes

Bahan-bahan:

4 biji ubi kentang russet di rebus dengan air garam sehingga empuk dan lenyekkan semasa masih panasMasukkan sedikit lada sulah.  Kacau sebati dan bentukkan dengan mengguna sudih ice cream dan ketepikan.

Untuk sos mashed potatoes:

Ambil lebihan tepung dari salutan ayam dan ketepikan.

Cairkan 1 sudu besar butter di kuali dan masukkan tepung gandum tadi dikacau sehingga keperangan, masukkan krim/susu kecilkan api dan kacau.

Masukkan sos blackpepper Singlong dan air secukupnya dan kacau sehingga pekat.

Kepekatan bergantung kepada diri masing-masing ya.

Kalau nak cair sedikit masukkan lebih air dan rasa garam sebelum ditutup api dan tuangkan pada mashed potatoes tadi.

French Fries:

Ready made cut french fries, goreng pada minyak terendam dan panas.

Taburkan garam goreng setengah masak angkat.

Panaskan minyak semula dan masukkan ubi kentang tadi dan goreng sehingga kekuningan,

Boleh ditaburkan garam lagi jika suka.

Coleslaw - setelah digaul, simpan di peti sejuk sebentar:

Lobak merah disagat

Kubis disagat

Bahan untuk digaul dan satukan kesemua bahan dibawah:

Mayonnis secukupnya

Greek yogurt secukupnya

Garam sedikit

Serbuk All Spice sedikit

Thenkuzhal / Murukku

Source: Spicy Treats

 Ingredients:

4 cups Rice Flour

1 cup Urad Dal Flour

1/4 cup Dalia Powder / Pottu Kadalai Maavu / Gram Flour

4 tbsp Butter or hot oil

1/4 or 1/2 tsp Chili Powder - omitted

1 tsp Ajwain seeds/Omam

1 tbsp Sesame seeds - pan fried without oil

Salt to taste

Adequate water

Oil for deep frying

Method:

First dry roast urad flour in a pan for 1-2 minutes then remove from the stove and sift the flour and keep aside.

Melt butter in a microwave safe bowl and keep aside.

Take a wide bowl, add sifted rice flour, urad flour, dalia powder, salt, ajwain seeds, sesame seeds and mix everything well.

After that add melted butter and combine with the flour well and then add enough water and knead it to a soft, pliable and non sticky dough.

Once done, divide the dough into 10-12 equal parts to fill in the murukku press.

Grease murukku press/achu with oil and fill with one part of dough and close it tightly.  

For Thenkuzhal use 3 round plain achu/plate.

Heat oil in a kadai, while its getting hot. 

Take 2 or 3 ladle turn back side and squeeze roughly in circular motion ( i directly squeezed the murukku in hot oil like ribbon pakoda or omapodi), when oil gets hot drop the shaped murukku and fry in medium hot oil till it turns light golden colour and also the hissing sound and bubbling oil stops.

Then remove it from oil and drain it in paper towel.

(Kim's notes:  Not oily murukku.  If you press dough in hot oil and start to breaks before you can formed a round shape add a little water and knead again till you can the correct consistency of water) 

Thenkuzhal / Magizhampoo Murukku
Sourced: Rak's Kitchen

Ingredients:

2 cups Rice Flour / Idliyappam flour

1/4 cup Urad Dal Flour

3 tbsp Butter + Oil

1/4 tsp Asafoetida

1 & 1/2 tsp Cumin or Sesame seeds

Salt and water as needed

Oil for deep frying

Method:

You can used store bought urad dal flour, slightly dry roasted in a pan or you can skip this too without changing its colour.  Mix flours, butter (melted), oil, asafoetida, cumin, salt well and then add water to make a non sticky dough with no cracks.

Heat oil in kadai apparently, enough to deep fry the murukkus.  Fill the murukku press with this dough with murukku hole plate.  Grease some laddles and make murukku first in that then drop them in oil.  This way we can make decent shapes also our hands wont feel the heat.  Deep fry in medium flame.

Cook both sides till the "Shhh" sound ceases and murukku turn golden in colour.  Drain in paper towel and cool down completely before storing them in airtight containers.

Notes:

Make sure you keep the dough covered through out to avoid drying of the dough.

Even if you want to make in large numbers, do it in batches.  As if you make more dough and keep for while you make murukku, the last batches tend to get fried in deep golden colour, so colour may be different.

Make sure the rice flour you use is fine in texture.  Other wise the murukku will break.  Even if the urad dal powder is less, the murukku will break.

For this murukku its not necessary to fry urad dal / urad dal flour.  They just give rice and ural dal to the mill and get it ground and make murukku.  So if you get ready made urad dal flour at stores, you can use it as such too.

If you add more urad dal powder, then colour will vary.  Also takes long time to cook and crispiness also reduces.  But only if you add very much more than the mentioned ratio, approximately works fine.

Butter give whiter colour and crisp texture.

Make sure you deep fry in enough oil, otherwise the murukku, if touches the bottom of the pan will lead to uneven browning.

After few batches, you may want to top up more oil for frying, as it gets absorbed.

Greek Yoghurt Chocolate Chip Muffins

Recipe source: Julia's Album
Use one regular size muffin pan (12 muffins)
Makes 12-14 regular size muffins

Ingredients:

2 cups all purpose flour

1 cup white sugar (granulated sugar), i used less than 1 cup removed about 10 tablespoons

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 eggs

2/3 cup Greek Yoghurt (Plain)

1 cup Chocolate Chips Semi Sweet

Method:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit (200C).  Line Muffin cups with muffin liners.

In a medium bowl, mix together flour, white sugar, salt and baking powder.

In a separate large bowl, add vegetable oil, 2 eggs and Greek Yoghurt and whisk to combine.

Add flour mixture from step 2 to the liquid mixture in step 3 and mix just enough to combine.

Fold in the chocolate chips into the batter from step 4.

Fill muffin cups with the muffin batter about 3/4 full.

Bake for about 20 minutes in the oven, or until toothpick inserted in the center of the muffin comes out clean.

Pepper Chicken Masala

Recipe source: Magic Oven, Lakshmi Nair

Ingredients:
1 whole small chicken (cut into small pieces)
2" pieces cinnamon
5 nos. cloves
3 sprigs curry leaves
1 tbsp black peppercorns, crushed
2 small tomatoes (pureed)
Ghee/oil as required
Hot water as required
2 to 3 tbsp coriander leaves
Salt, to taste

 For Masala:
1 cup Onion, diced
2" pieces Ginger
5 to 6 cloves Garlic
2 tsp Kashmiri chili powder (or according to taste)
2 tsp coriander powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tbsp black peppercorns (or according to taste)
Salt, to taste

Method:
Combine all the ingredients listed under "for Masala" in a blender.
Grind to form a smooth paste.
Rub this masala onto the chicken pieces and refrigerate for about 1 hour.
In a heavy bottomed pan, cook the marinated chicken until 3/4 done.
Heat ghee/oil in a pan, add cinnamon, cloves and curry leaves.  Saute for few seconds.
Add crushed black peppercorns and saute for few seconds.
Add tomato puree and saute until oil separates.
Add cooked chicken and mix well.  Add more salt if required (Add hot water if you require more gravy).
Cook until gravy is thick and it coats the chicken pieces.
Add chopped coriander and serve with rice or roti.

Note:  This is a spicy chicken, adjust the quantity of black peppercorns according to your spice level.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bread

Source: Rasa Malaysia

Ingredients:

2 cups chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream ( or your favorite flavour of ice cream )

1 1/2 cups self raising flour ( sifted )

Method:

Preheat oven to 350F.  Butter a 8 x 4 loaf pan, or line it with parchment paper.

In a medium bowl, mix softened ice cream and flour together until well combined.

Scoop the mixture into the loaf pan and smooths out the surface.

Bake for about 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the loaf comes out clean.

Remove from the pan, allow to cool slightly, slice and serve immediately.

Cook's note:

If you don't have self-raising flour, you can use all-pupose flour.

For every cup of all purpose flour, add 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt.

Sift together.

Sweedish Meatball Ala Ikea

Resepi: Faa Rosli / Sumber: Madihaa

*Meatball jenama MARINA secukupnya digoreng tanpa minyak dan api sederhana, pastikan selalu dibalik-balikkan, jangan sampai hangus.

*Kentang goreng secukupnya

*1 sudu besar jem strawberry/blueberry/mixed fruit 

Brokoli dan tomato secukupnya

Sosnya:

2 sudu besar mentega

1 1/2 sudu teh tepung gandum

1 biji bawang besar kuning - didadu kecil

2 biji tomato sederhana besar - didadu kecil

1 1/2 cawan air sejuk

100ml susu segar/susu cair

3 sudu besar sos tomato

3 sudu besar sos tiram

2 sudu besar kicap manis

2 sudu besar sos lada hitam/serbuk lada hitam - guna 1 sudu besar sos lada hitam + 1 sudu besar lada hitam yang diblend)

1 kiub pati ayam

1 sudu besar gula

1 kiub pati daging

Caranya:

Cairkan mentega guna api perlahan.  Tumis bawang hingga bawang layu dan warna kecoklatan (jangan sampai garing).

Masukkan tepung gandum, kacau hingga berubah warna sedikit coklat.  Kemudian masukkan tomato dan biar hinggga tomato layu.

Masukkan air sejuk, susu segar, sos tomato, sos tiram, kicap manis, sos lada hitam, kiub ayam, gula dan serbuk daging secukup rasa.  Kacau rata dan biar sampai mendidih.

Sentiasa kacau supaya tidak berketul.

Kacau sebati, tutup api dan biarkan suam sekejap kemudian masukkan dalam mesin pengisar, kisar sampai halus dan bolehlah dihidangkan bersama meatball, kentang goreng dan jem blueberry, juga hirisan tomato dan brokoli dicelur.