Simple Cooking Ideas

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This is a simple recipe which is suitable for breakfast and snack. You can make and store them in a container and can last two to three weeks. These chewy bars are more enjoyable as snack for the young people to bring to work and children to bring them to schools to eat at intervals.

Ingredients:

2 cups uncooked rooled oats
1 1/2 cups wholemeal flour
1 cup chopped black currant and raisins
1/2 cup chopped almonds or cashew nuts
1/4 cup honey
2 tablespoon maltose
1/2 teaspoon mixed spice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup vegetable oil ( Canola)

Method:

Preheat oven to 200 degrees C. Grease a 9×13 inch tray. Put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well. The mixture should be moist enough to form a ball. Put the mixed ingredients into the tray and press flat on the surface. Bake for 30 mins. Divide into bars before it gets hard when cool.

This recipe need not spend so much time to prepare. You can do it in just half an hour.I like to prepare it for tea-time. A cup of tea or coffee to go with this fritters are just satisfying for the urge you need something to eat.

Ingredients:

250 prawns, shelled, deveined and chopped
300 gm plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
salt and pepper to taste
1 teaspoon kunyit powder
1 1/2 cup water
1 big onion, chopped
2 tablespoon ‘Kuchai’, chopped
1 red chilli, chopped
enough oil for deep frying

Method:

Mix baking powder, turmeric powder into flour and sift. Add prawns, ‘kuchai’ into flour and slowly add water. Stir to get a smooth consistency of the batter. Heat a wok and add oil in meduim high heat. When hot spoon in the frittres. Fry for about 4 minutes ot until it turn golden brown. Drain in adsorbent paper. Serve with chilli sauce.

Burgers are a favourite among the old and the young., especially my grandchildren like to eat so much that they even eat burgers for lunch or dinner. There are several ways to cook a burger. you can grill it or fry it on a frying pan. For this recipe I use the frying method.

Ingredients:

2 chicken breasts, minced.
1 egg
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1 tablespoon cornflour
2 tablespoon chopped onions
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper to taste
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
Tomatoes slices,lettuce
Mayonnaise. tomato sauce and mustard

Method:

Mix the ingredients evenly together and marinate for 20 minutes in the fridge. Divide equally into 8 portions. Gently flatten them with your hands until you get a familiar burger shape. Then heat a frying pan on low heat. Drizzle the frying pan with oil or butter and cook the patties for about 8 minutes. To serve, add tomatoes pieces, pickles, onion slices,lettuce and cheese; top with mayonnaise, tomato sauce and mustard of your choice.

These steamed cup cakes combine with the mixture of sweet potatoes to get the rich natural colour. You can get the orange type variety sweet potatoes in the market or supermarket. You can steamed this fatt koh in little cups or a round cake tin of 6-inch diameter.

Ingredients:

200 gm plain flour
1 teaspoon double action powder
a pinch of salt
220 gm sweet potatoes
200 ml warm water
180 gm sugar

Ingredient A:

50 gm plain flour
2 teaspoon instant yeast
100 ml warm water
1/2 teaspoon sugar

Method:

Sift double action powder together with plain flour and add a pinch of salt. Cut sweet potatoes in cubes and steam till soft. Mix well ingredient A and cover with a tea cloth. Leave to rise for 10 minutes. Liquidise the potatoes with warm water until smooth. In an electric mixer, whisk the blended sweet potato with flour and sugar until well blended. Put in the risen yeast dough and leave to prove till double its volume for about 1 hour. Spoon into the cups lined with papercups or pour into a well greased cake tin. Steam till done.

Fatt koh with more than one colours looks attractive for praying and eating as snack too. Kids will like to eat if you try to make some for them. This method needs eggs as one of the ingredients. Another method of preparing, is to leave out eggs which the people use for praying for the Taoist religion.

Ingredients:

300 gm plain flour
1 1/2 teaspoon double-action baking powder
250 gm castor sugar
3 large eggs
180 ml cream soda
light pink and light green food colourings

Method:

Sieve flour baking powder and double-action powder together. Whisk eggs and sugar until creamy and thick. Add in flour. Divide dough into 2 portions. Line paper cups on tray. Spoon each cup with batter until 3/4 full. Boil water in a steamer. While boiling you put in the cupcakes. Cover and steam for 25 mimutes or until surface of cupcakes springs back when touch.

Normally ready cooked rice balls are put into boiled sugar syrup and eat cold or hot. In this recipe the ready made rice balls are put into soya milk to eat. You can add filling of nut paste or bean paste.

Ingredients:

200 gm glutnous rice flour, sifted
300 gm fragrant leave water (daun pandan)

Filling:
100 gm roasted peanuts, skinned and minced in a mincer

Soya Milk:
2 litre soya milk, bought from soya milk stall
sugar syrup given separately to suit taste

Method:

Knead flour and water to form soft dough. Divide into small parts to form small balls. flatten each ball and add a little filling and roll firmly into balls. Repeat until all the balls have finshed. Drop balls into hot boiling water. When they float to the surface, remove and place into a bowl of cold water. Add rice balls and syrup to taste into soya milk and serve.