Simple Cooking Ideas

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Jelly in dessert or eat it with fruit are just wonderful to the children. Jelly can be prepared and add fruits, colour and flavouring to taste better. The hot days without rain are just the right time to make more jellies to cool their bodies.

Ingredients:

1 packet agar-agar powder
1 can longan, discard the syrup and cut each longan into 4 pieces
400 gm brown sugar
3 liters water
2 pandan leaves

Method:

Boil agar agar in a sauce pan, adding water, pandan leaves and sugar. Bring to the boil and stirring till the ingredients dissolve. Discard the pandan leaves. Mix in the longan fruit and stir evenly. Pour the contents into trays and let cool before putting into the fridge. Cut into diamond shapes and serve.

Kids love smothie very much. You can prepare smoothie at home in your spare time. When you do your weekend shopping, stock up some packets of low fat milk and yoghurt. Fruits of various types such as green apples, oranges, mangoes, grapes and bananas to name a few, they can keep for somtime. Enjoy preparing this nourishing drink!.

Ingredients:

1 green apple, clean and cut into wedges
1 orange, cut of the skin and cut into wedges
2 bananas (pisang mas or berangan), peeled skin
100 ml low fat milk
50 ml natural yoghurt
Some ice cubes, can break it smaller

Method:

Put all the ingredients in the blender and mix evenly and smooth. Pour into glasses and serve immediately.

This cheese stick recipe is an enjoyable snack for kids. Mothers can give them to keep them quiet and busy nibbling the cheese sticks. It is a healthy snack. Store them in air tight container and will last some time. Make them yourself now.

Ingredients:

200 gm flour
10 gm fresh yeast
2 tablespoon corn oil
4 tablespoon milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
80 gm Parmesan cheese

Method:

Mix flour and yeast. Knead for 10 minutes. Add salt and cheese and knead into a smooth dough. Rest till it doubles in size. Roll out to 3mm thick and cut into 5mm by 20mm. Place in the baking tray and rest till it doubles in size. Bake at 200 degrees C for 15 minutes. Cool and store the cheese sticks in airtight containers.

Christmas is around the corner. Are you thinking of what to prepare for the kids to eat?. Well, here I suggest how to make muesli bars with nut and fruits. You can buy a box of muesli with nuts and dried fruits in a supermarket and try to prepare this bars.

Ingredients:

250 gm butter
450 gm muesli with nuts and fruits
100 gm chopped almonds
50 gm pumpkin seeds
8 tablespoons golden syrup
1/2 cup thick honey

Method:

Grease a tray enough to put in the ingredients to bake. Melt butter with honey and golden syrup. Stir in muesli, nuts and pumpkin seeds. Mix well and spoon in the prepared tray. Bake in a preheated oven, 180 degrees C for about 30 minutes. Leave to cool for 5 minutes and cut into bars.

Kids will like to eat this simple cheese cake. It is easy to prepare. You can also let the kids to help around too. This will keep them busy during the weekend or school holidays when there are no tuition classes. The kids can help to break the cream crackers finely.

Ingredients:

1 cup cream cracker crumbs
1/4 cup melted butter
1/4 cup castor sugar
1 tablespoon unflavoured gelatine
1/4 cup water to mix
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice
8 oz. softened cream cheese
1 cup whipping cream
some strawberries cut into halves

Method:

Put cream cracker in a plastic bag and roll over with wooden roller to break them up into crumbs. Combine crumbs, sugar and butter. Press them onto a 9- inch spring form pan. Soften gelatine in water and stir over low heat until dissolved. In an electric mixer, blend cream cheese, sugar and gelatine untill well mix. Chill until slightly thickened. Fold in the whipped cream and pour all the mixed ingredients over crust. Chill until firm. Decorate with strawberries before serving.

If your kids have sweet teeth, this mouth-watering chocolate fudge would be a taste-treat for them. It is easy to prepare and this fudge will make the kids yearn for more.

Ingredients:

400 gm granulated sugar
50 gm golden syrup
50 gm butter
1 small can sweeetened condensed milk
25 gm Van Houten Cocoa
4 tablespoon water
100 gm chopped nuts

Method:

Grease a tin measuring 7 inch well. Put sugar,water, cocoa, syrup, butter and milk into a heavy saucepan. Heat slowly, stirring all the time till sugar dissolves and butter melts. Bring to the boil and cover with a lid for 2 minutes, then lift up the cover. Continue to boil steadily for 25 minutes, stirring frequently. Test by dropping a little mixture into a cup of water to form a soft ball. Stir in nuts and vanilla essence and cool to lukewarm. Beat hard until thick and creamy, then transfer to the prepared tin. Spread smoothly with a knife. Mark into squares and leave in the refrigerater until set. Cut up and remove from tin when cold.