Thursday, June 17, 2010

#2 Sambal Tempe-Corned Beef

    Ok, here is the deal. My family loves corned beef. I grew up eating Ox&Palm corned beef and to tell you the truth, it's HEAVEN!! :D one of my ma's famous dish is Sambal Tempe and Corned Beef. She is a great cook and honestly, this simple dish will have all of our attention whenever she cooks it! :D 

Here we go and once again, no measuring from me and i've added few ingredients (*) just because i have to add them in. :) 

Ingredients: 
1. Tempe 
2. Corned Beef
3. Garlic (*)  
4. Chilli Padi 
5. Lime Leaves 
6. Lemongrass (*)
7. Curry Leaves (*)
8. Cooking Oil 
9. Salt and Pepper 

Steps

1. Cut the tempe into small cubes. 

2. Crushed the garlic and chop it small, chop the lemongrass, lime leaves, and chilli. 

3. deep fry the tempe with few of curry leaves, take it out when it changes color. 

4. pour the remaining oil in the oil container or bowl, and use about 1tbs of that oil again for the rest of the cooking. 

5. when the oil is hot, put down garlic in the wok and just stir it around until its fragrant. 

6. put the lemongrass and stir it until its fragrant

7. Put both lime leaves and curry leaves with the chilli as well. 

8. Once all the spices in the wok, put the corned beef in it. Mix it around. 

9. Take the tempe, put it down and mix it well with everything in the wok. You can taste it a bit to see whether it taste good or not. Use Salt and Pepper to season it. :) 

10. Turn your stove off, move everything from the wok into a plate, serve it with rice. :) 

I honestly love the taste and it's a yummy way to eat tempe. :)
PS:
if you don't like tempe, you can replace it with potato as well! :D



Try it out and let me know how does it turned out. :) 

#1 InTerNet (Indomie Telur Kornet) aka Cooking 101

After a long day or in the middle of rainy day, a simple heart warming bowl of noodle would lighten my mood. :)

I simply love noodle and Indomie is my favourite. It's kinda tricky when I moved to Malaysia and can't find the real Indomie here... Supermi on the other hand, have the Indomie taste here. :)

So yea, here's the first recipe here. It's VERY easy n sorry, i don't really use measuring.. :)

Ingredients: 
1. Instant Noodle
2. Egg
3. Corned Beef *if u can get Ox&Palm, it will be the best option. but normal will do*
4. Chilli Padi (if u want that extra spicy kick)
5. approximately 2 cups of water

Steps:
1. Boil the water in the pan and as soon as it boils, put the noodle and corned beef.

2. Put the egg in a small bowl before putting it into the pan. You can beat it, you can just keep it like that, it depends on your own preferences. :) Again, depends on your own preferences, if you want to have properly cooked egg, put it in straight away with the noodle or else, wait for about 1.5 minutes before putting it in.

3. put all the seasoning separately in a bowl that you are going to use.

4. After 2.5 minutes, your noodles should be ready. it will have the pale yellowish color and it will somehow glow. :) i don't like my noodle to be too soft, i like it just nice. springy. :)

5. Pour the noodle and beef and egg into the bowl and make sure u stir it well and put the chilli padi in. u can crush the chilli padi in the soup to add that kicking hot flavour. :)

6. you can garnish it with everything, actually. fried shallots, extra sambal, few drops of lime juice, as long as you like it. :)

PS:
- I believe by putting the seasoning in the bowl, you won't lose all the flavour.
- If you can only cook with microwaves, you can put the noodle with the normal temperature waters and cook it for 5 minutes OR boil the water and cook it for 3 minutes. :)

have fun trying it and let me know if you tried it. :)