The English Breakfast Pasta

How classic can the name be? Yes, We Malaysian need really heavy food for breakfast such as rice, mee or pasta! Your dinner is our breakfast. We cannot survive with just eggs and sausage. That is not Malaysian. Well here's the recipe :)

What you need:

Chopped ingredients:
1 Big Bombay Onion
1 Big Red Onion
3 Stalks of Celery
Half of a carrot
2 Big Chillies
3 Bird's Eye Red Chilli
4-5 Ayamas English Breakfast Sausages

1 Packet of Fusilli pasta
1 Chicken Cube
1 Beef Cube
1/2 cup of milk
1 egg
Black Pepper
White Pepper
Salt

1) As usual boil the pasta with oil and a pinch of salt until it is cooked. Once its cooked, set it aside.

2) Put a knob of butter in a pan and saute all the chopped ingredients.

3) Add the Chicken cube and beef cube,stir. Then adding the egg. Stir. Add in the milk. Stir.

4) Adding in the pasta. Stir until it is well combine.

5) Add in the pepper and salt according to your liking.

p/s: This recipe is quite spicy. You don't have to add the chilli if you can't take spicy food. This recipe is suitable for Malaysian who loves western food. xD

Satay Pasta

Have you ever tried satay pasta before? Well for me it is my first trial of mixing something western with something asian. I know I was a bit daring? Hella daring I tell ya because I was scared that it will turn out bad. However, everyone loves it! Well atleast my sisters and mother of course. They are the critics at home. The major critic so far is my brother. Haha he is such a picky eater. Nevertheless, he is the one who pushed me so that I will cook with my heart not just with art and brains.

I got this idea because I have so much satay leftovers yet there is no rice to make fried satay rice. So why not Satay Pasta? hehe

So hey! Quit babbling and let's get started with the recipe shall we? :)

So the ingredients that you need are:

Chopped finely all these ingredients:
1 large bombay onion
1 red onion (if it is a small one make it three)
3 stalks of celery
4 green bird's eye chilli
4 red bird's eye chilli
Half or a carrot
chicken satay

1 packet of fusilli pasta
1 cube of beef stock
1 egg
1 and 1/2 tablespoon of Maggie Cukup Rasa
A pinch of salt
A dash of All Purpose
1 egg

Steps:

1) First boil the pasta with some oil and a pinch of salt. Once the pasta is cook, drain it and leave it to rest.

2) Then, after you have all the chopped ingredients ready, preheat the pan add a knob of butter with some oil to prevent the butter from burning. Then add the chopped ingredients except for the satay.

3) When the onion is cooked add in the beef cube and the egg. Stir well. Add the satay. Stir.

4) Add in the pasta and stir until everything is well combine.

5) Add the Maggie Cukup Rasa, All Purpose and salt. Stir. The condiments shall be added according to your liking.


How easy is it? I hope you'll enjoy it :) Bon Apetit!

Christmas Dinner :)

So on Christmas Eve (24th December 2014) my dad and I went to PJ Hilton for a Christmas dinner at their restaurant, Paya Serai. He took me there on a surprise because a day before he asked me what I wanted for the Christmas Eve dinner. So I told him, I wanted turkey with mashed potato, yorkshire pudding with brown sauce and cranberry sauce. Unfortunately, the food there did not suit my liking at all. Well at least their Moist Banana Cake was nice. :)

So because of that dissatisfaction, and since my mom, my grandmother and my siblings are finally coming back home from visiting my hometown I thought why not I cook them all by myself and at the same time giving them a welcome home surprise dinner. So I did. :)

I wanted to buy a turkey but I do not know how to cook one so I bought a whole chicken instead. So my menu tonight for Christmas was Gordon Ramsay Inspired Roast Chicken, Mashed Potato with Saute' Sausage, Cranberry Sauce, Yorkshire Pudding and Brown Sauce.

So first thing first you must prep the chicken.

What you need:
Fresh Rosemary
Fresh Thyme
Garlic
1 lemon
3 spoonful of butter
1 carrot
salt and pepper
1 medium bombay onion
1 medium red onion

1- In a bowl mix butter, rosemary, thyme, salt, pepper and half of the lemon juice and their lemon zest. Don't take the pit (the white part) but just the zest. This is to give it a zing to the chicken. After mixing all of these together put it aside.

2. Clean the chicken. Cut the top of the garlics and put it inside the pan with the chicken. You also can add a cob of corn if you want.

3. Wear you disposable gloves. Now its time for you to smoldered the butter mixture into the chicken skin. You can refer here how to do it. If there is any leftover of the butter mixture then smoldered it on the chicken. Now cut the onions and put it inside the chicken.

4. Put it into the oven for 20 minutes at 220 degrees celsius. Afterwards, take it out of the oven and turn the chicken over. Take out the onions. At 190 degrees celsius roast it for another 1 and half hour.


The second recipe is the brown sauce.

I used mccormick Turkey Gravy mix and the onions that I had taken out from the chicken earlier. I'm sorry that I had forgotten to snap a picture of the brown sauce but the steps are simple.

Diced the onions and preheat the pot on the stove adding some olive oil in it. Saute' the onions. Add the gravy mix on a low heat and gradually adding water. Stir until the onions are soft.


Next is the mashed potato.

You will need:
6 Potatoes
300ml of Milk
1 and 1/2 cup of Cheese
A dollop of mayonnaise

1- Boil the potatoes. I think it was for two hours or less but yes, boiling potatoes takes a very long time.
2- Drain the water.
3- Mashed it using a masher.
4- Add milk.
5- Add cheese and mayo. Stir and serve. :)

The the Mashed Potato topping that is the Saute' Sausage.

What you need :
1 carrot
half of medium sized bombay onion
2 Ayamas English Breakfast Sausages
3 Ramly Beef Sausages
Salt
Pepper

1. Saute' the onions with a knob of butter. Then add the carrots. Stir until the carrot is half cook.
2. Add the Sausages, salt and pepper. Stir.
3. When everything is fully cooked, served.

Now for my Yorkshire Pudding recipe is from Jamie Oliver. You can check out his video here :)

For my cranberry sauce as you can see in the picture, I served it inside that small crystal bowl. :) Well atleast you had a glimpse of it. hehe


Well I do not know where to find fresh cranberries here but because I already had some dried cranberries so I decided to use that instead. :)

So here's what you need:
1 cup of dried cranberries
1 cup of no sugar added pomegranate juice (I used dimes)
2 pinch of sugar. (Just to balanced out the sour taste of the juice and the cranberry)

1- Insert the dried cranberries in a pot.
2- Adding in sugar and stir.
3- Add in the juice and constantly stirring. You don't want the sugar to burned but just caramalised.
4- Once the gravy/sauce started to thicken or the cranberries are soft turn off the heat and serve.

Basicly, I think your dinner is done. Enjoy the recipe xoxo, Leka Leqa. :)

You want Kimchi Jigae but without the Kimchi?

So recently I wanted so badly to have kimchi jigae at home but then I ran out of kimchi and I need a month's savings to buy my favourite brand of kimchi here in Malaysia. (trust me its expensive!) So I tried to figured out an alternative :) Turns out I can have spicy stew instead of kimchi jigae huh? Well I still miss my kimchi. Anyways to those who can't eat kimchi like my brother and my mother. Especially my brother. He loathes kimchi. Seriously. -__-

I'm sorry for putting my heart out above. So why don't we start off with the recipe? Shall we? :)

Serves : 1-3 person/s

Ingredients :

wet:
2 Tofu (hard ones)
1 cup of Fish balls
1 lady finger
1 stalk of celery
1 tomato (sliced)
1/2 cup of kuey teow (its like those thai glass noodles) :)

spices:
3 teaspoon of tom yam paste (but if you're using cube then one is enough)
1 teaspoon* of paprika / chili powder (those Indian chili powder - serbuk cili babas)
1/2 cube of chicken stock
2 teaspoons of black pepper
2 teaspoons of white pepper
a pinch of salt

additional ingredients :
2-3 birds eye chili (crushed)
2-3 cloves of garlic (crushed)
-just simple knock them using your knife

1) boiled the celery with the crushed birds eye chili and garlic. When the celery is half cooked, insert all of the wet ingredients except for tomato and kuey teow.

2) when its boiling, add in all of the spices. Stir.

3) Add in the kuey teow and the tomato. Stir. Once they kuey teow is soft enough served.

4) enjoy! :D

This is how mine looks like. Super yummy.

5 Salad Recipes That You Love and Feels Like Eating at A Hotel's Buffet!

Hey there ladies! Here are some recipes for all of you who likes to eat healthy :)

Serves : 1-2 person/s

1)Crunch Er Salad:

what you need is :
1 cup of dried cranberries
1 small green apple
1 cup of lettuce
1 stalk of celery (chopped)
Ranch or Thousand Island dressing (according to your taste bud how much and what type of sauce you want)

Prepare them all together and mix it in a bowl. I know its very simple!

2) Sweet but Sour Salad :

what you need is:
1/2 cup of cherry tomatoes
1 carrot (thinly sliced)
1 cup of cucumber (diced)
1 cup of dried cranberries
thousand island sauce.

Prepare and mix well :)

3)Egg Salad..?

what you need :
1 cup of finely sliced carrots
1 cup of sliced celeries
1 cup of lettuce
1 cup of tomato
1 egg (mashed)
mayo

mix :)

4) Chicken Salad
1 cup of dried cranberries
1 cup of chicken breast (shredded)
1 cup of lettuce (but I'd prefer baby romaine)
1 cup of tomato
mayo

mix :)

5) my special salad mix ::)
1 cup of dried cranberries
1 cup of celery
1 cup of tomato
1 cup of cucumber
1 cup of tomato
mayo and thousand island (mix together)

mix well :)


I hope you will enjoy all of these recipes :) Do try it out and comment down below and let me know your opinions about it :)

For now, toodles! xoxo

Budget Recipe with a Gourmet Touch :)

Good day! So today I discovered that I had a pack of cranberries in m fridge and I remembered this one particular sandwich in Starbucks that put cranberries and chicken together. It was amazing! A boostful flavour but this time I'll show you how to make more boostful sandwich.

Serving : 1 person

What you need :

- 1 Ramly Beef sausage (This is the best beef sausage you can get in Malaysia which is halal certified)

- 1-2 spoonful of dried cranberries 

- thousand island sauce

- 1 slice of gardenia bread

additional flavours :

- a dash of cheese sauce

- a dash of barbeque sauce

So first things first, start with air frying the beef sausage. Well if you're not on a tight budget a beef salami goes well with this sandwich. Plus, if you don't have an air frying you can simply boiled it or grilled the sausage. It totally up to you. :)

Then, one you air fried it, gently slice the sausage thinly while it is still hot. Well of course using a sharp knife and a fork. :)

Then assemble your sandwich. A dash of thousand island, a dash of cheese sauce and a dash of barbeque sauce line vertically on the bread. Then put the dried cranberries on top of the sauces. 

Next, a drop of thousand island on the other part of the bread. (This is to hold together the slices of beef sausage.) Assemble your beef sausage and walla! Wrap it up together and eat it like a boss!

Oh it is so amazing that you can't believe you just mixed cranberries with beef and thousand island! Happy eating and toodles! :D

p/s: I know its been a while but I'm currently at my studying second semester so its been a very rough one. :)

Mee Goreng Basah Penuh Kick aka Fried Wet Mee with a kick!

Adik-adik kakak-kakak , you alls I have a great news! If it happens that you're a spicy food lover then this is a must try recipe!

How did I came up with this recipe? Well mom made tom yam a few days ago and there's like a plenty amount of mee and kuey teow left haha. Then I felt like eating mee basah for break fast so I Youtubed it on Try Masak's channel.

Then when I looked into my fridge there's a lot of sambal belacan left because dad recently went back to Kota Bharu and bought Kelantanese sambal belacan that is normally served with Kelantanese Nasi Berlauk. If you're Kelantanese living in Kota Bharu then you can get this sambal belacan at Sweet Q Restaurant around Jalan Bayam. :)

Okay so let's get started with the recipe :)


What you need:

Chopped ingredients:

half of a big red onion
1 bird's eye green chilli
1 bird's eye red chilli
1 cup cabbage
1 red chilli
half of tomato
1 and half cup of chicken breast
salad (baby romaine)
2 cloves of garlic
1 large onion (green onion)

Other ingredients:
4 tablespoon of sambal belacan
a teaspoon of sugar
a teaspoon of salt
Sweet Soy Sauce Cap Kipas Udang
ABC Soy Sauce
2-3 cups of water
a packet of mee


Methods:
1- set aside the bird's eye chillies, garlic, onions in one bowl. The chicken and cabbage in one bowl. Tomato and salad in one bowl.

2- In a wok, heat up a tablespoon of oil. Saute the chillies, garlic and onion. Add in the sambal belacan. Stir. Then add in the chicken and a cup of water. Stir.

3- When its bubbling up, add in the sweet soy sauce and the ABC sauce. Stir. Then add in the mee. Mix it until its well combined.

4- Add in the cabbage. Stir. Then add in half cup of water. Stir it and add it tomato and the salad.

5- Lastly add in sugar and salt. You can add a little bit of pepper but that will ruin the taste of the sambal.

Note: Don't cut the chicken too big. Its okay to be too small but you won't taste the chicken afterwards. Cut it as big as your thumb. Diced it. Remember that you want to make it wet not dry mee. So can add as much as water as possible but not to ruin the taste of the mee. Just nice or until it thickens. As long as there's a bit of gravy. Adding squid will be scrumptious to this meal! Marvelous!

Taadaaa! Here's the result :) Amacam ? ;) winks*