Healthy Food

This post is addressed to those who are feeling rather unwell or does not have any appetite to eat. This recipe surely will help not just regaining your energy but also God willing your appetite. It is a 3 course in one meal recipe.

So let's get started with the porridge first.

What you need:
1 cup of rice
3-4 cups of water.
*Note that in making porridge you need to add a lot of water.

1- wash the rice, then add all the ingredients in a rice cooker. Then let it cook.

While waiting for the porridge you can start by making the chicken soup.

what you need:
Half of a chicken breast
1 carrot
2 potatoes (depends on the size it must be equivalent with the carrot)
half bombay onion (finely slice)
1 chicken cube
3 cups of water
1 inch of ginger (finely chopped)
3 cloves of garlic (knock and roughly chop)

1- Add all the ingredients except for the chicken cube and onion and bring it to a boil.

2- Once it is boiling, remove the chicken breast, carrots and potatoes and set it aside. Add in the onion and chicken cube. Stir.

3- Shred the chicken breast and put it back in the soup. Let it simmer on low heat.

4- Meanwhile, in a food processor of blender, blend the carrot and potato with a pinch of salt. Blend it until it is mushy like baby food. Set it aside.

5- Stir the soup and turn off the heat.

6- By this time, your porridge is done so its time to assemble. First you need to put the vegetable paste, then the porridge lastly the chicken soup and your are ready to serve. Enjoy and get well soon!

Vegetarian Bake Pasta

So lately I've been taking care both of my grandmother and learn a few tips and tricks of preparing food for them especially if they're unwell or orang Melayu kata takde selera, no appetite to eat. I discover that if I cook chicken soup, porridge and something mushy at-least that will help them regain their energy. So from this I tried to experiment with a new recipe that is this Vegetarian Bake Pasta. You will need simple things as listed below.

Chop:

2 red bird's eye chilli

2 green bird's eye chilli

2 small red onion (bawang merah halus)

1 big bombay onion

1 inch ginger

3 big cloves of garlic (3 ulas bawang putih)

Boil and blend:

1 cauliflower

2 carrots

3 potatoes

Additional ingredients:

1 packet of fusilli (you can also use macaroni or any pasta that you like)

 white sauce

grated orange cheddar cheese

1 chicken/vegetable cube

white pepper

coarse black pepper

salt

all purpose

planta 

dried tomatoes

Steps:

1- First things first boil the pasta as usual with a little bit of salt and oil for 10 minutes or according to the instructions given on the pack.

2- While waiting for the pasta, prepare the chopped ingredients.

3- Then boil the cauliflower, carrots and potatoes. You can also opt for other vegetables such as broccoli and mushroom or anything vegetables that is suitable to your tastebud. Once the vegetables are cooked drained them and blend it using a food processor or a blender. Set it aside.

4- Now drain your pasta. Then saute all the chop ingredients using planta or any type of oil. To be healthy you can use olive oil. Remember to saute the onions first and lastly the garlic because garlic is easily to burn. Then add a ladle of water and the chicken cube. Stir well. Then add the salt, white pepper, coarse black pepper and all purpose. The amount is up to you. 

5- Add your pasta and combine into the saute ingredients. Mix well. Turn off the heat. Set aside.

6- Prepare your white sauce. 

7. So now your pasta, white sauce and vegetable paste is ready so its time to assemble. First you need to butter up your casserole pot. Then add a thin layer of the vegetable pasta accompanied by the pasta mix then the vegetable pasta again and pasta mix again and so on. Continue layering until you have an inch left to fit in the white sauce. So now all you need is to finely chopped your dried tomatoes then pour your white sauce on top. Spread the white sauce evenly. Sprinkle the orange cheddar. 

8- Bake the casserole for 30 minutes under 180 degrees celcius. That's it! It is so simple and trust me everyone will love it! They will never notice the vegetables inside! So if your kids don't like veggies this recipe is surely a must try :)

note that I put chicken meat in my casserole because I love chicken :)

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