Chicken in Tomato and Parika Sauce

Another recipe I got from cooking magazine Lisa (German edition). Chili free…Not hot at all, at least for me

Ingredients:

- 1 onion, diced
- 2 garlic, diced
- 1 red paprika, striped
- 1 green paprika, striped
- 1 whole chicken cut it into 9
- salt, peppers
- 2 tbs Oil
- 1 tbs tomato puree
- 400 gr diced tomaton from can
- 150 ml instant chicken stock
- dried oregano

Direction:

1. Season chicken with salt and pepper
2. Heat oil and sear the chicken
3. Take out the chicken and sauté garlic, onion and paprika in the same oil
4. Add paprika powder, tomato puree. Stir
5. Add canned diced tomato, oregano and chicken stock. Stir
6. Put the chicken in again. Cook it 30 minute in a close pan. Don’t forget to turn over the chicken every 10 minutes.

Pumpkin Rice

Okay, another pumpkin recipe. Hey it’s Halloween time…so no complaining please . This time I got the recipe from Lisa Magazine (German edition) with few modifications. Here we go…

For 4 people

Ingredients:

- 1 shallot
- 2 garlic
- 2 tbs oil
- 250gr jasmine rice (original: risotto rice. I never make risotto before so I don’t know if the rice is different though)
- 100 ml white wine
- 500 ml Maggi stocks
- 500 gr pumpkin meat
- 50 gr spinach
- 200 gr sweet korn
- 2 tbs butter
- 50 gr grated permesan
- salt and pepper

Direction:

1. Heat oven 180°
2. Chop shallot and garlic and sauté it. Add rice, stir
3. Add wine and Maggi’s water, salt and pepper. Mix it together and put it in oven for 15 min.
4. In a meantime dice pumpkin meat
5. After 15 mins, pick up the food from oven and put pumpkin and korn under the rice. Cook it again in oven for 15-25 minutes.
6. When it’s done, pick it up from oven, add spinach and butter. Stir
7. Add spinach, stir
8. Garnish it with cashew  nuts (original: pine nuts)

Pumpkin Pie

Got the recipe from Marie but I did some few changes since I’m not really into cinnamon and I have no idea what is evaporate milk…Hm…

Ingredients:

- 2 cups mashed pumpkin meat (cook the pumpkin first and mash it with spoon)
- 1 ½ cups plain milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon (still too much for me eeeww…and original recipe was 2 teaspoon!)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon oil

Direction:

1. Put all ingredients in a big bowl and use mixer to mix it.
2. Heat oven in 180° and bake it for 40 minutes
3. Done. I love to eat it hot and hubby loves it when it’s cold

Es Teler

For four portions.

This dish considered as beverage. ‘Teler’ means drunk, so even without alcohol, this ice teller in the afternoon will give you ecstasy.

Ingredients:

- 2 cans young coconut milk, sliced in stripe, keep the water
- 1 cans young jackfruit, cut jackfruit into small squares, keep the water
- 2 avocado
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk
- Water
- Sugar
- Ice cubes

Direction:

1. Peel avocado, share the meat into four bowls or glasses
2. Share coco meat and jackfruit into four as well
3. Mix water from coco meat and jackfruit, add water and sugar
4. Pour the mixed water into four bowls or glasses and add each of them around 1 table spoon sweetened condensed milk.
5. At last, give ice cubes on each.

Simple Cake

Don’t know the official name of this cake. I name it simple cake cos it is so simple to make. Got the recipe from a friend which simply calls it yellow simple cake. I make it simpler with remove the yellow hehe…But the taste is really good. Just add a cup of tea and sit in balcony to enjoy the day.

Ingredients:

- 500 gr margarine
- 500 gr sugar
- 500 gr flour
- 10 eggs
- 1 sachet baking powder
- 1 sachet vanilla sugar

Direction:

1. Put margarine, sugar, eggs and vanilla in a bowl and mix it with mixer.
2. When the sugar already smooth mixed, add flour and baking powder until all mixed
3. Heat oven in 150° and bake it for one hour.

Tongseng (Indonesian Lamb Soup)

A refreshing soup. For my style, I add a load of lime leaves and peppers. And then eat it with hot rice. Aah..perfect!

Ingredients:

- 300 gr lamb meat
- 50gr cabbage, sliced in stripe
- Tomato, diced
- 2 lemongrasses, chopped
- 4 kaffir lemon leaves, sliced in thin stripe
- 6 Shallots, thiny sliced
- 4 cloves garlic, thiny sliced
- 1 tea spoon turmeric powder
- 2 tbs sweet soy sauce
- 1 tbs salty soy sauce
- 3 glass lamb consomme
– 3 tea spoons Sambal Oelek chillipaste
- Salt and Peppers
- 4 tbs oil
- Fried shallots for pouring (optional)

Direction:

1. Cook lamb a few minutes only to get the comsomme and then diced
2. Heat oil, saute shallots and garlic. Add chillipaste, lemongrass, meat, turmeric, salt and peppers
3. Add 3 glass of consomme, lime leaves and both soy sauces until meat tender
4. At the end, add cabbage and tomato
5. Pour fried shallots over when serve it

Elmali Kurabiye – Apple Cookies

There is a Turkish bakery around the corner of my school. They have quite good fresh Turkish bread. My favorite is bread with tasty potato inside and apple cookies. I tried so hard to remember the name of the apple cookie so I can browse it to get the recipe. So here we go

Ingredients:

For the skin:

- 1 egg
- 250gr margarine
- 250gr flour
- 2 tbs yogurt
- 2 tbs canola oil
- 2 tbs sugar
- 1 sachet baking powder
- sugar powder

For the filling:
- 3 Apples, peeled
- ¼ tsp cinnamon powder (originally 1 tsp, but I don’t really like cinnamon taste)
- Crushed walnut (optional, I don’t use it either)
- Sugar

Direction:

1. Mix all the ingredients except sugar powder, knead for around 5 minutes then cover the dough with a clean cloth and set aside.
2. Grate apples, cook it with sugar and cinnamon and then cook it for about 10 minutes over low-medium heat.

3. Cut the dough into 3 pieces and then flatten each doughs with a roller around 3mm thickness. Then cut it into 8 pieces like the photo below. Put 1 tsp filling on the wide side and roll it up.

4. Pre-heat oven to 180°C, use baking paper on the baking tray and bake the cookies around 30 minutes.
5. Pour sugar powder over the cookies when it’s done.

Avocado Dip

Bloody easy. A good friend of tortilla chips in weekend when you’re not partying out!

Ingredients:
- Avocado (s)
- Garlic, crushed or garlic powder
- Salt
- Peppers

Directions:
Shred avocado (s) with spoon until fine. Add garlic, salt and peppers as you wish. Done.

Dadar Gulung (coconut pancake)

We have many kind of snacks in Indonesia. The traditional snacks is called Jajan Pasar. Jajan means snack and pasar means market (more into traditional market). Dadar gulung is one of those Jajan Pasar. Easy to make and always served in family or neighborhood gathering.

Ingredients:

For the skin:

- 150gr Flour
- 1 egg
- 250ml coconut milk
- Salt
- Green color for food (originally it supposed to be Suji leaf)
- Margarine to spread on pan

For the filling:
- 150 gr fresh grated coconut (if you buy the instant one, pour little bit hot water on it)
- 100gr Java dark brown sugar
- 100ml water
- Salt

Direction:

For the skin:

Mix all the ingredients except margarine into smooth batter. Spread thiny margarine into 20cm pan and make pancake with 2 tbs batter. No need to turn around the pancake.

For the filling:

Mix all ingredients, cook in low heat. Constantly stirred for around 5 minute the mixture is dry.

Finishing:

Put around 2 teaspoon filling on the pancake and wrap it.

Apple Pancake

This is our favorite breakfast menu. Easy, fast and taste good; Apple pancake.

Ingredients:

- 250 gr flour
- 4 eggs
- 400ml plain milk
- Salt
- Sugar powde
- Melted chocolate
- Oil
- 1 apple. Thin sliced

Direction:

1. Make batter from flour, egg and milk. Blend until smooth.
2. Heat oil and pour batter into pan like omelet. I like it a little bit dick
3. Pour sliced apple over it
4. Serve with sugar powder or chocolate.