Eats Time With Nath

Sauteed mustard greens (Choy sam)

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:11:00 +0000

I like cooking simple and easy food... coz I'm not the expert one hehehe ;p
This one only takes 5-10 minutes to cook. You just need green mustard/chinese mustard/Choy sam, chicken fillet, mushroom, and several of sauce.

Let's beginn...

Ingredient :
1 bunch of green mustard
1 chicken fillet, sliced
5 button mushroom or other, sliced
1 garlic, minced
1 tbs Soy sauce
1 tbs Oyster sauce
water/ broth
1 tbs sago, mix with water
oil
salt & papper, as needed

Cooking Direction :

Saute garlic until fragrant, add chicken and mushroom, stir
add green mustard/choy sam, add soy sauce and oyster sauce, stir well
add water/broth, stir and let stand briefly until cooked, adjust the taste then add salt and pepper
then add 1 or 2 tbs water of sago to thicken, stir again
and served.

~♥~ Happy Cooking ~♥~

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Sweet Soya Bean Petai / Petai Kecap

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:05:00 +0000

Maybe not everyone ever tried to eat petai or even know petai ..
I'm not sure which countries are familiar with petai, but almost every people in Indonesia likes petai.
Some people said it has a unique flavor, and they liked it, but some people said it have unpleasant smell, wierd, and they don't like it. Quite difficult to explain exactly how it tastes, my opinion it's little bit crunchy when you bite, unique smell but some people said it have smell like methane gas. hahaha ... but for those who loves it said it's tasty and smells good.

Beside that, compared with apples, petai has protein 4 times more, carbohydrates over twice as much, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice as many vitamins and other minerals.

For more information about petai you can read in Here

I eat petai, but not my favorite. Most of petai make your urine have smell so bad, and it was very embarrassing when you piss in the office toilets or public toilets, or even your house itself.

In Indonesia, petai usually cooked with fried rice and I likes this one (I can tell you that is delicious, petai would give you different taste of your usual fried rice and this is yummy), or cooked with potatoes & chili, or combine with javanese salad (lalapan) served with chili sauce (sambal terasi).

And here is my parents's favourite recipe, my parents loveeeeee petai... ><)hehe..
did you think that I have a bad smell toliet.. Lol!

Ingredient :
1 cup of Petai
2 Garlic, sliced
3 Shallot, sliced
5 meatballs, sliced
1 tomato, sliced
2 red chili, sliced
3-5 tbs sweet soya bean
1 cups of water
salt & pepper

Cooking Direction :

saute garlic and shallot until fragrant, add meatballs, then petai, stir,
add red chili, then tomatoes, stir well,
add sweet soybean, then water, cook until boiled in medium heat,
add salt & pepper, adjust the tasted,
served.

*please cooking if you are dare to try... hehehe... ^^))
for you who loves petai, maybe it can be a new recipe for you...
and Do you likes Petai??...

~♥~ Happy Cooking ~♥~

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Review : Woku Woku Restaurant ( Manado Food )

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 01:55:00 +0000

Hellooo :)... This is my first foody review… yeeeyyy!!....

Yesterday, after office hour I went to Mall Artha Gading, in North Jakarta, I and my boyfriend want to tried Manado food in Woku Woku Restaurant.
Manado is a capital city of North Sulawesi in Indonesia. For information, Indonesia have very very very a lot of various types of foods, start from traditional food to international food, and most of them can make your tongue dancing…
Each province in Indonesia have their own traditional food.

The famous from Manado cuisine is spicy taste, and almost all the menus using herbs, like basil, lime leaves, pandan, mint leaves, lime Cui, and lemongrass.

ok let's begin for the Woku Woku restaurant, with hungry stomach we got into the restaurant, not too big with a simple interior, a few tables occupied by people.

then we ordered Sop kuah asam ikan kakap (sour snapper soup), Rado Rica, Pekedel Jagung (jagung=corn), and dabu dabu (it's like chili)

Sop kuah asam ikan kakap (sour snapper soup), This soup tasted sour and spicy, and also warm in stomach (I guess coz that’s what I feel), snapper in diced, in Soup there are ginger, spring onion, lemongrass, tomatoes, spicy taste comes from cayenne and sour from the lime juice, all combination made this soup so refreshing and it's comes in a big bowl portion... so you can eat for two or even three with the other menu.

Rado rica is stir fry beans, corn, eggplant and chicken fillets which cut in dice. and again…... a little bit spicy.

Perkedel jagung, deep fried flour with corn, ehhmm.. crunchy!!

Dabu Dabu, which is also famous for its sour and spicy taste, because of the small green tomato-based, cabe rawit / cayenne pepper and lemon Manado.

Beside, there are another favourite menu at Woku woku like Woku Manado Porridge, Ikan bakar saus Rica (Grilled Fish Rica Sauce), Ikan Woku Belanga (Fish Woku Belanga), and soup Brenebon.
To cover the taste spicy food you've eaten, treat the tongue with sweet red bean ice and a wide selection of other tasty.

For the price, it's quite cheap, Rp.35,000 for the Soup, Rp.14,000 for Rica Rado, Rp.7,500 for Perkedel Jagung, Rp.4,500 for Rice, Rp.7,000 for Refiil Tea.

Kurs at that time :
1 USD : Rp.8,700
1 EUR : Rp.12,300
1 AUD : Rp.8,900
1 Yen : Rp.103,00
1 SGD : Rp.6,800

Overall:
interior : standard
cleanliness : good
service : good
teste : good
price : standard

wanna eat again : yes! Wanna try the other menu ^^

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Steam Cheese Tofu

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:51:00 +0000

This is simple and easy recipe. I think, combination tofu and cheese created different and delicious taste. It's cooked without oil, also low fat so it's good for your diet... Hehehe ;p

Ingredient :
1 pack white tofu
1/2 Onion, chopped
1/2 Green onion, chopped
1/2 carrot, chopped
Parmesan cheese
Salt & pepper

Cooking direction :
Combine all ingredient into 1 bowl, mixed well
Put parmesan cheese again on top mixed tofu.
Then steam about 15-20 minute.
Serve.
Note : you can add meat if you like.

~Happy cooking~

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Fried Rice with Anchovy/Teri Medan Fish

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:18:00 +0000

Haii... :) this is one of my fav fried rice style, this fried rice cooked without sweet soy sauce, and I add anchovy for the taste. ^__^ trust me it's delicious!!...
I used tiny anchovy that we called "Teri Medan Fish" in Indonesia, its colour is white. Anchovy also have advantages for our healthy.

Anchovy is a source of calcium that are resistant and not easily soluble in water. In addition, it contains fluoride is also very beneficial for dental health. Fluorine is an important element in preventing caries or cavities.

Ingredient :
2 tbsp oil
2 plate of rice
2 garlic, chopped
1 spring onion, sliced
½ Bombay Onion, cut into small pieces
2 red chilli, sliced
100 gr mixed vegetable
50 gr Anchovy/Teri Medan Fish, fried
2 eggs, scrambled
1 chicken stock powder/block
1 tbsp sesame oil
2 tbsp soy sauce (add as you like)
pepper, as needed

Cooking direction :
Heat up the skillet, with medium heat saute garlic, bombay onion, spring onion until fragrant, add red chilli and mix vagetable stir well
then add scrambled eggs, chicken stock and soy sauce, stir well
add rice, then sesame oil, stir again, add pepper as needed, then add Teri Medan fish, stir well
serve

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Ketoprak

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:02:00 +0000

Ketoprak is a popular food in coastal areas of West Java, especially around Jakarta. Seller usually sell by using the wagon and get around to peddle ketoprak.

pic from : http://commons.wikimedia.org

in a plate :)
it's also easy to cook by yourself

Ingredient :
150 gr rice noodle
150 gr bean sprout
1 pack of white tofu, cut into medium size
1 cucumber, cut into small pieces

Peanut Sauce :
3 red chilli (add or less as you like)
2 bird chilli (add or less as you like)
50 gr peanut, roasted and mashed
3 garlic, mashed
2 tbsp tamarind water
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp sweet soybean sause
100 cc hot water

Complement :
5 shallot (for fried shallot)
Kerupuk/Crackers

Cooking direction :
Boil rice noodle until smooth, drain
deep fried tofu until golden brown, drain

Peanut sauce :
Combine all ingredient of peanut sauce stir well (make it not too thick, if the sauce is too thick you can add little bit hot og water), adjust the taste and drain.

Prepare a plate, add rice noodle, fried tofu, cucumber, pour with peanut sauce and fried shallot
serve with kerupuk/crackers.

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Stir Fried kway teow ( Flat rice noodle / Hor Fun)

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:52:00 +0000

Ingredient :
1 pack flat rice noodle
1 cup beef, sliced
10 shrimp, peel
1 cup bok choy, wash and cut into 5 cm in length
1/2 cup bean sprout
2 eggs, scrambled
1 spring onion, sliced
2 garlic, chopped
3 tbsp sweet soy sauce (add as you like)
2 tbsp soy sauce (add as you like)
1 tbsp oyster sauce
pepper, as needed
oil

Cooking direction :

Heat up the pan, with medium heat saute garlic until fragrant, add beef and shrimp, stir until slightly cooked
add flat rice noodle, bok choy, spring onion and bean sprout, stir well ± 2 minutes,
then add scrambled egg, add soy sauce, oyster sauce, sweet soy sauce and pepper, stir again until cooked
serve

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Chinese style Fried Noodle

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:22:00 +0000

Ingredient :
1 pack of egg noodle, boiled
5 meat ball, sliced
1 pork sausage, sliced
50 g prawn, peel
1 egg, scrambled
1 bunch of kucai
1 handful of bean sprout
2 garlic, minced
2 tbsp soy sauce (add as you like)
4 tbsp sweet soy sauce (add as you like)
salt and pepper, as needed
oil

Cooking direction :

Heat up the skillet, with medium heat saute garlic until fragrant, add meat balls, pork sausages and prawn, stir well
add kucai, noodle and bean sprout, stir well ± 2 minutes,
then add scrambled egg, add soy sauce, sweet soy sauce and pepper, adjust the taste (add salt if not salty enough)
stir again until cooked and serve

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Chinese Sauces and Seasonings, part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:31:00 +0000

Sometimes we are getting confuse how to store our sauces and seasoning well, they can be change in flavor and colour if we’re not store in the right way after opened it, it’s mean they lose its freshness. Leaving the sauce out on the kitchen counter top where warm conditions can easily form bacteria.

I suggest that once the sauce lid is opened, you should always refrigerate the sauce and always keep the container tightly sealed (this is especially important for sauce that needs to be refrigerated), and for canned sauce, place in a sealed container after opening and refrigerate. For store non-refrigerated sauce away from direct heat and light.

There are some of sauces and seasoning that you must be refrigerated after opening :

Black Bean Sauce
Hoisin Sauce
Oyster Sauce
Plum Sauce
Sweet and Sour Sauce
Chile Paste
Chile Sauce.

There are some of sauces and seasoning that you can be stored in the cupboard :

Rice Vinegar
Rice Wine
Dry Sherry (a common substitute for rice wine)
Sesame Oil
Soy Sauce (Light)
Soy Sauce (Dark)
Fish Sauce (Southeast Asian)
Hot Chili Oil.

source : chinesefood.about.com

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Chinese Sauces and Seasonings, part 1

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:22:00 +0000

I like Chinese food, but to cook Chinese food we need some authentic sauces and seasoning. Some of my favorite seasonings are garlic, chives, leeks, star anise, ginger, peppercorns, chiles, mushrooms, rice wine and sweet bean sauces.

Chinese cooking style is known for flavorings and condiments that blend to create hot, sweet, sour, and salty in one mouthful.

There are certain food items that need to be stocked in the pantry in order to create Chinese cooking. These items are :

♥ Soy Sauce

Use it to marinate, season, or dip to add saltiness and depth to savoury dishes. Avoid adding soy sauce into a dry hot pan, as the sugars in soy sauce can scorch the pan.

♥ Szechuan peppercorn

Szechuan peppercorn warmth and fragrance is traditionally used to take out bloody- or fishy-tasting in meats or seafood. It is most commonly used in soup bases and chicken stir-fried.

♥ Five Spice Seasoning

Five Spice Seasoning is a popular blend of Szechuan peppercorn, cinnamon, fennel seeds, star anise, and one of or a combination of citrus peel, nutmeg, or cloves.

This is a very common spice for seasoning poultry, in braised beef dishes, and in soup base.

♥ Star Anise

Except when used in Five Spice Seasoning, it is used whole to season stocks and sauces, and removed before serving.

♥ Oyster Sauce

Like soy sauce, oyster sauce is quite the multi-tasker in the Chinese kitchen - it can be used to dress steamed veggies, added to noodle and meat stir-fries, and used with a cornstarch slurry to make a pan sauce.

♥ Black Bean and Garlic Sauce

This is very salty and is blended in stir-fry dishes, not as a dip or condiment on its own. Add a dollop of this to hot oil when stir-frying noodles or meats.

♥ Soybean Paste

It is never used as a soup base. Add to heated oil for stir-fries or in braising liquids for rich winter dishes.

♥ Hoisin Sauce

Some manufacturers add colouring to this sauce. Choose one that is brown without red food colouring. Use as a dipping sauce, on noodles, or as a basting sauce for barbecued meats.

♥ Chili Sauce

Chinese Chili Sauce is commonly made by steeping chopped, dried chilis in heated oil to allow the heat and colour of the chili to penetrate the oil. Because the chilis are dried, the heat is concentrated and smoky, and is usually very spicy. Use it for dipping dumplings or to add to fried noodles.

♥ Sesame Oil

Look for clarity and fragrance. Use sesame oil in salad dressing, drizzle it over noodles, or to marinate meats.

These ingredients can be found in well stocked supermarkets, in any Asian market.

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Measurement Conversions

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:57:00 +0000

Volume :

1 teaspoon = 5 ml
1 UK/US tablespoon = 15 ml or 3 teaspoon
1 Australian tablespoon = 20 ml or 4 teaspoon

Lenghts :

6 mm = 1/4 in
12 mm = 1/2 in
2.5 cm = 1 in

Weights :

28 g = 1 oz
250 g = 8 oz
500 g = 1 lb

Cup Equivalents :

1/4 cup = 60 ml or 2 fl oz
1/2 cup = 125 ml or 4 fl oz
1 cup = 250 ml or 8 fl oz
2 cup = 500 ml or 16 fl oz
4 cup = 1 liter or 32 fl oz
1 cup sugar = 200 g
1 cup salt = 250 g
1 cup rice (uncooked) = 200 g
1 cup rice (cooked) = 1oo g
1 cup flour = 150 g
1 cup bean sprouts = 50 g

Oven Temperature :

When using convection ovens, the outside of the food may cook too quickly. As a general rule, set the oven temperature 15°C to 20°C lower than the temperature indicated in the recipe or refer to your oven manual.

Low -----------> 150°C or 300°F
Moderate ------> 180°C or 350°F
Med. Hot ------> 200°C or 400°F
Hot------------> 220°C or 425°F
Very Hot-------> 230°C or 450°F

from : Periplus

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Cap Cay / Vegetable Stir Fry

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:27:00 +0000

Capcay usually found at a Chinese Indonesian restaurant. I learned this recipe from my father, he can cook very well and so delicious…. (",)
Capcay means mixed vegetables, you can use all kinds of vegetables you think would fit in, exp : baby corn, snow peas, broccoli, ect.
and beside chicken, you can add pork, beef, chicken, chicken liver, tofu, meatball, fish meatball, or shrimp too.

It's very easy and fast to cook.. ( ' v ' )")

Ingredient:

100 gr cube sliced chicken breast, marinate with 1 tsp corn starch and 2 tsp of soy sauce
2 pieces of fish balls, sliced
3 pieces of meat balls, sliced
2 garlic, minced
1 spring onion, cut into 4 cm in length
1/2 bombay onion, sliced
1/2 carrot, sliced thin
1/2 bunch of cauliflowers or a small size broccoli– cut into small florets
1 cup of cabbage, diced
1 cup of napa cabbage / chinese cabbage, diced
1 cup of bok choy / green mustard, cut into 4 cm in length
5 straw mushroom, cut into 4-6 slice each
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp of oyster sauce
2 tbsp of cooking wine / ang ciu
2 cups of water / chicken stock
1 tbsp of vegetable oil
salt and pepper
1 tsp of corn starch mix it with ± 6 tsp of water

Cooking direction :

Heat vegetable oil in a skillet, with medium heat saute garlic until fragrant, add marinated chicken, stir until the chicken is slightly cook, then add fish and meat balls, stir again
add bombay onion, spring onion, straw mushroom, carrot, cauliflower, napa cabbage, cabbage and bok choy, stir fry
add soy sauce, oyster sauce and cooking wine, pepper, stir well, then add water/chicken stock, then let it boils until vegetables turn tender (but don’t let it over cook)
adjust the taste, add salt if not salty enough, then add mix of corn starch and water, stir and serve.

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Award from Denani, Thanks...

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:15:00 +0000

Happy friday, my lovely friends...

Very Big Thanks for denani who gave me this wonderful Award.. I really honor to accept it (",)

The rules for the awards are:

1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link.
No objections to this one but it sounds funny that acceptance of the award is a must.

2) Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

Here you go :

1.Gita's kitchen
2.Narti
3.Karila
4.5 Star Foodie
5.Shinta
6.Curry World
7.Jean
8.Angie's Recipes
9.Foodie's Kitchen
10.Lisa
11.Sara's Kitchen
12.Cooking Momster
13.Baking Cakes galore
14.Enchie
15.Yummy-as-can-be

Huuiihhh..... finish!.... n Grab it Guys.... ( ' o ' )")

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Salted Green Mustard (Kiam Chye) Soup

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:45:00 +0000

ingredient :

1 bunch of salted green mustard / pickled mustard/ kiam chye
1 boneless chicken breast, diced / pork, slice
1 pack of tofu, cut 1x4cm, fry half cooked
5 meat ball, slice
5 straw mushroom, cut 2 form
1 spring onion, cut into 3 cm in length
2 garlic, chopped
2 tsp red yeast fermented rice/red glutinous rice (Angcao;chinese style)
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce
3 cups of water / chicken broth
salt and pepper, as needed
oil

Cooking Direction :

Heat oil in a skillet, add garlic, saute until fragrant, add chicken/pork and meat ball, then straw mushroom, stir well
add salted green mustard and spring onion, and tofu, add fish sauce, soy sauce, stir well,
add water/chicken broth, cook until boiled,
after boiled, cook soup in low-heat, add pepper, adjust the taste, add salt (if not salty enough)
and last add red yeast fermented rice, stir and bring it in medium-heat for a moment, serve.

I usually serve it with mix of bird's eye chili/thai pepper (slice), sweet soy sauce and lime.

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Chicken Noodle with Mushroom

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Mon, 25 May 2009 06:22:00 +0000

I love noodles, there are many way to cook noodles, fried, boiled, stew, combine with vegetables, chicken, beef, pork, ect. However how to cook, it's still delicious, Yummy^^
Many indonesian people, especially in Jakarta ate this noodle recipe for their breakfast, but it's too full for me, I usually ate in a small portion for breakfast. But not only for breakfast it's suitable too for lunch. Enjoy you meal ^^...

Ingredient 1 :
1 pack of noodle (for 5 bowl portion)
water

Ingredient 2 :
1 boneless chicken breast, diced or minced (as you like)
10 button mushroom, cut into small pieces
2 cloves of Garlic
2 tbsp sweet soya sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 cup of water
salt and pepper to taste
oil

Seasoning :
1 tsp sessame oil
1 tbsp soya sauce
1/2 tsp sweet soya sauce
1/4 tsp pepper
1 tbsp oil
1 spring onion, chopped

Cooking Direction :

Bring noodle into a boiled water, drain

Heat oil in a pan, add garlic, saute lightly, add chicken and mushroom, add fish sauce, oyster sauce, stir well, add sweet soya sauce, add water, stir and adjust the taste, then add salt (if not salty enough) and pepper, then cook in low-heat until the water reduce and cooked. drain.

Prepare a bowl, add oil, sesame oil, soya sauce, sweet soya sauce (if you like), and pepper then add noodle, stir well, adjust the taste (add more soya sauce if not salty enough), pour with the chicken mushroom and chopped spring onion, serve.

Additional : serve with green mustard (boiled), meat ball, fried-wonton, or boiled wonton.

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Beef Soup

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:58:00 +0000

Beside chicken, we can use beef for the soup. This recipe came from my mother, she likes cook this soup. My family usually eats it with rice, perkedel (the recipe in my previous post) or fried chicken.. :)

Ingredient :

1/4 kg ground beef, diced
2,5 l water
2 potatoes, peel, wash, diced
4 carrot, cut into 2 cm in length
2 spring onion, cut into 3 cm in length
1 bunch of string beans, wash and cut into 5 cm in length
1/4 cabbage, wash and cut into small pieces
1 bunch of parsley leaves, cut into 3 cm in lenght
1 tomato, diced
2 garlic, chopped
4 shallot, thin slice
6 shallot, thin slice, and fry (for fried shallot)
5 cloves
1 nutmeg
salt, pepper and sugar, as needed

Cooking Direction :

Fill a pot with water and bring beef to a boil, add nutmeg and cloves, after boiled decrease to low-heat until beef cooked and tender.
Add potatoes, carrots , boiled in medium-heat, until them cooked

Heat oil in a skillet, add garlic and shallot, saute lightly, add string beans and spring onion, add salt, pepper and sugar, cook until half cooked, then put them into a pot and boiled together with the soup
Add cabbage, parsley leaves and tomato, boil in high-heat until boiled then decrease to low-heat, add salt, pepper and sugar, and adjust the taste

Boiled together until them all cooked, served and pour with fried shallot.

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Perkedel

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:25:00 +0000

Perkedel is combined of mashed potatoes, beef, egg and seasoning. In Indonesia it usually ate with soup and rice.

Ingredient :
5 potatoes, peeled and wash
100g ground beef, minced
1 egg
1 spring onion, chopped
1 tsp nutmeg powder
2 clove garlic, chopped
3 cloves shallot, chopped
salt & pepper to taste
vegetable oil

Cooking Direction :

Bring potatoes to a boiled water, boil until cooked, drain and put potatoes into a big bowl then mashed them until smooth.
Heat about 2 tbsp of the oil in a skillet, add garlic and shallots, saute until fragrant, add beef, stir to break up clumps, cook until brown (about 2 minutes), add a little bit of salt and pepper for seasoning, drain.
Mix together the mashed potatoes, beef, nutmeg powder, salt and pepper, then add beaten egg, and spring onion (for additional you can also use chopped parsley leaves)
Mix all together until it can be form into a ball. Form into ± 18 balls and then flatten them into ± 2 inch (oval shapped balls)
Deep-fry them until golden brown, remove to drain and serve.

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Sweet and Sour Chicken

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:02:00 +0000

Ingredient :
1 Chicken fillet, dice
2 tbsp wheat flour
salt and pepper, as needed
1 egg
water

Sauce :
1 spring onion, slice
1 garlic, chopped
1/2 carrot, slice to ± 3 cm in length (boiled carrot)
1 tomato, cut into 6
2 tbsp tomato sauce (you can add as you like)
1-2 tbsp lemon
1/4 pineapple, cut (not too small)
1/2 cucumber, slice
1 or 2 cups of water
salt,pepper and sugar, as needed
1 tsp corn flour, thick it with a little bit of water

Cooking Direction :
Combine wheat flour,egg, salt and pepper with a little bit of water (don't to thin), add chicken, stir well and then fry chicken one by one until cooked, drain

Sauce :
Heat oil in a skillet, add garlic, cooked until fragrant, add spring onion, carrot, pineapple, cucumber and tomato, stir well, add water, tomato sauce, lemon, stir, add salt,pepper and sugar, adjust the taste then thick it with corn flour.

Prepared chicken in a plate and pour it with the sauce, serve.

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My Third Award, Thanks ^^

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:50:00 +0000

First of all I would like to say sorry for the late of this posting, a little busy lately... busy in the office and prepared some posting recipes.. :)

I accept this award on April 25, From Fanny and Reni, Thank you very much for this wonderful award, I really appreciate it.

Fanny with http://just-fatamorgana.blogspot.com, she always have an idea to write down a short story, and it's really great.

Reni with http://renijudhanto.com, she also have a great blog with a great post.

This is a great..great..looking award...

Once again, Thank you very much, enjoy reading and don't forget to leave your comment.. ^^

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Fried Lumpia

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:16:00 +0000

Lumpia is a thin sheet of wheat flour that is used as a wrapper, the ways of making and the ingredient have been changed accordance with the location.

In Indonesia, lumpia well known as typical food of Semarang,Central Java, Lumpia Semarang is a kind of rollade which is contain bamboo sprout, egg, and chicken or shrimp. It cuisine is taste fusion of Chinese and Indonesian.

But this is my original homemade recipe that is consist of bean sprout, jicama, chicken and dried prawn, it's easier to make.

Ingredient :

1 pack lumpia wrapper
1 chicken fillet / pork, minced
1/4 kg bean sprout
50 g dried prawn
1 pack tofu, slice to ± 3 cm in length, then fried half cooked
1 jicama, slice to ± 3 cm in length
2 garlic, chopped
3 shallot, chopped
soy sauce
salt, pepper and sugar, as needed

Cooking Direction :

Heat oil in a skillet, add garlic, shallot and dried prawn, stir until fragrant
add chicken/pork, stir well, add jicama,bean sprout and tofu, stir again
add soy sauce, salt, pepper and sugar, then adjust the taste, drain
Prepared one sheet of lumpia wrapper, put one spoon full of the filling ingredient to the bottom of the wrapper then roll upwards
Repeated until finish
Deep fried lumpia one by one until cooked and serve.

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Sour Vegetables/Tamarind Soup (Sayur Asem)

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:07:00 +0000

This is one of the food from Indonesia, precisely from west Java, It's taste sweet, sour and salty.
It can be found in all sundanese restaurants in Indonesia, and usually serve with steam rice, fried fish, fried tempe / Tofu, vegetable fritter (Indonesian-bakwan sayur/bakwan jagung), shrimp paste chilli (sambal terasi), ect

Ingredient :
1000 ml water
5 long bean, wash and cut into ± 3 cm in length
2 chayote (labu siam), peel, wash and cut into small pieces
1 sweet corn, cut into 3 each
50 gr peanut or you can use red kidney bean
45 gr belinjo / gnetum gnemon
4 belinjo leaves
3 salam/curry leaves
5 sour carambole (belimbing wuluh) , (optional)
4 cm galangal (lengkuas), pound
1 tomato, cut into 6-8 each
Salt and sugar, as needed
1 tbsp tamarind paste (you can add or less as you like)

Spices :
6 cloves of shallot/red onion
5 candlenuts
2 red chilli
1 tbs shrimp paste (terasi) (optional)

tips : grilled shrimp paste briefly to make it more fragrant and not fishy.

Cooking direction :

Grind all spices ingredient in a blender until smooth, drain
Dissolve tamarind with a little bit of water, stir well, we just use the water of tamarind
Boil water add galangal, corn, peanut, salam and belinjo leaves until boiled, add the smooth spices, stir well
add long bean, belinjo, chayote, sour carambole, then add the water of tamarind and last add tomato, cook until they are cooked (not overcooked),
add salt and sugar, stir, adjust the taste and serve..

--> Sour Carambole

--> Belinjo

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Tempe Oreg

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:57:00 +0000

Ingredient :
1 pack of Tempe, cut into small pieces
3 cm galangal (lengkuas), pound
3 salam/curry leaves
5 red chilli, slice
2 cloves garlic, chopped
3 cloves shallot/red onion, slice
± 3 tbsp Soy sauce (you can add or less as you like )
1/2 tsp tamarind (you can add or less as you like)
stink bean (petai) (optional,if you like)
salt and sugar, as needed
vegetable oil
water

Cooking Direction :

Fried tempe until half cooked
Heat oil in a skillet, add garlic and shallot, galangal, salam leaves and red chilli, stink bean, stir until fragrant, add tempe, stir well, add soy sauce, tamarind, add a little bit of water, stir again add salt and sugar and adjust the taste.
Serve in a plate.

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Benefit of Tempe

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:40:00 +0000

Tempe as food products have been well known by the Indonesian people or foreign. It's delicious, cheap price and easy to obtain.
Many vegetarian in the world found tempe as a substitute for meat. Now tempe produced in many places in the world, not only in Indonesia.

Tempe made from the fermentation of soy beans or some other material that uses some type of kapang Rhizopus, such as Rhizopus oligosporus, RH. oryzae, RH. stolonifer (kapang bread), or RH. arrhizus. This fermentation is generally known as "yeast tempe".

In general, tempe have white coloured because the growth of miselia kapang paste soybean seeds so that tight the texture. Degradation components of soybean in the fermentation makes tempe has a taste and a smell characteristic. Different with Tofu, Tempe is a bit dour.

The composition nutrient of protein, fat, and carbohydrate doesn't much change compared with soybean. However, due to a digestive enzyme produced by Tempe kapang, the protein, fat, and carbohydrate in tempe be more easily digested in the body than that found in soybean. Therefore, It's very good to be given to all age groups (from infants to the elderly), so that food can be called as all ages.

Soya bean very good to consumed because it's contain :
1. isoflavones: famous for anti oksidant as a cancer prevention
2. contain phytoestrogen: useful to the body kit as anti strees, anti aging / prevent aging cells in humans
3. contain lesithin / fat naturally good for the body
4. containing saporin (suitable for vegetarian)

Some research indicates that vitamin of tempe more easily digested, absorbed, and utilized the body compared with that in the soybean. This has been proven in infants and children under five people with malnutrition and chronic diarrhea.

With the tempe, increase the growth of malnutrition and diarrhea are healed in a short time. Processing soybeans into tempe will be decrease raffinosa and stakiosa, a compound that causes the occurrence of symptoms flatulency.

Tempe is also trusted to prevent anemia and osteoporosis, two diseases that affects many women, because women's nature to be experienced menstruation, pregnancy and breastfeeding babies. Anemia disease can attack woman who lazy to eat cause fear have fat body, so that supply and production of cell-red blood cells in the body decreases.

Vitamin B12 (found in animal foods), and zinc that is needed in the formation of red blood cells. In addition, Tempe can also decrease the cholesterol level in blood. Compound protein, fatty acid PUFA, fiber, niasin, and calcium in Tempe can reduce the amount of bad cholesterol.

In Tempe also found a substance in the form of antioxidants isofalvon. Like vitamins C, E and karotenoid, isoflavon are antioxidants that are necessary to stop the body's reaction to the formation of radical free. In soybean there are three types of isoflavon, namely daidzein, glisitein, and genistein. At Tempe, in addition to the three types of isoflavon antioxidants are also factors II (6,7,4 trihidroksi isoflavon) that have the nature's most powerful antioxidants compared with isoflavon in soybean.

Antioxidants was happen when the process soybeans into tempe fermentation by the bacteria Micrococcus leteus and Coreyne bacterium. Research conducted at the University of North Carolina, United States, found that genestein and phytoestrogen found in Tempe that can prevent prostat cancer, breast and anti aging.

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Fried Prawn

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:53:00 +0000

This is an easy recipe, easy to cook and suitable for snack while you waiting for your lunch..^^,

Ingredient :
1/2 kg prawn, clean and skin peeled
200 g wheat flour
1 egg
1 tbsp coriander, pound to fine-cut, (or you can use coriander powder)
salt, pepper, as needed
water, as needed

Cooking Direction :
Combine wheat flour, egg, coriander, salt and pepper, pour with water little by little, stir (don’t too thin), add prawn, stir well with a spoon
Heat up oil in a skillet, then deep fried one by one (a spoon full of dough) until cooked and serve.

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My Second Award.... :)

noreply@blogger.com (Nath) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:07:00 +0000

April 15, 2009 I received a comment from Dhiela "Pls drop by at DDC to grab ur parcel...k!"
hehehe... It's mean I got my second Award..... how Happy I'm .... ^^

Dhiela is my Blogger friend from Selangor and thanks to be my reader :), Dhiela said "My day won’t be completed if I dun visit this blog. Stack of recipes plus good info how to choose healthy food" , oooo ....... I'm very honor to hear that...

Thanks to Dhiela for this great-looking Award !!...

Rules :
Terma & Syarat Untuk Penerima Award Ini :
1. Put the logo on your blog or post
1. Letakkan logo award ini di blog anda.
2. Nominate at least 10 Blogs which inspires you
2. Anugerahkan award ini kepada 10 Blog yang anda anggap paling berinspirasi dan sangat mesra.
3. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post
3. Pastikan anda menyatakan penghargaan ini melalui ‘backlink’ dengan blog yang anda anggap paling memberikan inspirasi dan mesra dari blog anda.
4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
4. Informasikan penerima award mengenai award yang mereka terima dengan menyatakan komen di blog mereka.
5. Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received your award.
5. Berbagi cinta dan sayang untuk penghargaan ini kepada pemberi anugerah ini.

And the blogs I nominate are :
Denani's world
Lizzie
Amy
Sang Cerpenis Bercerita
Narti
Dorothy L
Jonk
May
Jean
narasuscoffe

Grab this award my friends... Congratulation!!!

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Eats Time With Nath

Sauteed mustard greens (Choy sam)

Sweet Soya Bean Petai / *Petai Kecap*

Review : Woku Woku Restaurant ( Manado Food )

Steam Cheese Tofu

Fried Rice with Anchovy/Teri Medan Fish

Ketoprak

Stir Fried kway teow ( Flat rice noodle / Hor Fun)

Chinese style Fried Noodle

Chinese Sauces and Seasonings, part 2

Chinese Sauces and Seasonings, part 1

Measurement Conversions

Cap Cay / Vegetable Stir Fry

Award from Denani, Thanks...

Salted Green Mustard (Kiam Chye) Soup

Chicken Noodle with Mushroom

Beef Soup

Perkedel

Sweet and Sour Chicken

My Third Award, Thanks ^^

Fried Lumpia

Sour Vegetables/Tamarind Soup (Sayur Asem)

Tempe Oreg

Benefit of Tempe

Fried Prawn

My Second Award.... :)

Sweet Soya Bean Petai / Petai Kecap