Jajanan Pasar : Kue Talam & Kelepon

Jajanan Pasar : Kue Talam & Kelepon

(Traditional Market Dessert :

Steam cake with coconut milk & Glutinous rice ball with palm sugar filling)

Kue Talam (Steam Cake with coconut milk)

Commonly this kind of cake will use yam (sweet potato as the base), but in this recipe I'll try pumpkin puree instead of sweet potato puree. Maybe because starting October is the time for pumpkin to shine in American baking.

I copied the recipe from Rumah Gemintang with my modification.

A :
200 gram canned pumpkin puree
70 gram tapioca flour

30 gram rice flour
170 ml coconut milk
100 gram sugar

1/2 tsp salt

B:
25 gram tapioca flour
2 tbsp rice flour
25 ml warm water

150 ml coconut milk
1 tbsp sugar
1/4 tsp salt

Directions:
-Mix A ingredients until well mixed, shifted if needed
-Mix B ingredients until smooth also.
-Prepare hot steam pot and also kue talam mold, grease with some oil.
-Pour A mixture about 2 tbsp to the mold, steam for 10 minutes.
-Pour B mixture on top of cooked A mixture, steam again for 5 minutes.

- If you like you can put raisin as the garnish and steam for another 10 minutes ( but I skipped the garnish, so after pouring B mixture I added 15 minutes steaming time)
- Cool them and take the cake out from the mold. (size of this cake is abot 2 inches (diameter) and 1.5 inches (height) )

KELEPON

I really like to use mba Ienas Tsuroiya recipe. I just use my cup to measure the ingredients. I've been using her recipe for several times, it turns out good. Might be because she is using the same brand of flour that we found here ^_^.

Ingredients:
2 cup rice glutinous flour
1/2 cup rice flour
2 cup thin coconut milk
1/2 tsp salt
5-6 drops of Pandan Pasta
Palm sugar thinly sliced

Grated Coconut (I use the frozen one)
1/2 tsp salt

Directions:
1. Mix rice glutinous, rice flour, Pandan Pasta and salt, add water small amount at a time, until the we get non sticky dough (it's like play doh consistency)

2. Take 1 tbsp of the dough, flatten it, fill the center with palm sugar, form it like a ball.

3. Boil some water in the pan, add the balls into boiling water. Wait until the ball floating, set aside.
4. Cover the ball with grated coconut that has been cooked (microwave)

CAUTION : IT'S GOOD TO HAVE ONE BITE BALL, IF WE ARE NOT CAREFULL, WE EAT JUST HALF OF THE BALL, THE MELTED SUGAR WILL SPRAY THE EATER ^_^

Christmas is Here

This year will be the third Christmas for my son Jev.
Yesterday our church in Boston has held Christmas celebration.
It's always early because some of the members which are students will be back to their home town.
Jev always enjoys his time with his friends.
And I just found out he has sweet tooth...he loves cookies.
She ate too much cookies until he couldn't finish his dinner.
That was my fault too though...I let him spoil his appetite before he was having his dinner.
Once in a year it's ok, right? ^_^



When the celebration was done, there are some cookies left.
I couldn't have my self to take some home.



Hope all of you enjoy this season.Peace and joy be upon all of you!

Nasi Liwet Solo

Hari Sabtu kemarin ini, dapat kiriman masakan nasi liwet dari seorang kenalan.

Siang itu suami saya jadi menikmati makan siang ala Indonesia. Saya jadi teringat bulan September lalu saya memasak nasi liwet ala Solo dan entah karena lupa dan kesibukan di dunia nyata, saya lupa niat saya mengarsipkan resep nasi liwet ini.

Tentunya saya tidak serajin pengirim nasi liwet yang meracik bumbunya sendiri. Nasi liwet yang saya buat, sebagian menggunakan bumbu instant. Namanya juga 'simple kitchen' senangnya yang praktis he..he..he..

Panduan resep nasi liwet Solo ini saya ambil dari resep Ibu Ine di kolom resep multiply site beliau.

Link ke resep aslinya dapat diklik di SINI.

Berikut ini resep modifikasi saya, untuk ayamnya saya buat menggunakan bumbu instant opor merek Bangka 47 .

NASI GURIH

1 batang sereh dimemarkan

2 sdt garam

4 lembar daun salam

400 gram beras

800 mL santan (saya pakai 400 mL santan kaleng + 400 mL air)

Cara : Masukan semua bahan di rice cooker, seperti memasak nasi biasa. Jika menggunakan kompor biasa. Didihkan santan garam, sereh, daun salam. Setelah itu campur dengar beras yang telah dicuci bersih. Aduk-aduk sebentar, lalu kukus nasi sampai matang.

OPOR AYAM +TELUR + HATI AYAM

2 pounds dada ayam

1 pounds hati ayam

Telur rebus sesuai selera

2-3 bungkus bumbu Opor Ayam

Santan

Cara: masak sesuai petunjuk kemasan. Setelah matang. Sisihkan kuahnya. Suir-suir ayam yang telah matang. Potong-potong hati ayam lalu ditusuk dengan tusuk sate.

SAMBAL GORENG LABU SIAM

Idealnya, labu siam diiris memanjang, lalu direndam air kapur sirih supaya tidak terlalu lembek setelah dimasak. Tapi saya lewat nih langkah yang ini.

2 buah labu siam

3 sdm cabe merah giling

2 iris lengkuas

2 lembar daun salam

1 sdt gula

jika suka pedas bisa ditambah 1 genggam cabe rawit merah

kuah dari opor ayam di atas ambil sebagian

CARA:

Tumis cabe merah, lengkuas dan daun salam sampai harum, tambahkan kuah opor ayam, masukan labu siam iris, gula pasir. Masak hingga matang.

Di resep dari Ibu Ine ini ada teman nasi Liwet Solo yang khas seperti kumut (santan kental yang dimasak dengan putih telur) dan telur dadar tim/kukus. Tapi kali ini saya tidak sempat membuat keduanya.

Cara Penyajian :

Nasi sepincuk (dialas daun pisang) ditambahkan sayur labu dan sedikit kuah, ayam suir dan telur. Siram dengan sedikit kuah dari opor tadi. Nikmati dengan sate ati ayam.

Saya paling suka makan dengan kerupuk, jadilah kerupuk udang yang kriuk-kriuk menemani nasi liwet ala saya ini.

Nostalgia

I missed my previous blog...I don't know why I opened my old blog, and enjoyed them. I just want to put their links here as a reminiscence.

All recipes in these links are in Indonesian language.

Recipes at It's Coffee time with Jane

Recipes at Reviresco Life's Corner

When the word "nostalgia" popped up in my mind...I remember this song.

This song is about people who is remembering and reminiscing high school season in their life. When she met her beloved one at school.

Arugula Salad with Red Beans & Mandarin Orange

Summer is almost ended. If I may choose, I want warm/hot weather as summer time with foliage like autumn season has. I still feel like to eat fresh veggie and fruit...Don't want to end this summer.

I made simple salad with arugula, red beans, mandarin orange and tomato. I made simple dressing for this salad. Combination of spicy arugula with nutty taste from the beans and some sweetness from the orange are so lovely. Love it...

Ingredients :

Baby Arugula (about 2 handfuls )

Canned Red beans ( drain, wash, rinse) -- about 3-4 tbsp

Canned Mandarin Orange ( drain the syrup)

Crouton (crushed to add some crunchy texture)

Shredded Parmesan Cheese --- 1 -2 tbsp

Plum tomato - sliced

Dressing :

2 tbsp olive oil

1 tbsp honey balsamic vinaigrette

1 tbsp lemon juice

salt & pepper to taste

(whisk all the ingredients of the dressing)

Put all the veggie and beans in a bowl, pour the dressing over them. Toss them. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese and crushed crouton.

Ready to enjoy...

Baking Cake with Rice Cooker

I bought a new rice cooker. After reading lots of reviews, I decided to buy Sanyo brand rice cooker. Instead of buying $200 rice cooker from leading brand, I got micro-computerized rice cooker with reasonable price.

One of reviewer at Amazon.com said that she made a cake using baking function from this rice cooker. I tried the same thing, from manual book I read that it can be used for any cake mix box. This is a short cut for making my son's 2nd birthday cake.

I was worry after pouring out the batter to the inner pan and push baking button on the rice cooker. After waiting for about 55 minutes...voila..a nice thick cake was produced by this rice cooker. So happy I got multifunctions rice cooker...

My son and I had a great time decorating the cake. My son was so excited to put all the M&M chocolate milk over the ganache frosting I made. Love you son....

Encouraging Myself to Cook

My previous post was about my kitchen blues last August.

At the end of August, I really needed to motivate my self to cook again.

My son would have his birthday on August 25th....I wanted to make something for him.

Sometimes to increase my mood of cooking, I love to see something cute, crafty and lovely.

Just to give some treat for my eyes :-)

I opened my pics when I went to a food bazaar at the end of July, and I saw some cute stuff from a Bostonian student. Her name is Abe. She made mini painting with clay creations and also she made a lovely bottle art, she called it "Say It with a bottle".

You can see it more detail on her blog , just click HERE.

Finally I find my spirit of cooking again...yay I was making tapioca layer steam cake (lapis sagu). It was time consuming (more than 1 hour making time, and we have to do it layer by layer). But after seeing the beautiful colorful layer of this cake I just felt happy.

I got this recipe from Ibu Estherlita, from her multiply blog (www.estherlita.multiply.com).

750 mL thick coconut milk
200 mL thin coconut milk
100 mL condensed milk
500 gr tapioca flour
2 tbsp sweet rice flour
400 gr sugar
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp vanilla
food coloring and food essence according to our preference (usually Pandan paste)



Directions:

Warm the milk and coconut milk, add sugar and salt.
Put the milk mixture into the flour, stir and mix until smooth. Prepare the steamer. Grease the pan that we will use to steam, with some vegetable oil. Cook every layer, about 10 minutes. I was using mini loaf silicon pan. And I just made half of the amount of the recipe. We need to cook every layer perfectly so we can pull layer by layer when we eat them. After all the layer done, steam again about 20 minutes.

Kitchen Blues

Is that really a term to describe how lazy I am to cook.

I don't know why August was so blue....I just cook ordinary dishes and simple.

One of them was tom yum soup with udon noodle.

I just used instant tom yum soup in a jar. I scoped and put it into the boiling water.

Added some fish ball and fish cake, lastly added some shrimp.

I also prepared a bowl of cooked udon noodle. Pour out the soup into the noodle, garnish with some cilantro and it's ready to enjoy.

Simple dishes for my kitchen blue days...

I also asked my husband to be my model...just want to try new style of taking food picture.