Terung Lemak ( Aubergines in Coconut Gravy)

This recipe, courtesy from Recipe book: Nyonya Favourites.

Spice Paste:
50g (1/2 cup) chopped shallots
2 tablespoons dried shrimps
5 medium fresh red chillies, deseeded
1/2 teaspoon shrimp paste (belacan)

Ingredients:
600g (1lb 6 oz) aubergine (eggplant)
2 tablespoons oil
250 ml (1 cup) thick coconut milk
250 ml (1 cup) water
1/2 teaspoon salt



Method:
1. Slice aubergine about 1 cm (1/2 in) thick.
2. Lightly brush slices with oil and dry fry in a pan over low heat; alternatively grill or bake in a moderate oven for 10 minutes. The aubergine does not need to be cooked through.
3. To prepare the Spice Paste, blend all ingredients to a smooth paste.
4. Saute Spice Paste in 1 tablespoon oil until fragrant.
5. Add the water, coconut cream, salt and aubergine and simmer until the vegetable is soft.


6. Serve with steamed rice.


Serves 4. The coconut milk made this dish feel so rich.

Yum Yum - Roasted Spiced Chicken

Spices (grounded):
8 shallots, removed skin
5 pips garlic, removed skin
4 red chillies
4 dried chillies
2cm tumeric, 2 cm ginger
2 cm galangal
2 stalks lemongrass
1/2 tsp peppercorn
5 candlenuts

Ingredients:
2 tbsp oil, 2 pandan leaves
1 onion, removed skin, cut into pieces
1 tomato, cut into pieces
1/2 tbsp dried prawns
2 chicken whole legs

Seasoning:
1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp sugar


Method:
1. Heat up oil and saute spices until fragrant. Add seasoning and stir well. Remove from heat.


2. Put all the ingredients onto a aluminium foil and pour (1) mixture on top. Wrap up nicely.


3. Bake in a preheated oven at 180'C for 30 minutes or until cooked. Remove and serve.


There you go... it taste nice but you need to cook it for longer period of time, the meat will be more tender by then . Happy trying :)

Oven-Fried Drumsticks

This recipe is courtesy from Yum Yum Recipe Book.

Ingredients A:-
5 chicken drumsticks, 1 tsp salt
1 tbsp garlic powder / mashed garlic

Ingredients B:-
1 tsp chopped dried chilli
1 tbsp chopped spring onion
5 slices soda cracker, crushed

Method:-
1. Rub chicken drumsticks with salt and garlic powder and marinate for 30 minutes.
2. Coat marinated chicken drumsticks with B and bake in a preheated oven at 180'c for 35 minutes. Remove and serve.
Taste superb! A bit spicy because of the chillies grounded in with the soda crackers before coating the drumsticks.
Do not fry the drumsticks, this was named oven-fried because it was suppose to look like fried after baking, but mine is a bit failure on the outlook.

Have a good try, is easy to prepare and nice to eat! :D

Nyonya - Lady's FIngers Fried with Sambal

After watching this Little Nyonya, I am so motivated to try and cook some of the nyonya food myself. Not so nice thou, but it is pretty ok to eat :)

Ingredients:-
300 g lady's fingers (okra)
125 ml (5 tsbp) oil

Spice Paste (ground):-
40 g (4-5) fresh red chillies
5 g ( 5 large) dried red chillies
10 g (1 clove) garlic
120 g (12) shallots
10 g (4) candlenuts
5 g (1 tsp) belacan, toasted
2 tbsp water, sugar
1 tsp salt
20 g dried prawns - soaked, cleaned & pounded


1. Bring water to boil in a wok & add in the whole lady's fingers. Simmer until cooked - a fork will pierce it easily.
2. Remove from the work & cut away the stalks. Leave whole or slice diagonally. Arrange on a serving plate.
3. Heat the oil in a wok to saute the spice paste until aromatic, about 5 minutes. Add the dried prawns and saute until aromatic. Dish onto the cut lady's fingers or return the lady's fingers to the work & toss together.



You are done! It was pretty good dish, and you can replace lady's fingers with others vegetables like long bean etc. They really taste good. :)