Spicy Fried Dried Stick Noodle

Everybody loves noodle, including our family. We love almost any kind of noodle such as beehun (rice vermicelli), kwetiau (large rice noodle), yellow noodle, ifumie or bakmi. We love them all. My daughter's favorite is always the kwetiau and indeed its delicious especially the fried kwetiau. But right now, I want to share a recipe using different kind of noodle which is dried stick noodles.

We need to boiled this stick noodles first before cook. Usually, I boild the water first before adding the dried stick noodles. I add salt for savory flavour and cooking oil to the boiling water to prevent the stick noodle from sticking to each other. Wait until the noodles turn soft then put the hot noodles under tap water to stop the cooking process from the heat. Drain. Well, I want to keep the ingredients simple and use garlic and fried shrimps as the main focus.

Spicy Fried Dried Stick Noodle

Ingredients:

1/4 kilos of fried stick noodles, boiled and drained

3 garlics, smashed then chopped

1 Onion spring, sliced

10 cayennes

1/2 Tomato, sliced

2 eggs, scrambl

Soy sauce

Sweet soy sauce

Sesame oil

Salt and peppers

Blended ingredients:

10 shallots

3 garlics

1/2 ounce of dried shrimps

3 candlenuts

How to cook:

Heat cooking oil on a medium size skillet with medium heat, add smashed garlic and cook until brown

Add the blended ingredients, cook for about 5 minutes then add the sliced tomato and cayennes, stir well.

Add soy sauce, sweet soy sauce, salt and pepper and then add the scrambled eggs. Stir well

Then add the boiled and drained fried stick noodles and stir all together until the colour turns brown and smells wonderful :) 

Add the sliced onion spring then add one last stir :D

Put the noodle on a large plate then splash the sesame oil to add more flavour then sprinkle with fried shallot. Enjoy! :)

Chicken and Potatoes Smoor

Most of Indonesian recipes are spicy and salty. We use chillis in almost every meals but this one is different. It has sweet taste with a lot of spices on it. The original name in Indonesia is SEMUR but I can not find a suitable word in English so I use the original word instead, smoor. Meat is the common ingredient for this recipe, you can use beef, pork or chicken. But sometimes people also cook smoor with hard boiled eggs or tofu. In this recipe, I use chicken with additional potatoes.

Chicken and Potatoes Smoor

Ingredients:

1 kg chicken, cut into medium size

0,5 kg potatoes, cut and then deep fried.

A ltr of water

2 pcs cardamom

3 cm cinnamon

3 pcs star anise

Sweet soy

Salt and pepper

Blended ingredients:

10 pcs red onions

3 pcs garlics

3 cm ginger

5 pcs candlenut

1 pc nutmeg

How to cook:

Heat cooking oil in a medium size pan, then add the blended ingredients, stir well for about 3 minutes

Add the chicken breast and stir until medium cooked.

Add cardamom, cinnamon and star anise. Cook until you can smell fragrance of the spices.

Add sweet soy. The amount is depends on how sweet you want your smoor to be. The more sweet soy, the sweeter. My kids love sweet smoor so I always add more sweet soy :) 

Add the deep fried potatoes then stir well until all chicken breasts and potatoes turn brown with sweet soy. Then add water.

Let it boiled for at least half and hour until all the spices absorbed well.

I usually sprinkle parsley on top of it before served.

Enjoy! :)

Fish with Salty Soybean Paste

Soybean is commonly found on Asian cuisine. Its made of soybean (obviously) and has been preserved with salt and other ingredients so that it can be keep for longer time without being rotten. The taste is salty with dark brown colour and you can still see the soybean inside. This time, I want to share a recipe using this soybean paste.

Basically you can always use anything other than fish to cook with soybean paste, such as: shrimps, squids or eggs. This time I choose fish instead.

Fish with Salty Soybean Paste

Ingredients:

1/2 kilos fresh fishes, wash and cut into half. Sprinkle with salt and lemon, leave it about 15 minutes. Then deep fried the fishes until golden brown.

10 pcs of green beans, sliced

10 pcs green pepper

2 cm ginger, smashed

1 dried tamarind

1 lemongrass

1 bayleaf

Half tomato, sliced

1 tsp of Oyster sauce

Blended ingredients:

10 pcs shallots

5 pcs garlics

1 cm ginger

A spoon of of dried prawn

Shrimp paste

How to cook:

Add oil into medium size pan and heat it

Add smashed ginger and fried for 2 minutes, then add all the blended ingredients, stir for 2 minutes

Add tamarind, lemongrass, bayleaf and the green pepper and sliced tomato, stir well

Add the sliced grean beans and oyster sauce, then let all cook for about 5 minutes, then add 1 cup of water to blend all the ingredients. Cook until the green beans become soft.

Add the fried fishes into the pan and stir well so they covered completely inside the sauce, leave it for 5 minutes for to fishes to absorb the sauce.

Ready to serve ^^

Note: since I have already use enough salty ingredients such as soybean paste, shrimp paste and oyster sauce on this, I do not add anymore salt into the recipe but you can always add salt anytime you like :)

Spicy Sausages Fried Rice

My last post about Crab Soup with Corn here  is an usual menu for main course. Now, I want to share another favorite menu for my family, this time for breakfast. It Spicy Sausages Fried Rice. We all love fried rice for breakfast and I usually combine it with other type of additional and not just sausages. I love to combine it with scrambled eggs, pepperoni, mushroom, salted-fishes, etc. So, basically, you can always replace the sausages with other additional dish you like. 

Spicy Sausages Fried Rice

Ingredients:

- Two plates of rice (I usually keep the rice inside the freezer over night to get rid of the moist we usually  find in hot rice. Cold rice will taste crispy when used as fried rice. But its your choice :) )

- 2 garlics, finely chopped

- Chicken breasts (as many as you like), thinly sliced

- Sausages (as many as you like), sliced

- 6 onions, thinly sliced, fried

- 2 eggs, scrambled

- Sweet soy sauce

- Oyster sauce

- Spring Onions and Parsley, finely chopped

- Salt and pepper

Ingredients to blend using a blender:

- 10 onions

- 3 chillis (add more if you want)

- 1 ounce of dried shrimp

- 1cm of ginger

How to cook:

Add butter or cooking oil into medium size fried pan and heat it.

Add chopped garlics and stir for a while

Add all the blended ingredients, stir for about 2 minutes.

Add chicken breasts, oyster sauce, sweet soy sauce and stir well

Add sliced sausages and scrambled eggs. Stir well altogether.

Add cold rice into the pan, stir well for a few minutes until all the ingredients mixed well and the white rice turn into brown colour.

Add salt and pepper then sprinkled with fried sliced onion.

Sprinkle with finely chopped spring onions and parsleys.

Ready to serve :)

Happy breakfast...

Crab Soup with Corn

It's been raining a lot in here recently. Usually, we have rainy season in Medan starts from October to December. It's not like all day long kind of type rain of course. Only few hours daily. I especially call this as Christmas season. Yay! Christmas is almost here....

Anyway, any kind of hot soup will be suitable during this season. A kind of food we usually enjoy together. This recipe is one of our favorite meal that I'd love to share with you. The recipe is very simple and  can be served within an hour.

Crab Soup with Corn

Ingredients:
1kg of crabs, cut half
3 medium caroot, peeled and slice diagonally
1 potato, cut into 8
1 medium corn, cut into 10 part
2 spring onions, thin sliced
1 parsley, finely chopped
1 tometo, cut into 4
Salt and pepper
Onions, sliced and fried until golden brown

Blend these ingredients:
10 onions
5 garlic
Ginger 3cm

How to cook:
Boil water in a pot.
Cut 3cm of ginger and smashed but not broken. Put inside the water.
After the water boiled, add sliced carrots, potatoes and corns and let them boiled for half an hour.
(Since I have toddler, I want the carrots and potatoes softer and I will boil them longer)
Then crabs and let them boiled for another half and hour than add sliced tomato.

Add the blended ingredients into the pot, stir in and season with salt and pepper.
Add half amount of the spring onions and parsley, stir for a few minutes more.

How to serve:
Add the crabs in a bowl, add carrots, potatoes and corns.
Pour the broth.
Add the rest of the spring onions and parsley.
Last one, sprinkle with fried onions..

Bon appetite....Selamat makan ^^