Curry Puff aka Karipap

Air Fried Version

Oil fried version

Bought some nice yummy curry puff from a fellow Malaysian last week but it was rather salty. So, I thought I'll make some myself so that I can control the flavour better. At the same time, was trying to see the difference of the fried vs the air fried effect on the puff.

I personally thinks that the oil fried one tasted better but hub can't really tell the difference (maybe coz he ate the cooled one while I had the hot one).

Ingredients:

Pastry:

• 250g all-purpose flour
• 50g rice flour
• 50g tapioca or corn flour (I used tapioca)
• 50g butter
• 50g vegetable oil (out of supply, uses olive oil)
• 130ml icy cold water + pinch of salt (i didn't use the salt, forgotten)

Filling:

• 600g potato, peeled and diced (I used half potato and half sweet potato)
• 1 large onion, diced
• 2 tbsps curry powder (for seafood)
• 1 tsp tumeric
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• Some curry leaves
• 1 cup water (+/-)
• Salt to taste

Methods:

1. Heat up the oil and salute the onion till it is translucent. 
2. Add in the curry leaves and potato and slightly stir it around.
3. Next add in the curry powder, turmeric and salt and stir the potato.
4. Slowly add in the water, bit by bit till you reach the consistency you want, thick and the potato is soften. It should take about 7-9mins. Set it aside to cool.
5. For the dough, mix all the flour together in a big bowl. Stir them around to mix it evenly.
6. Heat up the butter and oil and once warm and butter melted, remove from heat.
7. Pour the oil mixture into the flour and stir them till they mixed up properly. It should be crumbly.
8. Next add in the cold water and knead the mixture till it forms a soft dough. Set aside and cover with a cloth and let it rest for about 15mins.
9. Divide the dough to 24pcs and flatten them out, fill it with the fillings and shape as desire.
10. For frying, heat up the oil and once you can see the oil movement, lower the temperature and fry till it is light brown.
11. If Air Frying, AF at 180c for 14mins. Remember to spray some oil on the puff prior to "frying" it.

40mins Bun

Just realised that I forgot to post this easy quick yet yummy bun. But please remember to store in the fridge as I forgot and it spoil after 2 days though the bun is still soft and nice.

Ingredients:
Filling:

• 3 potatoes
• 2 tablespoon curry powder
• 1 tsp of turmeric powder
• 1 cup water
• 1/4 teaspoon cumin powder
• salt to season
• 1 tablespoon of minced garlic
• a tbsp oil

Dough:

• 270g warm water
• 70g oil (I used peanut oil)
• 10g instant dry yeast
• 48g sugar
• 1/5 teaspoon salt (7g)
• 1 egg
• 300g self raising flour
• 245g plain flour
• lots of oil to work on the dough
• egg wash n sesame seed

Steps:

1. Peeled and cut the potatoes to small cube. Boiled in the boiling water for 5mins.
2. Heat up the oil and saute the garlic. Once it smells nice, add in the curry powder and turmeric powder and fry till it smells nice. Add in the potatoes. Cook for about 2mins and then season with the cumin powder and salt. 
3. Leave it aside to cool.
4. Add in warm water, yeast and sugar in the mixing bowl. Leave it to proof for about 5-10mins.
5. Once the yeast has bubbled, add in the rest of the ingredients and mix it with the mixer using the dough hook. Otherwise use hand to knead the mixture till it forms a nice soft and smooth dough.
6. Divide it to 12 pieces and form a ball. Flatten and filled up with the fillings.
7. Preheat the oven at 220c.
8. Leave the bun to rest for 10mins. Finally, brush the bun with egg wash and sprinkle the top with some sesame seeds.
9. Bake for 12-15mins.

Sup Ekor or Oxtail Soup

Just had the felling of drinking those Malay type of soup and so, I bought a bag of oxtail from the butcher the other day and wanted to try cooking it myself.

Here it goes .

Ingredients:

• 500-600g of oxtail
• 2 teaspoon of cumin seed
• 1 star anise
• some dried chills (I omitted this cause my daughter is drinking, she don't like it spicy)
• a small piece of cinnamon stick
• 1 carrot cut big chunk
• 1 potato cut chunk
• 1 tomato, quartered
• a little oil
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• a handful of chopped spring onion
• a handful of parsley
• half a big onion, sliced and fried till crispy, for serving
• 1.5l water

Steps:

1. Wash the oxtail, and dry it.
2. Pound the star anise and cumin seed together till it is quite fine and form a paste. put them in the muslin cloth.
3. Pan fry the oxtail till brown all side, leave the cinnamon stick in the oil too.
4. Put the oxtail, cinnamon stick and the paste in muslin cloth in the pot (I uses the pressure cooker). Add in the water. Boil for 2hours. I boil mine on high for 15mins and low fire for another 15mins. If you using chilli, add in now too.
5. Add in the potato, carrot and tomato and cooked for another 2hours (mine another 20mins).
6. Season before serving with salt and top with the rest of the ingredients.

Curry chicken

Thanks to the post in FB few days back by Malaysia Kitchen, I decided to cook curry chicken... hehehe... my own version. I used deboned drumstick (bone reserved for my little sweetheart's chicken soup).

This is before the sauce reduced to the thickness I want

Ingredients:

• 3 pieces of drumstick without the bones
• 2 potatoes, cut to small cube
• 1 onion, sliced thinly
• 4 cloves of garlic, chopped small
• 1 teaspoon of the sambal
• 1.5 tablespoon of oil
• 1 tablespoon of curry powder
• 1/2 tablespoon of dried cumin powder
• 1 star anise
• 1 small piece of cinnamon stick
• 2 pieces of cloves
• a small pinch of fennel seed
• 1.5 cups of water
• 1/4 cup of santan  (coconut) powder
• a small pinch of salt
• a dash of pepper

Methods:

1. Saute the onion with oil till soft and add in the garlic.
2. After stirring bout 1mins, add in the herbs (dried cumin powder, curry powder, start anise, cinnamon stick, cloves and fennel seed and stir till it is even.
3. Stir in the potato and chicken. Make sure the chicken is lightly fried and coated with the mixture.
4. Add in water, sprinkle the santan powder on top and stir till it dissolved.
5. Leave it to simmer for bout 30-40mins or till the potatoes are soft and tender.
6. Season with salt and pepper.
7. I added a little sliced chillies and parsley :D

Lentil Potato Burger

Not sure what to do with the leftover lentils that I used for the dhall curry, and dont feel like making shall again and again, so, decided to make some healthy lunch for myself instead.

Ingredients:

• 1.5cups of yellow split beans (soaked overnight in the fridge)
• 2 small size potato, cut into cubes, skin removed
• 3 tablespoon of oat
• 2 chinese mushroom, soaked
• one bunch of black fungus, soaked
• half a medium size carrot
• 2 tablespoon of water
• 1egg
• 2 teaspoon of curry powder
• a dash of cinnamon powder
• 2 teaspoon of soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon of sesame oil
• a dash of ground pepper

Methods:

1. Cooked the bean and potato in the sauce pan with enough water to submerge the ingredients for about 15mins.
2. Then mixed it with ingredients 3 to 7 in the magi mix (or the blender). Blend till all items are fine and mixed well.
3. Add in an egg and continue to blend till it is even.
4. Season with the rest of the ingredients. 
5. Similar to the pork burger, shaped and keep in the fridge.
6. Pan fry and served as per the way you like it.

Salad Craze

Recently, I'm on a little salad craze after watching too much MKR. So decided to do some. Here there is two different salads, roast chicken with roast sweet potatoes salad and rump steak with roast pumpkin salad.

For the roast chicken salad:

Ingredients:

• 5 pieces of chicken drumstick, minus the bottom part (that's how it was sold)
• 1 piece of medium size sweet potato, skinned and cut to cubed of roughly 2x2cm
• 2 pieces of medium size red onion, wedged to roughly 2cm size
• 1 medium size potato, cut to cubed of roughly 2x2cm
• olive oil, salt (use less coz the olives are rather salty), pepper and curry powder
• a handful of sweet peas, removed the sides and cut diagonally across
• 5 pieces of mini radishes with the leaves (washed and sliced thinly)
• half a avocado, sliced to wedges
• spinach
• a handful of crumbled feta cheese
• a handful of black olives
• half a lime juice (for the dressing)
• 1 tablespoon of honey (for the dressing)
• 1 tablespoon olive oil (for the dressing)
• juices from the roast chicken (for the dressing)

Methods:

1. Arranged the first four items in the baking tray, lined with baking paper.
2. Drizzled with olive oil and sprinkle with freshly grounded black pepper and salt.
3. Sprinkle the curry powder on the chicken only.
4. Roast in the oven at 200C for about 20mins.
5. Add in the sweat peas at the last 5mins.
6. Let it rest in the oven for about another 5mins after turning off the power/fire.
7. Mixed all the ingredients for the dressing together till the honey is dissolved.
8. Mix all ingredients together in the mixing bowl along with the dressing and served.. yum

For the pumpkin salad:

Ingredients:

• Roughly 300g pumpkin, skinned and cut to cube, approximately 2x2cm
• 2 pieces of medium size red onion, wedged to roughly 2cm size
• olive oil, salt, pepper
• a handful of crumbled feta cheese
• a handful of spinach
• quarter a lime juice (for the dressing)
• 1/2 tablespoon of honey (for the dressing)
• 1/4 tablespoon olive oil (for the dressing)

Methods:

1. Similar to the above, lined the baking tray with paper and arrange the pumpkin and onions in it. Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
2. Roast in the oven, 200C for about 20mins.
3. Mixed all the ingredients for the dressing together till the honey is dissolved.
4. Mix all ingredients together in the mixing bowl along with the dressing and served.. yum

Baby Food

Steam egg: contains fish paste, potato, carrot, egg and water.



Steam Cheesey Brinjal: contains cheese and minced pork.

Potato Rice Cake

Sophie is such a fussy gal, she needs lots of variation to her food and they need to taste nice (to her standard of course). She has not been taking porridge for a while coz she refuse to eat them. So I had been giving her ABC rice or some time mashed potato, home made burger patties, etc...

Last week, I made potato rice cake for her... no fix measurement for the ingredients, all based on estimate and just dump in:

- a handful of steam potato
- 1 tablespoon of chopped carrot
- 1 tablespoon of chopped spring onions
- a handful of cooked rice
- 1 tablespoon of onions
- 1 tablespoon of minced pork
- 1 tablespoon of flour
- pinch of corn flour
- olive oil for frying

Mixed everything together in a blender. Heat up the pan with olive oil. Scooped with spoon, place it on the pan, press it down and once one side is cooked (after bout half a min), flip over. Ready to serve....

Roast Chicken with Potato

No recipe, just some salt, pepper and sweet soy sauce for the chicken.... drizzle with olive oil.. that is all.
Sophie loves the potato and chicken...

Creamy Macaroni

Last night, we had a very odd combo for dinner . We had creamy macaroni and ABC soup (including Sophie).




- Macaroni
- parmesan cheese
- mixed dried herbs (those use for pizza)
- cream cheese
- butter





Sophie's one with added stuff, she get potato and carrot from the ABC soup + some fresh milk, blend to small pieces.
She loves it and was busy biting while playing with her teething biscuit.

Baby's Porridge

This is what mommy prepared for Sophie yesterday:



- broccoli
- carrot
- red bario rice
- sweet potato, yellow flesh, purple skin

Bake Fishy Potato

We had bake potato with fish paste yesterday:




Ingredients:

• 600g fish paste
• 1 black fungus, soaked and chopped finely
• 1 chinese mushroom, soaked and chopped finely
• 1 tablespoon of chopped carrot
• a pinch of salt
• a pinch of pepper
• 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce
• 1 tablespoon of corn flour
• 1 tablespoon of kicap manis (sweet soy sauce)
• 2 potato washed and sliced to 0.5cm thickness each
• 2 teaspoon of sesame oil

Steps:

1. Mixed all the ingredients (except for potato and sesame oil) evenly.
2. Spread the mixture on top of the potato and bake under 180 degree celcius heat for 15mins.
3. Take it out and drip one drop of sesame oil on each and put back in the oven (turn off the heat). Leave it for 5mins..

Bake Fish with Slice Potato

Yesterday, I bake two slices of tengiri topped with sauteed shallots and lemon grass along with some slices of potato... taste good, will be even better if it is with olive oil (I uses sesame oil).

The lemongrass fragrant is wonderful, the potato is crispy. It is seasoned with salt, pepper and dried basil powder.

First bake the potato slices for 10mins (200 degree celcius) then add on the fish and bake for another 10mins... let it sit in the oven for another 5mins...

Dry Curry Okra and Drop Egg Potato Soup with Fish Cake

Tonight's dinner...

Chapati with Curry Potato & Pork

Attempted chapati making today.... tasted quite good (and hubby says taste quite like the one from the shop... hehehe):

Chapati

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/4 + 1/2 tablespoon luke warm water
• pinch of salt
• 1/4 teaspoon of oil
• 1 teaspoon of flour

1. Mix the first three ingredients till even and form a soft dough.
2. Leave the dough to sit for at least 10mins.
3. Add in the oil and knead the dough. Divide to four portions.
4. Sprinkle some flour on the board. Flatten the dough on the board till very very thin.
5. Heat the pan hot. Place the dough on the pan to cook. Cook each side about 40seconds (or till it turn brownish just like the one you had from the shop). Flip and cook the other side. Once done, dish out and cook the next piece.

Curry Potato & Pork

Ingredients:

• 1/2 onion chopped to small pieces
• 1 semi cooked potato, skin peeled, and cubed
• 3 tablespoon of minced pork marinated with salt, pepper and curry powder
• 1 tablespoon of mixed indian herbs
• 1 tablespoon of oil
• 1 tablespoon of chilli paste
• 2 tablespoon of water
• 1 tablespoon of evaporated milk
• pinch of salt and pepper

1. Heat up oil and saute onion for a min.
2. Add in the mixed indian herbs and saute till fragant.
3. Add in the minced pork and fry for a min before adding in the potato.
4. Add in water and simmer till all water almost get evaporated.
5. Add in the evaporated milk, season with salt and pepper. Cook for another 2 mins. Ready to be served.

Food Pic

Had been very lazy with my update recently... only pictures.

Sweet and sour fish

Roast potato with chicken and carrot

Black pepper pork

Potato with pork

Brinjal fried with okra and french bean

Vege pork burger served on top of rice crackers