Recipe: Curry Potato Pau

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Tuesday 21 August 2012 11:24 am
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Recipe taken from hslingkitchen.

Potato filling:

550g potato
200g shallot
3 Lemon grass smashed
5 pieces of dried chilli
2tbsp meat curry
3sprigs curry leave
Salt sugar

The curried potato above is really good, slightly spicy.

The pau’s texture is good even when cooled, i think mostly due to this method of having a starter dough (part of flour, water, yeast fermented slowly in room temperature for 6 hours and more)

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pau starter dough left to ferment overnight, bubbles formed inside the soft dough batter

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mix starter dough and all other ingredients together

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dough form

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left to rise to double in size

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potato, curry powder, curry leave, serai, dried chilli, shallot etc

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yummy curried potato

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before going into steamer

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steamed for 15 minutes

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smooth surface

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fluffly pau skin with soft yummy filling


 

Recipe: Steamed Vegetable Dumpling (Chai Koay)

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Tuesday 21 August 2012 11:09 am
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attempt in making a chinese steamed dumpling(Chai Koay) which i like (recipe taken from hsling’s kitchen).

I find the finished product tasted and smell very floury, it is a must to drizzle with garlic/shallot oil to make this a appetising snack, now i know why this dumplings always looks so oily outside when sold by others.

will not make this again as it is very labour intensive, rolling the dough, cutting out circles, trying to pinch the dough close etc.

For the filling, i used 1 jicama(sengkuang), 1 small carrot, 1 firm tofu, around 10g dried shrimp, around 10 pieves of mushroom, some coriander, 3 Tablespoon soy sauce, pepper ,1 teaspoon sugar and 1 teaspoon salt. Cilantro overpowers the whole filling, will leave it out if ever make it again.

Tang mein flour(wheat starch) and tapioca flour was used, and rolling dough to medium thickness and using small rice bowl to cut to rounds. Before putting filling into each round, the pastry round is further roll to bigger rounds.

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Cooked filling, it actually taste quite nice at this point, before adding in the cilantro

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added in some cilantro which is very overpowering, will leave it out if i make it again

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the dough made using 2 types of flour (tang mein flour ie wheat starch and tapico flour), looks florescently white.

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very difficult and time consuming to roll out individual rounds, tried to stuff lots of filling ended up not able to seal the dough properly, above some ugly looking dumplings

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ugly ones steamed

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slightly more decent looking dumpling

The dumpling must be coated or drizzeled with garlic/shallot oil as the flour smell from dough is quite strong and un-appetising


 

Recipe: Oatmeal Cookie

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Wednesday 15 August 2012 8:52 pm
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Recipe taken from King Arthur flour website, third oatmeal cookie attempt. Previous oatmeal cookie made here and here, can’t really tell which of the 3 is the best, but the one i made in June-12 is my least favourite.

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Recipe, mixture of oil+butter instead of all butter for a lighter cookie

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ingredients

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smooth cookie mixture

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tablespoonfuls

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nice thin cookie, it looks crispy, but it is not, more of a soft cookie, should have bake it further for crispy cookie

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around 15 cookies made


 

Japanese Buffet Dinner at Sunway Putra Hotel(formerly The Legend Hotel KL)

Posted by vivien | Kuala Lumpur and Selangor | Monday 6 August 2012 9:03 pm
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Groupon deal – Japanese buffet at Sunway Putra Hotel(formerly The Legends hotel), RM110 for 2 pax japanese buffet in Gen

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Sashimi, the salmon is not bad but mostly mediocre quality

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makis which look dry and unappetising

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Teriyaki corner, choose your meat and seafood to be fried on hot plate

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teppanyaki stations

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my udon soup being cooked

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BBQ food: Shishamo, salmon bits on bone, grilled corn, grilled lamb etc

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desserts: lots of choices but mostly mediocre quality as well

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jellys and puddings

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more dessert: logan+snow fungus+sea coconut drink is refreshing

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the salmon is quite nice

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The prawn on stick is really fresh and meaty, flower crab is forgettable

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more yummy prawns and refreshing logan dessert drink

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salmon head is my favourite, but the style they cook it kinda make this less delicious, tasted pan fried more than salt grilled

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dessert are just ok: tarts, red velvet cake etc

Address: Gen@10, Sunway Putra Hotel Kuala Lumpur (formerly known as The Legend Hotel and Apartments)

9th Floor, Sunway Putra Place, No. 100, Jalan Putra
Kuala Lumpur 50350

Telephone: 03-4042 9888

Website: Sunway Putra Hotel

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Recipe: Banana Rum Cake

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Monday 6 August 2012 8:43 pm
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Recipe from Cook.Bake.Love

I reduced the oil from 90g to 70g, a nice banana cake recipe. Kinda undecided on whether this or previous banana cake i made is better.

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ingredients

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liquid ingredients blended

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done

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cross section

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yummy banana cake


 

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