Martabak Manis (Indonesian Thick Pancake)

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Ingredients:

300 gm    Self Raising Flour
400 gm    Fresh Milk
2 pcs        Egg Yolk
1 pc         Egg White
1 tbsp      Dried Yeast
1 tsp        Baking Powder
100 gm    Butter (Cut Diced)
200 gm    Chocolate Bar (Chopped)
200 gm    Cheese Chedar (Grated)
100 gm    Granulated Sugar
100 gm    Condensed Milk


Procedures:

1. Mix flour, eggs, yeast, and baking powder together in a bowl
2. Warm fresh milk inside microwave for 5 second (or until warm-chech with your body temperature)
3. Pour over the warm milk into the mixture and whisk carefully (to let the air comes in the mixture)
4. Cover the bowl with cling film and set a side the mixture for about 30 minutes (until you'll see a lot of bubble in it)
5. Heat omelet pan (Big size) and melt 10 gm butter on in
6. Pour over the mixture and cook with the lowest heat for about 20-30 minutes
7. After the pancake is set arrange 80 gm butter on top of the surface and cover the pan for about 5 minutes or until butter melt perfect
8. Sprinkle the sugar on top and cover again for about 2 minutes
9. Take out the thick pancake into chopping board, cut half and sprinkle chocolate and cheese on top)
10. Pour over condensed milk on top, and cover the other half (half moon shape)
11. Cut into small pieces, and serve hot
12. Happy Cooking

Opor Ayam (Chicken Coconut Stew)

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Ingredients:

10 gm     Corn Oil
250 gm   Chicken Thigh
100 gm   Coconut Powder
25 gm     Milk Powder
100 gm   Coconut Milk
50 gm     Garlic
75 gm     Onion Shallot
10 gm     Ginger
10 gm     Candle Nut
20 gm     Lemon Grass
7 gm       Table Salt
5 gm       Peppercorn White


Procedures:

1. Cut cross wise chicken thigh (not too deep)
2. Season and marinate chicken thigh with coconut powder, milk powder, salt & pepper (keep in refrigerator for about 2hr
3. While waiting for the chicken, ground (garlic, onion shallot, ginger, candle nut) until puree consistency reach
4. Heat oil in pot with medium heat , start pan fried one side from the marinated chicken, turn over gradually
5. Add crushed lemon grass into the pot and let it flavor the chicken
6. When the chicken is almost cook 80%, pour over the puree (ground ingredients) and keep stirring the mixture for about 5-10 minutes
7. Add lap over from the coconut powder and milk powder before into the pot together with the coconut milk
8. Add water if needed, and bring to boil for about 30 minutes (the longer the better result, the chicken will be softer)
9. Check seasoning
10. Serve hot with cold white rice
11. Happy Cooking

Ketoprak (Indonesian Rice Cake & Peanut Sauce Salad)

Ingredients:

75 gm       Rice (Washed)
5 pcs        Good Quality Plastic
100 gm     Fried Peanut (Skin Off)
10 gm       Garlic
10 gm       Table Salt
1 gm         White Pepper
1 gm         Brown Sugar
40 gm       White Bean Curd (Fried)
50 gm       Bean Sprout (Cleaned)
50 gm       Glass Noodle (Boiled)
10 gm       Sweet Soy Sauce
20 gm       Casava Cracker

Procedures:

1. Boil water and add salt into the water
2. Add Rice inside the plastic (keep saome gap for rice to expand) tight the edge and place inside the water and let it cook for about 30-40 minutes
3. Blend fried peanut until powder like
4. Ground garlic on the plate (using stone mortar handle), add peanut, brown sugar and water drop by drop until becoming a medium thick pureeconsistency
5. Sliced rice cake into a bite size
6. Garnish with fried bean curd, bean sprout and glass noodle on top of the rice
7. Pour little bit of sweet soya sauce (optional)
8. Serve with casava cracker
9. Happy Cooking

Sambel Oelek (Indonesian Spicy Sauce)

Ingredients

250 gm     Red Chili
250 gm     Tomato
75 gm       Garlic
150 gm     Red Onion
50 gm       Ginger
10 gm       Lemon Grass
10 gm       Coriander
2 gm         Kafir Lime Leaf
50 gm       Brown Sugar (Replaceable with White Sugar)
5 gm         Salt
5 gm         Black Peppercorn
250 gm     Corn Oil

Procedures:

1. Blend (red chili, shallot, garlic, lemon grass and coriander) using bender until smooth fine puree
2. Heat oil in a non stick pot (deep size)
3. Add blended ingredientd into the pot and cook with medium heat for about 3 hours
4. Add sugar, salt, pepper and kaffir lime leaf
5. Stir the mixture every 10 minutes and scrap the bottom part to prevent from burning
6. Sambel Oelek ready to serve
7. Happy Cooking

Beef Stew in 10 Minutes

Ingredients:

250gr     Beef Cubed
50gr       Garlic
50gr       Red Onion
10gr       Corn Oil
50gr       Ground Red Chili
50gr       Oyster Sauce
50gr       Tomato Sauce
5gr         Table Salt
5gr         White Sugar
5gr         Ground White Peppercorn
5gr         Corn Flour
250gr     Sayuran (Rebus)


Procedures:

1. Mix Onion, garlic, chili and blend until smooth
2. Marinate Cubed Beef with salt, pepper, sugar
3. Heat oil in a pot
4. Saute ground spiced until fragrant is out
5. Add marinated beed into the pot and cook for about 5 minutes
6. Pour over oyster sauce, tomato ketchup and water. then cook for another 5 minutes
7. Sprinkle corn flour and reheat for thickening the sauce and garnish with vegetables
8. Serve with white rice or mashed potato
9. Happy Cooking ;)

Kerupuk Ikan (Fish Cracker)

Ingredients:

500gr   Ground King Fish
250gr   Tapioka Flour
50gr     All Purpose Flour
3pcs     Chicken Eggs
8gr       Table Salt
8gr       Ground White Pepper



Procedures:

1. Boil water
2. While waiting the water boiling, mix all the ingredients well
3. Shape Dough into a cylinder shape
4. Boil Cake for about 15 minutes (it is better to steamed it for 30 minutes if available)
5. Thin Sliced boiled cake about 1cm, place the sliced dough in the container and put under the sun for about 1 day
6. Save in airtight container
7. Crackers is ready to fry
8. Happy Cooking ;)

Note: (this dough can be used as another indonesian recipe mpek2)

Siomay Ayam (Chicken Dim Sum)

Ingredients:

Adonan:

500gr   Ground Chicken

150gr   Garlic (Chopped)

50gr     Corn Oil)

100gr   Red Onion (Chopped)

20gr     Butter

10gr     Lime (Squeeze)

10gr     Ginger (Chopped)

2blok   Chicken Stock Powder

50gr    Scallion (Sliced)

50gr    Carrot (Chopped)

200gr  Corn Flour

100gr  Flour All Purpose

3pcs    Chicken Egg

10gr    Ground Coriander

10gr    Ground White Pepper

7gr      Table Salt

1pak   Dim Sum Skin

Bumbu Kacang:

250gr  Fried Peanut (Skinless)

50gr    Red Chili (Chopped)

50gr    Garlic (Chopped)

50gr    Red Onion (Chopped)

10gr    Ginger (Chopped)

Procedures:

Meat Dough:

1. Saute Red Onion with butter and lime juice until wet and pink color
2. Blend garlic, sauted onion, ginger, corn oil until smooth
3. Mix blended items with Ground Chicken, Carrot, Flour, Eggs, Coriander, Pepper, Salt, Chicken Stock

For Siomay DimSum without Skin:

1. Boil water and mix with chicken stock powder
2. Shape Meat Dough by using you palm and squeeze it until ball shape, try 1 pc and boil to check the taste, is the taste is ok, repeat the same thing
3. Boil for about 10 minutes or untnil the dim sum floating
4. Saute garlic, red onion, red chili until flavor comes out
5. Blend sauted ingredients with fried peanut (add water as needed)
6. Saute again this blended items for about 30 minutes (medium heat)
7. Steam Siomay before serve
8. Serve with Peanut Sauce

For Dim Sum with Skin

1. Take a Dim Sum Skin and fill in with Meat Dough and shape it
2. Steam for about 30 minutes or until cook
3. Serve with Chili Sauce or Peanut Sauce

For Chicken Mpek2

1. Blend again the meat dough until the texture really smooth
2. Boil water and mix with Chicken Stock Powder
3. Wet your palm with corn oil
4. Shape Meat Dough in a Cylinder Shape and boil for about 10-15 minutes and floating
5. Save in Refrigerator or Serve (Steam is preferable)
6. Serve with Mpek2 Ssauce (Vinegar/Soy/Tamarind)
7. Happy Cooking ;)

(Note: For Mpek2, Ground Chicken can be replaced with King Fish)